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- 21 Jul 2010
- News
Mad Men, the Early Era
viewed online. Fans of Don and Betty Draper’s suave sophistication will find much to enjoy here, even if the exhibit’s “Mad Men” were working thirty years before the AMC show and its 1960s sense of modishness. Looking at these photos is a... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
inventory losses by alerting retailers when items are given free-of-charge to friends and family by purposely not being scanned by a clerk (called “sweethearting”), when barcodes are covered, when items are left in a shopping cart, or when scales are circumvented. The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
have their eye on the prime rib too? Once they have learned to manufacture your product, they are in a much better position to move up the food chain into manufacturing and designing more sophisticated components and subsystems and,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
careers. "We wanted to provide an effective self-assessment tool," notes Butler, who describes the BCII as "an extremely sophisticated instrument derived from a ten-year study of over 650 business professionals." Together, the text and... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
manages to combine sophisticated concepts of physics with high fantasy in a marvelous way." Heartlight was followed by the equally acclaimed The Ancient One and The Merlin Effect, contemporary mythic tales featuring an adventurous young... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
created in a moment of conversation and connection that wasn’t about ease, speed, and convenience. What are the big questions for legacy retailers trying to find a way forward in this new space? AM: How to remain relevant. Most retailers are now View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
to improve a potential deal that under the best of terms may still be unsatisfactory, more sophisticated negotiators carefully assess whether those efforts might be better spent away from the table, generating competing offers or... View Details
Keywords: Anita M. Harris
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
recognition, Patterson regularly outsells other “brand-name authors” such as Stephen King and Tom Clancy by simply publishing more books, averaging three titles each year with the occasional assistance of a coauthor. Patterson brings an ad man’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
those who do energy modeling, it’s not exactly “easy” in the absolute sense; considerable sophistication and expertise go into building these models, but it is certainly more easily quantifiable than health.) Second, it’s easy to meter a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
sophisticated bells and whistles of contemporary marketing. Macondo has been eclipsed by a proliferation of gleaming office towers and high-tech factories in some of the world's greatest cities. Yet Latin Americans will tell you that amid... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
billboard-shaped notices -- about 10 percent of those who saw the ads were enticed to click on them. These surfers were taken to the sponsor's Web site, and a new age in advertising had begun. Today, advertising on the Internet is much more View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
custom voice system, which means there’s a whole range of small- and mid-sized businesses that are underserved,” Sambvani says. With Slang.ai, he’s offering mid-market companies access to these more sophisticated tools that can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
call center. There are three different components: emergency management, research, and an institute. The first is the most immediately transformative. Using sophisticated software developed by Satyam, 108 operators use GPS and mobile... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
delivering reams of sophisticated real-time financial information and analysis to customers through a unique computer terminal called a "Bloomberg." Currently, more than 65,000 "Bloombergs" - the company builds the hardware and creates... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
government's administrative costs for Medicare are only about 5 percent. And I'm not sure that untrained consumers can ever become sophisticated enough to make truly informed choices about their medical needs, a scenario that some tout as... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
ready for widespread use is that while the technology is technically transparent, it’s still very opaque for the average consumer, or even for the very sophisticated consumer. This shows up in the extent to which even very View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
expertise in building businesses transferred? Southeast Asian management learning, pre- and post-Asian crisis: Have there been changes in management practice in Southeast Asia in the wake of the Asian economic crisis? Broadband development: Hong Kong and Singapore have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
people, with sophisticated tactics for building partnerships with them. The book explains the dynamics of power and encourages managers to engage in difficult conversations, overcome their fear of no, let go of their problems with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
mortgages are now held by institutions with little connection to local communities? It obscured the risk that is inherent in lending and in owning. We have developed such a sophisticated housing-finance system that we were able to layer... View Details