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01 Dec 2000
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Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology

As the first director of the HBS Global Leadership Initiative, Alan Price is working to extend the School's reach in the teaching of leadership. Launched in 1999 by Dean Kim B. Clark and headed by leadership expert Professor John P.... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

25 Mar 2019
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Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club

woman’s need for wanting access—not necessarily ownership—to designer apparel, accessories and now home products,” she tells the magazine. What’s behind RTR’s rapid rise? The article quotes a T. Rowe Price analyst, who notes that a key... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Oct 2000
News

Internet Tsunami

Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA '93) is the founder, president, and CEO of Rakuten, Japan's leading online shopping destination. He believes that because the Internet allows merchants to circumvent the many intermediaries who jack up prices in... View Details

Keywords: Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2005
News

Style Check

1993, has seen the Benetton Group’s share price and revenues decline in recent years. (Only 4 percent of the company’s revenues come from the Americas, while 85 percent are from Europe.) “The company is my highest priority,” he said. “It... View Details

Keywords: Formula 1; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

February 2011
Supplement

Carbon Trading Simulation: Black Cement Inc.

By: Peter A. Coles

This simulation presents students the opportunity to experience firsthand the economics of carbon markets and permit trading. Each student has private role information about a company he or she manages. The student must make decisions about pollution-reducing... View Details

Keywords: Market Design; Pollutants; Investment; Price; Profit; Agreements and Arrangements; Decisions; Service Industry; Energy Industry

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09 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 9, 2015

interpersonal disclosure of intimate information increases attraction, cost transparency by a firm increases brand attraction, in turn boosting consumer purchase interest. This relationship persists even after controlling for perceptions of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Diane S. M. von Furstenberg

women, von Furstenberg created an entire line of moderately priced fashions and accessories. Though she began in New York boutiques, she was an early pioneer in the use of QVC and the Home Shopping Network to expand the scale and scope of... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

W. Jeremiah Sanders III

Sanders founded AMD about the same time that Intel was launched and the two firms have battled to secure the market for microprocessor chips. Though AMD’s sales have lagged Intel’s performance, the company has done much to reduce the View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

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Conservative Club | MBA

Discussions and Dinners with Policy Makers and Political Strategists Exclusive Conference Calls with Campaign Leadership Club Email Address repb@studentclubs.hbs.edu Club Co-Presidents Michael Nelson Colin Price Club CFO Abhiram Karuppur... View Details

21 Jan 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

approach? The most common arguments are: "We can't agree on price." Of course you don't agree. The side that wants to leave generally wants a higher price (or terms of the buyout) than the side that wants to stay on as owners.... View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Sep 2014
News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

at around $450 for months). I don’t expect volatility to go away anytime soon, as it is still highly speculative, highly concentrated and doesn’t have enough liquidity yet. Most people think gold and silver have always been extremely stable; but looking back between... View Details

Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

19 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Finding Success in the Middle of the Market

provider of premium-priced products tailored to a particular customer segment, or you have to shoot for scale, using low prices and volume purchasing to attract a mass market and drive down your cost structure. Midfield has been... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Auto; Retail

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

Considering how much money is spent in the field and the advances that the US economy has made on so many other fronts, that is really shocking. Dafny: And that variation in management practice is also supported by enormous variation in output prices. Given the lack of... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

22 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Hedge Fund as Activist

higher price per share. (source: Figure 1 of our paper) Our hypothesis was that rather than effecting significant operational change, hedge funds create value by putting firms "in play" as potential merger or acquisition... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services

24 Apr 2014
News

Addressing roadblocks to innovation in health care

convenes health care management educators to develop and implement new curricula for health care management education. She also recommends policy changes, such as standards for health care IT and transparency to consumers on the price and... View Details

01 Jun 2005
News

Contrarian and Proud of It

Rogers: Stellar stock picker. Courtesy T. Rowe Price Brian Rogers (MBA ’82) has made a career out of being a contrarian. As manager of the $18.9 billion T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund, the firm’s largest... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

Warren E. Buffett

Under Buffett’s leadership, Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price increased from $12 dollars a share in 1965 to a high of $4,200 in 1987. Berkshire has made a career of picking winners including Geico, the Washington Post, and Capital... View Details

Keywords: Finance

September 1986 (Revised August 1987)
Case

Pressco, Inc.--1984

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

A marketing representative of heavy industrial equipment needs to evaluate the net present value of his equipment from the perspective of the buyer under changing tax regulations. View Details

Keywords: Machinery and Machining; Valuation; Product Positioning; Performance Evaluation; Taxation; Price; United States

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January 2002 (Revised October 2007)
Case

Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co., 2001

By: Joshua Musher and Andre F. Perold

Asset manager GMO underperforms the market during the 1996-2000 stock market bubble because of the focus on absolute risk. After suffering significant client withdrawals, performance again shines when the bubble collapses. Did they win the battle only to lose the war?... View Details

Keywords: Customers; Asset Management; Stocks; Investment; Price Bubble; Mathematical Methods; Risk and Uncertainty

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