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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
Millennials, says Anne Hubert (MBA 2007, JD 2008), get a bad rap. Often labeled as entitled, lazy, and spoiled, the group—broadly defined as anyone born between 1981 and 2000—is changing norms. “They’re making the world a little more to... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
concrete producers, but this is a conservative industry that does not have a history of changing quickly. Making the economics even better can help to change that. IRA's combination of investment tax credits, grant programs, material procurement funding, and product... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
critically we decided not to name it. We didn't name Harriet and label her as being autistic because the character herself did not know, just like Holly when she was a teenager, didn't realize she was autistic. AW: What did you originally... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future
More Retail Revolutions Sharing Designer Labels Rent the Runway, from Jenn Hyman and Jenny Fleiss (both MBA 2009), brings the sharing economy to the world of fashion, offering big-name dresses—and now accessories—for short-term rental... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
interest in food marketing, and spoke often of his conversations with Salmon. At that time, grocers were offering generic labels on their lower cost items: yellow bags with brown block letters identifying the contents only as coffee,... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The MBA Turns 100
MBA in a box over the Internet for 59 bucks. So the MBA title has come to mean less because the label now covers a rapidly proliferating set of things.” That’s not the only issue worrying Dean Light and his counterparts at the nation’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
strike a balance between private label and manufacturer brands, and reemphasize food products instead of venturing too far into nonfood items. Although they foresee a fierce battle among retailing Goliaths, the authors conclude that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
manufactured consumer goods first used the union label as a way to show solidarity through their purchases. One hundred years later, men and women, and even teenagers, organized to protest sweatshop production in various countries around... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
practices and sustainable products. They're the ones checking the packaging and labeling to ensure that there is a positive social and environmental impact message as well, specifically on consumer products. And they prefer to work for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
while showing off an industrial refrigerator stacked with free-range eggs and 25-kilo blocks of Normandy butter. Trays of madeleines cool on racks. A few feet away, workers monitor a machine that wraps the tiny cakes individually in cellophane before hand-packing each... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
product that didn’t do well, or it could be something that the new product replaced. Or maybe it’s just a package or labeling change. These special buys, or closeouts, are about 50 percent of our products. Around 95 percent of what we buy... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
two facilities in Tokyo—the first outside the UK to receive a “gold” award from the DSDC—where every design detail, from textures to finishes, takes into account the specific needs of a person with dementia. Bathroom doors are painted a high contrast school-bus yellow,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
Michelin private label tires for its replacement business in 1965, that should have been the time to exit. In 1969, when Goodrich realized it couldn't make money and had a chance to sell to Michelin, it should have but it didn't. And... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
upheaval - financial collapse, peasant uprisings, and political violence. What's going on? Some people see the repression in Mexico's political system and call the system authoritarian. Others see its freedoms and label it an emerging... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
another student, courage may mean to be quiet when you know you have the answer, yet you know that another student needs airtime. My hope is that all students experience the amygdala hijacking their emotions and thoughts and feelings. I want all the students to learn... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
strategy that the professor labeled “Ram it!” That became a catchphrase, which was often called out loud. 1989G. Several funny phrases originally used by sectionmates were regularly borrowed for openings and comments to great general... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
feet?” Moore asked in astonishment. “Thirty thousand feet?” There, marked on the map with the same attention given any other summit was an indistinct sketch of a mountain, labeled Mount Koonka, height 30,000 feet above sea level. A curly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
industries for decades. And even though Mustapha and his sons had earned a reputation as hard workers, there was only so much they could produce within a system that left farmers either chronically undersupplied or dealing with bags of fertilizer cut with sand to meet... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
Lo, is carbon neutral—vertical farms set up next to, say, a giant solar field or a wind farm. “We look at the industry, and it’s pretty clear you can’t put a sustainable label on yourself unless you solve the energy piece of it—and we... View Details