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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
2000, Sealed Air’s sales had reached $3 billion worldwide. When Dunphy arrived at the firm, its signature product, familiarly known as Bubble Wrap but trademarked as AirCap, consisted of a flexible, clear plastic sheet containing regularly View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
The techniques include creating a demand-space map to predict how big a share can be won with the proper mix of emotional and functional benefits; determining a strategic direction for where to place investment bets; delivering the core... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
we’ll accept anything. But, globally, I’m trying to take into account the human aspect of running a business, not just the financial aspect. “Jeannette is the oldest startup in France, with the highest median worker age,” adds Viana, who even managed to talk his way... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
Nick Simmons (MBA/MPP 2019) was no stranger to the principal’s office as a student. “I was definitely an active, energetic young person who wasn’t always paying the closest attention,” says Simmons, currently senior advisor for school... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
office at the end of the day and just print a bunch of “Scott Kominers coins” for himself. Nobody would ever know because people don’t have the ability to scrutinize Scott’s ledger. This type of worrisome transaction would not be possible... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
indie-music enthusiasts whose lifestyles were in sync with the company’s small, young workforce, he notes, “We didn’t have to wonder what our consumers would like; we shared their passions.” When he accepted the job at the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
singing it.’” In an interview at her office in midtown Manhattan, Harris, a managing director at Morgan Stanley and an accomplished gospel singer, recounts this story and others with the kind of informal ease you might expect from a... View Details
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
made for great teaching moments and unanticipated creativity and fun,” says Mallory, who also served as a team consultant. “For instance, after a considerable period of anemic sales of their product (neon rubber wrist bands), the Chief Marketing View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
all his fault. Well, after several complaints from the customers, other staff members, I began to share with my father that I thought this manager was not doing his job. And one Friday afternoon I walked into my father's View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Holdings plans and manages corporate art collections and art support programs in his native Japan. The best known of these is the Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program, which buys about 200 works a year from emerging Japanese artists and then displays them in... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
Light: Providing steady leadership as HBS moves forward on a variety of established and innovative fronts In August, Professor Jay Light stepped into the Dean’s office in Morgan Hall, rolled up his sleeves, and brought his decades of HBS... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
started my first business," he says from his office in Dallas, Texas. Now, with his generous endowment of the chair held by HBS professor John A. Deighton, Brierley's involvement with the School has come full circle. A specialist in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
Prashanth Chandrasekar (MBA 2008) (pictured above right), but the company already had a strong remote-work ethos, with 40 percent of its employees working remotely and a globally distributed workforce with offices in New York, Austin,... View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
"I'll take that bet." Despite having come off a solid win as chief marketing officer of the NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee, Amy Aronoff Blumkin (MBA 1988), isn't talking about football. She's recounting what she told her boss at AT&T... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
headlines and rack up revenues in the billions, a number of smaller U.S. companies — some publicly traded, others privately owned — refuse to be overshadowed. However modest their comparative size, their market share still reaches into... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
people die as a result. And yet, there are only 42 antibiotics currently in clinical development, and typically only 20 percent of infectious disease drugs that enter phase 1 clinical trials will receive FDA approval. Eric Kimble (MBA 1994), chief commercial View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
Task Force and the resulting Racial Equity Plan have been crucial first steps in a community-wide, multi-year effort. Since the plan was announced in September 2020, we have designed the School's first chief diversity and inclusion View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
1.4 taxis for every 1,000 people in Jakarta compared with 10.2 in Bangkok, and most of those were concentrated in the downtown area where the office jobs and wealthier residents congregate, despite the fact that taxis were often seen as a... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
A born adventurer with a passion for social justice, Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) uses her business savvy to effect social change. Since 2014 Brooks has served as chief operating officer of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers