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John W. Brown
by 2004, and the number of employees increased from 325 to 15,000 during the same time period. Brown steadfastly expanded the company’s product lines and introduced an effective decentralized management structure as the company grew. View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
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Samantha Ernst
When Samantha Ernst arrived at Wellesley, “I thought I’d be a math major,” she says. “Then I took multi-variable calculus and wanted to jump off a bridge.” Instead, Samantha studied economics. “I liked it because it’s a mix of people and View Details
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Automobile Industry - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Motors Corporation and their respective divisions, as well as a number of independent manufacturers such as Hudson Motor Car Company, Packard Motor Car Company, Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company, and Studebaker. Copyright © Presidents and... View Details
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Search Fund Fellowship | MBA
operating companies in underserved communities, specifically those that have not traditionally attracted Harvard Business School (HBS) MBAs. The Search Fund Fellowship provides financial support of $65,000 per year to a select number of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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New Awards Recognize Teaching Excellence
Program for Leadership Development Judy worked as Williams’s research and case-writing assistant after graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar in 1957. He went on to a successful investment-banking career with Chicago-based A.G. Becker & Co. and served on a View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
NIH grant applications from 1992 to 2005. She plotted links between applicants and evaluators—via professional publication citations—to determine potential bias. Then, to establish the quality of the funded projects, she tracked the View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Sep 2014
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New Idea: On-Demand Package Delivery
spring, Moskowitz and five classmates launched a startup they call Boxxify to provide a solution. E-commerce customers have their packages delivered to Boxxify, which, for a $7 fee (regardless of number of items), drops them off with... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Apr 2002
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The Simplest Taste
parlaying that one emporium into an empire of stores nationwide. Neiman Marcus introduced a number of innovations such as weekly department store fashion shows, personalized gift wrapping, a national advertising campaign (unheard of for a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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Emmons Heads Christensen Center
In addition, the center will conduct and disseminate research on best practices and innovations in case-method pedagogy, and serve as a convener for symposia on teaching and learning. Funding for the center has been an important goal of the School’s ongoing capital... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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The Inner-City Advantage
be built on the backs of mom-and-pop stores, he said. “The new model is for major businesses that can employ a number of people and create significant distributed wealth.” A talk by musician and impresario Quincy Jones kicked off the... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
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Beyond Case Writing
nothing. To uncover the effect of disagreements between spouses about the number of children to have — women generally want fewer than men — half of the women chosen to receive vouchers got them without their husbands present, and the... View Details
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Cost of living data
Where can I find comparative cost of living information for the U.S. and across international cities? U.S.: There are a number of websites that allow comparing the cost of living in different cities: View Details
Frank W. Woolworth
Woolworth’s stores eventually raised their price limits as they accommodated increasingly diverse goods. Through both domestic and international expansion efforts, his stores came to number about 1,250 by the time of Woolworth’s death,... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Edward W. Carter
Carter developed the first suburban shopping center in 1947 in Los Angeles and popularized regional chain stores. Carter started with three regional stores in Los Angeles in 1946, and by 1980, had grown that number to 47. Carter expanded... View Details
Keywords: Retail
William R. Hearst
journalism" enabled him to capitalize on the public's thirst for exaggerated stories, and in the process, his circulation numbers soared. Though he was reviled as a journalist, Hearst built the largest publishing conglomerate in the... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Mar 2011
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Keeping Up with the Dean
Since becoming Dean last summer, Nitin Nohria has spent a lot of time meeting with alumni around the world. In late July, he traveled to England, India, and China. More recently, he has spoken to a number of HBS Club gatherings on the... View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
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Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
for young people to start smoking tobacco cigarettes, or even lure ex-smokers back to the habit. This has created a dilemma for health regulators, says Quelch, interviewed before the FDA's action. Do they regulate e-cigarettes in order to decrease the View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
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HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades
number of homeless Vietnam-era vets exceeds the number of personnel who died in that conflict and that more than a third of all homeless vets served in war zones. Each year, approximately five hundred... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 25 Jul 2012
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Movie Magic
swipe of a credit card. “Automated retail sounds better,” suggests Gregg Kaplan (MBA 1997). Recruited by McDonald’s to help start new businesses within the fast-food giant, in 2002 Kaplan oversaw the installation of six kiosks in restaurants in the Washington, DC area... View Details
Marty Blue
Marty spent 16 years in licensing at Reebok International predominantly as a licensor. She worked across a number of different brands (eg. Reebok, Weebok, Rockport, Greg Norman golf, and Boston Whaler) and product categories including... View Details