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- 23 Feb 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
part of that evolution—as the cofounder of a professional services firm, an investor, a developer, and a corporate board member. “The challenge and the opportunity is to work to ensure all Pittsburghers benefit from this transition,” he... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Oct 2016
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Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
Birchbox, a beauty product subscription box service that has grown to more than 1 million subscribers. “We started raising funds and suddenly we were in rooms where there were no people who looked like us,” said Barna, now the first... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
package-shipping outfits. They operate call centers and computer-tracking systems that can summon up your account immediately and give you the information you need right away. That's the level of service... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
underwriting public corporate offerings. Nor is this unique to the United States. Britain’s Financial Services Authority has an-nounced that it is increasing its scrutiny of private-equity firms. Among the problems or risks attributed to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)
Above: “Mainstream media is read by less than half of the people in the United States and Western Europe,” Edelman (MBA 1978) says. “The opportunity is to build your own communities, create your own content, and go direct to the end user.” (photo by Chris Sorensen) My... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
Rent out your house, your car, even your bike—are there any limits to what people will part with (and what regulators will allow) in the new sharing economy? We called on Shelby Clark (MBA 2010)—founder of the car-sharing service... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
cannot be successful unless they show vulnerability, are consistent, take time to be balanced, have a vision, and embrace their role as decision-makers. In the 2010 case “Toby Johnson: Leading After School,” Johnson, with military service... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
centers in the Cleveland suburbs. The first has been open two years; the second is almost a year old and approaching operational breakeven—about the same timeline as the first center. The team expects to open a new center later this month... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
Photos by Russ Campbell “An investment in the School is ultimately an investment in a better world—one led by alumni.” —John Hess “HBS graduates are in every part of the economy, in every industry, and in every geography. I believe we can effect change.” —Nitin Nohria... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
The challenge we’ll have to address is how to set up logistics so that we can service a luxury shopping experience in any location without losing that sense of excitement that comes with having what you ordered arrive quickly. MT:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
report Gadiesh and MacArthur. If public company executives do the same, they will improve operational performance, increase equity value, and maximize their company’s full potential, all to the delight of shareholders. The book details... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- News
What Makes Boston Special?
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) In the face of economic challenges, hospitals in the English National Health Service have turned to a strategy that has proven effective for small private... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
restaurants. Things went well, until — as is so often true in the mercurial world of restaurants — they didn’t. Thomas put her expertise in operations and management to work, helping to sort out some of the financial difficulties the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
our whole team was going to be focused on making sure the website was up and fielding customer service calls. We were all hands on deck—we even had a whole bunch of extra people come on to help us out. We just set up a whole response... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
1984 To discourage “golden parachutes,” a controversial pay innovation at the time, Congress imposes a special tax on such payments valued at more than three times an executive’s average pay. Rather than curb golden parachutes, the tax cap becomes a target companies... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch tells the story of his climb to... View Details
- 07 Mar 2019
- News
Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands
“If you fast forward 11 years, what we have been able to accomplish is, first of all, an insanely rapid growth. We have doubled the size of the business every two years. Second, we are close to servicing around 8,000 stores directly with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Tata Open for Business
The architects employed open spaces and glass walls in an effort to give Tata Hall a visually light and airy feel. Ratan Tata (second from left) at his namesake building with Dean Nohria, William Rawn, and C.D. Spangler. Photos by Susan Young In 2007, as Dean Jay Light... View Details