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Samuel H. Kress
Kress built a discount chain store based on an economies of scale model. He started offering fewer items than traditional 5- and 10- cent stores, in order to offer bargain prices to a lower-income clientele. Kress’ stores were a great... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Will K. Kellogg
Kellogg invented corn flakes and created a breakfast cereal empire. Practicing pioneering advertising techniques, he managed to change the American breakfast style. Today, the Kellogg Company carries on the tradition of innovative... View Details
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John Schupbach
changes to restructure the health-care experience. There's never been a more exciting time in history for being able to improve quality and the health and length of human life." But doing so means reaching beyond traditional... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech
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Benjamin Wells
arrive at a way to figure it out." Ben will faces new challenges in his internship with The Parthenon Group, where he will consult on a mix of projects that will include education "and more traditional industries that will... View Details
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Alex Slusky
at New Enterprise Associates, then and now one of the largest VCs in the country.” After three years with NEA, Alex “got bitten by the entrepreneurial bug.” The technology industry, however, had taken a beating. And Alex recognized that the View Details
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Activating a Legion of People | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
about a job at the Wildlife Conservation Society. It was such an unexpected synergy of circumstances. I really fell in love with the organization, the people (who are primarily scientists), and the scope of the opportunity. In my current role, which is new for the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
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Action Plan: Come as You Are
seek insight and perspectives that are very different from my own,” he explains. And finally, Basseches reminds us, art can just make you feel better about the world, decreasing depression, anxiety, and loneliness, according to some studies. “It’s not a silver bullet,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
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Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
half of all EC courses, part of the traditional thirty-session class structure is now used for group project work, field research, and the preparation of papers on "frontier" business issues. New EC courses are continually being... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
what flexible development is all about. "In a traditional environment, product development is usually thought of as a recipe of tasks. You go from task A to task N, and eventually the product will get done," says Iansiti. "In an... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2014
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Cutting Edge
"We're reemerging as a high-margin, health-and-wellness company," says Silk, speaking from Smith Brothers headquarters in Chicago. "We'll continue to make our traditional cough drops, but we've also introduced a variety of... View Details
Charles R. Walgreen III
Charles Walgreen, III continued the tradition of success begun by his father and grandfather. Under his leadership, Walgreens stores continued to expand its existing operations and also entered the restaurant business. By 1979, the... View Details
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Marie Kyle
Clinton Health Access Initiative, "sparked a passion for the development sector," says Marie. But she wasn't satisfied with the standard aid packages she saw in emerging markets. "I wanted to look at ideas outside the View Details
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Elsa Sze
even when it is difficult – and even when it is unpopular on the HBS campus itself. Disturbed by the “heritage” of the Priscilla Ball, an annual party in which male students dress as flamboyant women, Elsa challenged the tradition in an... View Details
- 09 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)
The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. This summer, we are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
Kester “I came from a very traditional approach to strategy, until design thinking ran across my screen. Then I became fascinated by the idea of a tool kit that could help the non-creatives be creative. I’ve spent my career exploring... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
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Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
traditional balance sheet does not account for a company’s cost to society. For instance, airlines don’t figure in the environmental costs of travel, which can amount to billions annually. HBS’s Impact-Weighted Accounts Project, led by... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
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Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
is between companies that serve traditional banking needs and those catering to clients with more complicated financial lives. A crucial delineation," he says, "may be between those for whom federal deposit insurance is important - that... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Oct 1999
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Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
used traditional methods of inquiry - mathematical theory or statistical analysis, for instance - while others employed interviews, primary company materials, surveys, and close examination of the trading of individual securities. A... View Details
- 21 May 2014
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CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals
the end of the program, students will take an exam administered at any one of 4,000 testing centers worldwide to receive a certificate from HBS attesting to their mastery of the content. Unlike most MOOCs, which follow a traditional... View Details
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
In order to garner the capital necessary to foot the bill for social change, nonprofits need to think less about traditional grants and more in terms of innovation--and so do the organizations that fund them. This was a key message from... View Details