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- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Rent the Runway Sets Up Shop at Neiman Marcus
110-year-old department store, which will see new Rent the Runway shops open inside of existing Neiman Marcus locations. (Rent the Runway opened its first physical store in New York City in 2014, and now has a total of seven locations.)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
in the United States. Those profits are now subject to a 35 percent corporate tax rate, but the tax can be totally avoided as long as American corporations hold the profits in their accounts at foreign banks. The current system needs... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
relevant’ to our list of qualities, so that if you aren’t reading HBR, you are missing out.” Tell us about the recent changes at HBR and what inspired them. The house wasn’t on fire, that’s for sure — our numbers were excellent, and our readers were satisfied — but we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
Schwarzman defended his industry and cautioned that the good times can’t go on forever. Private equity’s been all over the headlines for months. Why is it suddenly such a big deal? Over the last ten years it has grown from 5 percent of View Details
- 22 Feb 2017
- News
Funding Solar’s Future
War, the pair met at HBS and launched Double Time in 2013. The piece details the firm’s rapid growth: In just over three years, the firm has raised seven funds, totaling $80 million, from investors including Prudential Financial, Burt’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Students Start-Ups Tap New HBS Fund
Nine HBS student-led teams received grants in March averaging $5,000 to $7,000 to launch and test their start-up business ideas. A total of $50,000 was made available through the pilot Minimum Viable Product Fund program run by HBS’s... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
in the standard of living. An individual company, though, can move assets anywhere. So companies can reward their shareholders regardless of what happens to the national economy. As a result, the interest of companies and the country have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
companies to describe their strategy clearly and move on to what really matters — making it work. "In today's business environment, strategy is more important than ever," write the authors. "This book shows... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the service experience requires excellence—but not in everything
involves making strategic tradeoffs: choosing to overperform in highly valued services means underperforming in others. But the rewards are great, “So we work on helping organizations identify the net positives of tradeoffs and on making... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
Leo Kahn, that thought became a bigger reality than Stemberg ever imagined. Today, throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany, Staples boasts stores that are filled with every conceivable office supply at the guaranteed lowest possible price.... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
illegal-drug addictions totaled an estimated $700 billion in direct and indirect costs, according to a 2015 report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. DynamiCare developed an app that provides financial View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
rewarding contributions that benefit society; holding government leaders to high standards of conduct; engaging with the world in ways that maximize opportunities for the many; and increasing opportunities for civilian national service.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
affairs. Enron’s approach to compensation and incentives included many perverse features, such as encouraging growth over profitability and rewarding employees for closing commodity deals and power-generation projects without concrete... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
dependents have been left behind by troops killed in the line of duty over the past 35 years, says Kim. With those kinds of numbers, Children of Fallen Patriots figures that, after government help, the gap is half a billion dollars. “So that’s the View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
Case Study features alumni and faculty offering advice on strategy to alumni who are leading businesses at a crossroads. Charles Philp (MBA 2006) started Colorado-based Sneakz Organic with his business partner in 2012 after a lightbulb... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
financial services companies as it determines its stand on a matter of increasing public prominence. Oberholzer-Gee teaches the case in Strategies Beyond the Market, a second-year elective that focuses on the interplay between business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986) (FT Press) Drawing on personal experience and over 100 interviews with real-estate entrepreneurs, Professor Emeritus Poorvu illuminates all stages of a real-estate career. He reveals the pitfalls and View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Books
role, businesses should take the lead. They explain how business must serve as both innovator and activist, developing corporate strategies that effect change at the community, national, and international levels. (See their opinion piece... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Research Grows from Asian Financial Crisis
Almost two years ago, HBS professor Michael Y. Yoshino embarked on a study in Southeast Asia. Little did he know the twists and turns the region - and his research - would take. With Southeast Asia's economy booming, Yoshino, an expert in global View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
their strategy in response to the unexpected influx of women to the Web - an audience estimated to reach seventy million by the year 2000. "Women tend to browse less randomly than men, don't like to compartmentalize home, work, and... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey