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Robert A. Schoellhorn
Schoellhorn presided over ten years of record growth for Abbott Laboratories during a period when the industry was consolidating: often posting double digit increases in earnings and revenues. He diversified Abbott’s service offerings and... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
eighteen-year exercise in volunteer service at the HBS Club of Greater New York, where Burton and Dick Wedemeyer (MBA '63) would meet twice a month to assist alumni with job and career issues. "Often," recalls Burton, "these men and women... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
to work after significant time off. Former Monsanto marketing services director Jennifer Lindenmayer, for instance, knows that as she considers her options of returning to work, her criteria have changed. "I need to find something that is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
health and medical advances, says Johnston, "there are huge possibilities for new products and services [see sidebars], but business needs to change its mentality about aging. With innovation will come opportunities, but only if you can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
210 is Jess Bloomgarden (MBA 2012), with classmates Alex Stratoudakis and Emma Taylor. In fifteen minutes they present their plan for AfterSteps, a Web-based end-of-life planning service that offers advice and secure storage for legal,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
than three months into her tenure at the business news network — turned her attention to determining what services and coverage CNBC could provide at a time when the U.S. stock markets were closed. On the morning of September 11, Pamela... View Details
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
when searching for opportunity—look to the marketplace. Think of the economic crisis as a disrupter to the status quo and look for areas of pain. For example, the financial services industry is in shambles, yet pockets of opportunity... View Details
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- 23 Oct 2018
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Opportunistic Returns and Dynamic Pricing: Empirical Evidence from Online Retailing in Emerging Markets
- 10 Jan 2007
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The Challenge of Managing National Security
Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in 1997 as a member of the Strategy Unit. His special area of interest is examining the interactions that occur between and across the various functional and product boundaries of the firm, which is the subject of... View Details
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Homeland Security: A Ready-made Market
September 11 and the establishment of a Department for Homeland Security (along with a budget of nearly $38 billion for FY 2003) have created immediate opportunities and challenges for the industry, according to HBS associate professor Scott Snook. Given the realities... View Details
James W. Thompson
Though the firm JWT was incorporated in 1896, Thompson began revolutionizing the advertising industry in 1898. Seeing that women were becoming the primary household shoppers and that grouping magazines together as a unit would be more beneficial to advertisers,... View Details
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John G. Sperling
Sperling left a tenured faculty position at San Jose State University after failing to convince the institution to offer for-profit education programs for adults. Sperling launched the for-profit University of Phoenix in 1976 amidst great controversy and ridicule.... View Details
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Albert D. Lasker
Lasker was a pioneer of hard-hitting advertising. He directed campaigns for such products as Palmolive Soap, Quaker Oats, and Pepsodent Toothpaste (he helped to found the latter company and was one of its directors for many years). He was instrumental in gaining public... View Details
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Bruce Barton
In 1919, Barton co-founded the advertising agency for which he acted as president. Barton was responsible for helping to develop a more favorable public image for United States Steel after the Steel Strike of 1919. He also created many advertising pillars including... View Details
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Bruce D. Henderson
Henderson founded one of the most influential strategy consulting organizations in the world. During its heyday, the Boston Consulting Group popularized such notions as the “experience curve” – the more a company manufactures a given product, the more efficient it... View Details
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Arthur E. Andersen
Andersen built a small auditing firm into one of the largest accounting consultancy operations in the world. Andersen capitalized on the passage of federal income tax laws in the early decades of the twentieth century to build his business initially. He was one of the... View Details
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Leo Burnett
A creative genius, Burnett developed longstanding campaigns for such household names as Kellogg’s, Campbell Soup and P&G, and in the process, built one of the largest ad agencies in the U.S. His legendary ad campaigns include Jolly Green Giant, Tony the Tiger for... View Details
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Pharmaceuticals: Company Data and Analysis
not only information on pharma companies, but also covers drug pipelines and global trials, pharma deals, drug sales, and patents. Access is available to HBS AND HU students, staff and faculty onsite at Baker Library (users must be logged in by Baker staff).... View Details
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1.22 Disability Access | MBA
1.22 Disability Access 1.0 Academic Information & Policies The Disability Coordinator in the MBA Student & Academic Services office will assist students with disabilities to identify barriers and implement plans for access at HBS. More... View Details
- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
Me. Or questions related to the financial services industry by looking at Inside Job." McGee mentioned his idea to HBS professor of management practice Arthur Segel, a good friend from their undergraduate days together at Harvard College.... View Details
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