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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
could be prescribed, assembled, and fitted in the field by trained microentrepreneurs rather than by optometrists or ophthalmologists. The next step was to form a "Low Cost Available Eyeglasses" (LCAE) team and enter the HBS Business Plan... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Downhill Re-Boot
softer “walking” boot that fits into a carbon-fiber chassis that in turn fits into a ski binding. “Our whole design concept is first and foremost to have a boot that’s comfortable,” Hanson told the... View Details
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
in every offering, the customer's opinion is in fact more important than ever." Gaurav Bhalla said "Creating the future is about understanding customers' value trajectories and determining what innovations will better fit these... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
she anticipated customer needs, many crews and companies requested she come back. “I felt that I changed some people’s perceptions of the fitness of a woman in such a demanding job and environment,” she says. Since those early engineering... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 18 Apr 2014
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the HBS Search Summit
summit was comprised of four sequential panels that explored: Search models: selecting what fits you Sourcing methods and tactics Getting a deal done Reaching the goal: running the business The formal sessions were followed by a casual... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- Portrait Project
Martin Eston
Addiction doesn’t fit neatly into the first chapters of a success story, yet it plagued much of my early adult life. It’s the kind of thing that gets edited out of an otherwise promising narrative. It’s not what our biggest fans want to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Local Customs
of opening fifty ‘microfactories’ around the globe, each building 2,000 units a year of cars customized to fit different regions’ local tastes,” the Boston Herald reported (December 15, 2008). Invoking the sudsy success story of Jim Koch... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
How Much is Fair?
with 170,000 employees that’s critical to our national defense,” Tobias noted that description fits both the CEO of Boeing ($4 million annual salary, plus incentives compensation) and the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps ($169,860... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
of consumers towards high fee inferior products. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54865 forthcoming Manufacturing & Service Operations Management The Value of Fit Information in Online Retail: Evidence... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
generation of startups and serving as the connecting point between technology, business, and agriculture—all languages she happens to speak fluently. Such fluency is unusual, and it makes Lambert an ideal fit for this newly created role... View Details
- Person Page
Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- Profile
Eryn Schultz
prepared foods at accessible price points. With a consulting firm that is supporting the launch of the new store, I’m helping work out the supplier model: which partners should we prioritize and how do we get their food to the stores. How do your HBS ambitions View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- Profile
Emily Hannenberg
Personally, I felt an ability to inspire trust in others and lead them toward goals. I had the physical fitness required to contribute as a member of a team, and I shared the military's core values: loyalty, integrity, duty,... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education
- Student-Profile
Mengjie "Magie" Cheng
combine causal inference and machine learning with some economics techniques and some other state-of-the-art techniques. This is why I felt the marketing program at HBS was a very good fit for me.” In addition to being able to structure... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
potentially make a transformative contribution to public debate? Once we have a question that fits the bill, we pose it to scholars in our community, which includes over 350 professors, graduate students, and professional researchers from... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- Blog Post
Internship Success: Mutual Growth Brings Intern and Enterprise Together
VC-backed companies that fit his criteria. Through LinkedIn, he expanded his networking reach, then used company websites and HBS Career & Professional Development Office job postings to investigate specific job opportunities. The HBS... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- Profile
Mengwen Zhao
when you're faced with difficult situations?" Mengwen offers accounting as an example. "Other business schools give you how-to techniques. But at HBS, you learn how accounting fits within overall general management. How do you... View Details
- Profile
Fangfang Wang
together and exchange insights.” “For me, as a young woman, it was hard to copy their leadership style,” says Fangfang. “I had to think about what kind of leader I wanted to be. Should I fit in by changing myself or should I provide an... View Details
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McKim, Mead & White - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
had worked on a number of landmark structures at Harvard including the Memorial Fence, Johnson Gate, Robinson Hall, Harvard Union, and Harvard Stadium. Unlike other University buildings designed to fit within the existing, historic... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
"They're ecstatic when we can find them something that not only fits but is stylish." Although the Web site was online before the physical store was up and running ("UPS went on strike the day we opened, leaving us shoeless," laughs... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso