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- 31 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
your interests, recruitment can look very different. I am personally interested in pursuing a career in big tech after HBS, and that means recruitment starts now. My joint degree classmates have been tremendously helpful with guiding me through deciding my post-HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
in-store reading glasses; bookstores and coffee bars. Identifying and assembling complements is often the best way to compete. Adam Brandenburger is a professor in the Competition and Strategy unit at HBS. Barry Nalebuff is a professor at... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
Maxwell House Coffee and Post Cereals president Ann M. Fudge (MBA '77), to a dinner organized by Beatrice ("Bunny") Ellerin (MBA '95), the day's events generated an energy that allowed speakers and participants alike to dispense with... View Details
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
alliances, however, start from the top; sometimes they spring from sheer happenstance. The CARE-Starbucks relationship, for example, began when a CARE regional officer bought a cup of Starbucks coffee and noticed that the two... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
you about coffee growing regions in Africa in order to create an intimacy. Stores were designed as a place for lingering and relaxing. For customers who were looking for an in-and-out buying experience, that was frustrating and frivolous.... View Details
- 29 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?
receiving $2.56 for a cup of coffee or 26 minutes to catch up with a friend carries more weight, in terms of relationship harm, than being shortchanged or only given 20 minutes. “Between someone who gives $5.99 and someone who gives $5,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Gamble, and other consumer-goods businesses. "Create or identify the need, and then fulfill that need in a big way." Lopez arrived at Starbucks in 2004 to lead its global consumer-products division and, over time, expanded his responsibilities to include subsidiary... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
Express; Solomon Trujillo, president and CEO of U S West Communications; and Ann Fudge, president of Maxwell House Coffee Company and Post Cereals? How did these people of color overcome the odds and break through the glass ceiling that... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
that there was no resource to connect academic research with practice. If you wanted to make that connection, you had to go to the managerial conferences and talk to practitioners during coffee breaks or during the sessions. The... View Details
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
commercial dating sites. What they found was a high level of dissatisfaction. "People spent hours and hours and hours a week online to generate one cup of coffee with one person. That's not a very good system," says Norton.... View Details
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
Trump. However, there was one key difference separating his potential candidacy from the others: brand awareness. Because of the public’s close identification of him with Starbucks, Schultz’s run could lead to blowback to the coffee... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
the attention of consumers on the go, fresh bread fans, and people looking for a place to relax with a cup of coffee in the afternoon. Expected to top $1 billion in sales this year, the publicly held Panera has also satisfied the... View Details
- Web
Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Unseen looks at how companies, advertisers, and artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries used images of “the Indian” to promote the railroad, market specific messages, or sell a range of products that included coffee and... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
"Completely immerse yourself in the HBS experience; don't hold back on any of the opportunities you encounter. Looking back, I wish I would have spent more time going on trips with classmates, having coffee chats with professors, and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
research-based approaches to increase competitiveness in the digital economy. Networking: Coffee Not Cocktails by Janet Shaner (MBA 1989) Lulu.com A good network can bring new ideas, access to resources, funds, clients, and help build... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
coffee shop in Los Angeles in 2014 called Dumb Starbucks. Write Deighton and Kornfeld: "The stunt's function as promotion for the show was eventually deduced by journalists and the public. The delayed reveal was an element of play." A... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
they must know each other, and I didn’t think much of the situation. But over time I’d notice that people were pairing up. This colleague was having lunch with that higher-up and coffee with this one. It was as if I was at a middle-school... View Details
- 28 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback
linear, making you linger and pause and consider, rather than an easy search-and-grab. If you think about the origins of Starbucks, it was a process filled with friction: The barista would ask about your family and educate you about View Details
- Profile
Michael R. Bloomberg
the luckier you get.”BE PERSISTENT. “Persistence really does pay off. When starting my company, I would go downtown and buy cups of coffee. Then I’d take the coffee up to Merrill Lynch—our target audience—and walk the hallways. “Hi,” I... View Details
- 11 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
Conversations as Coffee Chats at other MBA schools. These 1:1 or small group meetings are a great way to connect with companies and get to know them on a personal level. Company Conversations can be invite-only or open for any student to... View Details