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- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
company. It wasn't just direct sales of these two products that benefited from the scarcity illusion, however: The heavy crowds drove sales of related products in Apple stores and bookstores during a relatively slow sales month. But there... View Details
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
After I heard what had happened, I ran up to my room and tore down the signs. As it happens, I had voted for Kennedy. It was a tragic, terrible thing. I thought I would stay in the retail drug business for the rest of my life. My advice to View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
travel stores to help the airline enhance customer satisfaction—provided insight on Mexico’s travel industry and, equally important, a new perspective on teamwork. “There were no designated leaders in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
moved in 2002. “I dug in, doing what I love to do, which is a start-up general business. And Mark concentrated on the creative end, the design and the making of fine-wood furniture.” By the time daughter Jane was born in 2003, Lackley had found a whole View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
house of some one thousand participants. After attributing the giant bookseller's success to its focus on the customer, Bezos set out to debunk seven "big myths of the Internet." Myth #1: The Internet changes everything. Not really, according to Bezos. Physical View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
a universal experience of status diminution when people compare their native language to this new language,” Neeley remarks. “So no matter how fluent some people are in English, they believe they’ll never be as sophisticated, influential,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Fertility, a company that is developing medical options to prolong women’s fertility, primarily by freezing viable eggs and storing them for later use. While some may feel uncomfortable with the idea, Jones sees her work as a way to... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
products. As the firm’s chief executive officer, she’s overseen the development of several new products, such as Pulse, a jump rope that can generate and store enough power to charge a cell phone. At the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
have this wonderful new hit product called the iPod, they're driving lots of traffic into their stores. If they go through a period when there are no hit products, the stores just become an View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 2)
Being a first-generation student is to continuously discover a world you did not know existed. It requires curiosity and resilience to navigate the unknown options and contexts and often an extra effort to belong. On that discovery journey, you are View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
twist. General Motors once anchored New Center. Now, with the development of the light-rail just blocks away, there’s a possible future where even Detroit could become less dependent on cars. National... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
Starbucks claims the world's largest Wi-Fi network, with some 2,200 stores offering wireless connectivity to latte sippers for a charge. That number will climb to 3,000 by year's end, according to the company. Darren Hostin, of Starbucks... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Illustration by Marcos Chin It’s market day in Barrio Curtidores, which means the main thoroughfare is packed with shoppers perusing makeshift stands that offer everything from jeans and blenders to vegetables and tacos. Moto-taxis putt-putt by, pausing occasionally to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
the image of women as victims in conflict zones and reshaping development programs targeted at poor countries. As a deputy director at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, she is uniquely positioned to see her ideas through.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
André Beisert's olook targets a very particular part of Brazil's new consumer market. "Our brand has a persona," Beisert (MBA 2009) says in his white brick office, which sits atop a small warehouse in the Vila Nova Conceição neighborhood... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
his camera than the telephone. It was not long after he began his career that his mother never had to work again. When Sam Walton opened his first five and dime store in Newport, Arkansas, after being mustered out of the Army in 1945, his... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
example, so people didn’t have to take public transit. We also invented some new product and business models. One brand in the Boston area is Life Alive Organic Café. It’s a plant-based, fast-casual concept that’s very health-oriented.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
A Natural Balance
Cavan Mahony and Ayla Hussain (both MBA '96) became friends and business partners through a mutual devotion to yoga and health -- and a conviction that beauty is more than skin deep. The two have joined with a third partner, supermodel Christy Turlington, to form... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
by other energy- and water-saving measures, anchors the School’s application for Shad to receive LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. HBS now has five LEED-certified buildings — Aldrich, Gallatin, Hamilton,... View Details