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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs seem extraordinarily timely given the recent revelations of questionable conduct by corporate leaders. The scandals naturally produce an anxious curiosity about how such leaders obtained power in the first place. In 1996,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
1997 Placement Data Reflect January Cohort's Success
and September cohorts would fare differently in the job market after graduation, since the January cohort proceeded straight through the MBA Program without the traditional summer work experience. Placement statistics for the Class of... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Visitors, after proving their identity, can review the information and correct it if necessary, or they can request to be removed from Acxiom's database entirely. There were glitches and errors, but Howe calls it a good, if flawed, start.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting
database architecture, including company, faculty, student, and alumni information, MBA Career Services plans to put its services online to make them more accessible, efficient, and customer-oriented. "In the next few years," says Kirsten... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
Profiting from the World’s Economic Crisis: Finding Investment Opportunities by Tracking Global Market Trends by Bud Conrad (MBA ’71) (Wiley) Conrad predicts a rough road ahead, due to economic imbalances that have built up over the past... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
on Network Associates' efforts to market its encryption software algorithms globally, despite national security concerns raised by the U.S. government. By Tuesday afternoon, participants seemed to have settled back into the classroom... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Start Your Engines
the queue, not surprisingly: deals on digital content and bringing F1 in line with 21st century marketing practices. “We have 400 million to 500 million fans around the world and don’t have a database that... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
years ago that the approach to inclusion in business was flawed. As a former marketing expert and growth strategist who helped clients find new business opportunities—largely in nonwhite, affluent markets—she was called in to create... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
twenty years ago the company was unprepared for changes in the marketplace as competitors emerged that offered clients individual pieces of the technology package, such as a database program or storage device. This brought about increased... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
Silicon Valley startup: “We want to bring a scaled-up version of the blockchain application to market by the end of the year.” From Baker Library: Blockchain is an innovative and complex technological advance, but what exactly is it and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
sign-up process is easy. Service members and veterans can validate their military service against a government database or a military financial institution catering to nine million military customers through a real-time process. (For... View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
schools, some of whom matriculated at HBS. Now the people we have helped are paying it back, mentoring other people; it’s like a chain reaction. Now we have way too many mentors onboard, so we need to market the program better—make it... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
weight is assigned to the various answers. “I think people would be surprised just how different the methodologies are,” says Brian Kenny, chief marketing and communications officer at HBS whose office manages the data requests that... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
"Using Technology to Better Manage and Serve Customers," John E. Groman (MBA '69), executive vice president and cofounder of the database marketing firm Epsilon, spoke of the need to reengineer marketing, a... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
reunion program and how the School might facilitate this. The online products and services subcommittee, chaired by Rich Shapack (MBA ’71), found that few alumni were aware of the current online offerings of databases and resources. Its... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
according to research conducted by private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
and support it by three bullet points by early morning on class day. Initially, students submitted their responses via a text-based VAX system. Bhide, along with Professor Howard H. Stevenson, who also taught the class, then upgraded the material to a View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
government is building on communitybased care models across the country—as are foreign governments, from Myanmar to Saudi Arabia. Oishi is an unlikely hero for the country’s health care crisis: a marketing expert pushing to enact sweeping... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea to friends and relatives in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
has not had any defaults on $7.2 million in loans—large for a budding market like Singapore. At Austin-based online lending platform Able, founders Evan Baehr and Will Davis (both MBA 2011) have devised their own novel incentive to ensure... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller