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- 12 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Lawrence Summers on Market Capitalism’s Historic Opportunity
Key concepts include: America faces a host of major economic challenges. The short-term response to the current crisis is taking shape, but critical decisions must still be made. In the near term, the country must deal with the current... View Details
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Financial Aid | MBA
scholarships $ 52 M total funds awarded in FY24 $ 93 k average need-based scholarship awarded over two years $ 30–70 k range of majority of scholarships Career Exploration & Support Summer Fellowships Financial support for summer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
citation David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing READ MORE L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words David "Bull" Gurfein: Leading the Charge Gurfein: Bronze Star citation David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing Marine Major David (“Bull”) Gurfein (MBA ’00) Lieutenant... View Details
- 24 Mar 2016
- News
A Fitness Industry Innovator Powers On
rebranding the club, and those that followed, as 24 Hour Fitness—would alter the industry forever, with 24 Hour Fitness growing to 420 clubs, 20,000 employees, and over $1 billion in annual revenues. “In the fitness industry, there are very View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
appear on the goods it delivers. But nearly every major retailer, from Liz Claiborne to Walmart, depends on Li & Fung to stock its shelves. The firm is the quintessential middleman between manufacturers, now in more than 40 economies, and... View Details
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Jennifer DeWhitt
profit. And got herself suspended from school. “In high school, I fell into the legitimate side of business,” Jennifer says, laughing. She competed in mock-business competitions through Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA), and followed her high-school... View Details
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Investing in Life Sciences - SIP Resources
Market research: BCC Research - Reports on major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology worldwide. Frost & Sullivan - Reports and market trends encompassing various... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
incomes either among countries or within them. Inequalities of income and power emerge as a major societal issue alongside poverty, and the book develops alternative societal models based upon the degree of inequality in wealth and power.... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
other interested parties at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, to consider his proposal to create a transcontinental waterway that would comprise six major South American rivers (Amazon, Orinoco, Putumayo, Paraguay, Paraná, and La... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy
the fall of 2005, but it also had the lowest revenue per available seat mile of the major airlines. The turnaround focused on three areas: the balance of nonstop versus connecting flights in the United States, the mix of domestic and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Christine Fairchild to Head External Relations
“I am thrilled to have this opportunity to broaden my work with alumni.” She noted that her two major tasks involve “following through on the momentum of the current capital campaign and continuing to engage our alumni on multiple levels.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Levitt Brand
way that’s responsive to the major differences from one country to another,” in terms of, for example, how retailing, or distribution or payment systems, work. But the core product or service should remain unchanged, he added, since that... View Details
Roger A. Enrico
Enrico helped to transform PepsiCo through a number of major initiatives including the spin-off of its fast food restaurant chains (Tricon), the acquisition of Tropicana, and the initial public offering of its bottling business. Through... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Richard R. Deupree
sponsoring the first radio soap opera - “The Puddle Family” in 1932. In 1939, just five months after the introduction of television in the U.S., Procter & Gamble aired its first TV commercial (for Ivory soap) during the first televised View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
Martin W. Clement
When Clement took the helm at Pennsylvania Railroad in 1935, the largest railway network in the world, operating revenues were $368 million. Clement grew revenues to a peak of over $1 billion in 1944. One of Clement’s major achievements,... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 13 May 2013
- News
Giving Together
In his first experience as a HBS volunteer, serving as a major gifts committee member for his 10th Reunion Campaign, DJ Haley felt strongly about establishing a fellowship fund to support HBS students with a military service background— –... View Details
Maggie L. Walker
Walker first organized an insurance company within the Order of St. Luke to help curb the problems suffered by many families when their major income-earners passed away. Capitalizing on the success of the insurance company, she went on to... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Mary W. Lawrence
or testimonials. She developed the “Quality is Job #1” campaign for Ford, the “plop, plop, fizz, fizz” campaign for Alka-Seltzer, and the “I Love New York” tourism campaign. She was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame, was the first women to head a View Details
Keywords: Services
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Grad’s “Claw” Goes to Market
Moeller and Forest competed last summer on the ABC reality show American Inventor; although they weren’t among the finalists, their product is the first from the show to be officially brought to market by a major corporation. (Gladiator... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
Are coaches worth the multimillion-dollar salaries they are offered? Is the same true of managers in the business world? Just what is the value of a top manager to the organization and employees? Do baseball managers improve performance? In 1993, Lawrence Kahn analyzed... View Details