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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
that HBS alumni have gone into the world and done just that - today, and in decades past - and have seen their products and services become both pervasive and influential in the American economy. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
their jobs. But a downturn is no time to stop spending on marketing. The key, according to Professor John Quelch, is to understand how the needs of your customers and partners change, and adapt your strategies to the new reality. Visit... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1942 Born, Boston, Massachusetts 1964 Earns BS, Electrical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University 1966 Earns MBA 1966 Joins Salomon Brothers 1981 Launches Bloomberg LP 1983 Merrill Lynch becomes Bloomberg’s first... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
orders and have them delivered to their tables—a service often performed by managers. “Now when I see a customer talking to a manager, it’s a good thing,” says Karavites, smiling. Traditionally, the bank of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
Thomas Pink are assured of something else, Tranthi notes: “I’m going to wear this shirt, and it’s going to make me feel great. That’s why luxury brands command a premium — it’s an emotional buy.” Needless to say, customer View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
with a free market, and replacing it with a government-owned or government-controlled airline industry. Although Emirates has done an extremely good job when it comes to customer service, I would argue that the primary reason for its... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must take into consideration a host of... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
where they manage vampire customers in order to earn cash, pay off debt, and “save for their eternal retirement;” and in Refund Rush, gamers help clients decide how best to allocate their income tax refund. I sampled Groove Nation, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
environment everyday practices. The Ultimate Question 2.0: How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World by Fred Reichheld (MBA ’78) with Rob Markey (MBA ’90) (Harvard Business Review Press) Reichheld and Markey explain how practitioners have built Net... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
indifference. Whether they are helping inner cities capitalize on their inherent competitive advantages, working to make assetbuilding financial services available to low-income families, analyzing the benefits of welfare-to-work... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
“Those are the questions students want to explore: not ‘How do we batten the hatches?’ but ‘What are the opportunities for new products and services in a world of climate change?’” Other class sessions challenge students to assess... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
School’s Financial Picture Brighter than Expected
School’s two main revenue generators, Executive Education and Harvard Business Publishing, led with strong revenue growth. Driven by newly launched open-enrollment courses and the first increase in custom program participation since the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
recognition in the field I was pursuing." Today, as CFO of a hot new Internet company called Excite@Home, the self-described "introspective" executive is getting plenty of attention. Goldman is busy helping Excite@Home become what he hopes will soon be the Internet and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
Women who pursue STEM fields are accustomed to being challenged. When Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) began her career working as a field engineer for Schlumberger, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies, the all-male crews on... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
she picked up customer expertise at P&G and later at Disney, where she ran the Consumer Products Division. As a VP at Bain & Company, she gained industry experience that she later applied as head of the Children’s Group at Stride Rite and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
cleanliness and are staffed with teachers who use a proprietary curriculum to create an educational environment. Customers pay a significant premium for convenience—as much as $13 an hour for infant care versus $4 an hour or less for... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
the nonprofits and social services organizations whose staffs had the skills to help, and plotted a different way to give back. “My thinking was, if I were to help people here in California,” she recalls, “that would pay it forward for... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
In “Marketing Myopia” in HBR, Ted Levitt (below) famously asks “What business are you in?” and insists that customer focus be paramount. 1977 Abraham Zaleznik raises a provocative, game-changing question in “Managers and Leaders: Are They... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Educational Services; Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2004
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The Business of Babies
selective genetics. In order to succeed, providers will have to walk a fine line between making the customer happy and avoiding controversy. One thing is for sure, as Spar pointed out, “You can’t be politically naive and do well in this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
employer would be interested. —Harry McCracken (AMP 114, 1994) A highly competitive market with one-year sales cycles on the one hand; a pilot customer in a less-competitive niche with a massive opportunity to create value for insurers on... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint