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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
the 1930s, for example, per-person movie ticket sales were seven times higher than at the end of the 1990s. Fox Photos/Getty Images In the sweep of U.S. history, consumption had been a force for great change. Much of this change played... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
But we felt if we marketed the shoe under a smaller brand, it might be taken more seriously as a specialty product.” The creative deal hashed out between the companies called for GoLite to get a cash infusion (neither party will say how... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
to move to Havana. The decision came in January 2017, when Gordon was working in a sales position at Castlight, a Bay Area B2B health care technology company. The couple had met while Gordon was working for the Clinton Foundation in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
Borrowing the late HBS professor Ted Levitt's deceptively probing question, the Bulletin recently cold called Brad VanAuken (MBA 1984): "What business are you in?" A brand management and marketing executive turned independent consultant,... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
my classmates when I took a job at AcurA Corporation in Columbus, Ohio. But my Navy leadership experience quickly paid off. After five years, at the age of 32, I was promoted to vice president of sales and service for Western Europe. I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
ice-cream business, they set their sights low. “Originally, we thought maybe we could become the leading ice-cream company in the San Francisco Bay Area,” recalls Rogers. “We had no sense of geographic expansion.” The pair turned out to be savvy managers. Within four... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
failure of the free-market system, but more so the result of decades of misguided government policies that interfered with the functioning of that system.” Nonetheless, the panel’s two Republicans call for reforms, including taking Fannie... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
being denied on-campus housing because of his race. Fitzhugh hoped to go into sales and marketing, but companies at the time had little interest in hiring an African American. While working as an independent print salesman in Washington,... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
Hanna: The Kentucky Derby is often called the most exciting two minutes in sports. And I've always wanted to go myself, but have never been. Can you give a sense of some of the sights and smells and sensations of that day, just as someone... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
inspire curiosity in my kids and read to them every day, I call that a win. Peter: The first thing I’ve learned is that you have to be intentional by using calendars and Outlook or Google docs to stay on top of everything. Whether it’s an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
man at the negotiating table, offered this assessment: “The WTO agreement has been very useful leverage for the Chinese government to advance economic change and to change mindsets,” he explained, calling it “a classic case of using a... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Rogers breaks in. “OK, guys, let’s try and keep the rest of these to about a minute.” He has other calls to make. On the next call, travel options are weighed (Toulouse? Berlin? Paris?) for meetings with a potential European collaborator.... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
better than the risk for getting into the Internet." Startup Smarts Previous work experience is often the critical factor in helping an aspiring entrepreneur make the judgment calls necessary to spot and develop a good business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Discovered True Riches at Harvard Business School by John Cortines and Gregory Baumer (both MBA 2015) (Rose Publishing) The authors tell a story of God’s transforming power and describe a lifestyle of giving that they call “radical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
share to around $1 a share in two years. With the company’s survival in question, Houghton was called back as CEO in 2002. This time, leadership required lifting spirits, not dropping the hammer. He exhorted his employees (“We will... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
that was formed in 1993 - issued a final report that calls for a new regulatory framework to give businesses more flexibility in preventing pollution, long-range steps to stabilize the U.S. population, and American leadership in heading... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
high-performing salesmanship, right? And so then the theory behind that could be that we know that people that are somewhat inattentive tend to be more creative. So maybe that's why, because there's a creative element to the sales... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
it’s much easier to do than I ever expected.” (photo by Christopher Dolan/The Scranton Times-Tribune) Cognetti has been called a “micromanager,” a “bulldog,” and worse by board members and the district superintendent, but she doesn’t seem... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
got is one of the best that's available in the white man's world. You're my own blood. But be wary of that outside world because they worship money. And Wakonda, the creator, doesn't want us to do that.' "Then he said, ‘When you've walked the four hills of life and... View Details