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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Taking Tailoring High Tech
Jamal Motlagh began research for his fashion business at HBS, with male classmates who were beginning to recognize the importance of being well dressed. They were part of a larger trend: According to the NPD Group, the menswear market in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
influence extended well beyond the classroom. Here, a few of the ideas and inventions that Doriot helped bring to the masses. (Baker Library Historical Collections) Venture capitalism Before Doriot founded the world’s first VC firm, American View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Ready for Takeoff: Web Portal Enters Second Phase
After two years of building its readership, honing its mission, and crafting fresh, insightful content, HBS Working Knowledge is poised for the next stage of its development. "It's an exciting time. We launched the original product with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
faculty in 1998. “It took me a while to find my niche.” His on-going research at HBS synthesizes elements of history, sociology, business, and statistics (see sidebar). In the classroom, Fleming has carved out a place for himself helping... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
students? Doerr: What's in the shortest supply is great marketing talent for technology-based companies. So in addition to entrepreneurship, HBS should emphasize education and research into understanding and marketing technology View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Optimizing search technology
Olivier Dumon (MBA 1998) is managing director of academic and government markets for global publishing giant Elsevier, where he’s working on optimizing online search protocols. He believes that the more the technology is improved, the faster View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
James McKenney Remembered
on information and computer systems, control, environmental and nonprofit management, and production and operations management (POM). He was POM chairman from 1968 to 1972. In retirement, McKenney continued his View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
and Santiago, Chile For-profit conservationists David Blood (MBA 1985) Generation Investment Management London, New York, and Sydney Investment management that integrates sustainability factors and traditional equity research Scott Bolick... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
right out of business school," Sahlman says. "They don't yet know enough about hiring and firing or managing. They don't know enough about selling and marketing or production and operations." He advises freshly minted MBAs with... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
before moving to GE Medical Systems, where he was named CEO in 1997. Reflecting on his years at GE, Immelt recalls many moments of intense, even painful, learning. “In 1989, I was running the appliance service business in the midst of a big View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
small doses? Observability: Can you watch other people use it? All of those things are inherent in the product itself. Rogers’s research found that 75 percent of the variance between View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Reinventing the Wheel
the scientists and researchers in the young company asked Cardozo if he would like to join the team as CEO in early 2014. The process works like this: End-of-life tires are collected at the Black Bear plant, where their steel wiring is... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term
companies, and drive change, HBX introduced the online certifi cate program Sustainable Business Strategy in June 2018. Led by Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, the program showcases the role faculty View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
highly visible undertakings such as the $4 billion Jurong Island complex, in which seven offshore islands were linked with imported landfill to form a huge new industrial area for land-strapped Singapore. Less apparent, but no less crucial, are the View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
executing the company’s core strategy: using technology to differentiate GE’s products in the marketplace. At an estimated $30 billion globally for high-tech security products, it’s a market with plenty of room for growth. Parker is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
expensive performances,” says Hodges, noting that last year’s new production of Swan Lake by Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen proved the perfect test case for dynamic pricing. “A big takeaway for the team was that people are... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
their stakeholders, whether it’s their employees, their shareholders, their customers, or society,” Sucher observes. These companies want to be trusted, an idea that is the center of Sucher’s current research and an upcoming book. “We... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
conjunction with HBS faculty colleagues and scholars from other leading institutions. Business leaders, HBS alumni worldwide, and policy makers are also contributing to the Project's findings, with initial research appearing in a special... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Preserving Patagonia
value contained in the land as possible, while simultaneously protecting and enhancing the ecological value. Patagonia Sur has spawned several nonprofit entities, including the Patagonia Sur Foundation, which supports Patagonia's isolated inhabitants; the Melimoyu... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
(both MBA 1992) have written, produced, and directed Live Another Day, a documentary in the spirit of Inside Job that delves into the government bailout of General Motors and the Chrysler-Fiat merger through extensive research and... View Details