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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
— APA for short. The name later morphed to Apax — “unique” in Greek — an apt choice that reflects the firm’s investment style. The partners each launched small venture capital funds in their respective countries in the early 1980s.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
direct exposure to the daily life and potential business opportunities in base-of-the-pyramid markets. We arrive by van at the Santa Ana del Valle town square on Saturday morning. There’s a basketball court;... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
won’t be available overnight, though. Nussey points out that energy from a brand-new solar farm might have nowhere to go because, in some parts of the United States—home to one-third of the world’s data... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
the day I left the hospital. While visiting my relatives in Egypt, my uncle, a medical professional, told me my accident was the ‘least worst’ thing that could have happened to me to force a change of View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: Brand New
visionaries shared an ability to anticipate the significant shifts in consumer needs and desires being generated by changing times and mores. Koehn draws from diaries, correspondence, interviews, and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Giving Live Sports Another Dimension
scavenger hunts—think Pokémon Go—and track down virtual badges to win prizes. The possibilities for advertising and marketing are endless. Point your phone at an ad and get a virtual coupon for 10 percent... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
spend more than those who are not induced to like. That’s not to say that likes have no value. We think there are ways to potentially unlock their value, but it’s not this... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
arming women with better information will encourage them to become more involved in their own care and lead to better results in their fight with cancer. Cohen was working at Price Waterhouse as View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
consumers shop around, gets him visibly agitated. "Practically speaking, we can't even move an MRI from one guy to the next, and both have electronic medical records—are you kidding me?" (His reputation... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
disease are likely to multiply. If the Midwest is able to maintain its high standards for agriculture, it has an opportunity to supply the needs of growing populations in other... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
reach wealthy and technologically savvy consumers fed up with gridlock and delay. At the heart of each business: a vision to change how Jakartans navigate the city’s congestion and transform their... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
Wondering what to get the HBSer in your life this year? In the holiday spirit, we're highlighting a few alumni-led companies and ideas that you may not know about. Since roughly 1 in 6 alumni work in manufacturing, high tech, retail, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
foreign direct investment. Today, with more than nine thousand listed companies and a market capitalization of $125 billion, India has efficient back-office and settlement systems, and the ability View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the 20th century, this widespread fair trade movement borrowed from progressive law and economics, demonstrating a persistent concern with market... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
admits Upton, "but we have chosen the path that will take us in the right strategic direction for the future. To pursue the open strategy relentlessly, we have had to do things... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
one was surprised. On the retail side, the large discount chains — WalMart and Target in particular — had steadily taken market share from specialty toy stores, in some cases using toys as a loss leader to... View Details
- 13 Jun 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
and ranked. In February 2018, tronc, the company formerly known as Tribune Publishing, purchased a majority stake in BestReviews.com. What inspired you to launch BestReviews.com? Ben:“We both grew up reading View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
credit card companies have become much better at shutting that down quickly.” Now hackers look for personally identifiable information—think birthdays, social security numbers, and addresses—that they can sell on the underground market... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
The big challenge is to communicate emotion-based intangibles in a market where consumers are oriented toward material things and getting value for their money. We're a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
the car—but with collective action, these small changes could have a big impact, Tiller says. The organization also wants consumers to understand the connection between food and fuel: nearly 50 percent of... View Details