experience economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

on his favorite music. It was just this seventies disco hit, everybody breaks out dancing. It was such a profound experience of seeing the excitement and the potential for people having a new life, and how much fun and joy they were... View Details

23 Mar 2010
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Inside the World of Sir Martin Sorrell

Keywords: Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2004
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L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words

and bring steady growth to the economy of Iraq. The legacy of Saddam hangs like a black cloud over every aspect of the lives of the Iraqi people, and that black cloud extends also over the economic future. Because of the criminal misuse... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Dec 2017
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Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis

Refugee Crisis,” which both he and Fabbe taught in May 2016 during the required first-year Business, Government, and the International Economy course. The case asks students to consider the issue from the point of view of European leaders... View Details

01 Dec 2005
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Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations

With the creation of Hawes Hall and the renovation of Aldrich Hall, all classrooms are now wired with state-of-the-art technology. Walking through HBS today, visitors experience a school that has been transformed. Spangler Center, home... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 1997
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Short Takes

diversification efforts for companies in business environments where big may, in fact, be beautiful. "Focus is successful only when the existing economy provides the necessary institutions to support it. A company's strategy should be... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Mar 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)

(Photograph by Stephen Voss) World Bank VP and Treasurer Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990) has a clear sense of why she likes her job: “You bring very sophisticated finance tools to tackle the world’s most challenging problems.” Originally from southeastern Nigeria, she grew up... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative

this before? It turns out that most problems have been solved before by somebody in a different environment. Associating that other experience to what’s going on in my world may make me look brilliant, but in reality my brilliance was in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2000
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Q & A: Gustavo Herrero

democratic regimes and have adopted market-based stabilization programs, opening up their economies to foreign trade. And just as in the United States, another strong and exciting phenomenon has been the impact of the new View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2022
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Contributing to a Better Future

capitalism over the past century has brought billions of people out of poverty, but it’s also created inequalities and contributed to the progression of climate change. And so, the process of thinking about how business can consciously help create a cleaner and more... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

holds the "monopoly position" in the world marketplace it once enjoyed. "Students come here to learn, but they also have a responsibility to teach," he observes. "They have been admitted to HBS on the basis of their unique experiences -... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

23 May 2019
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Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

Group invests in Bluemercury 2012 M-61 skincare launched 2014 Appointed Entrepreneur-in-Residence, HBS 2015 Lune+Aster cosmetics launched 2015 Macy’s acquires Bluemercury 2019 Bluemercury opens its 195th store CEO and Cofounder Bluemercury, Inc. Marla Beck believed... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

15 Apr 2017
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Bringing Markets to Myanmar

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes For 25 years, David Brunell (MBA 1962) has worked in private sector development all over the world, transforming centralized economies to market-based View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Jun 2014
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Screen Saver

would be stadium seating, but that's about it. It's remarkable. And not in a good way." Lopez, it seems, is just getting warmed up. "Can you imagine driving the same car in 2010 that you drove in 1977, with the same features? There's almost nothing in the 2010 consumer... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices

products that make people’s lives easier, safer, and more enjoyable. In many capitalist economies in 2018, and especially in our own, innovation is unending, and its pace may even be accelerating. The creative destruction of capitalism... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

01 Mar 2011
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Alumni Books

we be good? How can we understand financial managers' ethical failings, which destroyed lives and brought nations and the global economy close to collapse? Das seeks answers to these questions in the Mahabharata, the 2,000-year-old... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Advance Racial Equity in the Office

don’t even realize it’s happening, Rice says, but it means that people of color can’t compete on equal footing for career mobility. Doing nothing to fix systemic disadvantages is “fundamentally racist, not to mention cancerous to our View Details

24 Feb 2011
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Show Time

An Oscar statue (CC BY-NC 2.0) The Academy Awards are coming up, that annual homage to movies and their place in popular culture. The festivities are also a reminder of entertainment’s importance as a mainstay of the U.S. economy and, for... View Details