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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Courtney, outlines a new approach to strategy making that enables managers to move beyond outdated prediction-based models by embracing — not fearing — uncertainty. Courtney argues that most executives suffer from an all-or-nothing view... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
get ahead of these business model disrupters and be the change yourself? For more in-depth data on the music streaming sector from Statista, see eBaker, our online research portal for alumni. View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
up front, given people a discount for paying a year’s worth of services in advance, and employed a number of other innovative tactics, the company turned cash-flow positive in its third week of operations and thereafter simply coined... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
from anything so unquantifiable as emotion, Moon values that intuition and wants to “help validate” it. More Retail Revolutions Speeding Up Accessories BaubleBar cofounders Amy Jain and Daniella Yacobovsky (both MBA 2010) apply the popular “fast fashion” View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
company's long-term viability. The strategy paid off, with sales jumping well over 50 percent in the first year alone. Under intense scrutiny, Gerstner then reversed a plan to split IBM into independently operated "Baby Blues," choosing... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
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Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
diverse professions in which they operate. Whether you examine law firms, advertising agencies, investment banks, or management consulting firms, the business model and the challenges they must successfully meet to prosper over the long... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community security View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
offerings and easily decide to close her Bank One account. "It is not uncommon for new delivery systems to compete with old ones," notes Dwight Crane. "But the Wingspanbank model takes that notion to unique extremes." Bank One realized... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
executive director of the DC Public Charter School Board (PCSB), practices a nationally renowned model of school account-ability. Pearson oversees a $600 million budget for 57 charter operators that serve... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
MBAs go down the road less traveled to work with entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs with humility and curiosity, and lending our skills, experience, and energy to the task of improving our communities and our economy," says Singer. The team provided advice on everything from operational improvements to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
that sold them on Casper—it was the numbers. The company had tested well in a revolutionary predictive model built by the venture firm. The idea to vet possible investments in such a way hit Coats about a decade ago: Maybe, he figured, he... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
today on specific Internet opportunities where there are certainly Web 2.0 characteristics, but they are very different in the kinds of models they’re pursuing and the kind of focus. Accel specializes in technology investments. Is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
adapted and changed its model since launching in 2010, first crowning a single winner, then introducing multiple business tracks, and finally opting for three categories—most innovative, greatest impact, and best investment. New this... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
high-end, traditional model toilets it introduced to the U.S. market in 1989, the Washlet, as the bidet-toilet is known, has been a much tougher sell. In “TOTO: The Bottom Line,” HBS associate professor Mary Tripsas considers barriers to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
in part, by how much it gave away. If that seems counterintuitive at best and downright crazy at worst, think again. The Bridgespan Group, the consultancy they created, has turned the standard business model on its head. While consultants... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
distinguished career of more than thirty years. That first position gave her a variety of experiences, from line operations to staff management, and soon she was one of the first college-educated women to enter the company's fast track to... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children
thinking into those endeavors, in the realm of child protection," says Brochu. She explains that criminal networks operate much like legitimate enterprises. As a result, her business degree has made a difference in her work, as has her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Taking Tailoring High Tech
width and lining options. But instead of measuring tapes, there’s Molly, a 3D scanner that creates a mathematical model of the shopper’s body. The more than 200,000 measurements collected in just seven seconds are translated into patterns... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
living/learning-group model and facilities of our Executive Education campus for a deep dive into case discussions and reflection tailored to alumni at your career stage. Then, as your five-year anniversary approaches, you receive a new... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
concept proved successful—nonprofits and for-profit social or environmental impact companies did benefit from access to loans—but the model did not. SITAWI did not see the necessary volume in deals to be sustainable as a lender. So... View Details