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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
can rack up U.S. box office receipts of just over $380 million (not including consumer product tie-ins), and unexpected hits like Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ grossed $370 million in 2004, earning a respectable third-place... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
scrappy,” she recalls. “I learned a lot about the community-building aspects of consumer marketing. That experience has been totally relevant to what we’re doing at sweetriot.” When the start-up siren call got too strong, Endline began... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
drove productivity in the IT sector. These entrepreneurs, and so many others, have fundamentally improved our economy by making goods and services better, cheaper, and more accessible. But can you name any innovators in our bloated,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
concerned about what I should do with my life. I knew I wanted a career in business, but it wasn't until I was at HBS that I grasped that business could be a force for good in society. We were constantly reminded of the importance of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
one time, consumers readily shared personal information. Recently, however, many customers have begun to bristle when asked personal questions. They wonder: Who else is privy to this information? What's in it for me? In their 1996 working... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
Joseph L. Bower. Relatively new to her position as vice president and general manager of North Carolina/South Carolina Consumer Services at BellSouth Telecommunications, Gloria R. Cockerham enrolled in TGM last spring, because she wanted... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
any type is a thorny problem at every stage — innovation, funding, product development, and distribution. “Big companies are not particularly good at innovating, and incumbents are very good at protecting... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
Ferracone replies, “I think so. A good leader is accountable for the performance of the organization and stands up to it in every respect, including with his or her compensation. If a leader’s compensation is excessive relative to the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
three kids. Mindful of his relative ignorance of the niche business, Holley immersed himself. He learned all about the thermoforming process (which uses heat-formed plastic instead of fiberglass) that Eddyline pioneered, and he occasionally helped out with shipping and... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
Launches DKMS, the cure blood cancer bank 1993 Becomes CEO, Coty Inc. 2001 Appointed Chairman, Coty Inc. 2006 Appointed Chairman, Anheuser-Busch InBev With entrepreneurial energy, Peter Harf has left a mark on consumer View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
assertive." As an undergraduate at Northwestern, she discovered an aptitude for design while working in the college print shop. Following that path to New York's Pratt Institute, she earned a master's degree in package design. "At Pratt... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Healthy Profit
of Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business. “But if you have a norovirus outbreak on a weeklong cruise with 5,000 people, and that vessel has to port and the cruise is canceled, that loss will cost Royal Caribbean a fourteenth of its annual... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry
offer. Shaich will remain as CEO of the operation. “Most people [here], they’ve been pushed to think in ways they’ve never been pushed to think about before,” Shaich told the Globe. Though those lessons add up to good management... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
find the right opportunities; how to package yourself to make sure you secure an interview; how important preparation is for an interview so that you are relaxed and give a great performance; how to show your passion and ask the perfect... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
with individuals from Kraft, Procter & Gamble, or almost any name-brand consumer goods company you’d care to name. Aside from our 99ers, these long-term relationships are probably our most valuable asset... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
But China will not become a land without farmers or rural industries overnight, and those hundreds of millions of people will need to access the social safety net that allows them to consume if the domestic market is to continue to grow... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
institutions. These institutions represent powerful constraints on the ability of the government to fund reforms, of firms to write contracts, and of citizens to enforce their basic rights. Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
Famed designer Donna Karan's keynote closed the Retail & Luxury Goods Club's annual conference, but some of the 400 attendees wanted more: Karan reportedly stuck around to chat with students for more than an hour and a half. Former US... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
As the opening presenter at the two-day conference, sponsored by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, Christensen made the case for how disruptive innovation could give consumers access to simpler, less expensive, quality care.... View Details