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06 Dec 2021
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Action Plan: Whole Sale

of Walmart’s beauty business. Balbale was a vice president at the Vitamin Shoppe in the mid-2010s when he saw Amazon and startup e-tailers moving into the wellness category. The competition inspired him to transition into the e-commerce space himself, first as vice... View Details

Keywords: April White; ecommerce; bricks and mortar; marketing; beauty

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 - Course Catalog

frameworks of the BSSE course have become widely accepted and acknowledged among HBS alumni and beyond as a series of powerful lenses through which to understand the most important challenges facing business leaders. Course Content and... View Details

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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

that have slowed economic growth, especially since the GFC. Having suffered heavily from COVID-19 in part because of its large elderly population (Italy has one of the highest life expectancies in Europe), the country will be the largest recipient of funds from the... View Details

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About Us - Alumni

617-495-6907 Director, Engagement Communications Julia Hanna , 617-495-6392 Associate Director, Senior Content Producer Jen McFarland Flint , 617-495-6185 Associate Director, Senior Content Producer Jennifer... View Details

10 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

discount voucher services is that as they grow, their customers necessarily come to resemble the general population. So long as discount voucher users tend to be low-end customers who are unwilling to pay... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology

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America's Digital Divide: Where Workers Are Falling Behind | Working Knowledge

pricing and dependable connections mean access to key infrastructure is now within reach for most Americans. But in many areas, users still need significantly more knowledge, skills, and experience to use the technology for more ambitious... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time

compressed time frame, or "Internet time," requires that firms generate and respond to new information for a greater proportion of a development cycle, with much of the feedback coming from customers. In fact, early and continuous contact... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2019
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Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup

often visiting company parking lots; businesses have been one of Yoshi’s best customers, paying the service’s monthly subscription fee as a job perk for their employees. Yoshi’s eliminate-the-gas-station model has also attracted the attention of ExxonMobil and View Details

Keywords: April White; startups; on-demand economy; entrepreneurship; Personal Services

02 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 2

simply using subnational cases to generate or test theories about Chinese politics; instead, they propose that subnational political economies in China are a function of endogenous change rather than a reaction to national priorities.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Leading a Family Business (LFB) - Course Catalog

What are the danger zones and warning signs that leaders need to pay attention to? Course Content and Organization: The course will be divided into two main modules. The first module will focus on building the core leadership toolkit... View Details

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Podcast - HBS Online

10 Feb 2025 The Parlor Room Season 2 Bonus Content (Part 2): Unreleased Insights on Leadership & Strategy In this special episode, host Chris Linnane shares exclusive, never-before-heard clips from his conversations on leadership,... View Details

08 Nov 2016
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Phil Strazzulla

stories. Here's the quick elevator pitch: The average job seeker spends 2 hours researching a company before applying, and for most businesses that means they find a generic job description, career page with little on it, and some biased... View Details

Keywords: Technology

Student-Profile

A Jay Holmgren

while gaining expertise in management, which hadn’t factored into my previous graduate-level work,” he says. “When it comes to an industry as complex as healthcare, the management of the implementation of systems is just as important as the View Details

21 Aug 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the City of Boston

knowledgeable coach, ready to help users do whatever they need to get done. In fact, the City of Boston has spent the last 3+ years reinventing how it interacts with citizens online in exactly this way. The City Hall team I joined this... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

29 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers

looking at. Increasingly, viewers are doubling up on entertainment with a second media device in their hand or on their lap to complement—and compete—with the television. In 2012, Nielsen found that close to 40 percent of smartphone and tablet View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Sports

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Staff Directory | Baker Library

University, and beyond, supporting the needs of faculty, students, alumni, and researchers. A focus for his collaborations is embracing new research methods and reducing the barriers between the scholar and the research content they need... View Details

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Rob Casper

But he can talk about his general criteria: He is looking at first- or second-generation businesses owned by people approaching retirement who don't have successors capable of, or interested in, assuming the responsibilities of ownership.... View Details

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

include bodies as varied in scope as the Financial Accounting Standards Board on one end to the DSL Forum on the other. On the tech side, SSOs work both with technology sponsors and users to develop a set of standards for products to... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

Former President & CEO, eBay Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Princeton University, 1977 A.B., Economics SELECTED PREVIOUS POSITIONS Hasbro, General Manager FTD , CEO Disney, Senior Vice President Bain... View Details

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