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- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
whole thing (shout out to Thales Teixeira!), which has been incredibly helpful in figuring out our business model and buying advertisements. Until very recently, we were the ones designing all of our ads,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Online Entrepreneur
growth of social media as an important business tool, “Communispace offers the only social-networking model with a proven track record of providing real business value and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Faculty Books for December 2016
Business By John A. Quelch and Emily C. Boudreau (Springer) The authors introduce a model for companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four interconnected... View Details
- 17 May 2019
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Putting Value on Diversity, Inclusion, and Leadership
David Thomas is president of Morehouse College and the former H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at HBS. In this interview he reflects on his legacy as a mentor and teacher. “The most important way I think that I have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
month, the results are nearly disastrous, but the concerns are human and strategic, not just technological: “How do we get people to change? Do we adapt our business process to the technology or the technology to our process?” I find... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
Once the public schools in North Chicago decided to close in mid-March because of COVID-19, it took Jennifer Grumhaus (MBA 1994) and her staff less than 72 hours to totally revamp the business model for the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
where there may be a more favorable business model in the near term, or should it double down in the established wellness space? Or should the team continue to explore how their technology could be used in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Leadership by Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria, and Mark Rennella (Palgrave Macmillan) This book examines the evolution of leadership through the story of the American airline industry. Early airline entrepreneurs searched for a viable View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
Cummings is staying on as board chair.) On the lending side, Walden Mutual will offer commercial loans to sustainable food and farming businesses across New England. That means not only production farms but also retailers, processors,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Organizations." Coote noted that trends such as intense competition, faster cycle times, slimmer margins, and new business models have forced widespread company restructurings - changes that corporate... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Class of 2007 Fellowship Awarded
business solutions to poverty. “One day we were talking to villagers who live on $2 a day, and the next day we were meeting with business and government leaders,” recalls Kim. Last summer he built on this... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
Ubiquitous digital connectivity is now essential to competitiveness
rethink their business models to identify new opportunities for creating and capturing value. The fundamental properties of digital technology (exact replication infinite times at zero marginal costs), along... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fast Casual
Privately owned, with 1,350 locations in 37 states and $1.4 billion in annual sales, PRG is in the “fast casual” sector of the restaurant business — that’s shorthand for not selling hamburgers — and is best known for its Panda Express... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
SHE builds confidence, promotes education, and creates jobs
Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA/MPA 2007) founded a business that improves the health and hygiene of millions of women. But her goal is much bigger: empowering women by fostering entrepreneurship. Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) brings... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
online food delivery business based in Denmark. This was our conclusion: “Just Eat seems to only work in Denmark, where business is profitable. Its other half-dozen markets are burning cash. It already has... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
success. An unusual feature of the book is the inclusion of a diskette containing the Business Career Interest Inventory (BCII), a self-scoring psychometric tool developed by the authors, who are also psychologists and principals in a... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
be in everything they did. It informed their strategy, it informed their organizational practices, it informed their culture and hiring, it really permeated the organization in two significant ways. The first was purpose was like a compass, it was an orienting scheme.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
significantly, the firm is a cutting-edge organization that has achieved enormous success using what may well be the business model of the future. In a presentation last fall in Burden Hall, the 33-year-old... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
MBAs go down the road less traveled to work with entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs with humility and curiosity, and lending our skills, experience, and energy to the task of improving our communities and our economy," says Singer. The team provided advice on everything from operational improvements to View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
reinsurance. During almost four decades in the insurance business as a salesman, entrepreneur, top executive, and industry leader, he established a remarkable record of success while maintaining a sterling reputation for character and... View Details