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Shereen Shermak
stage VC firm, where she managed the Where Funds investments in 13 early stage companies. She co-founded BuysideFX, where she led Product and was a member of the management team, and held a similar role at Boston-based Currensee (acq.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
had taken place between 1950 and 1980. By the 1990s, consumers were seeking products and experiences that made them feel special. We decided to bet on this view of the world and put our beliefs to work at St. Louis Bread Company, which we... View Details
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Eric Lin | MBA
successfully building products from ideas. Tech areas of interest Developing ML that empowers users who otherwise might not have the resources or knowledge to use AI. User accessibility and privacy.... View Details
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Career Journey | MBA
1% Europe 5% Latin America 1% Middle East / North Africa < 1% United States 88% Class of 2024 who actively sought and accepted full-time roles after graduation. Industry Consulting 18% Consumer Products 3% Entertainment / Media 3% View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
Man with a Plan
needs was infusing more capital into the business to help us manage the financial side of our growth. The second was a marketing case about Perdue Foods. The strategy that Frank Perdue initiated really resonated with me. We took a page... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
is a diversified financial services holding company with more than 2,500 offices around the world, 14,000 associates, and a market capitalization of $5.1 billion. James has always had an independent spirit. In college he and Mary View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
shareholder value. The GE board had deferred to Welch in a highly public selection process, which had favored the sales-focused Immelt over someone who could transform GE to prepare the company for the future, just as Welch had done in the early 1980s. Immelt never... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
think most of management is willing to take the long view." These last comments provided a good lead-in to the question posed by Jay Somasundaram: "What types of leadership do we want most?" Where do we find such leaders? How do we View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to the agglomeration of domestic firms? Using a unique worldwide plant-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Director’s Foreword | Baker Library
of the longest running and largest investment firms in the United States. The Lehman Brothers Collection holds voluminous business records highlighting the administrative and financial activities of the renowned firm as well as an... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
use their particular brand of shampoo after decades of investment in product development and marketing. The dot-com bubble brought practices, ambitions, and goals to China that are here to stay— Nicholas... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
joining HBS. Brett Atkinson (MBA 2025, Section H), Summer Internship: Business Development Intern, Lithios, Inc Lithios is a venture-backed start-up commercializing a new electrochemical platform for producing sustainable, low-cost... View Details
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
for New Economic Thinking (INET) The financial economics of sustainability and climate change As business strives to reduce carbon emissions and transition to clean energy, Gasparini plans to study the View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
induced about 12 percent of the pharmaceutical market to buy that way. Once that was done, it was comparatively straightforward to use the same inducements to persuade people who had Web access to do that over the Internet, saving the cost of telemarketing centers. Q:... View Details
Marcus Loew
Loew, a pioneer in the development of nickelodeons (by 1919, he owned 100 with assets of $25 million), built a vertically integrated movie production operation. He created Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) as a... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
system of multinational megafarms won't be enough—the hope for the future lies not in mass production, but in production by the masses. And that's where Nigeria comes in. With only 40 percent of its arable land currently used by farmers,... View Details
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Cheryl Rousseau
While a Senior Vice President for global consulting firm Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), Cheryl was invited to join their International Center for Executive Options (ICEO) practice where she is a Confidential Advisor and Coach to C-Suite and E-Suite executives. In her 15... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
of reader e-mails, Jim Heskett wonders whether the term "servant leadership" is an oxymoron? Clay Christensen's Milkshake Marketing About 95 percent of new products fail. The problem often is that their creators are using an... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
different architectures, they lack a shared technical language, which makes it near impossible for anyone without a PhD in physics to access their potential. Aliro was launched to help dismantle some of these challenges, serving as a bridge between the worlds of... View Details
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Information Management | Baker Library
and effectively, optimizing the experience for end users. We provide enhanced search, findability, and user behavior analysis for the many information products (websites, newsletters, articles, databases, etc.) across HBS. What we can... View Details