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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
Viceira: I think that the best example to understand this is to look at U.S. Treasury bonds. Over short horizons, bond prices fluctuate as interest rates change. Increases in... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
Gilbert Colgate
Colgate merged with the Peet Company and B. J. Johnson, maker of Palmolive soap, the largest selling soap brand in America in View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
could well be a case study about an American manufacturer’s adaptation to the forces of globalization. Back in the 1990s, when the View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Thumbs Up Down Under
thoughts returned to beating the record of 69 days, 14 hours for the New York-Melbourne trip, set in 1855-56 by the clipper ship Mandarin, which... View Details
King C. Gillette
Gillette invented the safety razor, creating a new U.S. industry. In 1903, Gillette sold 51 of his razors and 168 blades. He increased these numbers dramatically so that by... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
U.S. Army. He flew missions in Albania and Afghanistan before being called to Iraq in February 2003, where his assignment was more earthbound (but no less eventful) as... View Details
Charles H. Revson
Known for his autocratic and direct management style, Revson built Revlon into the second largest cosmetics company in the U.S. Revson's unique... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 May 2013
- News
Muneer Satter, MBA 1987
“I invest in HBS because I care about leadership. My time at HBS was one of the best periods of my life. The intellectual stimulation was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
are following their own business models—whether they are for-profit or not-for-profit. The additional spend on health care is due to increased utilization of health-care services as View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
Greg Jarzabek (PLD 21, 2016) was living in London and working in finance when his mother was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in her... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
support promising new ventures founded by HBS graduates. Ninety-one teams from HBS clubs around the world submitted plans to regional judges in March. On April 25, U.S. and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
strategy. And the export of U.S. venture investment dollars is going to be a big, important change in the business over View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
the supply of riskless short-term bills. Such reasoning seems to have been borne out in Treasury policy during the height of the financial... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
research shows that only 45 percent of music files downloaded in the United States come from computers in the U.S.... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
requires much careful thinking and management initiative. Q: Do you see the current trend of intense customer focus continuing? Shapiro: We believe that an increasing focus on customers is absolutely... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Avon CEO Jung on Leadership
the courage to reinvent yourself, not hold on to the past, and to act swiftly.” Proudly noting that corporate responsibility has always been integral to Avon’s identity, Jung stated that View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
company's strategy but with intimate knowledge of how to get things done inside the organization? Bower's analysis of the leadership and performance of S&P 500 companies in... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
The final in a series of profiles of the twelve new members of the HBSAA Board of Directors. Since 1994, New York native Thomas G. Mendell (MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
mobile application. We currently offer destination information on Washington, D.C., Chicago, Boston, and London on the mobile app and hope to cover as many as 150 places. Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011) Jana Care —... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
New Venture Competition Winners Announced
the $2,000 crowd favorite prize. It was a big night for big ideas in the health care field. In View Details