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- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
rewarding. From time to time, we’ll receive unsolicited emails from customers who tell us they can’t live without our product. Those touches of positive reinforcement definitely keep us motivated and energized. It also helps that Jillian is one of my closest friends,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
Committee’s work in context. The HBS global community includes more than 25,000 alumni who have completed residential Comprehensive General Management or Owner/President Management Executive Education programs. That’s an impressive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Manufacturing: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech
market differentiation are now even more important than they have been historically. These truths apply across the manufacturing sector, but general industrial equipment and electronics are two areas where these forces are particularly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
“Back-end” deals, or profit-sharing after a film has been released, also vary widely — if the producer is even included in that aspect of the contract. “Controlling the capital, rights, and distribution are the three keys,” observes Zee,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Record-Breaking Gift for Fellowships
recently contributed $12 million to support fellowships at HBS, the largest single gift for financial aid the School has ever received. Their generous contribution establishes two endowed funds—the Lavine Family Fellowship and the Herbert... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Levitt Brand
international renown with the landmark article ‘Marketing Myopia.’” That Harvard Business Review article (published again in a 1975 HBR “classic” version) posed the famous question that has been pondered by generations of students and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Just Chillin’
Keeping things cool at HBS during the hot summer months is the chilled water plant, a 19,700-square-foot facility located underground near the B-School parking lot. With hundreds of thousands of gallons coursing through miles of pipe, the plant operates on a... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
multiple generations of technology. Microsoft and IBM perhaps? Yet no one is pointing to them as bastions of novel and breakthrough ideas! It's easy to point to specific design decisions as the cause of Blackberry's demise. They ignored... View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
working in the fashion and retail industry—as the director of Global Strategy at Donna Karan (a division of LVMH), the general manager of Shop Your Way and the founder of Mintbox, a flash sale and loyalty startup—she helped to organize... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
generally granted to those who do their homework, though luck still plays a major part." "Sometimes God will fool you," agrees James Hackett. "You'll think you have something, and the readings confirm it, but when you drill down it's... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
finding brands in every aisle that align with their values. An entire generation of these consumers expects their purchasing power to be deployed as a force for good, whether that means supporting humane working conditions or social or... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
twenty-five million kids don't go to school. There are too many people dying due to lack of vaccines, and the world is showing an increasing inequity in terms of the distribution of assets and income. The rich are getting richer, and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
complementary producers, distribution channels, and consumers must often develop new capabilities, beliefs, and behaviors for the product to succeed, creating a challenge for the innovator.” Tripsas has developed a number of cases for the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
non-sponsor companies. For example, at the 2006 Cup in Germany, a Dutch brewery distributed to Dutch fans thousands of pairs of lederhosen of the same orange color worn by their team. Because Budweiser was an official Cup partner, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
Motown vice president and head of the label's $48 million catalog business, Bond is introducing the same Motown sound she enjoyed as a child to a new generation of listeners. "This music is such a big part of so many people's lives that I... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
headquartered in Waterloo, Wisconsin. While there, she set up Trek’s sales and distribution companies across Europe and worked in forecasting and planning. Since 2007, she has devoted her energy and skills full time to the nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
jewelry and furs to sweatshirts and school supplies,” quips the tall, affable, Charlestown, Massachusetts, native, who in 1991 left his job as general manager at Neiman Marcus in Texas to accept the challenge of “putting the Coop on track... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
from fossil fuels to alternative sources of energy. We will need to finance research in technology innovation and biotechnology, including stem cell research. We will need to generate most of our electricity using nuclear fuel. We will... View Details
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