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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
helm, The Esquel Group makes more men's cotton shirts than any other company in the world, producing private-label apparel for high-end chains like Brooks Brothers and designers like Ralph Lauren. Egon P. S. Zehnder (MBA '56) Founding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
Mills shows how capitalism's financial value chain — comprising venture capitalists, bankers, and entrepreneurs and compelled by the lure of potential fortunes to be made — failed in its role to exercise... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
one was surprised. On the retail side, the large discount chains — WalMart and Target in particular — had steadily taken market share from specialty toy stores, in some cases using toys as a loss leader to pull in traffic. The ripple... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
high-growth beverage startups. Also, it is not clear to me why you are launching another product. Why not invest whatever capital you can get in driving amazing sell-through in one or two chains with some creative consumer marketing? And... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
industries were hungry for cost-effective, bio-based ingredients but couldn’t get their hands on them. Enter Macro Oceans, a biomaterials company that’s forming the connective tissue for a seaweed value chain. In a Nutshell “We buy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
pay for that speed, Kelleher says. The Question: Gold Rush Vinyl could reduce that time even further—to two weeks—if it solves supply chain bottlenecks in sourcing the record jackets and the plastic resin used in production. As a new... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
it took centuries for paper currency to evolve from a concept to reality. Meanwhile, bitcoin has been around for about a decade. Can you help situate us in the lifetime of this technology? Scott Duke Kominers: One of the points we make in that article is that a... 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
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
soon developed a chain of restaurants based on a novel concept. Built with authentic interiors and fixtures imported from Japan, the restaurants featured a working chef at every table, flamboyantly preparing and grilling familiar American... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
the fast-casuals—the bulk of those losses were to competitors like Wendy’s, Burger King, and Taco Bell. Value was key, too. McDonald’s had dropped its Dollar Menu in 2013, and the rest of the market jumped. “Just as competitors were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
children under five are undernourished, even as broken supply chains mean that up to a third of produce is wasted. The World Bank estimates that some 22 percent of the nation's 175 million people are unemployed; half of 15- to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
When Senior Lecturer José B. Alvarez was the CEO of Stop & Shop, he heard a recurring complaint from customers: The meat quality, they said, seemed to vary by the day. That’s the nature of meat: Nobody in the supply chain can guarantee... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
right across the Western financial system. Not many people understood that defaults on subprime mortgages would destroy the value of exotic new asset-backed instruments like collateralized debt obligations. Not many people saw that, as... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
sets an example that others can follow. Leaders should not only be ethical but also be seen as ethical. Finally, a true leader thinks outside her personal "patch" to consider the broader implications of her work—the value View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
sprains, and the like,” Herzlinger explains. “The charge is around $69, so uninsured people can go there instead of to the emergency room, which has long waits and charges much more. And with CVS’s chain ownership involving hundreds of... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
successful projects possible. Codename: Blackjack By Rusty McClure (MBA 1975) and David Stern Ternary Publishing A mysterious phone call brings Espy Harper and The Cincinnati to a rendezvous where she learns an accident was actually a murder, triggering a View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Better, Simpler Strategy
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
final revenues, with a formula to disburse the ultimate profits. In this way, the partners were able to focus first on the total value chain and, only after that, on the division of profits,” writes... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
mind if a colleague has a very compelling argument. On occasion, I would come to class with a strong viewpoint, only to be convinced otherwise by a wise counterargument from a classmate. HBS helped me become a leader who values diverse... View Details