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- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail
of students has a passion for the dynamic retail space across different segments including luxury, specialty, and mass market brands. Retail Tech in particular has had a major impact on the industry and students’ focus. “Digital shopping platforms have really changed... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
that term, allowing its users to "consume" information in ways that were formerly unavailable to them due to cost, complexity, or both. The fact that half a billion consumers willingly engage on Twitter's platform confirms the viability... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
efforts of the School into three priorities, he offered insights into work that is underway on the role of business in society, digital innovation, and reimagining learning. "I don't think there is another institution other than business and free enterprise that has... View Details
- 22 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles
the School into three priorities, he offered insights into work that is underway on the role of business in society, digital innovation, and reimagining learning. "I don't think there is another institution other than business and free enterprise that has done more... View Details
- 30 May 2013
- Blog Post
Product Launch Day
users are! We moved our station to main camp, an open area near the performance stages and the coffee stand. The coffee stand alone should have been enough to justify our move - there were always people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
some houses," says Beisert. "But in five or ten years, there's going to be nothing but high-rises and luxury apartments." All of this has been good for business, but like airline consumers, the online View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
The choices available to consumers in the postwar boom transformed societal norms and expectations. With the advent of fast food, for example, millions of men, women, and children began to break bread — or... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
The torpedoes kept coming. Not to be dramatic or anything, but for any product developer this is the most painful moment of their career. The moment when the fledgling idea you’ve spent months, maybe years, cultivating, testing, prototyping, iterating breathes its last... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world in order to get fast access to the technologies they need to modernize their... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
“Self-driving cars today know what they are seeing and how fast the object is moving, but they aren’t good at predicting what a human will do next,” explains Misra. “We want to help machines understand... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
telephones sometimes resting on the carpet where furniture had not arrived. Things seemed to be moving fast even for the placid Bussgang, who said, "It's a real challenge putting together a group of... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
important distinction between the two entrepreneurs was that Field created an experience for consumers in his department store, while Heinz made products-processed foods. Of course, there were aspects of 'experience' to Wedgwood's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Internship In Action
recommended approach to move forward. We redesigned the entire process for an important group of sellers that contribute around 30% of GFG’s Net Merchandise Value, assessed the features and resources required, and developed the roll-out... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
consumers (or retailers) are unlikely to pay. But the acquisitions provided a convenient distribution channel for residential customers who want to drop off or return goods ordered online, and View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
Illustration by Istvan Banyai Since 2006, Gazelle has offered consumers an answer to the question of what to do with their old electronic devices when they upgrade: Sell them to us. Customers can go to Gazelle's website; get a price for... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
time had a socialistic leaning. Advertising and marketing were not considered good things. You had so many poor people in the country who couldn’t even put a meal on their table and here you were trying to sell Coca-Cola or fancy products... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
ushered in by Avatar hasn't been quite the saving grace that Hollywood had hoped, Lopez has a more practical outlook as a veteran of the consumer packaged goods industry: "Any time you can take a chunk of... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
network of long-distance transmission lines, and we have to establish all kinds of precedents as we move our projects along.” A Patient Entrepreneur In addition to its Plains & Eastern Project, Clean Line Energy Partners is involved in... View Details
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
the most value,” he explained. “When you move to a startup, you need to do everything or nothing happens. You can divide tasks among the co-founders, but there are a lot of functions you don’t have a team for yet and that’s a tough... View Details
- 14 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco
is another institution other than business and free enterprise that has done more good for humankind," said the Dean. "If you look at the billions of people lifted out of poverty, the standard of living we have created, the kinds of jobs... View Details