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- 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
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
For more information on any of the programs featured here, please contact us at alumni@hbs.edu. Alumni Dinner Series John Power (MBA 1974) and Todd Doersch (MBA 1983) hosted second-year MBA students at Remington’s restaurant in Chicago in... 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
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?
brands are on display on every street corner of the world. The very ubiquity that gives them their power makes them vulnerable. Q: What will the results of boycotts be on American premium pricing overseas? A: Some View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Lady Gaga, and LeBron James? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge over their rivals? In this book, drawing on my case studies and other research on the worlds of media and sports, I explain a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
Today, Amazon participates in so many industries that it takes a small army of researchers at HBS to track them all: retailing, cloud computing, book stores, grocery stores, digital consumer products, commercial real estate,... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
pursue these two models and do fine, says Holt. 'something Different' But the brands that interest him most, consumer brands that maintain the most powerful grip on the market for years running, don't fit... 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
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
one time," says Buell. Third parties also track service quality (J.D. Power in this case). And because banking is a service that touches almost everyone, its customer group is diverse, making the study's results applicable to other... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
efforts they could have a powerful collective impact on the country. By the time of the BEE Commission Charnley found herself at the top of the pyramid, but she had come from the bottom, growing up in Elsies River—an Afrikaans-speaking,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
terms with what business itself should be. Is it a method for delivering goods to consumers at the lowest prices? Is it a mechanism for providing employment? Is it a tool for asserting national power abroad?... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
For example, ads for Viagra, Prozac, and Allegra are seemingly everywhere, and have helped create powerful brands. Of course, this practice gives rise to much controversy. Does direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) make health View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Plugged In
money. That won't work for the ELR. "The consumer we're targeting is not that price conscious," notes Camargo, adding that it's more of an emotional purchase. "When they drive a vehicle, they want it to be a statement about... View Details
- Fast Answer
Market trends, opportunities in advanced technology fields
industrial automation & process control, energy & power systems, automotive & transportation, and environmental & building technologies. Gartner Online - The database includes research findings on a wide range of... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
predictor of events, but the power and sometimes outrageous language used by Levitt changed the nature of debate on the issue, and created new perspectives for managers to consider as they approach world markets. Levitt's key insight... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
The computer age began some six decades ago with general-purpose machines with Star Wars-like names such as ENIAC and EDVAC. They were powered by vacuum tubes, big enough to fill an entire room, and developed by mathematicians under the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
sure signs of stability, and Lidya’s in-house, Portugal-based engineering team developed an algorithm that can quickly assess more than 100 data points. “We don’t do consumer loans. We’re not the best for long-term asset financing. We’re... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
LI AND BERNOFF: Executives can’t afford to turn their backs on social networking. Nothing gives CEOs and marketers instant heartburn more than seeing their hard-won brand equity hijacked by forces beyond their control — too often by bloggers, online View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
law, for example, was transformed into a powerful consumer protection device. At about the same time, the federal government became actively involved in protecting citizens against the ravages of natural... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard