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- 05 Jul 2011
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Driving Innovation
joining Google in 2006, the former head of digital marketing at DaimlerChrysler has been helping Google get its approach to consumer marketers up to speed by drawing on her auto industry experience and a previous ten-year stint at IBM. As... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter Illustration by Anita Kunz Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), an Austrian who taught at Harvard for twenty years, was “one of the greatest economists who ever lived, and an electrifying personality besides,” writes HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
commercial publishers. If you were one of those people with a crystal ball, what would you predict for the future of book publishing? MA: I see the demand for books, both in print and in digital formats,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
the story of Enron's collapse continues to unfold, Thomas-Graham is hesitant to predict how the debacle might change the business world. "I would not position myself as a forecaster of future events, but... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
Krishna Mahesh (MBA ’05) not only traveled the longest distance to arrive on campus for the final round of judging in the inaugural Alumni New Venture Contest, he also figured he had the longest shot at winning. The seven finalists, representing five domestic View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
HBS Class Notes so appealing? Part of the answer is that they're just plain fun to read (see sidebar). The earliest HBS Class Notes, penned by the magazine's staff, were a fairly predictable listing of address changes, marriage... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
New Releases
Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence Edited by David B. Yoffie (Harvard Business School Press) In an introduction to this new collection of essays, David Yoffie, the School's Max and Doris Starr Professor of Business... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
percent. Give low- and middle-income customers access to low-interest-rate loans by using a predictive algorithm that uses nontraditional data to measures creditworthiness. “There’s a spectrum of behavior,”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
Predictable Surprises by Max H. Bazerman and Michael D. Watkins Seeing What’s Next by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, and Erik A. Roth The Keystone Advantage by Marco... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
“Baseball appeals to my entrepreneurial spirit because each season is a new season,” says DeWitt Jr. “It’s not like a normal business where you can make certain forecasts and expect to hit plan. Lots of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
now has 140 employees and forecasted revenues of $125 million in 2009. Behind those figures, however, is the story of a company that has survived more than one brush with the void by reinventing itself... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
at a white-tablecloth restaurant. This year is looking a little different. On May 8, as some states loosened dining-in restrictions and others maintained strict guidelines for takeout and delivery only, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
customer base and are its fastest-growing segment. People assume that it’s mostly millennials who have the desire and savvy to manage their finances by mobile app, Savova says, but “we’ve found that people... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
Within a week of launching a 90-day free trial, subscriptions grew by 3600%. In addition, the company accelerated the release of a new product, originally designed for classroom instructors and now geared to administrators. The recently... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
bulletin@hbs.edu From Baker Library: Last year, about half of hospital staffers reported staff shortages and overwork. Can online staffing improve that? Accenture predicts that “crowdsourcing, labor... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
their yields. The findings were promising, Cole says: Those who received a weekly call about weather forecasts or pest strategies, for example, saw their yields increase by 8.6 percent for cotton and 28... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Ideas That Stick
CHIP AND DAN HEATH: What makes messages memorable? Photo COURTESY THE HEATH FAMILY Everyone “knows” that strangers have tampered with children’s candy on Halloween. But actual examples of this are hard to come by. It is, however, an idea... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Scott Howe Nineteenth-century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Nearly 150 years later, Scott Howe (MBA 1994), president and CEO... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
The Weather Channel: The Impossible Rise of a Media Phenomenon, by Frank Batten (MBA '52) with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (51st PMD), is the story of a cable network that succeeded when all the experts predicted it would fail. Former chairman... View Details
- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
the energy crisis, and (2) the economic meltdown. I’ve been rereading Energy Future, HBS professor emeritus Robert Stobaugh’s 1979 best-seller that predicted America’s dependence on foreign oil could well... View Details