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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
begun offering an uncoated bubble wrap that threatened to take market share away from Sealed Air. Should the company abandon its exclusive commitment to coated bubbles in order to fend off this challenge? Says Robert Dolan, the author of... View Details
- 27 Nov 2013
- News
No Bologna, Please
into Panera," he told the HBS Alumni Bulletin in 2004. "As we went through a year-and-a-half of divestitures, our stock sank to a split-adjusted $3 a share. Those were not happy times." Today, Panera's share View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Baker Bell Dedication Rings in HBS Centennial
antireligious Stalinist regime. The Moscow City Council priced them as scrap metal, and Crane donated the set to Harvard University. Seventeen were hung in the tower of Lowell House, a Harvard undergraduate residence. One came to HBS,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
recent HBS conference on the media and entertainment industries. Sponsored by the HBS Entertainment and Media Club and Price Waterhouse, the March event - "A View from the Top" - brought together senior executives from several leading... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
Brazil was defaulting on its overseas debt and hyperinflation was running rampant. Somehow, amid the country's financial fracasso, Jakurski sensed opportunity. "With inflation at times increasing 2 percent daily," he recalls, "we would collect 11,000 View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
bulletin@hbs.edu. Write us a letter. This is your magazine. It needs your voice. Gene Williams, featured in the December 2013 HBS Alumni Bulletin Top Story The story of Gene Williams (MBA 1987) and his new drug development model hit a nerve, with more than 450 readers... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
destruction." Sharing the views of most of the industry, my septuagenarian grandfather was ill-prepared for the new era. The "how," though, was a question that had bothered me for years: How had the treasurer managed to do it? While the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
There’s no need to give these firms a share of the revenue because there are many ways to reach the end customer. —Sergio Rattner (MBA 2001) I believe the solution is to pursue the hybrid option. My reasoning is that D2C is working and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Lewis Jr. (MBA 1969), George R. “Bob” Price (MBA 1970), and A. Leroy “Roy” Willis (MBA 1969). In commemoration of this milestone, four of AASU’s founders (Price died in 2012) reflect on their time at the School, the creation of the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
At a recent gathering of chief executives in New York City, the heads of two companies shared pleasant dinner conversation. The first led a large, successful corporation; the second also happened to serve as a director of a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
downloadable to their PalmPilots, but spreadsheet toolkits that deliver core calculations like that bane of the required Finance course, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). It also enables Professor McAfee, for example, to poll... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Dress Like a Million from Goodwill: The Ultimate Recycle Store by Jean Kelley (OPM 29, 2000) (JKLA Publishing) Goodwill stores are the ultimate retail location for getting great deals on name brand clothing. In this book, the author View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
500 times our money.” In the anecdotes that follow, alumni tell their own tales of a haunting “pass” and share the only return that came of it: some hard lessons learned. use this navigation to explore the anecdotes Don’t Be Dogmatic I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
year as a research-based platform to address topics of worldwide import to business, BiGS integrates and amplifies work currently underway at HBS and sparks new avenues of inquiry. In the case of climate change, that means exploring ways to View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
planned for 2023, when he will celebrate his 100th birthday. He’s quick to characterize the 64-year marriage he shared with his wife, Joan, until she died of cancer in 2012. “Where else could I find a woman who would hike across the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
codirector and mainstay of the GHD (and, with Farmer, a PIH cofounder). Building on Kim’s case presentation, Porter next outlined an emerging framework, growing out of the GHD’s work, for health-care delivery in resource-poor settings. He observed that certain failings... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
million shares raising $5.47 billion. “In addition to the financial analysis there’s a lot of judgment involved in deciding where to price an offering. You may have an oversubscribed deal, but how far should... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
interests, and then reserve their spot. Hosts set the price of their meals, and Bookalokal earns a commission on each meal. Soon after launching the site, however, Bookalokal's market expanded. It turns out that local diners—especially... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
competitive marketplace with many different price points, including zero, the brand becomes absolutely critical.” Besides, he observes, those seeking to make money from yoga need to weigh the pluses and minuses of that authenticity.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber