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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
his stock-in-trade as the advertising revenues for Vibe, Spin, and Blaze, the three magazines he now oversees at Vibe/Spin Ventures. As a founding member of the Vibe team, Clinkscales has watched the magazine's circulation grow from... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
grew from $141,935 in 1937 to $1,032,425 in 1941. 23 "Through the Depression, Polaroid's business remained small. But Land held on to a conviction that science pointed the way to products of the future," Forbes magazine noted. "By 1940,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
You goal, girl
With interest in women's sports and professional leagues soaring, Amy Love (MBA '93) decided it was high time for a publication that would cover the new scene in a serious manner. Instead of simply transposing traditional women's magazine... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising
cigarette advertising in 38 magazines. Cigarette brands were defined as "youth" brands if they were smoked by more than 5 percent of the smokers in eighth, tenth, and twelfth grades; magazines were classified as "youthoriented" if at... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
slide). Three examples of how academic language was translated into language that appeals to business practitioners. For the past 20 years Greenstein has written a 1,500-word column for IEEE Micro, a bimonthly magazine published by the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
Staples before coming to the bookseller, the future of Barnes & Noble lies in brick and mortar, an optimism that he has taken from the recent growth of independent bookstores. “That’s another sign that people do want places to go to buy books, to learn, to explore,”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
borders of the home country. Instead, he shouts: 'Wake up!' " Throughout his career, in different ways, Levitt kept shouting. When HBS Dean John McArthur appointed him editor of HBR (a position he held from 1985 to 1989), he transformed the View Details
- March 2016 (Revised May 2018)
- Case
ASOS PLC
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Launched in 2000, ASOS was one of the world’s largest online fashion specialists in 2018. Focusing on young consumers aged 16–25 years, the company offered over 85,000 items on its websites, many times more than the largest fashion stores, and added several thousand... View Details
Keywords: ASOS; AsSeenOnScreen; Online Fashion; Online Apparel; Nick Beighton; Nick Robertson; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Social Media; Marketplaces; Shipping; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Age; Gender; Currency Exchange Rate; Profit; Revenue; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business History; Selection and Staffing; Journals and Magazines; Human Capital; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Succession; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Social Marketing; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; United Kingdom; England; London
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "ASOS PLC." Harvard Business School Case 716-449, March 2016. (Revised May 2018.)
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New Editor Takes Helm at HBS Bulletin
Roger Thompson, a longtime editor at Nation’s Business magazine and, more recently, a Web site developer and manager for Cox Interactive Media, is the new editor of the HBS Bulletin. In July, he assumed the position formerly held by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
How Much is Fair?
Tobias Photo courtesy of Harcourt Author and columnist Andrew Tobias (MBA 1972) discussed executive pay and American attitudes about compensation in an article in Parade magazine (March 2, 2003), for which he is personal finance editor.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forum
Feedback The “Assets” department in our March issue featured some of Professor Joe Fuller’s flying pigs and a call to share what’s in your office. Keep Pulling “My time at HBS overlapped with Professor Fuller, who graduated from HBS the year before I did. While he was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
He Loves New York
New York magazine lacks in profit and prospects, it makes up for in the social cachet it can bestow on the owner in the media and cultural capital of the United States,” opined the New York Times (December 17, 2003). Well, maybe so, but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
HBR in Chinese
In September, HBS Publishing launched a Chinese-language edition of the Harvard Business Review. Approximately 80 percent of the magazine will be translated from English, with the remainder devoted to Taiwan-related material. HBR’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Rising Star
Dhlomo Photo courtesy Kanyi Dhlomo In 1995, as a 20-year-old university student, Khanyi Dhlomo (MBA ’07) became the first black newscaster for South Africa’s national TV network. At 22, she was appointed editor of a South African women’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
This Site’s for You
We’ve made a number of changes in the magazine over the past several years, all designed to make it more interesting for you to read. Now we’ve given the Bulletin Web site a much-needed overhaul. While we will continue to post the current... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Seeing Things Others Don’t
HEEBNER: Mad genius, hot investor. The cover of Fortune magazine (June 9, 2008) didn’t pull any punches. Above a photo of Ken Heebner (MBA ’65), a banner headline screamed “America’s Hottest Investor,” and below that, the View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Former Bulletin Editor Remembered
Edward Lovell ("Ted") Anthony II (MBA '52), who served as editor of this magazine from 1962 to 1981, was killed in an automobile accident on November 18 in Maui, Hawaii. He was 80 years old. A 1943 graduate of Harvard College, Anthony... View Details
- 02 Aug 2017
- News
The Atlantic Finds a New Home
(Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) On Friday, David Bradley (MBA 1977) announced that he would be selling the Atlantic magazine to Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective and widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In a... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Editor's Letter
and herald new ideas and voices. We hope this version of the magazine will better resemble a spirited classroom conversation—but without the anxiety of a potential cold call. I know we asked much of you to help us make this change, but we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
Victor Navasky of The Nation magazine has spent his life taking on the Establishment. So what did he hope to accomplish at Harvard Business School? Call it what you will — the conventional wisdom, the status quo, the official line — and... View Details