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- 25 Sep 2009
- News
Are You Being Served?
finding plenty of ways that companies frustrate their customers. These days, health care, airlines, and telecommunications, to name a few, are sectors that can drive consumers up the wall. Are you, valued... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
into three interrelated parts. First, students learn about the legal, ethical, and economic responsibilities of companies and their leaders. Next, they look at organizational systems and governance structures that can foster responsible... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Professor Mike Toffel lays out the scenario: JUUL is the e-cigarette market leader—its revenue grew from $200 million to $1 billion between 2017 and 2018. But the View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
chosen." In Down to Earth, Reinhardt draws on studies of companies in industries as diverse as energy and packaged consumer goods to illustrate approaches for reconciling shareholder value with environmental... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
1979), she learned not only about the workings of the human body, but also about the value of relationships and collaboration. It all added up to make her one of the savviest health care sector investors in the country. In the early... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
sector that thrives on anecdotal evidence. Here, the professors discuss what their findings mean for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and innovation. Today, the VC industry is still small in absolute terms: Less than one quarter of 1 percent of View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
"Longer term, people who visit the site should get something else of value — better experiences with brands and companies they respect. Ethically, the site was the right thing to do, but from a relationship... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
conversion rate, Means says. The company also raised $1.5 million in seed funding—all without spending a single dollar on marketing. Calley Means and Leslie Voorhees (both MBA 2015). (photos courtesy of Anomalie) The Question: Anomalie... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
not reach its full potential unless it had all the financial and human capital our company could muster. I suggested to our board that we sell all our other businesses and “double down” on Panera Bread. It wasn’t a popular decision but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
both their own companies and others in the area.” In addition to the program’s value for local companies and managers, the revenue generated supports gifts to area nonprofits... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
professionals to implement them, companies were eager to embrace an end-to-end service delivery partner providing open, nonproprietary solutions that simultaneously cut costs and increased efficiency. "We found that customers were more... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
PPP’s forgivable loans were a lifeline for many small businesses. But banks often prioritized larger, established clients, while the smallest and most vulnerable businesses had trouble accessing funds. “Fintech companies really stepped up... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
slang to describe the company’s approach: tachles. (It sounds a bit like the word “tactless,” and it means “give it to me straight.”) “We tend to be really explicit with the companies we work with. There is going to be some discomfort,”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Exhibit Highlights Turning Point for American Business
a long workweek it was and how extraordinarily controlling companies were in the early days before the labor movement." In subtle contrast, a striking 1933 portrait of a woman cotton warper at the Shelton Looms in Shelton, Connecticut, by... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Phelps), companies (P&G, Target), and social organizations (Saddleback Church, the civil rights movement). He offers a framework for changing bad habits: identify the routine, experiment with rewards, isolate the cue, and have a plan.... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
real business opportunity to invest in companies with high-growth potential and at least one woman in a leadership role that were being overlooked by the traditional VC community. Sometimes, in order to see an opportunity, you have to be... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
tasks: strengthening links between portfolio objectives and overall company goals; ensuring that the relationship among projects creates greater value and efficiency; and making sure that projects build... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
You’ve Been YouTubed
or not we’re active users of them. A new case coauthored by HBS marketing professor John Deighton and research associate Leora Kornfeld offers an object lesson in what that means for big, recognizable companies and their brands. “United... View Details