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  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Time to Trek

homes of HBS students, and met with numerous business leaders and politicians, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. “Treks really open up the field for students and expose them to industries and jobs in... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 19 May 2022
  • News

Leading to Salvation

about how his expertise recently found another, unexpected outlet when he was called on to help save a small business that helped a community cope with its grief and honor their dead for over 50 years. READ MORE NEWS CLIP: Funeral View Details
  • 19 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations

United States, but it still has lots of potential outside the U.S. Given my background and my passion for contributing to my home country and the Asian region in general, this role is very appealing View Details
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Room to Write

Edited by April White; photos courtesy of the authors “A lot of my book was written on the Notes function of my phone while commuting in London. The ideas flow easily wherever I am, but I need a bit more quiet to bring it all together.”... View Details
  • May 16, 2019
  • Article

To Improve Food Inspections, Change the Way They're Scheduled

By: Maria Ibanez and Michael W. Toffel
Health inspections are an important tool to increase food safety, but there are still 48 million cases of food-borne illnesses and 128,000 hospitalizations every year in the United States. Our research finds that inspectors reported fewer health code violations as they... View Details
Keywords: Inspection; Scheduling; Food; Safety; Health; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Improvement
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  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Road to Recovery

and a prominent addiction psychiatrist and former director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Addiction Research Program—explained the challenges to his son, whose background was in the video-game... View Details
Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Vision: To Go-Go

succeeding. Which is not to suggest it has been easy. While the pandemic boosted demand for home delivery, it also forced the fledgling startup to navigate a business... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; entrepreneurship; foodtech; startup; Latin America
  • October 2016
  • Case

La-Z-Boy (A)

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Natalie Kindred
Kurt Darrow, CEO of La-Z-Boy furniture, must decide whether to continue an overhaul of the company's strategy in the face of a collapse in demand during the great recession. Having pared back La-Z-Boy's portfolio of brands and manufacturing network, he intends to... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Manufacturing; Organizational Transformations; Reorganization; Furniture Industry; Corporate Strategy; Home Fashion; Turnaround; Portfolio Rationalization; Globalization Of Supply Chain; Brand Repositioning; Business Growth and Maturation; Brands and Branding; Competitive Strategy; Vertical Integration; Retail Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • 04 Jun 2020
  • News

Coronavirus Is Going to Tear Your Office in Two

  • November 2017 (Revised October 2018)
  • Case

Brandless: Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods

By: Jill Avery
Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods, offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious products delivered directly to their homes with the simplicity of one fixed $3 price point that promised an... View Details
Keywords: Brand; Brand Management; Retailing; Retailing Industry; Private Label; Direct To Consumer Marketing; Ecommerce; Digital Marketing; Consumer Packaged Goods; Startup; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Disruption; Food; Product Marketing; Marketing Channels; Consumer Behavior; Brands and Branding; Venture Capital; E-commerce; Consumer Products Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; United States; North America
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  • 28 May 2020
  • Blog Post

How to Fit in at HBS

I just finished my first year at HBS and, COVID-19 aside, I have spent a considerable amount of time over the past week reflecting on how incredible, humbling, enlightening, and roller-coaster-like the past 12-months have been. It is hard View Details
  • 16 May 2023
  • HBS Case

How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

Stavros when he took the factory floor on a blistering hot day to break the news to employees. Factory workers still didn’t believe they were going to share in the wealth. But,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • March 2022
  • Article

Learning to Rank an Assortment of Products

By: Kris Ferreira, Sunanda Parthasarathy and Shreyas Sekar
We consider the product ranking challenge that online retailers face when their customers typically behave as “window shoppers”: they form an impression of the assortment after browsing products ranked in the initial positions and then decide whether to continue... View Details
Keywords: Online Learning; Product Ranking; Assortment Optimization; Learning; Internet and the Web; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; E-commerce
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  • 12 May 2020
  • News

Coronavirus and the future of the workplace: 8 trends to watch

  • December 2011
  • Article

Data Impediments to Empirical Work on Health Insurance Markets

By: Leemore S. Dafny, David Dranove, Frank Limbrock and Fiona Scott Morton
We compare four datasets that researchers might use to study competition in the health insurance industry. We show that the two datasets most commonly used to estimate market concentration differ considerably from each other (both in levels and in changes over time),... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Analytics and Data Science; Market Participation; Insurance Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Commitment to Leadership

letter with a handwritten note. KATZKE Stacey B. Case (MBA 1988) Stacey Case is inspiring when she talks about the inherent bond between HBS alumni. Case recently hosted a get-together at her home in San Francisco for 1987 and 1988 alumni... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2020
  • News

Learning to Fight

processes, to improve life for patients afflicted with other illnesses. But the drive behind his work remains very personal. “Every day, I go home and see my wife,” he says. “I’ve been her caregiver for 25... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 08 Dec 2021
  • Blog Post

The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital

others say is impossible and finding a way. And specifically, how Memme found a way to break into Venture Capital from the automotive industry and launch a new stage of his career, all while hearing time and time again that it couldn’t be... View Details
  • 23 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

proper return-on-investment analysis can it understand the extent of the caregiving challenges facing their workforce,” Fuller warns. How COVID-19 changed the caregiving landscape For years, caregiving wasn’t discussed on the job. Taking a child View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Back to School

fuels my ambition. A good wine does not need to be expensive. Many fantastic wines are available for under $50 retail. I enjoy nicer, special vintages at home as the restaurant prices are typically up View Details
Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran