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Steven A. Burd
Burd implemented an extensive cost-cutting plan, which included deep cuts in capital expenditure, enabling the company to lower the shelf prices in its stores and to boost revenue. Once costs were under control, Burd began expanding the company through a period of... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Adolph Zukor
Zukor independently built numerous theatres in major United States cities. Because of the popularity of these theatres, he began to invest heavily in movie production, convinced that big-name actors in large movies would be the future of... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Open Canvas
People told Dinesh Vazirani (MBA 1994) he was crazy. In 2000, he and his wife, Minal, cofounded Saffronart, an online auction house focused primarily on Indian art. With internet penetration in India low at the time, Vazirani traveled the world to conduct physical... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986
Decker has put her analytical skills to work as a director of three major companies — Berkshire Hathaway, Intel, and Costco — and as a trustee of Save the Children. Her interest in entrepreneurship led her back to HBS, where she served as... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
Detroit to Los Angeles in 1972, adds that the current stagnation can also be attributed to "a lack of hits" on the part of the major labels and increased competition for the consumer entertainment dollar. In 1996, efforts by big stars... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
Thomas M. Siebel
Siebel founded his firm in 1993 as a provider of sales force automation systems. Though his firm quickly became a major player in sales force automation, Siebel Systems achieved tremendous growth when its software was applied to customer... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
controlled the allocation of financial resources into two new varieties of state capitalism: Leviathan as a majority and as a minority investor. In this book we study the implications of such transformation using detailed data from Brazil... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew
becoming consultants at major firms, it’s wild to think we’re going into hardware – the kind that makes coffee. But this is where we find ourselves. Olivia and I founded Jova to make a better cold brew device. People go nuts for their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Thinking Green
Sciences and the Design, Medical, and Law Schools for a Harvard Thinks Green forum in Sanders Theatre. “This transition we face as an economy, as a world is going to hit every major industry,” said Henderson. Kaplan, a member of a Harvard... View Details
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socio–economic issues faced by African Americans nationwide. In a letter to faculty members, they stated: "(1) the seriousness of the racial situation and the socioeconomic condition of Black people demand a major and positive response... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Bringing Out the Best
she says. Mentoring young women is a personal priority of hers, so she appreciates the School’s efforts to promote gender parity and encourage more women to stay in the workforce. These are just a few of the reasons that Curry, a member of the View Details
- 23 Jan 2017
- News
The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee
Although he had led major divisions of large companies, this was the first time Burwick, now 55, would be CEO. Started by Alfred Peet in 1966 in Berkeley, Peet’s has been a popular Bay Area company with a strong brand, said director of... View Details
- 16 Sep 2010
- News
Idea Takes Root
Web site, Eccles hailed the IIRC’s formation. The Financial Times covered the story in its August 3 edition. But the American press all but ignored the event. A database search of major newspapers and magazines turns up a single mention —... View Details
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
beginning of the Industrial Age that the advent of mass production would mean there would be no jobs for the vast majority of the population, but we reinvested and gained productivity and expanded the economy." Innovation has driven... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
Moderna, a pharmaceutical company, announced in September 2020 that it would slow enrollment of its COVID-19 vaccine trials to better improve representation. The majority of study participants were white, although COVID-19 was... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
(1979) and a DBA (1992), both from HBS. Stuart C. Gilson has been a member of the HBS faculty since 1991. His research focuses on how companies can create value by restructuring their assets, operations, and financial obligations in response to competitive challenges... View Details
- Jan 2014
- Case
Rethinking Cities: Chicago on the Move
decreasing popularity of cars and increasing urban populations—have implications for 21st century transportation and infrastructure. This is apparent in the case of Chicago, a global city in the vanguard of change. This paper focuses on five View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 14 Sep 2017
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Why Competition in the Politics Industry Is Failing America
It is often said that "Washington is broken," but this reflects a common misunderstanding of the problem. Washington isn't broken--it is delivering exactly what its currently designed to deliver. The problem is that our political system is no longer designed to serve... View Details
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
Source: iStock In June 2017, the US House of Representatives passed the Financial CHOICE Act, a 589-page bill designed to repeal many of the regulations in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Buried on page 461 of the bill: a rule... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
after the Spanish conquest. For most of the 1800s, hardly anyone lived there. But by the turn of the twentieth century, the Soconusco had become a major coffee producer and exporter. It remains so today. Casey M. Lurtz is intrigued by... View Details