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- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
repairs, replaces, and improves their property. Ensuring their data has sufficient unique IP in its granularity is key! The team needs to think about what would prevent adjacent competitors like Angi and Thumbtack from using their... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
James Dimon, MBA 1982
hatches to prepare for tough times ahead; and as a charismatic leader who focuses on recruiting, training, and developing the people in his organization. While competitors imploded during the economic downturn, with Dimon at the helm,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
competitors rush to implement new, highly productive technologies without considering that all this simultaneous investment will result in much more capacity than the final product market will demand at current prices." (The resulting... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
J&J company performing well, and I tried to implement the best of what J&J did while avoiding the pitfalls it fell into. —Steven Newman (MBA 1992) Back to top “Heublein, Inc.,” aka the Smirnoff Vodka Case Smirnoff has 23 percent of the vodka market in 1965 and outsells... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
from competitors and imitations. And Chacko and Monotype are already looking ahead: “In the metaverse, the brands that you’re used to dealing with, or the brands you want to discover in that high-fidelity digital environment, are going to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
working in the public sector to be extremely rewarding and is deeply committed to helping small US manufacturers who operate in large corporate supply chains. "We cannot lose their expertise," she emphasizes. "If we do, we'll lose even more jobs to View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
were a nonprofit enterprise, a tactic tried by a previous owner, was another untenable option. BookHampton needed to sell something that its competitors could not. The name and the brick facade of the Main Street building would stay,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Venture: A Welcome Assist
Illustration: Chris Gash Illustration: Chris Gash The internet grew up inordinately fast. It all happened so quickly, in fact, that it blew right by the accessibility guidelines that would’ve made digital tools available to everyone, regardless of their age or ability,... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- News
Moderna Announces Promising Vaccine Trial Results
competitors in the race to develop a vaccine, though, Bancel makes a point in the December article that is increasingly relevant today as coronavirus cases spike nationwide: “We’re not racing against each other,” he told the Bulletin.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Students Win Energy Competition
In October, a team of five HBS students won the National Energy Finance Challenge at the University of Texas’s McCombs School of Business, the Harbus reported. Marwan Chaar, Puja Jain, Anh Pham-Vu, Ravi Sarin, and Christine Telyan (all HBS ’09) bested teams from... View Details
- 23 Jan 2017
- News
The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee
Bay Area — ground zero for the growth of the coffee industry and an exciting place to do business, he said. “It’s inspiring to work in the same community as tech companies and others and (to see) competitors and people who are blazing the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
our business works very well in a particular kind of medium-sized city. And in those cities, we can invest in the market to bring it to saturation. But many would argue that we should tackle the biggest cities immediately, particularly given that View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Is the Auction House of the Future Online?
tech-minded CEO Tad Smith (MBA 1992), has staked its claim to the online middle market, announcing a partnership earlier this year with eBay to stream live auctions. Amid these competitors Paddle8 has positioned itself as the digital... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Running faster to compete
lobster traps anymore,” Knott once observed. His distinctly “made in America” trap soon caught the eye of competitors in China, who discounted their traps. “Our customers came back because they realized cheaper wasn’t better.” Knott... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- News
A Taxing Question
repeal the tax law that allows corporations to defer paying taxes on their overseas income, thereby generating billions in much-needed revenue for the US Treasury. And they point to major competitors with tax policies resembling the US... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Assets: These Little Piggies
Not long after Joseph Fuller (MBA 1981) cofounded the consultancy Monitor Group in 1983, a competitor made it known that pigs would fly before the firm succeeded. “That became our rallying cry,” Fuller says. He hung a terra-cotta flying pig from the ceiling of one of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
content to have reinvented gas retailing for the 2010s. “Yoshi” roughly translates as “keep moving” in Japanese, and as like-minded competitors hit the streets, the company is looking to the future. One opportunity is automation.... View Details