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- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
year visiting stores and employees and personally responds to any e-mail they send him." All of these factors have made QuikTrip a regular on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For. Yet the company's focus on promoting from within presents a dilemma of sorts,... View Details
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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
artists in the 1920s and ’30s the ability to achieve extraordinary nuances in gradations of tone, texture, and saturation. Related industries responded, and by the end of the 1920s photographers could choose from a broad range of paper View Details
- 28 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Making an Impact on the Media Industry with my MBA
experiential learning experiences by taking the Short Intensive Program (SIP), Personal Branding and Business Storytelling, taught by Francesca Gino. I had previously read her book, Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and... View Details
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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
More about what you earn Syllabus 3 Modules, 20-25 Hours Download full syllabus 8 hrs Module 1 The Business Case for Action Understand the business case for change and how to analyze and assess industry disruptions to develop business models that create shared value.... View Details
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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets
volume hope to rectify that with the first scholarly business history of Modern Turkey. 30 Sep 2019 The Conversation What Gandhi believed is the purpose of corporations Geoffrey Jones and Sudev Sheth discuss Gandhi's views on the proper... View Details
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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
reflect on how transformational the experience of joining the board of Cure HHT has been for me and how much I’ve learned in the past year alone. I’ve found purpose in working to solve a big challenge, not just for the disease impacting... View Details
- July 2020
- Case
Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics
By: Steven Rogers, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Alterrell Mills
The co-founders (Black HBS alumnae) of an e-commerce beauty startup explore the unmet needs within the beauty industry. This case study examines the entrepreneurial opportunities that come from identifying an underserved market, specifically within the Black community... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Competition; Customers; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Distribution Channels; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Macroeconomics; Marketing; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Product Design; Product Development; Product Positioning; Sales; Social Issues; Social Marketing; Business Startups; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Venture Capital; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Advertising Industry; Public Relations Industry; Chemical Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
Rogers, Steven, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and Alterrell Mills. "Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics." Harvard Business School Case 321-002, July 2020.
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
service lines, market segments, and competitive positioning. Marketing did the thinking, managed the brand and consumer franchise in consumer goods companies, and provided support to the sales force. In this simpler world, sales did the... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
assigned his patents to La Cellophane Societe Anonyme, a French company formed for the sole purpose of marketing the invention. In 1923, the company licensed to DuPont the exclusive rights to make and sell cellophane in the United States.... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
start date. Can we use Harvard Business School’s logo on our website? We provide brand guidelines and suggested language for our corporate and university clients. Certificates I just completed an HBS Online course. How and when will I... View Details
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
as brand ambassadors, thought leaders, and storytellers. During a time of widespread unemployment and economic uncertainty, the people who have jobs are talking a lot about how their companies are handling the crisis and the transition to... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
analytical knowledge to more of what we call "doing" (skills) and "being" (a sense of purpose and identity) must occur. Business schools need to think innovatively about how best to use the resources available to them. For example, there... View Details
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
"Investors should put more emphasis on how brand IP is managed in the environment rather than on the IP asset itself." Paul Jackson adds that "... it's got to be businesses (that defend IP) ... as laws get in the way of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
Douglas B. Holt says brand managers have little appreciation for how myths in American culture can be used to create "extraordinary" brand-building opportunities. In this e-mail interview, Holt discusses a recent working paper... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel
head started spinning: Okay, what did I see here? What are the implications?” As a researcher, Ofek’s interests include toy brands, and he’s written more than one case study in the space, as well as “the tension between purpose and... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
organizations, a deep sense of purpose was their key to growth. Humans are wired to find meaning in what we do, and tapping into that can have a transformative effect on an organization—and the people who work there. Here, in a... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
has to create a branded experience that goes beyond the purely transactional—one that aims to build a relationship with the customer and communicate the brand in an experiential way. There’s still a View Details
- July 2015 (Revised April 2016)
- Case
Lomography: Analog in a Digital World
By: John T. Gourville, Karol Misztal and Emer Moloney
In spite of the world's move to digital photography, in 2013 Lomography continues to design and offer analog (film) cameras to a loyal following of artistic photographers. Now it must decide whether to stick to its traditional offerings, to expand into artistic lenses... View Details
Keywords: Positioning; Product Lines; Product Line Management; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Brands and Branding; Fine Arts Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry
Gourville, John T., Karol Misztal, and Emer Moloney. "Lomography: Analog in a Digital World." Harvard Business School Case 516-006, July 2015. (Revised April 2016.)
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
and mix freely. It hummed with activity. On a tour that first day, she was struck by just how animated the animation studio was—with frank discussions and heated arguments in every corner. And yet, as she spent more time there, she began to discern a commonality of... View Details
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Paola Lara
Procter & Gamble by a friend, Paola quickly established herself as a talented manager in the company’s Venezuelan and Chilean offices, assuming significant responsibilities for leading brands such as Head & Shoulders and Pantene.... View Details