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- 01 Mar 2014
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Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
itself from a competitive perspective to continue its growth and stand out from the other industry players?" The Answers: "I would suggest looking at the business model and trying to extend the brand by extending the offering. Cellphones... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
program. Included in the presentation were progress updates on the MBA program’s three strategic priorities—invigorate our sense of purpose; center the education; and attract the most promising—and discussion of a market research project designed to determine long-term... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
Gary T. DiCamillo (MBA '75) was second in command at Black & Decker Corporation and leading a turnaround of that company's power tools division when Polaroid snapped him up in late 1995. The world-famous instant-imaging company made him... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
(subtitled How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership) includes new material intended to guide fledgling managers through specific operational issues, such as dealing with organizational politics, influencing peers and superiors, and View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
boost sales. —Lisa Putukian (MBA 1988) This is essentially a critical safety product in its present form: Every runner should have it. Dehydration leads to overheating, which easily leads to organ damage.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
cancers and affect millions of lives. How did they reach this crossroads? The answer lies within a story that can be traced back to a chance meeting at HBS. In 1999, five months after enrolling at HBS, David crossed paths with Jen while walking through campus, View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
your laptop and settle in to work—then you want a coffee. Instead of giving up your spot, you connect with a retailer on your phone, place an order, share your location, and the coffee is delivered to you. We’ll see more and more of these seamless technologies, View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
enterprises - "We start from scratch each time as a way of making sure it's really ours" - in industries where he believes customers are being ill-served or have few choices. Growth is financed by revenues, and companies are kept... View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- News
Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
friend of Sheets, is the director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative, an adjunct professor of economics at SMU, and leads the Bush Institute’s work on domestic economic policy and economic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry
to lead the operations of such popular chains as Friendly’s Ice Cream, Johnny Rockets, Pizzeria Uno, Smashburger, Wahlburgers (led by CEO Cedric Vanzura, MBA 1990), Pieology, and Upper Crust. Panera was sold earlier this month to Europe’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
approaches to poverty alleviation. Leading academics and corporate, nonprofit, and public-sector managers discuss how businesses, NGOs, and government organizations can use business solutions to improve the lot of the world’s poorest 3... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
Mikitani Main article: Where Innovation Rules Case study: Englishnization at Rakuten From Pinterest to Kobo, how Japan's Rakuten is building a global internet giant (Wired.co.uk) You might call Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) the Jeff Bezos of Japan. Both View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
is an independent foreign aid agency with the mission to reduce poverty through sustainable economic growth in some of the world's poorest countries. "Farmer training was at the heart of the Ghana program," says Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972),... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
Fifty-three years ago, Judge Harold Medina dismissed charges brought by the Justice Department against seventeen leading investment banks. A case built up over a decade of investigations and almost three years of trial collapsed when the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Natural Advantage
farm in Dorset, England. As he worked the property, Heeks realized that principles of sustainable development and sound organic farming could be applied to the successful management of an organization, according to an article in The Grocer (January 6, 2001), Britain’s... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
If you're saving for your child's college education, you're probably putting money in growth funds, hoping that the returns a decade or more down the line will be enough to pay for tuition. But what if your returns fall short? It's a... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Press) This novel tells the story of the residents of a small New England valley. The settlers and Native Americans trade with each other and live in peace until a love affair blossoms between a young Abenaki and the daughter of an elder settler. A crime reverberates... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
grantmaking, reporting, or evaluation, they discuss topics such as going beyond check writing and traditional volunteering, advocating for change, leveraging business, forging peer networks, empowering individuals, leading adaptively, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
many firms have not instituted a process for managing the development of potential leaders. Many have not even thought about the process of selecting a leader when the time comes for change. And as a result, they are as confused about who should View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
affairs. Enron’s approach to compensation and incentives included many perverse features, such as encouraging growth over profitability and rewarding employees for closing commodity deals and power-generation projects without concrete... View Details