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- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Final presentations and final farewells
about what Sephora has done in the past in these areas, what the challenges are, and then we brainstormed with them on opportunities ahead. What ended up being most interesting was that we probably got a more cross-functional perspective... View Details
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Cloud Storage | Information Technology
Cloud Storage Best Practices Over the past few months, most of us have probably seen a drastic increase in our use of cloud storage solutions. We're being asked more and more to collaborate at a distance, even when it's with people who we... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
papers (and miss one or more possible sales) once a week, or one-seventh of the time. What's ignored in this equation, though, according to HBS professor David Bell, is that customers care how often a retailer runs out of stock. "The View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
interest, the subject of the current research, is probably the tertiary reason. "I am hesitant to say schools choose to invest in athletics just because of the spillover effect into academics," Chung says. Why would sports... View Details
- 09 Feb 2012
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing
ratings star added on a Yelp restaurant review translated to anywhere from a 5-percent to 9-percent effect on revenues. Local, independent restaurants were the most affected by reviews, probably because diners have little information... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
drugs, and will they be less expensive?' My answer is, 'I don't know, and probably not.' Lechleiter was one of several panelists to discuss, "Breaking the Genetic Code: The Business of Life Science in the 21st Century" at the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Jenny Tison
With her father serving as a Naval officer in Japan, Jenny Tison learned two important things about life, and herself, early on. “I learned to be an extrovert,” Jenny says, which probably helped with the second lesson. “It wasn’t easy... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
5 Facts About HBS Conferences
The conferences at HBS are entirely student-organized and there are a lot of them. An outsider attending one of the conferences would probably think that a full-time staff organized the event, but I can assure readers that students do... View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose
factory in the middle of the city, and it is probably the only city in India where you can drink clean water straight out of the tap. Both my grandfather and father worked at Tata Steel, the iconic steel manufacturing factory. I grew up... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
the medium term, to this government manipulation other than investor psychology? —Jim Daley (MBA 1986) KIRBY: Investor psychology probably is the biggest risk, but another is an overreliance on hard infrastructure investments (roads,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Billion-Dollar Question
that you probably need to rock your own boat again. Disrupt your life with a sabbatical. That doesn't mean you have to spend seven months walking from Mexico to Canada and back on the Continental Divide Trail. After being the first to do... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
that they have with fellow children out here, because they’re all growing up watching the same content, probably in a different time zone. And so a new wave in my view is getting created in the last, I would say decade, or half a decade... View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
probably never again amount to more than about 10 percent of total employment in any of the world's developed economies and (2) the return of manufacturing activity to the US will have to be accompanied by increased productivity, View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
rather than creative manipulation." He suggests that this should be of special value to long-term shareholders. These responses suggest a wide variety of views, with most coming down on the side of modest returns on investment, at best, from Section 404. It is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
connections, confidence, and cognition that individuals acquire or cultivate by virtue of working at a company during a particular period of time. It’s organization-specific as well as time-specific. Do all organizations leave an imprint? They View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
services of unknown quality. The lack of transparency protects providers and insurers from needing to compete on the price and quality of their services. Lack of competition, in turn, inflates the cost and probably also diminishes the... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?
the probability of success in building brands and positioning products and services. The process is effective in terms of both results and costs. All of this suggests that what we experience as consumers may be influenced by fewer and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)
core principles are I would probably be a very different version of myself today.” Returning to the Continent Post HBS, Kuyoro was certain it was time to return home and build the next chapter of her career in Nigeria. She enjoyed her... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
pricing puts it on the cutting edge of arts organizations. See how other orchestras, theaters, and performing arts organizations are experimenting with business model and pricing innovations – it’s probably no surprise that Disney has a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
indicator we document that 1) inflow-driven buying pressure by mutual funds has a pronounced and persistent stock price impact, 2) the probability of an SEO increases by 59%, 3) insider sales increase by 7%, and 4) the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne