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- 28 May 2019
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INK: Maker’s Manual
Since cofounding the online product discovery platform The Grommet in 2008, Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) has enjoyed a front-row seat to the launch of 3,000 consumer products—including household names like Fitbit, SodaStream, and S’well. From... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
team up with partners.” That could mean well-established figures like Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande, in addition to influencers and creators like Huda Kattan, whose show, Huda Boss, streams on Facebook Watch; Kattan can then sell her products directly to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
find its way forward after a series of mergers and acquisitions, high-profile ethical missteps, and some tough business challenges. His job was to build on strengths, connecting what was good with what could be better. “Boeing had... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
learn about marketing from a business owner who says he doesn’t care whether or not customers like his product? HBS assistant professor Michael Norton’s interest in what motivates seemingly irrational consumer behavior has found a perfect... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “I definitely don’t think that virtual will ever cannibalize the real thing. I genuinely don’t see that happening. That’s some people’s fear. But I do think the benefit is that we are educating the View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
for the marketing industry lies in developing transactional-based models that enable consumer and client to work together more closely." HBS professor John A. Deighton agrees, describing the Internet as a multidimensional "total... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Torras (MBA '50) established Preco Corp., a pulp and paper operation, creating more than one thousand jobs. In consumer services, David S. Paresky (MBA '65) opened Crimson Travel Service in Harvard Square a few months after graduation and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
fundamental deterioration in their ability to pay for goods and services from their wages.” Simultaneously, lending standards continued to deteriorate “until we got to the point where we had very lax standards, and we started to see... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
different molecules. But then when the plant dies or when the plant is consumed in some way, CO2 is inevitably the result. But it's all a circular carbon economy. The CO2 that gets released when that plant dies or decomposes gets breathed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
value iPhones and high-definition TVs, but there is a big difference between them in terms of trade. Homes and health care can’t be exported, while manufactured goods make up about 80 percent of world trade. If Americans want to keep... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
a successful business and doing the right thing for the planet is a source of immense innovation for Patagonia,” Thoren observes. Among the initiatives she’ll be involved with is the retailer’s long-standing work to convince consumers to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
Philippines to educate its 300,000 members about which government services customers shouldn’t be forced to pay for, such as health care and education. Bantay is also looking to widen its impact by reaching out to lower income people via SMS and creating a mobile app.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
increasingly scarce. How serious is the problem? It's a tale of two Americas, the best of times and worst of times if you're a consumer in the current U.S. housing market. On the plus side, thanks to the 1990s' economic boom, some... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
dominance of corporate icons such as Heinz, Coca-Cola, General Motors, NCR, and Procter & Gamble. Chapters on the 20th century consider how mass production, mass media, and technology have influenced the way goods are marketed and sold.... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
devices were large enough to be notable—and, basically, it just became one more thing to remember. It just wasn't worth the mental trouble to have that. And part of it is because I was pretty good about, if I went for a run, I generally... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
Synthesis, a leadership assessment and development company. She’s seen a new generation of leaders who have grown up in a culture comfortable with personal therapy turn the C-suite stigma into a strength. “Getting help for the things you are less View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
companies differently. It's this notion of building sustainability and resilience into the business model from day one. Morrell: If you haven’t listened to that episode yet, go back and check it out, because it will give you a really good... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
about your consumers, too. I'd like to mention, you know, there was this study done maybe 10 years ago by the Boston Consulting Group. They interviewed about 25,000 women across 20 countries, and their conclusions showed that the female View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
contract the demand for goods and services. In short, the economic consequences would likely be a major recession, or possibly even a depression.” Drilling Down Now a resident of Houston, where he moved after retiring from HBS in 1996,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes
Pak (MBA 2015) founding member and CMO at Blueland; Alumni track winner, 2019 Forget the Past Sebastian Monroy (MBA 2018) and I launched Zubale as a marketplace to connect independent contractors to consumer View Details