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01 Oct 2001
News

Q&A: Orin Smith

drinks that would win the brand international recognition. Smith liked the café concept and the enthusiastic workers behind the counter; he took a substantial cut in pay to sign on as EVP and CFO. Today, the company operates approximately 4,800 stores around the world,... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

22 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention

capacity coming online worldwide over the next half-decade. That forecast is almost 30% higher than last year's edition of the rolling 5-year projections. Likewise, a new survey by Columbia University's... View Details

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

customers over long periods of time. What's the secret of long-running megabrands such as Mountain Dew, Nike, and Budweiser? The magical sweet spot when a brand delivers imaginative stories that are perfectly attuned to society's desires. His View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

Starbucks claims the world's largest Wi-Fi network, with some 2,200 stores offering wireless connectivity to latte sippers for a charge. That number will climb to 3,000 by year's end, according to the company. Darren Hostin, of Starbucks... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

09 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 9

rationales for forming the relationship) are endogenous to the matching process, while others (those that are incidental to the formation of the relationship) may be conditionally exogenous, thus enabling causal estimation of peer effects. We illustrate this idea in a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2019
Blog Post

9 Lessons from the Class of 2019

Society. This important distinction highlights the indelible impact that certain students have already made on Harvard, Harvard Business School, and/or broader communities. This year's recipients were: Amanda Tyson and Lindsey Morrow... View Details

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

26 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Black Excellence: AASU’s 2019 Fall Retreat in Review

annual retreat serves as an opportunity to pause and reflect. RCs are often grappling with balancing new priorities, and ECs are trying to embrace the reality that graduation is just around the corner. The theme of this View Details

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

more as we move into the fall. In the meantime, chances are we can expect a significant amount of market volatility. So what do we do now? For starters, I believe that the federal government must focus on entitlement reform, new revenues,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Dec 2000
News

Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

when a Philadelphia museum runs a full-page ad in the New York Times, a Boston bus is swathed in a van Gogh image, and a Chicago cab receipt invites you to visit that city's Museum of Contemporary Art. READ MORE Old Meets New: A Dinosaur... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

18 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands

At last year's Grammy Awards, singer Pharrell Williams wore such an outlandish hat—a cross between Smokey the Bear's forest-brown lid and The Sorting Hat at Gryffindor—that it quickly received its own Twitter account. Then some marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

social enterprise more likely to choose branching? A: While our survey did not explore the reasons for choosing branching over affiliation, some nonprofits may prefer branching because it allows the nonprofit leader to exert the most control since the View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

interview, "Start the [new] year with a new face." This slogan was so successful that Estée Lauder and the retailer used it for decades as part of their annual New View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

November 2006 (Revised May 2007)
Case

Hewlett-Packard Company: The War Within

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Jay W. Lorsch, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Eliot Sherman

In September 2006 it was revealed that the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) had been carrying out an extended investigation of its own employees, board members, and journalists outside the company. The investigation was launched in response to a series of leaks to the... View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Employee Relationship Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Communication Technology; Conflict and Resolution; Newspapers; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry

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01 Oct 2000
News

Faculty Retirements

Publishing, Inc. (SSEP), an organization he cofounded in 1994 that publishes scientific research online (www.ssrn.com). Jensen was named "Scholar of the Year" in 1990 by the Eastern Finance Association and was also cited as one of that View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

Wilkins (MBA '70), and Terry L. Jones (MBA '74) and awards for civic and community service to Benaree Pratt Wiley (MBA '72) and Kenneth A. Powell (MBA '74). (Powell was also recently elected president of the HBS African-American Alumni Association, which features a... View Details

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

around a culture shift. There are small wins, however. At September’s meeting, when the board began the process of hiring a new district lawyer, it did so under the guidelines of that resolution passed back... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Jun 2000
News

The Business of Biotech

New Year's Eve 1999 gave revelers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for celebration - the exhilarating thrill of ringing in a year that's always had an aura of science fiction mystery. When the champagne... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

build successful businesses. The desire to capture the scale of this change is the ambitious goal of Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets project, whose new website was profiled in HBS Working Knowledge last year. The... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

01 Aug 1998
News

A Roaring Success in the Windy City

technology. He emphasized that while the School remains firmly rooted in its traditional mission - to educate leaders by building knowledge - new strategies will be needed to meet the challenges of today's dynamic world. Clark used... View Details

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