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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Open Canvas
“that kind of broke our backs because it was so expensive,” he recalls. In 2003, on the brink of collapse, the Vaziranis sold most of their private art collection to bootstrap the business. It was a turning point, allowing the time to capitalize on the trust and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
earning a $15,000 runner-up prize. Shortly thereafter, the three founded Sonation and renamed the product Cadenza. Chao and her cofounders met with Apple last fall and are focused on developing an iPad and iPhone app for Cadenza, the first in a series of products... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
HICKS Illustration by Joe Ciardiello Jeff Hicks (MBA ’97) arrived at HBS with ten years of experience as an advertising executive at Leo Burnett in Chicago. Disillusioned with the trend toward “unbundling” agencies into different... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
good at associational thinking, or simply associating. They make connections between seemingly unrelated problems and ideas and synthesize new ideas. I would frame associational thinking by asking this question: Has somebody else in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
Illustrations by Chris Gash Illustrations by Chris Gash It sounded like a cynical money grab, a 90-minute commercial that no adult would willingly watch. But The LEGO Movie, released in 2014, surprised... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Delivering Trust
Illustration by Marcos Chin Illustration by Marcos Chin When they married, Deborah and Jake Anderson (MBA 2010) knew that they might have difficulty starting a family due to a preexisting medical condition.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
legislative bills and trying to pass a budget; we are now in an emergency-management situation,” he recalls. Difficult as that time was, it set Simmons up as the perfect candidate for his next role. In April 2021, after Cardona was appointed View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
the business but no day-to-day role). The case is fictional but is based on a combination of several real businesses encountered by Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA 16, 2017), managing director at Semper8 Capital, a Toronto-based investment firm.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
structure is a textbook duopoly, they add, surrounded by a “political industrial complex” of special interests, donors, and lobbyists, resulting in competition that fails to deliver what citizens should expect: practical and effective... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
Howard Stevenson (photo by Stuart Cahill) Howard Stevenson (photo by Stuart Cahill) [Editor's note: This article was updated November 25, 2019] As former dean of External Relations, longtime faculty member... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
products—such as price and the number of similar products sold at the same time—that we could map to features of new products as a way to predict demand. We also took into account the need to price multiple products in the same category at the same time, since demand... 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 model piloted View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
Lead to Rome, a one-off elective course team-taught by HBS professor Frances Frei (left) and Harvard history and classics professor Emma Dench (right), juxtaposed ancient texts by Julius Caesar, Seneca,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
cheaper) to manufacture in China. So depending on one’s perspective, China can be seen as both a challenge and an opportunity for U.S. manufacturing. For Sharpe and Katz, it is competitor and partner. As a competitor, there’s broad agreement that China maintains an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
GROUP DYNAMIC: (Clockwise from bottom) Andrew Saunders, Sonia Sahney, Tyler Koop, Courtney Hughes, and Peter Stone. Not pictured: Amyn Pesnani Photographs by Webb Chappell For this year’s feature on the School’s newest alumni, we selected... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
(photo by Cade Martin) At my 20th HBS reunion I heard faculty member Michael Wheeler describe behavior people engage in when they’re being deceptive. The room was transfixed. No one was on their phone! It turned out there is a robust,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
would otherwise be unable to afford treatment. Authored in 2003 by HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé, the case began as a straight pricing study. “The pharmaceutical industry is unlike any other,” Deshpandé explains. “Although the prices vary... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
up with Prem Ramaswami (MBA 2013) to gain some insider knowledge of a role cited by the Wall Street Journal for its coveted status among MBAs. Ramaswami, a senior product manager at Google (where he worked for nearly six years before... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
president of the bank. They wanted to run the bank. They didn't just want to write a book. They wanted to win the Pulitzer Prize. When Asif and I were working on our first business, SupplierMarket, we were funded by Sequoia, KKR, all... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts onboard. In a new multimedia case, “Columbia’s Final Mission,” by HBS assistant professors Michael... View Details