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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
tells her full story for the first time. Where Past Meets Present: The Amazing People, Places & Stories of Southern Oregon by Dennis Powers (MBA 1969) (Hellgate Press) Powers has collected 140 stories about... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
technology and improved digital communication have been explored in a variety of contexts, the impact on economic activity—from consumer and entrepreneurial behavior to the ways in which governments determine policy—is less well... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
Representative Kevin Brady, a Republican from Texas and the House Ways and Means chairman, stated "our legislation transfers power from Washington back to the American people. We dismantle Obamacare's damaging taxes and mandates so... View Details
- Career Coach
Michelle Antonio
Michelle (Chicago Booth ’97, Wharton ’91) offers 15 years of professional experience in recruiting, consulting and career management leadership roles. Michelle partners with MBA students and alumni to achieve career success by tapping into the View Details
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: The Usurer's Grip (1912)
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting Credit in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
professionals must make a critical shift in their mindset: from hours worked to results produced. (See page 18 for a Q&A with Pozen.) Strength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak Interests by Gunnar Trumbull (Harvard University Press)... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
tempered with great caution," says Chakravorti. "The entrepreneurs who can capture the limited resources have the potential to do well. Shortage and adversity are powerful stimuli for focusing the mind." At HBS, Chakravorti... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
consumers bear the true cost of their own energy consumption. This event was part of a series of alumni events focused on climate change organized by BEI and leading up to an HBS alumni conference in the coming academic year, chaired by... View Details
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Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
content, any time, on any screen is more or less established at this point,” he says. “The most important thing to remember about consumers is that they’re always reaching for the best available screen,” Kilar agrees. “Increasingly, it’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- Fast Answer
Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship
Suggested Resources Consumer Lifestyle & Buying Power Granular data on income, purchasing power, and lifestyle of American consumers. American Incomes: Demographics of Who Has Money (book)... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
computer Television came in second, and its drawbacks too were duly noted, along with its enormous power and influence. "Television was revolutionary in its impact on information dissemination, culture, and politics; the product with most... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Andrew E. Honeycutt (DBA) 1975 An Ethnographic Study of Low-Income Consumer Behavior Hassell H. McClellan (DBA) 1978 One-Bank Holding Companies: a Study of Management Clifford E. Darden (DBA) 1982 Organizational Survival as a Function of... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
merger between Aetna and Humana, two of the largest health insurers in the United States. The 838,000 consumers who were insured by Aetna exchange plans in 2016 will be forced to select other public exchange plans or purchase individual... View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
Gaurav Goel: "Analytics is a powerful weapon but we need prudent processes for data capture that ensure a consistent quality of data." The tone of responses suggested that there was little question that the analytics of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
firms weren’t competitive and didn’t take advantage of business opportunities, a void that foreign firms and foreign capital were poised to fill. Political power in China, Huang says, is still skewed toward stateowned enterprises, which... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
Cook Main article: Where Innovation Rules Necessity may be the mother of invention, but as Scott Cook (MBA 1976) can attest, an unhappy spouse can be a powerful prompter of innovation. Spurred by the complaints of his wife, Signe Ostby... View Details
- 11 May 2021
- News
Pitching to Win
the five grand-prize winners. Goble is co-founder of Karivez Bio, a platform for transforming chronic disease treatment through improved drug delivery. Okrah is founder and CEO of Chaku Foods, a fast-moving consumer goods company based in... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Climate Change Optimist
power of consumers, investors, and businesses to create systems-level solutions. “On climate, it’s simple,” says Gravitz, “Stop putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and draw what’s there back down.” For Green America, that’s meant... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate
Agree or disagree—and even his colleagues disagree—Theodore Levitt's controversial article "The Globalization of Markets" reshaped the debate on globalism and consumer marketing, and continues to provide modern managers with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne