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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Newport News, we're known because we build all of the aircraft carriers and about 30 percent of all submarines. And so immediately I thought a ship has been attacked or blown up. She called me, and she said, listen, there's been a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
the world that doesn’t want to be earning trust.” Don’t get stale. “Brands need to refresh themselves,” Chacko says. “My sense is that the timeframe is about every five years or when a company is thinking about entering a new market.” The key to View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
Surround’s niche but results can be a little all over the place, Terry acknowledges, and the organic content is probably better for top-of-the-funnel awareness. As a small startup with no brand awareness, Surround needs more activity at... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
ever did,” he says. “As a leader, trying to understand and appreciate the cultures of the countries where you do business is key to building bridges of trust.” Now closing in on his 30th anniversary as CEO, Hess describes how his father... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
four to one. When another premium brand lowers its wholesale price in an attempt to stimulate sales, Heublein’s president decides to increase the price of Smirnoff and put the additional revenue into advertising. This case taught me that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
home the top cash prize of $75,000. Runner Up winner Hue earned a $25,000 prize. Led by cofounders Janvi Shah, Nicole Clay, and Sylvan Guo (all MBA 2022), Hue helps brands and retailers embed TikTok-style shoppable videos on its... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
world following China’s path. “It was an incredibly powerful wave that I wanted to ride—to build a digital business that would help people in emerging markets use their smartphones to connect to markets and improve their quality of life,”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Come Sail Away
When Michael Sard (MBA 2018) arrived at HBS, he owned about 50 Hawaiian shirts. “It was one of the few items in a man’s closet that could have a ritual to it around going out, like a tuxedo does,” he says. Purchase options, however, seemed limited to two extremes:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
I cherish and enjoy! My job involves bringing in new customers, retaining and growing business with current customers, leading new projects, developing new products, spearheading new technology drives, meeting investors and stakeholders, View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf
only for building an international beauty empire but also for the ginger-lily shower gel he is using these days. As head of the New Yorkbased firm that makes popular scents such as Jovan and Stetson as well as numerous prestige brands,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
negatively or poorly on Sheila and me. And my wife, Sheila, never, ever, ever would even think of uttering those words, but that was me. So it wasn’t like Sheila was building into that, that was all me. And as someone who is quite... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
her first year out of HBS working as the Oil of Olay brand manager for Procter & Gamble (P & G) in Bangkok, Hoa returned to Hanoi to found Galaxy. With clients such as P&G, Motorola, and Boeing, she has established a foothold in one of... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
private equity firm, offered both funding and expertise on scaling businesses in Africa. For NBA Africa, scaling requires building local, on-the-ground relationships, region by region. For NBA Africa, scaling requires View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
should be paying. In the cases when companies are paying them, then the customer sees that their own offset subscription is less expensive and that's true in the app today. If they're buying from these brands that have taken... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
for—titles and papers, revenue mix, staff strength, audience strength, and brand strengths—to be able to identify promising opportunities. “And at the intersection between the two—impact and investment—our aspiration is to View Details