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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
principals at the school level, so the challenge was to create the operations to match.” Kete has recently been chosen for the selective two-year “resident executive” program of the nonprofit Broad Foundation, whose goal is to attract... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
million people on its payrolls, the restaurant industry is the nation's largest private-sector employer, attracting 46 percent of every dollar spent on food. Despite these statistics, the industry (with the exception of a few star chefs... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
Borrowing the late HBS professor Ted Levitt's deceptively probing question, the Bulletin recently cold called Brad VanAuken (MBA 1984): "What business are you in?" A brand management and marketing executive turned independent consultant,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
tents, and other gear for maximum performance, comfort, and enjoyment. And now, shoes. Last year the Timberland Company, a heavyweight in the footwear business, acquired the GoLite brand for its new line of strong but super-lightweight... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
social enterprise work as a recruiting tool to attract the best young talent, our approach is much more sustainable in the long run because it avoids the reintegration issues that often arise when executives spend months away. What are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
open markets and trade began to emerge across Latin America. In recent years, state-owned companies have been privatized, currencies stabilized, and inflation reduced. These changes have helped attract a fresh influx of foreign direct... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
of effort on his part. Wilkins moved to the Crescent City four years ago from Boston with his wife, New Orleans native Ginny Wise, and three sons. Prior to his arrival, he had been a brand manager for Proctor & Gamble, a marketing vice... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
brand as it marches into other segments. I recommend that Ario delay entry into other markets. It should first define a segment, build strong enthusiasts, and then branch out. Just as Under Armour has coined or leveraged the term... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
conversion rate, Means says. The company also raised $1.5 million in seed funding—all without spending a single dollar on marketing. Calley Means and Leslie Voorhees (both MBA 2015). (photos courtesy of Anomalie) The Question: Anomalie View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
company in developing a new drug.” The case “E Ink in 2005” charts the multiple rounds of financing E Ink attracted over the years from a range of private investors, venture capital firms, and technology and publishing companies,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
commitment from local employers whose staff would use our center. We would locate in the same building or very near a large employer to facilitate ease of use by their employees. The benefit to the employer was staff retention and recruiting. We would also solicit a... View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
to excellence and lifelong learning in their careers and contributions to the community. The dinner was the first large-scale gathering for the Club since the end of the pandemic and attracted 400 alumni and guests to the Glasshouse in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
program at the Nestlé Group in Germany, where he showed a particular talent for marketing and product management. His skills attracted the attention of the management at Pfizer-Germany, who hired him in 1966 as senior View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
to law enforcement? How much disclosure is legally required, and how much is appropriate ethically? How will disclosure affect the company’s stock price and prospects for attracting future business? For any executive, it’s a nightmare... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
fees, brand globalization, the rise of holding companies, client obsessions with shareholder value, the digital and Internet revolutions—and outlines the steps senior agency executives need to take to restore health to their organizations... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
and Joe Kiernan (MBA 2017) and based at the Harvard i-lab. Endorse.gg (“gg” is esports slang for “good game”) recruits esports “influencers” to represent brands to their audiences during streaming sessions. The data available on viewers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
'75) ((Amazon Digital Services)) Frank Batten: The Untold Story of the Founder of the Weather Channel by Connie M. Sage ((University of Virginia Press)) Smarter Branding without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
dinners were well-attended networking events that attracted many luminaries in Silicon Valley and helped raise the profile of HBS in the Silicon Valley. Due to COVID, we shifted to an all-virtual model to honor Noom. While we didn’t get... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
prison" and becomes easily accessible by less complicated means and is accepted "as just being out there, like the electricity system." As for achieving commercial success through the Internet, writer and computer industry observer Esther Dyson noted that it's one... View Details