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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
Article 26 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is a driving force behind the founding of ALISON.com, the online education company Mike Feerick launched in 2007. Based in Ireland, ALISON (Advance Learning Interactive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
company in 1979, Mixon had only $10,000 of the $7.8 million asking price. But he managed to raise the rest and led the company to annual revenues of $1.5 billion (those early investors have seen Invacare’s... View Details
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
says: One, purge the gendered language. Two, limit the number of mandatory qualifications to apply for the job. In What Works, she cites the example of an elementary school advertising for “a committed teacher with exceptional pedagogical... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508041 MINI USA: Finding a New Advertising Agency (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 508-042 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Brian T. Bedol
knew was that life,” he said. With that foundation, it was no surprise that Bedol became a successful entrepreneur himself. After graduating from Boston University with a degree in communications, Bedol became an advertising copywriter... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
television. He sponsored the famed, and infamous, quiz show The $64,000 Question in 1955. It is difficult, so many years later, to realize what a radical departure television advertising was for a man and a View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
in New York City. It seemed natural. Banking was in my family’s heritage. My next move was unexpected. In the middle of a huge New York City snowstorm, I received an unsolicited offer to join a mutual fund company in Los Angeles. I flew... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
some HBS classes, including those in which edu.com was developed as a business plan. After moving back home to launch his company, Adam didn't look far for his first partner. "I was doing some consulting work and considering opportunities in View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
pursuing a strategy for the Washlet were “gung ho” and suggested a variety of tactics. Students liked TOTO’s “Clean is Happy” advertising campaign but generally agreed that the company needs to start by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
voters would get the chance to choose their administrator of choice. While I am serious about this idea, I know that it can’t work without the input of visionary policymakers who would hammer out all the details. If a company or nonprofit... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
Here's a tip for companies looking to woo customers away from the competition: Besides advertising fair prices for your products, try advertising fair wages for your employees.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
Continental -- Brier went dot-com in 1998. He cofounded and became president of Priceline Travel, a division of Priceline.com, the e-commerce company that enables its customers to name their own low price for airline tickets, hotel rooms,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
1920–2000: How It Worked, Thomas McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, presents a succinct and insightful analysis of the entrepreneurs and companies that have left their impression on world industry. McCraw examines... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
hard up that it’s slashing $500,000 a year in office-supply spending. With its shares near a decade low, the New York Times Company now has just 1.33 percent the market capitalization of Google. “Like most print journalists,” wrote Miami... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
cited Phones 4u’s claim “to be the UK’s fastest-growing independent mobile phone retailer” and Braterman’s role in helping the company double its share of pay-as-you-go cell phone customers last year on a marketing budget that was “less... View Details
- Web
Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
manufacturing operations, new product development, advertising and marketing strategies, and year-end financial statements. The Dewey Library, MIT Libraries and the Thomas J. Watson Library of Business Economics, Columbia University... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How to Come Out at Work
felt the most affirmed and championed when my team has seen my distinct lived experience as an asset, not just an advertisement opportunity. Social Finance did just that and allowed me to leverage my queer identity and global health... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
entrepreneurial business leaders in the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) that he also headed for many years, is inspired enough by what he has experienced at the Meadows to consider starting a company dedicated to building and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
privately held Joh. A. Benckiser SE, which owns Coty, Labelux, and stakes in Reckitt Benckiser and Burger King. He serves as chairman of Coty, the global beauty company and leader in fragrance. He began his career at The Boston Consulting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
shows on topics that many advertisers would find too edgy. How we consume TV, it seems, is changing what we consume, opening up new opportunities on the business and creative sides of an industry that hasn’t seen a similar degree of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment