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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
potential dates, one much larger than their own pre-Facebook social networks. It also offered a peculiar anonymity. Users posted their profiles under pseudonyms and provided only the information they wanted to reveal. The online dating... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
probably needed a multifunctional organization, preferably a large one, for which you had bottom-line responsibility —somewhat unwieldy accouterments to pack with you into your sixties and seventies. Kim Clark, by contrast, speaks of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You
consumers upfront to avoid making bad decisions that incite criticism. I prefer a more collaborative, co-creative approach with consumers—understanding how they are likely to respond to key branding changes before they are made, rather... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
complex emotionally, cognitively, and socially for people. I first encountered PWYW at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Then I discovered that Radiohead had released its In Rainbows album using a PWYW model. Now it’s used by digital... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
Conference Looks at Future of Hong Kong as a Global Leader The HBS Association of Hong Kong (HBSAHK) celebrated the club’s 45thanniversary in February, with its 2025 Signature Conference at Cloud 39, a rooftop ballroom at The Henderson skyscraper in central Hong Kong.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
policy, officials asked Ashraf to conduct research on how to change men’s preferences for having more children. “So I’m piloting projects on that right now,” she said. Ashraf is one of a small number of HBS faculty who pursue experimental... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
emeritus Walter Salmon. “I miss him.” When she came to HBS, Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner (AMP 90, 1983) had read all of Ted Levitt’s books. “There were 132 people in my class; 2 were women. Naturally, the guys in my living group decided that I would be the View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
considerably better off, even as it creates both winners and losers, and the losers often suffer through no fault of their own. A capitalist economy should be judged not just on the aggregate economic improvement driven by its innovation but also on the design and... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
say, ‘I’m not allowed to bribe.’ Others prefer ambiguous instructions so they can do what they have to do to get the business and keep up with the competition.” But managing in such a culture where signals are mixed can be a tricky... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
and overall outcomes. Projects will include improving New York’s system to match middle school students to their preferred school and prompting doctors to respond more effectively to the opioid crisis, among others. View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Sandberg (MBA 1995) and HP president and CEO Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) as well as entrepreneurs such as Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008), who cofounded the social marketing software developer Wildfire in 2008 (selling the 350-plus employee firm to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
and implement our idea for a kids’ menu,” says Jiang. “But we discovered that the consumer preferences and concepts of a bakery were completely different in Brazil. It challenged us to understand the customers’ mind-sets,” explains... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
vision," they say, "is to be the preferred provider of food for West Africans." Ndidi and Mezuo, both children of university professors, approach the ambitious challenge with a combination of academic rigor and devotion to View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leaning In to Gender Equity
and let opportunities for advancement pass them by—at least compared to their male peers. These observations are the real surprise thread winding through Lean In, and they have landed her in hot water with critics who prefer to pin most... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
as examples of how the firm has responded to clients’ changing needs. While his future looks bright at Merrill, O’Neal doesn’t speculate about whether he will be asked to take its helm, a move that would make him one of the highest-ranking African Americans on Wall... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
families. I don’t want to discount all the benefits they get out of that arrangement. That said, my main skepticism of that preference comes from other research I’ve done on the metaverse, a vision for a 3D internet, and other digital... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
very long trips, he preferred to go by rail. He did not board his first airplane until 1937, flying from an academic meeting in Chicago to Miami for a midwinter vacation. He wrote from Miami that he half-expected the plane to crash during... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Common Asset Management, Boston, Massachusetts Leaders should learn empathy and seek employees who bring greater empathy to their work. Social intelligence distinguishes a firm and leads to superior outcomes. Having diversity of... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
local companies was dictated by Fenwick-Smith’s preferred working style and his convictions: He wanted lots of face time with young leaders and the burgeoning companies Aravaipa would fund, while also being mindful of the environmental... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
first agree on the outlines of a new Mexico so they can unite against the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which has controlled the country for the last 68 years. Only then will there be a strong enough social consensus to... View Details