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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
is targeting seniors, when 90 percent of today's marketing spend is aimed at people under 50. And he's hedging his bets on something we all think seniors run from—namely, technology. It all came together in 2012, when Johnston and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
options have some key features in common. Consumers would be able to choose their own health-care plans, typically using tax-advantaged funds supplied by their employers; have substantial choice among health-care plans; and have increased... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
centered in where their life is and how it's changing," notes Dutch Leonard. "There is a continuous influx of inspiration we get from their work. It comes from the energy they bring and the willingness to keep working on things that are really complicated in a View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
was ranked number one in guest satisfaction for 2009 by the Market Metrix Hospitality Index (based on over 130,000 hotel customer surveys), beating competitors including the Ritz-Carlton, W Hotels, and the Four Seasons. Michael Depatie... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
product, with a case study and clear pricing. It can be a little scary to give up the consulting revenue, which likely provides cash flow to fund the development of the productized offerings. The downside of this approach is time. We live... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- News
HourlyNerd Rebrands as an Enterprise Talent Platform
role in redefining how enterprises access top talent to solve critical challenges,” according to a press release. The news follows the firm having received $22 million Series C funding earlier this month from General Catalyst Partners.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
In the business of empowering women entrepreneurs
As a cofounder and managing director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF), Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) backs female-led, early-stage ventures in digital media and sustainable products and services. Dodi says these emerging consumer View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
not Cambridge, the heart of academia, but business-like Boston, seat of august money managers and the then-hottest management consulting firm around, The Boston Consulting Group, with whom all but three of our classmates (it seemed)... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
mother’s norm of doing what you can to help others. Hoping to also satisfy my father, I applied to HBS in the spirit of kaizen. Being admitted promised to change my life in many positive ways, but I felt out of place as a former barrio teacher among classmates who had... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Turning Point: Makeover
Vicky Tsai (MBA 2006) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Vicky Tsai (MBA 2006) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) My first job was as a derivatives trader. The markets fascinated me; the testosterone-driven culture of the trading floor did not.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
want to know if I have one of these diseases?’” “Researchers think there are subtle signs that precede the known symptoms of diseases like Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s,” explains Robi Blumenstein (MBA 1984), president of the CHDI Foundation, a nonprofit that View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
leadership position in the Northeast through the strategic use of new technology, marketing savvy, and a management style that encouraged staff to invest themselves in their work. In 1996, BayBanks merged with Bank of Boston to form... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
response to escalating health-care costs, and HBS professor Debora L. Spar on the market realities of adoption and in vitro fertilization (see “The Business of Babies”). For more information about the HBS Health Industry Alumni... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
provide more efficient and customized services. What are some of the changes in the Admissions area? This year we are putting more resources into marketing - both to the world in general and, in particular, to underrepresented groups that... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
than I ever knew I was, and it’s much easier to do than I ever expected, because I have 10,000 students in the district who need the money to go to them instead of vendors and contractors. They make it easy to stand up to the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
Little Feet in 2008. Intended to be a family’s last step in its adoption journey, Pathways, funded by Taylor and a group of donors, is essentially a private, interest-free, nonprofit bank providing loans of up to $7,500 for credit-worthy... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
back to the mainland. “Our classroom is a 204-acre island with two salt marshes, a fresh water marsh, an inner tidal zone, meadows, and forests.” Since 2005, Pearson has spearheaded an $8.3 million capital campaign to fund infrastructure... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
college. At the time, I was studying economics and found the topic fascinating, from an economic theory perspective; it was—and still is—an unprecedented market failure and tragedy of the commons on a global scale. “Over time, my interest... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
laboratories for student and faculty work in areas such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric energy; sustainable production of rice, sugarcane, hay, mangoes, and beef; waste management; and carbon neutrality. An additional commercial growing operation helps View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
markets are going to bear. That’s the core challenge. Can we find solutions that can scale quickly enough to start allowing us to make some headway against CO2 emissions and do it at a cost point that’s going to work in the marketplace?... View Details