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- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
anticipation of the national election, Uyterhoeven wrote an op-ed article published online in Yahoo Finance that emphasized the importance of free trade to the US economy. “While few recognize it,” he wrote, “the greatest beneficiary of... View Details
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
product reviews, and safety ratings, all moving me forward toward a purchase decision. In short, market categories help establish expectations about products and hence facilitate exchange between buyers and sellers. But how do they... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
customers amid an explosion of online retail options. Grab users can also courier parcels or order food delivery through its app. Go-Jek’s app does those things too, and also lets users order concert tickets and even a beautician to their... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
volunteer as poll workers. Facilitate political engagement. Look to online platforms that have simplified small contributions to political campaigns and increased the diversity of donors, as well as efforts to encourage employees and... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
to post on the site any government data that does not have national security or privacy concerns. That's a lot of data. Anything that can be put online should be put online." Pros And Cons In class, participants who had read the case... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
former assistant principal at St. Mark the Evangelist School in Harlem, Leschly later founded Exchange.com, an online marketplace for rare and hard-to-find consumer products. When his company was purchased... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
an estimated 36.7 million US practitioners purchasing classes, gear, and accessories—an increase of 80 percent in four years. It has also spawned a number of lucrative business models: Vancouver-based apparel company Lululemon Athletica... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Upon the deal's completion, the group committed $500 million to make Lopez's quality-over-quantity vision a reality. And in December 2013, the company raised $355 million with an IPO that made headlines by offering members of its AMC Stubs loyalty program the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
demand for E Ink technology was growing rapidly, and the company had begun to scale up its production. “We were an R&D company trying to be a manufacturing company,” he remarks. One of the company’s largest accounts reneged on a confirmed View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
creatine kinase, she found, likely pointed to DMD, the most common form of muscular dystrophy. By morning, she had made her own diagnosis; later that morning, the doctors confirmed it. Tracy didn't tell Benjy about the pediatrician's call and her View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
different. The urgency, though, wasn’t due solely to the cultural imperative. “We teach, we give lessons to people of all ages,” says Reeks. “We do so many other things that affect the economy of the city.” Within a few days of the flooding, Atwood had set up an View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
of FairMarket, which provides online auction services for a variety of merchant and community sites. Meakem is the founder and CEO of FreeMarkets, which creates business-to-business online auctions for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
bust of founder Jamsetji Tata presides over meetings of the Tata Group, which traces its beginnings to 1868. Economic reforms also have made it possible for firms to grow by acquiring foreign entities. Godrej Industries, for example, recently View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
briefly returned to Goldman Sachs after graduation before choosing a new career path as a firefighter in San Diego. He also runs an online mentoring program for high school students, PrepWell Academy, which focuses on developing... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
specifically on the sustainable consumer and consumer health sectors, areas in which, Rupp estimates, women make 80 to 85 percent of the purchasing decisions. Considering all those factors, she says, “it just makes business sense to have... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
education at that point. There were certainly more lucrative offers to consider, a return to McKinsey among them, but Singer opted instead for a part-time position with a kids’ online storytelling startup that gave him the mobility and... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
specifically on the sustainable consumer and consumer health sectors, areas in which, Rupp estimates, women make 80 to 85 percent of the purchasing decisions. Considering all those factors, she says, “it just makes business sense to have... View Details