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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
Amazon of Africa”; at the time of its IPO last April, it was valued at $1.3 billion. A year later, Kehinde and fellow Jumia executive Ercin Eksin went on to found Africa Courier Express (ACE), a logistics... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
which she'd done research. George Kozmetsky [MBA 6/1947, DCS 1957], cofounder of Teledyne, was another advocate. "He believed that women needed mentors to help get them onto the playing field," remarks Lack,... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
There was a lot going on at that time. And so those are all questions that never sort of have easy, simple answers. But they are questions that need to be addressed. And I do the best that I can, but I also... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
built at the lower end of the Charles River, some of this area had been a tidal marsh." In the 1980s, the Bulletin reported on renovations of many View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll traveled to 14 countries, visiting mines and interviewing staff, meeting with government officials, and talking to miners and local community members. “I View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
discovers somebody else doing something that works, they'll enter that. They'll bring capital or they'll bring people, some type of resources, and mostly squeeze the margin out of it. And so, you View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
Valley-- It was basically, a bunch of kids that had a shared interest in emerging technology that really, needed a lot of people to get together to shape it into something. And... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
Corps, we have a saying that goes, ‘Officers eat last.’ Whether in the literal sense, when it comes to standing in a meal line at dinner time, or in the metaphorical sense, when it comes to taking credit for a success, a leader must always put the View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
their apps (minimizing Nix’s customer acquisition costs), and then used and repurposed by vast communities of fitness consumers in novel ways that only escalate the value to them and to Nix. Yes, Nix still View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
may end up feeling that executives from the other company have taken over. All of these human forces can destroy the potential economic value of the merger." Beer suggests that cross-company task forces be... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
Hitting the High Notes
needs are the same. The number-one priority among C-suite executives is talent attraction and retention,” says Sheridan, who guides companies on best practices for employee engagement. “I’ve run three companies myself, so I use a lot... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
can't talk about Internet advertising anymore as one medium. It's not. We need to think of the different formats as serving different functions in marketing." Thus, John Deighton's total marketing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
being able to make decisions that are in the best long-term interest of the institution. We don’t have a quarterly earnings report that we need to be attuned to. And I still reflect on cases that we studied... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
every business. The company's engineers have done a brilliant job of developing increasingly powerful computer chips. But the chip is only part of a larger system, and most of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
behemoths of Samsung and Philips. If you remain focused on one market segment, they will figure out a way to squish you (most probably by lowering prices and your margins). Ario needs to continue innovating... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 21 Jun 2022
- News
Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
as other reasons for growth, while crime, low-quality public education, and transportation issues pose significant challenges. Sheets says the conversation also touched on the need to invest in underprivileged neighborhoods, how to make... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Michael E. Porter, C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, concluded the four-day program with a fast-paced lecture on his current research in the area of strategy. "I found particularly... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how... View Details