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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
endeavors. After building his fortune in the virtual world, Steven D. Murch (MBA '91) has taken up a hammer to build a lasting legacy in the real world. “My dream is to create a foundation that helps people,” says Murch, a Microsoft veteran and View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
secured funding, built the platform, and ran a series of paid pilots; all of the participants signed on as clients. Looking to the future, the co-CEOs see opportunities as wide as the web itself: “We think the entire internet is going in... View Details
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
Summing Up Consumer generated marketing is a fact of life to which all of us will have to adapt. Adaptation means learning how to use CGM to provide one form of input in fashioning product and marketing decisions. Those are the messages... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Internet to improve efficiency and cater to new customers is a clear winner. Group managing director William K.L. Fung (MBA ’72) understands that e-commerce is revolutionary. “But it won’t change what our business is,” he insists. “We’re... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
With its ninth annual competition last May, the HBS Business Plan Contest has become a well-established start-up that hits “home runs” every year. This year’s traditional track winner was Karen Grajwer (MBA ’05), founder of Uplift, an View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
called eVolution with venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and buyout specialists Texas Pacific Group. This new partnership focuses on traditional corporations that are interested in spinning off new Internet businesses. And we've... View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
performance to provide quantitative insight into the link between a firm's business model choices and its profit consequences. The method is applied to Walmart by building a qualitative representation of its business model and mapping... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
feel, color and cost, and the increased emotional element associated with more fashionable clothing, which is often purchased for special events. However, the Internet is expected to penetrate the fashion segments of the market, in part... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
provides a wide array of in-aisle treats and accessories to drive impulse purchases. At the same time, they've maintained a strategy of exclusivity with pet food so that they are not stocking all of the same items that Walmart and the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
William C. Kirby, the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, developed the course to introduce students to a cross section of Chinese industry and commerce while also providing a deeper dive into a particular sector. For... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Alumni Books Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking by Paul Butler, John F. Manfredi, and Peter Klein (MBA 1971) (McGraw-Hill Education) The authors provide a proven plan for making strategic thinking part of any... View Details
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
comprehend what they may mean. But other times I know I need help. This is one of those times. Just two decades ago, we didn't have Google and other information sources; storage constraints would not have permitted Google to provide... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
feature prominent business and financial leaders; the Community Partners program, which provides pro bono management consulting to New York-area nonprofits; and financial aid for students entering HBS. An example of one of the club's many... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Cash flow struggles can take down a company or spark ideas that transform an industry
hospitals, and patients were hurting athenahealth’s bottom line. Bush shifted the company’s focus from clinical care to Internet billing and information processing, and athenahealth now provides cloud-based... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
of this year's event, also provided hands-on Internet demonstrations throughout the conference.) Yet as these and many other speakers stressed, new technologies such as the View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
generational thing, that as our Internet generation ages into mid-life, "we will slow down." Will we? For example, will we be able to suppress annoyance when someone writes us a letter, to which one must reply in kind, rather... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
channels are our most valuable customers.— Susan Vobejda, Gap Inc. Susan Vobejda (HBS MBA '97), senior director of brand management at Gap Inc., agreed with Nuzzo that the Internet works best in support of the company's efforts to sell in... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
provide insights for marketers and the advertising industry. Until as recently as last year, for instance, most Internet advertising had been Web-sponsored, promoting firms such as View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Ready for Take-Off
WorldClinic, Inc., a "virtual ER," providing U.S.-quality health-care services to Americans traveling abroad. Cynthia A. Fisher (MBA '90) of ViaCell, Inc., which combines the banking of stem cells from umbilical cord blood with technology... View Details
Keywords: Spingboard
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
things." A principal organizer of this year's student-led "Cyberposium" conference about the Internet, Høegh has worked as content manager for Firefly, the innovative Internet startup, and serves on the boards of several online companies.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons