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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Using storytelling to transform the retail experience
consultant and private equity investor, who lives in Toronto. BRIKA, which opened for business in late 2012, features nearly 300 “makers” and thousands of their carefully crafted wares. Consumers get a connection to a “maker” along with... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Afrezza ever realize the potential that Alfred Mann, the late founder and former CEO, saw in the novel treatment? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-419 Becton... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
A Remarkable Life Story
delinquent bank loans, unpaid vendors, overdue receivables, and other major cash-flow issues.” Her systematic, creative approach to overcoming obstacles would bring nods of approval from many HBS alumni, one suspects. Lambert credits the View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
during the late l950s. Through most of that decade, the Commission had adopted a laissez-faire stance toward cable, on the grounds that it lacked jurisdiction over the industry, and that, in any case, extending the reach of broadcast... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Giving Through HBS
advance; and they give to HBS because they believe in our mission and understand that their support will be leveraged to have a broad and deep impact. Many of the big ideas that have changed the global understanding of business originated at HBS. Whether it is the... View Details
Keywords: Professor Howard Stevenson
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center
categories, including innovation in the technology and biotech sectors, business models, and marketing strategies needed to reach India’s 600 million middle-class consumers. More than a dozen faculty members have already committed to specific research projects... View Details
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Native American Heritage Month | Baker Library
advertisers, and artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries used images of “the Indian” to promote the railroad, market specific messages, or sell a range of products that included coffee and “medicinal” remedies. Want to learn... View Details
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog
seemingly rational ways making logical business decisions, often find their firms in trouble. The course seeks to develop insights into why these things happened and how we should think about them in our future careers. The original course design was by the View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
fundraise the vision into reality. Six years later, the American Writers Museum will open in late spring at 180 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, with Hammer serving as treasurer. “I had been chair of Washington Performing Arts but knew... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
of business operations support, the plucky British expatriate recounts her "life's ups and downs," as she puts it, with humor and grace. One of Barron's first setbacks came in the late 1960s, when she arrived in the United States as a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
Photography by Jason Minick At the age of 16, Fortunat Mueller-Maerki (MBA 1975) was given his first clock, a Viennese desk model from the late 18th century. It came to him from the estate of a distant relative, and wasn’t particularly... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
Dubilier Prize, established in honor of the late Martin Dubilier (MBA '52), cofounder of the LBO firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. The HBS Business Plan Contest was developed by students in 1996 with the cooperation of faculty and MBA Career... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
LBS Picks New Dean
BUCHANAN: LBS an asset to business around the globe. Photo COURTESY LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL When it came time for the London Business School to appoint a new dean, a ten-month global search turned up the right candidate close to home. Late... View Details
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
strategy, as in the case of Nantucket Nectars, founded in the late 1980s and sold to Cadbury Schweppes in 2002. Students study the issues that founders Tom Scott and Tom First had to consider when negotiating the sale. And even the most... View Details
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
Working PapersGlobalizing the Beauty Business Before 1980 Geoffrey G. Jones This working paper examines the globalization of the beauty industry before 1980. This industry, which had emerged in its modern form in the United States during the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Fred M. Gibbons
first high-flying tech-based IPOs. In the late eighties, Gibbons introduced Harvard Graphics which soon dominated the market for high-end graphic presentation software on multiple platforms. Though Software Publishing was later eclipsed... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Back to School
Photographs By Stuart Cahill, Neal Hamberg, And Matt Stone Reunions in late May drew upwards of 1,000 alumni and their families and gave participants a chance to hear more than two dozen HBS faculty present their latest research during a... View Details
- Portrait Project
Justin Ernest
morning before class, afraid that I won’t have the courage to speak in front of 90 peers. Job interviews can be even worse. But as my late father frequently told me: “If you say you can’t, you won’t.” He was right. I can, and I will. 70... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Running faster to compete
Summers spent lobstering in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and a competitive spirit helped the late Jim Knott Sr. (AB 1954, OPM 17, 1991) build a better mouse trap, or, in his case, a better lobster trap. Knott created Aquamesh, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
evidence suggests that the large unexplained gaps between tax and book income that have arisen during the late 1990s are at least partly associated with increased sheltering activity,” writes Desai, who adds that it has become necessary... View Details