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- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
relationships are perhaps the most important thing for joy and well-being. A sense of purpose, fitness, mindfulness, and the fifth one was fun. I started with that one just... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
that focus on the perceived cause of the most recent crash. These efforts have ignored the enduring cultural problems of CEO-board collusive relationships and the lack of... View Details
- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
Reinhart: Deriving success in derivative markets. thredUP, a children’s clothing swap Web site cofounded by HBS classmates James Reinhart and Chris Homer (MBA ’09), expanded into toys last fall, just in time for the holidays. Shoppers had... View Details
- 27 Nov 2013
- News
No Bologna, Please
for products and experiences that made them feel special, and the handcrafted approach of St. Louis Bread Company was the best way to meet that need. "By May 1999 all of our other businesses were monetized,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
companies with a commanding presence in their home markets. But to call Mikitani’s company, Rakuten, the Amazon.com of Japan would overlook fundamental differences for customers and merchants alike. “We... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
homes—things like restaurants and taxi companies. Over the years, though, even those small openings were further restricted or rolled back, the relationship between the government View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
From the Ground Up
books, notebooks, pencils, and that kind of thing. “So we turned our focus away from being more generally involved in the community to specifically focusing on schoolchildren View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
competition. Some major players—like Apple, Best Buy, Walmart, and phone carriers—have begun to encourage customers to trade-in their old devices when upgrading. The Question: Gazelle's president, CEO, View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
meeting for me, we need those tools to stay organized. The second thing is to allow yourself some grace, because it’s a hard thing you’re doing, and if you focus on the guilt, you’ll frustrate yourself. One... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
restoring the school’s fiscal health, but also its reputation for serving those with less. The urgency of the school’s financial problems gave Kennealey leverage to move quickly on some key initiatives while building relationships View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
the focus of intense media scrutiny after lying to investigators about his relationship with Chandra Levy, a 23-year-old whose remains were found one year after her disappearance in May 2001. Witnessing the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
his focus to the nonprofit world and launched Bridgespan, an organization dedicated to helping address society’s most complex problems. Tierney has a knack for making it seem like his success is accidental.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
second-year electives are globally focused. And global research continues to increase. Last year, over half the new cases and 40 percent of all faculty research had a global View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
early detection of gynecological diseases. The Oakland-based company completed its second clinical trial and is now raising Series A funding. Its initial indications focus on identifying conditions that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
today’s largest venture capital firms to focus “almost exclusively [on] chasing unicorns,” leaving companies that boast lower valuations and more modest risk/return profiles out in the cold. Indeed, data... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
its own capabilities. (photograph by Peter Simon) HBS professor and BLSS chair Rosabeth Moss Kanter: involvement with social challenges helps business build its own capabilities. (photograph by Peter Simon) The View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
custom voice system, which means there’s a whole range of small- and mid-sized businesses that are underserved,” Sambvani says. With Slang.ai, he’s offering mid-market companies access to these more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
On The Case: The Base Factor
In her research as a marketing modeler, Professor Eva Ascarza focuses on understanding customers—and predicting, in particular, who will be a good one and how best to retain them. Without customers, obviously, there is no business. That could also be the tagline for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
continue to focus only on small and midsized cities. The company seems likely to confront winner-take-all competitive dynamics at the city level, because network effects are strong—more diners will attract... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
it requires media companies to go after as many eyeballs as possible, to Snigdha’s earlier point. We chose subscription because it allows us to focus 100 percent on the user experience, ease of consumption, View Details