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- 01 Sep 2008
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Mara Aspinall
change that. Going forward, we need to view diagnostics, devices, and drugs in terms of the objective value that each creates. What about patient attitudes? Do you think most health-care consumers are ready to place their faith in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
forth as a solution. But HBS assistant professor Daniel Snow, who studies the application of new technology, offers a caveat. Snow, who has worked with both Honda and Ford, points out that technological advances are a plus only if View Details
- 04 May 2010
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The History of Beauty
- 08 Jun 2023
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Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
Clubs News Clubs News New York Alumni Honor Outstanding Leaders at Annual Dinner The HBS Club of New York held its 54th Annual Leadership Dinner on April 24, honoring three alumni who embody the HBS mission to "educate leaders who make a difference in the world," and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
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INK: Maker’s Manual
Since cofounding the online product discovery platform The Grommet in 2008, Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) has enjoyed a front-row seat to the launch of 3,000 consumer products—including household names like Fitbit, SodaStream, and S’well. From... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2015
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Leadership on a Global Stage
unique perspective on that exercise. For now, however, he is consumed by final preparations for the inaugural West Point All-Academies Asia Summit. The speaking roster is a star-studded lineup of government, business, and military... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered
grocers, drug stores, and discount stores like Costco. Peter asked me (a banker) what I thought of supermarkets accepting credit cards for groceries. I said that the grocery margins (~1%) wouldn’t support the discounts on card purchases, and that View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
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Support System
on the front. But the actual shea-butter content can be less than 10 percent—in some cases less than one percent—relative to 64 percent for Mother’s Shea and more than 80 percent for Eu’Genia.” Consumers and retailers have noted the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2019
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INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
developing world, and they must take the special needs of small-scale producers and malnourished consumers into account. They see how to adapt the developed world’s technology to the developing world. They see a new kind of cooperation... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1997
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Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
based on their best efforts to forecast customer needs. With new technologies such as online grocery scanners, companies can better monitor consumer behavior, allowing them to anticipate needs more accurately and even create new products... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Apr 1999
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Short Takes
facilitated by the Internet." In addition to the evolving corporate conscience, many companies are seeing human rights as an issue that affects their bottom line. They see consumers balk when news hits the street that a product is made at... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2015
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Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
(MBA 1981) I wouldn’t say there’s a big focus on “media speculation” per se, but Fed officials have to be attuned to market sentiment, and they consume a great deal of information. Fed policies work through financial markets. Sometimes it... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka
moving.” Oishi had watched it all unfold as she built a career as a partner in McKinsey’s consumer goods practice in Tokyo—an almost ideal match for the sort of person who can’t not solve problems. Where some people solve crossword... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 14 Oct 2020
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Sewn with Love
raise money by selling merchandise in New York, London, and Tokyo. “It was a win-win for consumers who were able to buy beautiful clothes and bags at discount and still feel like they were doing something good for others,” she observes.... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 22 Feb 2019
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Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
into an increasingly innovative media company, with an emphasis on original programming, reality television, sports, music, and news. Conde has also implemented an aggressive multiplatform digital strategy to reach tech-savvy consumers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
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A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
offset a decades-long slump in output. BCG finds that consumer preferences in different countries shape different purchasing habits: Kenyans prefer to purchase coffee and tea at supermarkets, while Ethiopians prefer kiosks. Learn more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
access to consumer goods, jobs, and global markets. Dividing his time among corporate boards, family, and educational causes, Lemann heads a family foundation that supports education, health, the environment, and medicine in Brazil. What... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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A Capital Asset
tourism. But perhaps her favorite role is that of grandmother to her three-year-old grandson, Zach. Now watching from the sidelines, Cohen is disturbed by the direction the country is going and by the heightened partisanship that she sees View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
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A Playbook for Progress
especially Black women, are the most educated segment of the population, and that's according to the US Census. We control some one and a half trillion, with a T, trillion dollars in consumer spending. Studies by American Express show... View Details