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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
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in the financial management field. Over the last fifteen years, they have developed and described key concepts, such as activity-based costing (ABC), activity-based management, operational systems for learning and improvement, and target... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
continue as planned. San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City recently hosted launch events for The Campaign for Harvard Business School. Each event included a powerful multimedia presentation showcasing the tremendous impact HBS alumni... View Details
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Tools | New Venture Competition
HQ is a tool built by the trans community that addresses clinicians’ barriers around learning and advocacy. Team: Ivan Hsiao, MPH 2024. Alumni Webinars Launching & Scaling a Social Venture: Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992), Founder & CEO,... View Details
Robert T. Powers
During his tenure as CEO, Powers expanded Nalco’s international presence and diversified Nalco’s product lines – moving beyond water-treatment into specialty and industrial chemicals. Under his leadership, Nalco became one of the... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
are based on merit and—unusual among graduate business schools—financial aid is based on need. In 1910, four Visiting Committee members launched an $850 financial assistance fund. Since then, the MBA... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Great Expectations
launch of the yearlong course last fall we’ve witnessed the enormous power that comes from students working in small groups. One of the most affirming things we’ve seen is how FIELD has enhanced the entire curriculum. Students are... View Details
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
marketing has undergone immense changes over the past decade, and those changes are driving an increasing need for data analysis. Marketing today combines both art and science: Managers must combine creative thinking with rigorous analysis when making decisions.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
out the costs of leaving the EU, citizens have not heard a forward-looking plan on how the country could leverage EU membership more effectively in the future, if the country would decide to stay. The country needs to get on with taking steps to raise View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets
Monique Maddy (MBA 1993) is focusing her entrepreneurial energies on connecting the world's poor to global commerce through their cell phones. In 2007 she launched Ezuza, a Mexico City–based mobile money company that focuses on the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India
Through the Bharti Foundation, which was launched in 2000, Sunil Bharti Mittal (OPM 27, 1999), founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, advances his belief that quality education is the most important tool for social and economic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New Program for Science-Based Businesses
HBS has launched a new Executive Education program designed to help leaders of science-based businesses meet the many distinctive challenges found in their industry. Leading Science-Based Enterprises, to be held on campus June 26–29, will... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
remarkable. We then work equally hard to make sure the students we want can come to Soldiers Field. The prospect of graduating with high levels of debt can narrow our applicant pool and restrict the career paths of our graduates, so we are working to improve our... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
thought of as something that's investable for private equity. We see exciting young, growth companies, and we want to make them available to our limited partners." Hence, the creation of Causeway Media Partners, an investment fund Higgins View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
to Boston and launched our first BollyX classes. Partnering with boutique gyms, national gym chains, and dance studios, we quickly found that not only was there a tremendous appetite for Bollywood workout classes among fitness consumers,... View Details
- 10 May 2023
- News
Alumna Snags an Emmy
Plays) resulted from many hours of user research to understand the unmet needs of sports fans and then months of prototyping and iteration, all of which were hard skills I learned in TOM and the Product Management course. The development... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
amenities. (Bloomberg/Getty Images) “Yoga is at the core of our identity and culture,” Yeung continues. “It has kept us grounded in who we are as a company. It influences our brand strategy, the product categories we go after, and the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
of manufacturing, against the background of the evolving U.S.-China trade challenges. The talk was followed by a Q & A session and reception. Shih shared his expertise in manufacturing and product development across multiple industries to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
tasks like perfecting their technology, learning how to manufacture it, and financing the needed investments in research, development, and marketing through a combination of product sales and venture funding. And so emerged several... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- November 1990 (Revised September 2004)
- Case
Circuit City Stores, Inc. (A)
By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Susan Harmeling
Circuit City sells consumer electronic equipment, appliances, and extended service and warranty contracts which supplement those provided by equipment manufacturers. Equipment is sold at low margins, while warranties carry very high margins. A question has been raised... View Details
Keywords: Sales; Cost; Profit; Financial Statements; Revenue; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr., and Susan Harmeling. "Circuit City Stores, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 191-086, November 1990. (Revised September 2004.)
- 02 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship in General Management
summer at a consumer packaged goods company that makes some of the country’s most well-known brands, I learned how to approach a problem from a marketing perspective. I feel that the additional granularity this gave me is a great complement to the strategic and View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail