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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
Manny Medina (MBA 2003) didn’t set out to found Outreach, the Seattle-based sales-engagement unicorn. He never expected to become an entrepreneur. When he quit a frustrating role in business development at Microsoft in 2011, he didn’t... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Thorborg (12th ISMP) and Christoph-Matthias Brand (MBA '94), plans for the 2000 HBS Global Alumni Conference in Berlin are proceeding very well. The conference, scheduled for June 13-16, boasts a full agenda of challenging sessions... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Corporation, where he was involved in product planning for their Music Video on Demand software. So how did an aspiring entrepreneur with an engineering degree become a rock star at Harvard Business School?... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
"safer" consulting job? Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812013-PDF-ENG "Playing with Fire at Sittercity (B) Noam Wasserman and Rachel GordonHarvard Business School Supplement 809-010 To help... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Zobel de Ayala Photographs by Tom Epperson Issue Focus The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS The City Solution Green Day Related Links Watch Ayala discuss... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
from most so-called sustainable funds. But this stance eliminates some of the most prolific and influential producers of green innovation, including Exxon Mobil, BP, and Chevron, according to recent research by Harvard Business School... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?
Editor’s note: Concerns about data falsification and fabrication in a study conducted by Francesca Gino as part of this article have been shared by Harvard Business School with the publishing journal’s editor, along with a request that... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
manufacturers in particular face a decline in capability as a result of vigorous outsourcing initiatives. This seems to come at a time when outsourcing is still on the rise. I was reminded of this again in late March: Several MBA student teams, engaged in putting... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
MeraDoctor, a consultation-by-telephone business staffed 24 hours a day by eight licensed physicians. A for-profit company that charges subscribers a monthly fee of 100 rupees (about $2) for unlimited consultations for up to six household... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
developments, such as the congressional proposal to augment the Social Security system with a program of private savings, a plan that presumably would include the mutual fund industry. Ultimately, it is the fundamentals upon which the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
human cost of rampant outsourcing. "Every outsourced stop along the supply and production chains holds the potential for tainting the mother ship” What to do? Certainly, the newly announced plan by a coalition of clothing retailers,... View Details
- 03 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen
business due to price increases because of the Russia-Ukraine war. The Van den Ende brothers shared their plans to implement geothermal heat pumps for the greenhouse within the next two years in order to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Amazon if they are strategic in planning for the channel. Pick your first retail partner carefully. I suggest a small- to mid-sized retailer to build into a larger account, preferably one with a credibility halo (Erewhon comes to mind). A... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
causes pneumonia in ICU patients. When the drug goes to market, the company plans to have data to back up its price. “If we say, for instance, that we can wean a patient off a ventilator three days sooner and we get a patient out of the... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
Above: Meridith Unger (left) and Nix’s business development director Sara Weber (MBA 2016) inspect a prototype (photo by Susan Young) Boston-based Nix is developing a disposable biosensor that gives users a real-time gauge of hydration... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
climate change. Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018) READ MORE Jen Flint: I'm assuming this pandemic was not a part of your business plan, so what has it meant for you, how have you had to adapt? Sanchali Pal: Definitely not. Our initial View Details
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
inherently wrong with pay for performance, only in the way that specific plans have been designed and implemented." Mathews Daniel Kapito helped frame the challenge. As he put it, "People are different pay linked to performance... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
Beware of competitors lying in the grass, says Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth. His study of bidding practices on eBay suggest that those who wait until the last minute to bid—a practice called sniping—is an effective way... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
Donatella Versace. It is so much fun planning for Burning Man, organizing, thinking, scouring thrift shops. That's all part of the Burning Man experience. This idea of radical self-reliance means you don't buy a costume in a costume shop.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
Stem cells have been much in the news recently. But the hot-button ethical and political questions currently surrounding this area of research may ultimately prove moot, if the past is any guide. Business history shows that if the desire... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons