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- 22 Jul 2024
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Viral Marketing’s Early Muse
Illustration by John Weber In 2008, Canadian musician Dave Carroll saw United Airlines employees manhandling his $3,500 Taylor guitar on the tarmac in Chicago. When he arrived at his destination, the guitar was in pieces. Carroll contacted United customer service... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Cutting Edge
"Marketing aside, we could have never renovated the brand without these essential steps," Silk says. But marketing didn't hurt. Silk, a former professional musician who at one time had considered becoming a... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
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Embracing Chaos
Ravi Venkatesan If anyone could write the recipe for business success in emerging markets, it would be Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992). After all, he's led not one, but two, major multinational companies—Cummins and Microsoft—in India and brought both to dominate their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
New Face at Facebook
“It was the shot heard ’round Silicon Valley: Internet upstart Facebook, Inc. raided search giant Google, Inc. for a No. 2 executive it hoped would turn the social-networking Web site into a major moneymaker,” declared the Los Angeles View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
Shih, Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice, who cochaired the one-week immersion with Dennis Campbell, Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Business Administration. “We started with a very basic question: ‘What should we really know about Southeast... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
mitigation is the use of off-balance sheet project finance instead of traditional, on-balance sheet corporate finance. Consider, for instance, Iridium LLC, a $5.5 billion global satellite communications firm backed by Motorola that filed for bankruptcy in August 1999.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
and a dryer button to complete the experience. The Japanese company TOTO, founded in 1917, introduced flush toilets at a time when most of the country lacked a sewage system. Today, it produces the world’s leader in the bidet-toilet... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
bond markets, commodity markets, and derivatives markets. In fact, so did all asset classes — not to mention those that benefit when bonuses are big, from vintage Bordeaux to luxury yachts. But these boom years were also misery years, when View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
You Can Bank on This
go to Wall Street, the worse the market will do. "It's not that Harvard MBAs are stupid," Soifer assured the Financial Times (September 12, 2001). Instead, he explained, Wall Street firms make generous... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
of retailing through consulting and marketing work for a roster of global clients. Traub recently sat down with Gilt Groupe cofounders Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) to discuss retailing trends and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
I never took the General’s course. That I had avoided him all that time is one of the significant mistakes of my lifetime. Richard Chapin (MBA ’49) Georgetown, ME HBS Should Probe Capitalism’s Troubles I read with keen interest the report... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
from corporations and boardrooms to national magazines to a project to elect a woman President of the United States. Upon graduation, Fudge went to work for General Mills and advanced from marketing assistant to View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Spreading the Words
When the youngest of his three sons went off to college in 1994, Carey Cook (MBA 1969) finally had time to pursue a lifelong dream: creating word games and puzzles designed to build the vocabulary skills of school-age kids. At the same... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, cautiously pursued buying... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
History Matters
History shows us that when economic times are tough, customer relations are more important than ever, according to HBS professor Nancy Koehn. In “Chasing Dreams during Troubled Times: Lessons from the Past” (Boston Globe, January 22,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Hoop Dreams
Boston entrepreneur Steve Belkin (MBA 1971) first tried to buy an NBA team — the Boston Celtics — twenty years ago. That attempt ended in failure for the founder and chairman of Trans National Group, a marketing and investment company. As... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Turning Point: Sparking Change
Amy Hilliard (MBA 1978) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Amy Hilliard (MBA 1978) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) The first time I walked into a university classroom as an instructor, not a student, it was the fall of 2019, and 45 students... View Details
- 28 Feb 2020
- News
Kelly Campbell Named President of Hulu
Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images Walt Disney Co. announced that it was promoting Kelly Campbell (MBA 2005) to president of the streaming service Hulu, the Los Angeles Times reports. With 30 million subscribers and... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
value that is then built upon to create a market value—which is a separate type of validation,” says Riley, who credits Deitch’s time as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and his Art in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Big Deal
Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) made big news in February when his Tata Group purchased Corus, the Anglo-Dutch steel producer, the Financial Times reported (February 3, 2007). The $12 billion deal was one for the record books as the largest... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing