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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Betting big on star power can be a winning strategy in business—not just show business
to subsidize less popular offerings. And now these strategies are pervading other industries from consumer electronics to fashion. “Although risky, betting heavily on the most likely blockbusters and... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
Arab Emirates Rohit Dev Thakwani, OPM 37 2008 SpendWisor.com consumer electronics marketplace Midwest/Central U.S. HBS Club of Chicago Marc Hoecker, MBA '08 vinsnap mobile automotive marketing New England... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
addition, online retailers have a vast amount of data at their fingertips; solving complex problems with data seemed like a natural fit. Tell me about the research you did with Rue La La. Rue La La is in the online flash sales industry, offering designer apparel and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
“Some decent-looking pixels and a really excellent vision.” That’s all it took for Russ Wilcox to fall for the technology that would become E Ink, a company supplying the electronic ink for a new world of digital reading devices. Now, as... View Details
- 28 Sep 2018
- News
Pushing Progress at Panasonic
Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) (photo by Akio Kon/Bloomberg) Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) (photo by Akio Kon/Bloomberg) When he was fresh out of engineering school in 1980, Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) got a job at Panasonic. He left just as the View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
industry to the production of mechanical (“dumb”) and electronic (“smart”) beds. Eventually, he expects to develop an entire suite of compact hospital room furnishings. The Alumni New Venture Contest was created with two goals in mind: to... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Powering into the Future
professor, where they have invented a new way to move power without wires. The company’s called WiTricity—wireless electricity—and it couldn’t be more exciting. “We have so many new electronic devices in our lives that we are all... 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... View Details
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
A Leveraged Investment
expanded his business almost tenfold since attending the program. Hesham was so enthusiastic about OPM that he convinced his wife, Adlina, that she should attend. Adlina was at a key juncture with her business—a consumer View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Multiple generations of computing
Palm Computing, with founder Jeff Hawkins, she introduced the PalmPilot, the first successful handheld computer. Under Dubinsky’s leadership it became the fastest-selling computer and consumer electronics... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
until we make sure that the treatments and services consumers are getting are effective and affordable, changing the way we consumers pay for the services doesn’t fix anything. What we need is a system of... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Rohit Dev Thakwani, OPM 37 2008 SpendWisor.com consumer electronics marketplace Watch their pitch. Midwest/Central U.S. Marc Hoecker, MBA '08 vinsnap mobile automotive marketing Watch their pitch. New... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
most part, because committed mutual fund consumers are investors who hold portfolios of diversified securities and have long-term goals, they are less likely to engage in such frenetic trading. Instead, the Internet's real impact,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
Cashing in on the $60 billion global luxury goods market has never been tougher — or more rewarding. Competition is keen. And consumer preferences are constantly shifting, causing the concept of luxury itself to change over time. As a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Squeeze Play
electronic components assembly line and recast as an expensive, high-end beauty product. That Tweezerman success has allowed LaMagna to bankroll other passions. He’s run for office (unsuccessfully) and dabbled in politics over the years... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
intercepted them at consumer electronics stores and followed them home to talk about what they bought and why," says Fournier. "We then followed up to see how their responses evolved over the next six... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
its Nasdaq stock market debut. But Bezos was still feeling frugal. He didn’t want to spring for a cab from Logan to the Harvard campus, so some MBA students vied to give him a lift. Two of them, Rayport recalls, were promptly hired to work at Amazon — they helped the... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
based on their best efforts to forecast customer needs. With new technologies such as online grocery scanners, companies can better monitor consumer behavior, allowing them to anticipate needs more accurately and even create new products... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
advertising, particularly for determined adversaries. In this Q&A, Assistant Professor Ben Edelman, who designs electronic markets, explains how contract terms can be managed to both reduce advertisers’ risks of being defrauded and reward... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
one time, consumers readily shared personal information. Recently, however, many customers have begun to bristle when asked personal questions. They wonder: Who else is privy to this information? What's in it for me? In their 1996 working... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross