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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
DiCamillo notes, will be transposing some of the company's formidable technological know-how to the newer segments of the market and offering digital products that fit the user-friendly Polaroid tradition. Two current examples are the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Professor of Business Administration and cochair, Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship One such example is CellScope, which manufactures a device that fits easily over a smartphone's camera so a parent or school nurse can take a photo... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Action Plan: Come as You Are
wherever you are—angry, sad, overworked, happy,” says Basseches. “You can engage with galleries and collections in ways that fit your mood and spirit.” It’s also, by its public nature, a social experience—whether you go with a friend or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
LA Reid’s Song
the rest. And while I always liked having hits, my hits were never based on making music that I thought fit urban radio or alternative rock radio or Top Forty radio. I don’t want only hit records—I did that. I always wanted more. I want... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
everyone needs, whether you’re single or married. Otherwise, you become just another commodity. There are 50 million people dating online—you need to stand out and be memorable. But your personal brand can’t be aspirational. It needs to View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
all. But Branson, whose career began in the late 1960s when he launched a student magazine and then a record company, told the audience that his enterprises all fit the company's brand. He defined the Virgin brand as representing service... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
intervene when there’s a downslide? I always try to push the students to consider how these questions and possible solutions can be extrapolated to organizational settings.” Concludes Polzer, “The best teams are those that not only combine the skills of their members... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
become more accessible and bite-sized, like 2048 and Candy Crush Saga. They won’t have a tutorial or instructions. They’re going to fit into your life and not ask much of you. They’ll also give back more. I’m hopeful that if you play our... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
check the masthead wind vane. With the muscle fatigue of three months at sea, this last phase was the hardest for me. But you must stay disciplined: study the weather data, make the sail changes, write for the schools, grind the winches. I’ve been View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Boutique workouts brought to the busiest people, at home
As a former investment banking analyst and private equity associate, Prita Kumar (MBA 2014) knows what it means to be busy—so busy, in fact, that it was nearly impossible to incorporate the boutique fitness classes she cherished into her... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
career. That became clearer when I got to HBS. I learned that, in addition to being inspired by media, I liked to work on projects that had a beginning, middle, and end, which fit perfectly with the world of film and television. All signs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
thatched-roof hut. GiveDirectly payments allowed him to buy building materials and livestock. The family now sleeps under an iron roof fitted with a solar panel and raises goats and cows. “My proudest achievement is that I now own several... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
purchased as a separate attachable seat that fits on a standard toilet for approximately $800, depending on the model, or as an integrated toilet bowl and seat (branded as the Neorest) for anywhere from $3,800 to $5,000. Classroom... View Details
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups
can’t easily fit in a trek across town for lunch.” On the days when only a few alumni can make it, Kete says the conversations are that much richer. “That’s when you really get to know folks.” Lunches are set for the second Friday of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
success,” Bowen said. “An important part of that process is developing systems and measurements to ensure that the people you hire, beyond their résumé qualifications, will fit the firm’s culture. That’s a big problem for small companies.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Calling the Tune: Negotiation as an Improvisational Dance
taken." Valley concluded, "I can't teach you a best strategy for negotiation. But I can teach you how to react to the other party: how to recognize what they're doing, how to think about the impact of that action on your outcome, and how to make a transition if that... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
Charles and taking in the sights.” Happy accident: “I’m a more quantitative person, and my management consulting experience—which focused on materials and metals—was very analytical, so I wanted a business profession that fit that. But I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
investment firm seeking a high-impact agribusiness project in rural Africa. A small company in Tanzania seems to fit the bill, but it faces health-safety issues with the potential to spread E. coli throughout the region. Another problem:... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
years older than me. It certainly seemed like a much greater age difference back in 1962–1963 when I had the pleasure of taking his course. I just remember a very personable and easygoing (the Yiddish word “mensch” fits well) person who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
Matrix Partners.) “I moved to Boston because my four kids were in New England; they moved away almost immediately,” Hellman jokes. “So I moved back to San Francisco and decided I’d better get a real job.” By all accounts, being chairman of Hellman & Friedman View Details
Keywords: Susan Young