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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
The expression “letting the fox guard the henhouse” comes to mind when you first hear about Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) systems, where a product manufacturer actually places orders for the retailer, determining quantities based upon... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
ELY: Drilling down for valuable perspectives on how gender issues affect efficiency, safety, and productivity in the workplace. Field-based research can take HBS faculty members to some unusual places.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
In this new series, the Bulletin will feature occasional reports on faculty research in progress. Who Has Your Number? Customer information is the lifeblood of business. Indeed, a company's success often hinges on how well it understands... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
FIELD 2: Global Intelligence
a new concept for a product or service for global partner organizations around the world. In January, they spent a week in the region conducting market research and meeting with the organization to refine... View Details
- 10 May 2023
- News
Alumna Snags an Emmy
Plays) resulted from many hours of user research to understand the unmet needs of sports fans and then months of prototyping and iteration, all of which were hard skills I learned in TOM and the Product... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Alumni Team Up to Fight Cancer
Bill Bowes (MBA ’52) and Kathy Giusti (MBA ’85) first met in 2009, when they were both honored with HBS’s Alumni Achievement Award. This cross-generational meeting would demonstrate not only the power of serendipity but also the power of HBS to convene remarkable... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
experience I have had," he says. At 44, Dumon has had more experience than most. A self-described "Internet product guy," he has known both success and failure, and he believes that failure can be a good teacher. "Once, when we tried an... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Betting big on star power can be a winning strategy in business—not just show business
Researching the entertainment industry, Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, has found that blockbuster strategies work. Content producers who pursue these strategies make huge investments in a small... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
States. What’s that? Yes, R&D investment produces benefits and prosperity, but not the wide array of pluses and spill-overs offered by “venturesome consumption” of new products and services, the author contends. Citing his own View Details
- 03 Aug 2022
- News
Hungry for Change
that hunger, Sun & Swell was born in 2016. “We started with the mission of bringing healthier foods to the world,” says Flynn. But that goal quickly expanded as she began to research the grocery and packaged food industry. Packaged food... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Nov 2020
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Administration; Gary Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration; and researcher Bonnie Yining Cao. The case explores how CEO James Wang (MBA 1996) handled the telecom equipment maker’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
include: Agriculture, which receives massive government subsidies. Universities, which enjoy tax-exempt status and direct subsidies through government research grants. Health care, which receives a huge tax break (employer-sponsored... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Green Talk at HBS
Before an overflow audience in September, Scott Nyquist (MBA ’84) and Thomas Seitz of McKinsey gave a talk on the “The Future of Energy: How Geopolitics, Environmental, and Supply Risks Are Shaping the Industry.” Drawing on the consulting firm’s View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
Ventures, Defy Partners, Greycroft, and Lerer Hippeau. Prima said it will use the funding to continue product development and support operations. The company sells its products online and through retail... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
The tallest animal to roam the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their lands are vanishing, with estimates suggesting that 90 percent of their habitat has already been lost; giraffe populations... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Optimizing search technology
Olivier Dumon (MBA 1998) is managing director of academic and government markets for global publishing giant Elsevier, where he’s working on optimizing online search protocols. He believes that the more the technology is improved, the faster View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan
On December 6, four firms became the first recipients of the Porter Prize, a new award that recognizes innovation in Japanese companies. Matsui Securities Co., Ltd., and Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd., were named the winners in the single-business company category, while the... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
presidential skybox for her research into the entertainment industry's most successful stars and products. Her brand-new book, Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment (Henry Holt), examines the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
EiR: A Baker’s Dozen
invaluable knowledge and insights to students who are eager to develop innovative products and services and create value for both the economy and society.” EiRs serve in a part-time capacity, advising MBA students interested in starting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
process of drug development: With quantum’s ability to analyze multiple molecules, proteins, and chemicals at the same time, researchers could significantly speed the time to market with ultrafast and high-volume testing—and discover new... View Details