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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Exotic Travel
Nichols Photo courtesy Bill Nichols Want to show your kids a real rainforest instead of the Rainforest Cafe? Marketing consultant Bill Nichols (MBA ’78) and his wife, Jennifer, did just that, taking their two children to locales such as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
American life. New technologies, such as the cell phone and BlackBerry, came to be viewed as necessities. Firms selling small luxuries, such as Starbucks, which created an enormous market for specialty coffee, grew to rival the size of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
expansion. The heart of the problem in the 1930s, in other words, was not a shortfall in productive capacity—too little labor or too little plant and equipment, due to a famine or earthquake—but rather a shortfall in demand due to “some... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
trend is not going away. This trend is being driven by two things. The first is the wealth buildup in Asia. The domestic real estate markets in Asia are still small, so Asian real estate investors have turned to Europe and the United... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Digging Deep
solidly built, collapsible shovel tools that won’t break when things get down and dirty. In the past year, Pieper moved manufacturing from China to Portland, Oregon, a difficult logistical shift that nonetheless made it easier to control quality and respond to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
company she launched in 1993 to build wireless infrastructure in emerging market countries], in which he was also an investor, board member, and advisor. "Howard is perhaps the smartest, most humble, most inspiring, and most ethical... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Jensen Donates Grant
HBS professor emeritus Michael Jensen, an influential expert in the areas of agency theory, organizational design, and incentives, was awarded the 2009 Morgan Stanley–American Finance Association Award for Excellence in Financial Economics. Jensen, whose research was... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
trading platforms have been launched, institutions participating in the market have been strengthened, and there is greater public awareness of the critical role capital View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Well, did you care about Watergate or Vietnam or Enron, just a few of the countless national episodes vivisected by a vigilant press? Should you care that a credit crisis is roiling markets the world over as business reporters move en... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
sector, government, labor associations, and civic advocacy groups. The impact of this national summit on its participants was perhaps best described by Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), who declared midway through the event that "the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
president of its Americas division, a post he’s held since 2005. Believed by many to be on course to be Ford’s next CEO, Fields has had a rich apprenticeship. After graduating from Rutgers University, he joined IBM in sales and marketing... View Details
- 06 Mar 2015
- News
Goldman Alumni’s Mozambique Merchant Bank Eyes Gas Boom
- 22 Sep 2009
- News
The Case for Regulatory Reform
we only act when necessary to avert unacceptable — and in some cases dire — outcomes. The second is that any intervention go with, rather than against, the grain of the market system. Our objective is not to supplant or replace markets.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
phenomenon it pretty much created. “From the foundation of yoga wear, we started a category that before us did not exist,” says Vivien Yeung (MBA 2001), Lululemon’s chief strategy officer. Understanding the public consumption ritual around yoga offers View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 15 Jul 2025
- News
Bringing Business Insights to Micro-entrepreneurs
Every day, more than one million hawkers and other food and beverage vendors across Southeast Asia use the Grab delivery service to operate their small businesses—and grow them for the future—with a little help from Grab’s new AI Merchant Assistant. Via the company’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Art Collecting’s New Egalitarianism
time for you. But it also helps to be daring at times.” 3) Follow your instinct. “A collection is so personal. Think of it as a piece of art itself—it’s something that you shape over time with a lot of passion and dedication,” Weidner says. And it should reflect your... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
What Impact? Resist Taking Credit for Results You Can't Achieve
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 23 Sep 2014
- News
We Can't Talk about Inequality without Talking about Talent
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
post-secondary education, economic mobility, and labor market demand. You can find Managing the Future of Work on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. Enjoy. READ MORE Bill Kerr: As job... View Details