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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
One day in 2010 the CEO of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced that thousands of employees would soon conduct business in a tongue most of them knew nothing about: English. Within days all the signs at the Tokyo headquarters were in the new language. Founding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
solve supply-chain issues, Minnick and her team can help businesses mitigate disasters; and they can provide data to first responders as well, sharing imagery of unfolding events such as fires and floods on social media channels through... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 07 Nov 2018
- News
A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis
access a safe drink of water, and one in three people lack access to adequate sanitation. We can channel the opportunities that we've had, the insights that we've had, the relationships that we've forged, to solve one of these great... View Details
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
first tried to transition to private equity from consulting, looking for more ownership over his work. Because the consulting company he worked for wasn't targeted by private equity, he had to go out and sell himself. "Traditional recruiting View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
business when I was only 27.” Batten is a visionary entrepreneur and business leader who built Landmark Communications, Inc., based in Norfolk, Virginia, into a multimedia enterprise consisting of dozens of newspapers and specialty publications, several television... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
which has helped transform 160 acres of land around the Houston Ship Channel into an expansive green space, with hiking and biking trails, a bat sanctuary, a skate park, and an amphitheater that is home to the city’s Fourth of July... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
firsthand experience: He spent seven weeks during January and February helping the field leadership of five United Nations relief agencies develop overall strategy and serving as deputy director for Mercy Corps, an innovator in entrepreneurial disaster relief. He plans... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
much a reader-centric company. Will bookstores survive in this changing industry? MA: Yes. Our goal is to maintain the most diversified marketplace possible and to strengthen the physical bookstore channel of distribution. Now, you can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
to help launch the product once they created a commercially viable recipe. In January 2013, they debuted their chocolate milk shake in the natural grocery channel (including Whole Foods Market and Sprouts Farmers Market). Over the course... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
'75) ((Amazon Digital Services)) Frank Batten: The Untold Story of the Founder of the Weather Channel by Connie M. Sage ((University of Virginia Press)) Smarter Branding without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
provide a convenient and confidential channel for patients to share feedback on such things as the quality of care they received and the cleanliness of the facility they visited, as well as any incidences of abuse—reports that have long... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Trek Talk
The tradition of the HBS “trek” continued this year with hundreds of future graduates pounding the pavement and working the HBS network to investigate career options near and far. In early January, while one group of Eurotrekkers crossed the View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
chair. Key figures in the initiative credit Whitehead with playing a pivotal role in the program’s success. Professor emeritus Jim Austin, a cofounder and former chair of SEI, calls Whitehead “an extraordinary social entrepreneur who envisioned how HBS could View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
wanted to find a way to channel his frustration into something productive and realized that creating pedagogic material [see related story] on these issues could be powerful. For Desai, it was important to go beyond featuring a Black... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
"All of us are naturally fascinated with pathology, with what can go wrong, but we must look at the whole. Derivatives have opened up multiple channels of financial flows, and there is less risk with that than with a single channel," he... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
on all of its flights. While the feature film itself was not shown on flights, a companion documentary film about Terra and the LaJoie farm that the filmmakers shot simultaneously was shown on the JetBlue channel during every flight.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
is one of the key reasons why I wrote my book. Back in 2006, Chris Anderson [author of the The Long Tail] got people thinking that new technology would change what consumers would be choosing and, therefore, what content producers should be making. His theory was that... View Details