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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
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standardized experience, especially in terms of cleaning? MD: It’s true that Airbnb’s model is really being challenged now. It’s harder to establish a sense of trust and safety with an independent host you’ve never met before, versus a View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
that I have.” Neeley’s research focuses on the challenges organizations face when coordinating operations across linguistic and national boundaries. As a doctoral student at Stanford, she participated in a large-scale global teams study... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
Seldom, if ever, has global competition been so glamorous, or so passionately beheld. At soccer's World Cup in France this summer, hundreds of thousands of spectators and a cumulative TV audience of 37 billion cheered and wept as 32 View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
related businesses in the local market or even in other countries. Stage III: Acquisition of New Capabilities. Becoming increasingly sophisticated as they competed with larger foreign rivals, the firms developed new capabilities in areas such as customer service,... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
our purpose?” Cohen had spent 23 years at the happiest place on earth, most recently as a senior VP of brand, franchise, and customer relationship management, a role that gave her a bird’s eye view across the company’s vast commercial acreage of theme parks, streaming... View Details
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Minal Mehta
And when Bollywood was exploding across college campuses in my undergrad years at UC Berkeley, I was leading my dance team to sweep national competitions. It feels like BollyX had always been in the cards. "It was 18 months after I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt and Changed the Way Millions Shop by Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) (Portfolio) The founders of Gilt Groupe reveal how they built the web’s most famous fusion of high tech and high fashion. Sample sales... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
president's second term can be brutal for the incumbent's party. But voters have never been so disgusted with Washington. How are they going to vent that frustration? Will they make one side pay, or everyone?" —Karen Tumulty (MBA 1981), View Details
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
cosmopolitan business class is bringing these different worlds closer together. Despite national differences, these transnational road warriors frequently have a common grounding in education, professional background, and global popular... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
led by Professor Nancy F. Koehn on her recent book, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell. Loughran's goal is to make the series a monthly event that will serve as "an ongoing continuing education... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
tents, and other gear for maximum performance, comfort, and enjoyment. And now, shoes. Last year the Timberland Company, a heavyweight in the footwear business, acquired the GoLite brand for its new line of strong but super-lightweight... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Step By Step
Marathon Majors. When I was Samsung Brand Manager, I ran a marathon in North Korea; the organizers told us we had to run it in four hours or less, so I did. Last summer, at the Paris Olympics, I ran in the Marathon Pour Tous, competing at... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
national media attention." A principal at Clean Line Energy Partners in Houston, Michael Skelly (MBA 1991), who believes that "MBAs need to 'get out more,'" hopes to get the students to Houston to "introduce them around town and have a... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
first review the landscape of global talent mobility, which is both asymmetric and rising in importance. We next consider the determinants of global talent flows at the individual and firm levels and sketch some important implications. Lastly, we review the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
standard for workers in construction, farming, and other professions that require strenuous outdoor labor. SMI built a successful national sales base from its headquarters in Massachusetts by establishing channels with large department... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
of the more expensive skin care brands. Moreover, although leading brands might be global, their appeal is not. In fragrances, every market’s list of its top 20 brands is unique. The top-selling fragrance in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
consideration: the first (1760-1840), second (1840-1950), or third (1950-present). The mix presented fundamental business problems involving marketing, finance, operations, and human resource management. Koehn's case on Josiah Wedgwood's pottery business, for example,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
of familiarity, cultural gulfs and local differences often remain hidden. Amid these conflicting realities, however, HBS alumni report anecdotal evidence that a youthful and growing cosmopolitan business class is bringing these different worlds closer together. Despite... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
universities. Based on a national survey the company undertook on the assumptions college students hold about sex, relationships, and sexual assault, the program is conducted in a group setting to encourage roommates and classmates to... View Details
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
Museum of our National Heritage in Lexington, Massachusetts and to explore the question of how this exhibit changes our understanding of women's roles in American economic history. Virginia G. Drachman, a professor of history at Tufts... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard