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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
being competitive on value,” says Kempczinski. “Our Dollar Menu clearly defined value for the industry for a good decade, and as we came off of that, we hadn’t really redefined what value meant to us.” Last... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
right. After HBS and a year at Burlington Industries, I bought Bishop Manufacturing Company, a medium-sized, high-volume, custom-window manufacturer. I was 20-something and had no money, but armed with my HBS pedigree, a presentation, and a View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
your classmates’ experiences. That’s part of the value of HBS. It’s huge.” At Morgan Stanley, which she joined right out of HBS, Harris leads the equity private placements effort in global capital markets and covers the retail and consumer View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
entrepreneurial powerhouse. Carolyn’s mix of pep talk and tough love got Tyra to where she is today, and here they pay it forward to empower readers. Whether they’re writing about watching Tyra’s most imperfect moment go viral or how they’ve overcome everything from... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
marketing found among the most successful Asian firms in the study appears to hold true across the board - in consumer goods organizations, industrial firms, product companies, and service providers alike,... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
resources -- what we call social capital." Organizational behaviorists have known for years that third-party endorsements are critical to a young firm's success. Higgins and Gulati wanted to understand the origins and nature of these important relationships. They... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
HBS Association of Ireland: Connecting at Home and Abroad
Photographed at a recent HBSAI Speaker Luncheon were (from Left) Brendan O'Reilly (12th OPM), guest speaker Harry Lorton (15th OPM), Jim Barry (MBA '94), and George Good (43rd PMD). Photo courtesy HBSAI According to former HBS Association... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Billion-Dollar Question
francistapon.com. After HBS, I walked across America four times. During my first long walk, I asked myself what I call the "Billion-Dollar Question." At HBS, the Billion-Dollar Question that many of us pondered was, "How do I make a billion dollars?" Many of us are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
industries for decades. And even though Mustapha and his sons had earned a reputation as hard workers, there was only so much they could produce within a system that left farmers either chronically undersupplied or dealing with bags of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
temperate climates that have access to water and are in higher latitudes tend to be more developed than those in lower latitudes with tropical climates and minimal water access. Sachs explained that tropical climates are not good for... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a gritty New Delhi suburban View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the VC community to see itself as a real industry.” The venture capital industry began to take shape after World War II on the northeastern seaboard when in 1946 Doriot became president of the first public venture capital firm:... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
growing: There are now nearly 1,000 space companies worldwide according to industry analyst NewSpace Global, and they are touting revolutionary (and mostly unproven) new concepts in rockets, space tourism, and even space services, ranging... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
of all, I had really good jobs, right? I liked the work I did. I liked the variety. But also the nature of the work I thought was, you know, great fun. I didn't have all great bosses, but I had a lot of really great bosses and mentors.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
industrial capitalism has produced the greatest per capita output of goods ever recorded. And, in direct contravention of the Marxian forecast that workers’ share of income will steadily fall, Schumpeter... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
travel from countries as far-off as Slovakia and Poland. The workers stay in dormitories — homes in town that the Husteads have renovated — for a nominal fee. “Getting and training good people is a core competency for us,” Hustead... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
Foundation did a good bit of work in creating the Meth Project back in 2005, and that was created by Tom Siebel. Tom Siebel was a marketing guy who had been the number two person at Oracle and had created his own company. And he said, I'm... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
Valley, first consulting with tech companies while at Bain, then transitioned to the industry side at big companies like Yahoo as well as smaller companies and startups, and everything in between. Throughout that time, I was usually the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
The commercial real estate business was in a shambles fifteen years ago, but just look at it now. After a complete rehab, the industry has become the darling of investors eager for alternatives to lackluster stocks and bonds. But will the... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
I couldn't get out of my mind. And one thing led to another, and I'm good friends with the two gentleman that owned him and that bought him at the point where he was about 18 months old as a yearling in Kentucky. And everything just fell... View Details
Keywords: horse racing