Filter Results:
(400)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,544)
- People (4)
- News (400)
- Research (942)
- Events (13)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (564)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,544)
- People (4)
- News (400)
- Research (942)
- Events (13)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (564)
Sort by
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
software and approach to organization-wide data management and integration. “We help organizations develop a holistic view of their customers and operations by tracking and analyzing data gathered at multiple contact points, including... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
location with access to other business and transportation infrastructures; and the unmet needs of eight million households (with $100 billion in retail demand). Businesses can and do thrive in these regions that have often been... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
invented an entirely new one. While that meant restarting their R&D efforts, it also means that they now own the IP. Finally, after navigating pandemic-related setbacks to their product-testing and manufacturing plans, the company was planning to launch (rebranded as... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Jul 2016
- News
HBS Startup Is Developing Tech-Enabled Jewelry to Stop Rapists
(Photo courtesy of Flare Jewelry) Is it possible to create a personal-safety device that can stop a physical assault, call for help, and collect evidence for the police? And be fashionable? Those are questions HBS students Sara de Zarraga and Quinn Fitzgerald (both MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Dress Like a Million from Goodwill: The Ultimate Recycle Store by Jean Kelley (OPM 29, 2000) (JKLA Publishing) Goodwill stores are the ultimate retail location for getting great deals on name brand clothing. In this book, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Grab now operates in six Southeast Asian countries and has raised more than $700 million to date, with another funding round underway. In Indonesia, Grab took an early lead on Uber in part because the service let passengers pay with cash.... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
us,” says Simon. “That was the content we were able to share with our consumers via social media, and share with our retailers as well, to tell how our food comes to market.” Beneath the Harvest Sky was released on DVD late last year, and... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
Fienning, MBA Class of 1970, Section C. Five years after graduation, I was a partner in a mobile-home retailing company in Greensboro, North Carolina. I was a bachelor, living in a mobile home, and trying to create a manufactured housing... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
communities." Today, the WWB network provides financial services in more than forty countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. At the same time, this global organization helps microfinance institutions and banks build View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
consumer base: The middle class of Africa's most populous nation has been growing quickly, now accounting for 23 percent of the population, according to the African Development Bank. "There has to be a big middle class" to support this kind of View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Eden of 75-degree temperatures, where you can breakfast on fresh guavas and relax into a way of life that values family and friendship over keeping up with the Joneses. Such was the path chosen by Richard Evanson (MBA '62), owner and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
collection, a unique research and teaching resource that comprises more than 140 videos of HBS faculty interviewing business leaders from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The five new videos feature South African business leaders in the banking (Cas... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
actually released in 1995. The year brought no major new musical genre to generate album sales the way rap and alternative rock had in previous years. "Product returns from financially pinched retailers were very heavy last year,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
revenues. Busy managing several hundred employees and a network of 25 growers, Ruth Owades may not have time to smell the roses, but she's not complaining. « Back Supplies and Demand Sometimes a small inconvenience can lead to a revolution. The day in 1985 when View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
reflection, he adds genetic engineering, specialty retail outlets, catalogue companies, restaurants, and superstores. But when Sahlman's attention turns to the present day, his answer is immediate and unqualified: the Internet. "In many... View Details