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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
to its current home in Durham, North Carolina, in 1993 and focused exclusively on personal care; by 1998, its product line included more than 100 items and annual sales exceeded $8 million. In 2003, Quimby (who had bought out Shavitz ten... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service by John A. Goodman (MBA 1971) (AMACOM) These days businesses have more opportunities to enhance the customer experience than ever before. Goodman explains how businesses can design and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
required mini-lectures. Class time thus can be fully devoted to discussion, with this foundation allowing it to take on new depth. “We’re able to home in on what the ‘magic’ really is in the classroom,” says Applegate, noting that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
MBA Poker World Series
taking home $24,822 and a $15,000 watch, and automatically earning a $10,000 seat at this summer’s World Series of Poker. Some sixty HBS students took part in the weekend competition. The event also had a fundraising component, which this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center
build the Asian credit card business for Capital One. Commenting on his new position, Mookerjee looks forward to facilitating research projects in his home country. “It’s the right time to look at India seriously,” he says. View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
specifically the ability to identify what is distinctive about markets that differ from the students’ home environments, and how to manage in such unfamiliar terrain. The centerpiece of FIELD 2 is an exercise that challenges cross-section... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
government and social entrepreneurship,” said Gergen. He noted that Obama has pledged to open an office of social innovation, is an advocate of community service, and has proposed $650 million for the Department of Education to work with nonprofits to View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
My Real Career
Francisco Bay; dressed in Prada and Manolo’s; and had the token perfect child at home with a nanny. How times have changed in ten years. I now sheepishly drive a grimy, carbon-coughing Suburban and shop at Target. My primary professional... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBSi Combines HBS Content with State-of-the-Art Technology
who will serve as chief content officer and chairman of HBSi. "We believe that through the power of HBSi's custom education approach, we can help nurture an accomplished and influential group of managers and leaders who seek to improve... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Sterling Joins Healthcare Initiative
Cara Sterling has joined HBS as the founding director of the Healthcare Initiative, recently launched by former Dean Kim B. Clark and faculty chair Richard Hamermesh. The initiative seeks to create a community for students, faculty, and alumni who are interested in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
directly involved in the recent financial meltdown, as well as many firms outside of finance whose governance-related troubles came home to roost in the recession. On behalf of shareholders, boards’ specific duties are to choose and, when... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
support the clubs’ administrative functions. Substantial progress was made, and we look forward to announcing significant improvements in these areas in the coming weeks. The Communications Committee, chaired by Byron Carlock (MBA ’88),... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
choice. For Lopez, that has meant deploying a multifaceted strategy with an underlying premise: Make the customer feel at home while providing a sense of escape. "My career has always been about consumer persuasion," says Lopez, who came... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
daughter), Rucker Alex, registration of the site on major Web search engines, and the recent inclusion of the company's Web address on the home page of Shoes on the Net (a popular Internet consumer site), her store, inVestments, and her... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
as a number of former students continue to stay involved as alumni. Jamyn Edis (MBA ’05) first began working with inmates on their business plans while at HBS and continues to do so from his home in New York City, where he is a media and... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- News
Last Look - December 2008
Our thanks to Tom Barry, Ed Jones, Ira Krauss, Henry Kuehn, Rodger Marting, Michael Owen, and John Williams (all MBA ’69E), who identified members of Section E welcoming home their MERC II (Managerial Economics, Reporting, and Control)... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
up of work and dress attire such as shirts, slacks, suits, and dresses; when the pandemic put a significant dent in those revenues, they pivoted—focusing more on their rug, upholstery, and drapery cleaning services to make up the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
event was chaired by HBS professors Richard Hamermesh and Robert Huckman, with colleagues from Harvard University and Harvard Medical School. The goal of the gathering and the focus of its panels, said Hamermesh, were to come up with ways "to reduce costs, increase... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
Life Green Day Related Links What businesses can do to make a difference Takeaways: Preparing for the population boom Case study: Slum for sale Conference report: Investing in Cities of the 21st Century Making a Difference in the World - A Scorecard for View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Road to Recovery
breathalyzer or a rapid saliva test. They also can use phone-based GPS to verify they have attended treatment appointments, and access information and coaching services via text, voice, and video. “The biggest barrier—and this sounds... View Details