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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Chase Manhattan/Chemical Bank, 1983–1999 Charles R. Shoemate CPC International (BestFoods), 1990–1998 Leonard S. Shoen U-Haul Rental System, 1945–1986 Lee Shubert Shubert Theater Corporation, 1905–1953 Thomas M. Siebel Siebel Systems,... View Details

26 Jun 2023
Research & Ideas

Want to Leave a Lasting Impression on Customers? Don't Forget the (Proverbial) Fireworks

as well as a hiring decision based on a candidate’s performance during a university job interview. In a final study, the researchers allowed participants to generate their own journey lines by watching a trailer for a movie not yet in View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

18 Jul 2023
News

The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

or the ICON theater (sadly now shuttered) in the Seaport any chance I got. Second year, I had less free time for moviegoing. Aside from founding Forby, I cowrote with Senior Lecturer Mark Kramer the HBS case on social impact film and... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

29 Sep 2022
Op-Ed

Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

Gibson. To help us, we brought on stage a group of performers from Second City, the Chicago-based company that established the first ongoing improvisational theater troupe. Second City is the place where Tina Fey, Bill Murray, and many... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

09 Jan 2023
News

Alumna Leads Biggest Ever Debut for a Woman-led Hedge Fund

collaborating with former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne to create Theater of the Mind, "a new theatrical experience you'll see, feel, taste and hear." READ MORE View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

22 Nov 2023
News

So You Want to Join a Startup

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel... View Details

March 2016 (Revised May 2018)
Case

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales. These results were in marked contrast... View Details

Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul

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19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

theaters reached almost every American town, diffusing new lifestyles and creating a new celebrity culture around movie stars that exercised a powerful influence on how beauty, especially female beauty, was defined.24 Max Factor forged... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

16 May 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)

felt different and out of place. In 2019, I watched The Farewell at a movie theater in Brooklyn. It centers on Billi (played by Awkwafina) who travels back to China with her family to reconnect with her grandma. In one early scene, Billi... View Details

01 Jan 2005
News

Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

including facilities in more than twenty arenas and stadiums, serving all kinds of snacks and comfort food in the stands and fine cuisine in the luxury boxes. It is also a major player in numerous convention and performing arts centers and airports. The View Details

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

advised on the merger of Keith-Albee and Orpheum theaters in the 1920s, which became RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation), creating a circuit of more than 700 theaters. Lehman Brothers also supported Paramount Pictures, Inc. and... View Details

21 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Harvard Square's Hidden History

Commander attest to the site’s significance. Bonus: Harvard Square Theater and Bruce Springsteen’s Big Break As a lifelong Springsteen fan, I would be remiss if I failed to mention a piece of the Boss’s history two blocks from where... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico

Nations’ Human Development Report in 1996, Ramirez may not have imagined himself attending to the details of running the largest movie theater chain in Latin America. Yet, he relished the challenge. “Learning about the business world... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; World Bank; United Nations; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

that’s the one subject she wouldn’t touch. My father stopped talking to me, except during sporadic episodes of theater we put on in front of friends and relatives – we’d each act our part of a happy, normal, family. Mid-show he’d sneak in... View Details

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

loves to read and write, especially science fiction and fantasy, and they enjoy participating in their university’s theater program. BIBLIOGRAPHY “8 necessary steps to heat pump installation.” BlocPower. May 17, 2023.... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

probably as busy and involved today as he was when he ran the firm. He's made philanthropy and involvement in social enterprise a full-time job. What was your first job? When I was about ten, I started giving puppet shows at neighborhood birthday parties. I had a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

23 Jun 2023
News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

The planned growth of HBS and Harvard includes more than doubling the number of housing units in Allston, moving the American Repertory Theater to Allston, and eventually adding a new faculty building and other buildings over time as part... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

a really different world," she says, adding that she enjoys theater and seeing friends who work outside the finance world. For the moment she can't imagine living anywhere else -- or doing anything else. "I had no idea when I took this... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season

the city, or you could head north to larger ski resorts in Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine, just a 3-4-hour drive away. Enjoy theater and music. From the Boston Symphony to the Boston Ballet to traveling Broadway shows to locally... View Details

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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details

Keywords: Well-being; Judgment And Decision Making; Health; Prosocial Behavior

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