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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
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consumer data, expect social platforms to grab media dollars from TV budgets and to drive e-commerce sales. Facebook continues to grow but look for Google to get more aggressive by leveraging YouTube and Google+." —Walter Delph (MBA... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the purpose of generating income... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Changes for MBA Applicants
in previous years. In another significant change, within 24 hours of being interviewed by MBA Admissions, candidates will be asked to provide a written reflection on the interview—giving applicants “the opportunity to have the last word,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Career Services Shifts into High Gear
distress and its ripple effects on job seekers. In late September, MBA Career Services staff also traveled to New York to meet with members of the class who were immediately affected by the meltdown on Wall Street. “We put together a... View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
Photo courtesy Pialy Aditya Photo courtesy Pialy Aditya A couple of years ago, Pialy Aditya (MBA 2005) got an unexpected inquiry from a venture capital firm: Would she be interested in being a partner? Though she wasn’t looking for a new job, she was intrigued View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
Illustration by Fabio Consoli Illustration by Fabio Consoli The co-CEOs noticed it right away: Early in the pandemic, staffers at the online children’s clothing company Primary.com were struggling when they... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
stem-cell R&D will almost certainly fade,” explains HBS professor Debora Spar, “because determined would-be buyers and sellers will eventually constitute a market of their own, either by circumventing the law or View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Hit Pause
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong When we take stock of our success, we often consider productivity a key performance metric. But making the most informed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie
by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron, and Katherine Shonk (Basic Books) In "You Can't Enlarge the Pie": Six Barriers to Effective Government, authors Max Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at HBS,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
As we wrapped up our writing assignments for this issue, I was struck by how many stories dealt with the same topic: entrepreneurship. The articles themselves aren’t big, but what they say about HBS is. The heady dream of starting and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
managing a smooth launch of Kettle Cuisine's retail product, and cultivating brand identity are his immediate priorities. While Shafir no longer goes to the fish pier every morning, he is usually at work by... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
Photos by Joe Szurszewski “What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.” That observation, attributed to Plato, is inscribed on the Athena Leadership Award that graces Barbara Nick’s home office in Madison, Wisconsin. Nick (AMP... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
company where she was working as an engineer — Intel. After marrying Ann and six successful years in various engineering, marketing, and management positions at the chipmaker, Doerr joined Kleiner Perkins in 1980. His impressive list of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
traditional marketing and advertising activities in conjunction with the Cup, as long as they don't impinge on the rights of the sponsors. But over the years, even as FIFA goes to great lengths to keep the Cup free of unauthorized promotion, there's been quite a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Inside Executive Search
How do executive search firms work? It’s well known that most senior management, CEO, and board positions are filled by these organizations, but given the confidential nature of their work, they often conduct their business with utmost... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
possible, then a change in your business model may be necessary. Go local: pre-sent choices to customers only from local suppliers so that the delivery and logistics is managed by the seller, but monitored... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
killed in the rushing of the gates. “It was a horrible story, and I couldn’t help but take note of the supply-and-demand imbalance,” he recalls. Two weeks later, Bill Keating (MBA 1993) introduced him to Bryce Fort, managing director at... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
exports to the rest of the continent are up, and foreign investment has increased. Although progress is sometimes disappointing and many challenges are still ahead, South Africa is nonetheless seen by investors from all over the globe as... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
By Rick Zedník (MBA 2002) “Good morning,” our professor, Frances Frei, greeted us at 8:40 a.m. on September 12, 2001. Slowly pacing at the front of the lecture hall, lip quivering, she followed those two words with twenty seconds of... View Details