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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
Photo courtesy Jeff Madrick When I graduated from HBS in 1971, I chose journalism (at BusinessWeek) over business, a career decision that enabled me to observe “up close and personal” the coming Wall Street revolution. It was a revolution... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
companies, turnaround companies, and low-performing companies. But in order to focus on how compensation decisions are made, he garnered most of his data from interviews with the compensation committee chairs from fifty of the sample's... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
Mehta saw them everywhere, piled along the roadsides to dry—or rot—as prices for fresh tomatoes plummeted. She came to HBS with an idea for addressing the problem she had witnessed: Nigeria needed a functional tomato processing plant. A... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
with senior researchers James Weber and Mary Louise Shelman, examines the complex political and economic underpinnings of the ethanol industry and the dilemma facing the farmers of Mid-Missouri Energy (MME). The farmers must make major View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
he explains. In a record six weeks, Robinson was promoted to controller for Citicorp's Global Consumer Businesses, becoming responsible for seven hundred employees worldwide. In 1994 he joined ADVO, Inc., the largest direct-marketing company in the United States, where... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
have different pricing for different markets. AM: One of our biggest growth areas is Koreans coming to shop on Gilt. The price of a good can be almost 100 percent more in certain markets. Do you think this... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
own advisory firm. We had this idea that the industry over time was getting to be more flexible on low fares. One of the first manifestations of this was the appearance of full plane load charters. You could sell a trip to Cancun and View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to explain that raising the top... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
hire an experienced COO. Reflecting on that decision during the afternoon gathering of members of the Social Enterprise Club in Aldrich Hall, Newman noted, "From the beginning, our management philosophy was, 'If we ever have a plan, we're... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
the case. In the U.S. service sector, which makes up two-thirds of our economy, inflation is still running at 3 percent. So while some manufacturing businesses are experiencing price deflation for the first time in the postwar era, the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
physics to philosophy to math. But Wilson did meet Howard Raiffa, a renowned scholar in the field of game theory and decision analysis, and followed him to HBS. There, Wilson completed the obligatory MBA before going on to his doctoral... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
related to distribution and market segmentation, two very important issues in marketing,” Shapiro continues. “The Cumberland case is timely because the situation and the product are easy to understand, but the decisions to be made are... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
environmental movement. “I spent a few weeks researching and formulating how this could be done. I then discussed the project with my dad, a veteran director, and when he told me he would dedicate time to support the film, I knew I had the means to make Adaptation Now... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)
Above: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003) at GM World in Detroit’s Renaissance Center (photo by Brian Kelly) Who you are is the sum total of your experiences. Growing up in Chennai, India, the importance of education and working incredibly hard were drilled into my mind as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Gamble's leadership training programs. There's nothing like having to step into a decision maker's shoes to learn about leadership." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "If you can find work that both stretches you and plays to your strengths,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
appropriate to try to understand what major problems might lie ahead for market capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Maestro and the Market
this particular business owner, creativity and innovation trump any traditional decisions about pricing and operations. “I should charge 600 euros for a meal at elBulli,” Adrià has said, “but I do not cook... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
answers." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "One of the most important elements of leadership is fairness. You have to be consistent in the decisions that you make and the messages that you deliver. An organization looks to you as representative... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Consumers Make Decisions (and Why Clinicians and Managers Should Care) by Gordon Moore (AMP 79, 1978), John A. Quelch, and Emily Boudreau Oxford University Press The direct-to-consumer business model has transformed how people seek out... View Details