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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
visibility and visitorship. This light, open, and completely handicapped-accessible facility attracts tourists from around the world, and its signature fish-eye spiral staircase is a work of art itself. The Outcome of Income As leisure time dwindles in today's... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
a "warehouse club" store. Although it didn't have the item he wanted, Stemberg was struck by the store's low prices on office products. "I began thinking," he recalls, "why not start up a kind of Toys 'R' Us for office supplies?" Thanks... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
That’s when David Dewan (MBA 1969) launched Contact Incorporated, in fierce competition with another Harvard startup, Operation Match. Both companies sold questionnaires to students—$3 for Operation Match; $4 for Contact Incorporated—and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
something that's really needed," says Farah Emara, cofounder and CEO of B2B agritech platform FreshSource Global. When she was fundraising in 2018, Emara says she often encountered male VCs who suggested she didn't have the right skill... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
indifference. Whether they are helping inner cities capitalize on their inherent competitive advantages, working to make assetbuilding financial services available to low-income families, analyzing the benefits of welfare-to-work... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
versus Apple terms: Should AGR adopt a Microsoft Windows–style ecosystem, where it focuses on its core platform (Burro) but shares data with partners that could build out additional tools? Or should it take the Apple approach of owning... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
entire supply chain, from purchasing thread to delivering finished goods complete with price tags to individual stores. William Fung (MBA 1972) and his older brother, Victor (PhD 1971), who taught at HBS for four years, are the third... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
The system won the first annualHBS Association of Nigeria New Venture Competition for the West Africa region last year. Workers at a Nestlé distribution center in Lagos unload maize produced by one of Kola Masha's Babban Gona farms. But... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
continue to examine the planet, and send back information that will be useful in helping NASA understand how astronauts—and possible future colonists—will be able to survive the intense radiation that bombards its surface. By choosing to look farther out into space,... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
is that bad guys have so much data that they just haven’t gotten to yours,” says Thomas. It’s easy to steal your credit card. “The only hard part is using it without tipping anybody off.” There is evidence of the relative ease of these crimes in the View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
doubling down in China, where over half of its workers are based. Yang aspires to introduce new competitive strategies to the entire textile and apparel industry, and to be a leader in positive economic development in China. Esquel is... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
are restructuring the economy and changing the nature of competitive advantage.” “The computer scientists and engineers developing AI don’t necessarily speak the language of business,” Lakhani adds. “HBS is training leaders to be fluent... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
competitive marketplace with many different price points, including zero, the brand becomes absolutely critical.” Besides, he observes, those seeking to make money from yoga need to weigh the pluses and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
Detroit to Los Angeles in 1972, adds that the current stagnation can also be attributed to "a lack of hits" on the part of the major labels and increased competition for the consumer entertainment dollar. In 1996, efforts by big stars... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
of your own work that would be familiar to the average noneconomist? Merton: In 1973, when the late Fischer Black, Myron Scholes, and I published the research recognized by this prize, option pricing was considered a fairly esoteric area.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
for tomorrow. The BEI aims to leverage HBS’s unique platform to help move the needle on climate change and accelerate climate solutions. Critical issues such as these are also among the focal points for HBS’s new Institute for the Study... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
recent HBS conference on the media and entertainment industries. Sponsored by the HBS Entertainment and Media Club and Price Waterhouse, the March event - "A View from the Top" - brought together senior executives from several leading... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
their own assessments of his contributions to the field. Andre F. Perold, Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management and chair of the School's Finance unit, noted, "Bob has pioneered the use of sophisticated stochastic calculus for View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
for me, there's a Staples at the corner. I park, grab my laptop and my briefcase, and sprint down the street. The guy at Staples tells me I can recover my disk with Norton Utilities. I tell him I'm no tekkie, but he tells me it's real easy to use. I'm in a hurry, and... View Details