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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
app with a cheap, cheerful, low-friction ethos. The items in the app’s feed are customized based on your online habits, no doubt leveraging the company’s strong technology around contextual ad targeting. The... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Bone Health Technologies Laura Yecies (MBA 1988), CEO Concept: OsteoBoost, a wearable vibration belt that is designed to treat osteopenia and prevent osteoporosis by reducing bone loss and encouraging bone growth.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
their experience, real estate, and logistics. In exchange, you can expand their product offerings and grow their customer segment. —Cindy Park (PLDA 12, 2013) Here are my quick thoughts based on years of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies seldom make sense to managers, given their corporate perspective. There are two reasons for this. First, customers exert tremendous influence over managers' decisions and the directions they pursue. Since View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
which opened in San Luis Obispo, California, in 1996, was an instant hit, with its open kitchen where customers could watch bakers in action and smell the intoxicating aromas of breads baking all day long. It offered a simple selection of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
South Asian diaspora and the South Asia–curious, that launched in 2017. It’s an open tent for anyone who’s interested in the region and its people, and most of our subscribers are currently from the United States. Michael Aft: The New Paper is a subscription news... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
management in colleges and universities. What the Customer Wants You to Know: How Everybody Needs to Think Differently about Sales by Ram Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) (Penguin Group) To upgrade the productivity of a company’s sales force,... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
An extraordinary career based on the development of innovative, cutting-edge technology products was launched twenty years ago from the front row of an Aldrich Hall classroom. Crunching numbers for case studies late into the night was... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Initiative at Arthur Andersen, in their new book, Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM. Based on interviews with IBM executives, company records, and surveys of the company's customers, Broken Promises is a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
development cycles and can't respond in mid-project to changing customer needs. But there's a solution to this dilemma, according to HBS assistant professor Stefan H. Thomke and Donald G. Reinertsen (MBA '79) of Reinertsen & Associates in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
a short, traditional text with a living website and cover such fundamental topics as accounting and tax, mortgages, capital markets, REITs and more. It also addresses the 2008 financial crisis and its impact on the real-estate profession. View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
told Bulletin readers that they were puzzling over how to expand the customer base of Saga, a mobile app that they cofounded to help families share stories in an audio format. They were wavering between... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
industry’s growth from a small base in the U.S. North-east in the 1960s to today’s highly visible role in economies all over the world. Brooke lays out his vision for the industry as an essential element of economic growth and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
that can't tell you exactly how much our customers have on deposit. We have 35-year-old systems for maintaining records on tape files. Our collection process and compliance examinations are months or years behind, largely due to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
one year he’s grown revenues by 44 percent and increased his customer base by 32 percent. No matter what kind of businesses we create or what kind of infrastructure is built, it can all be destroyed in the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
which was part of the appeal. I felt a connection to the customers they serve.” In his internship at Facily (conducted remotely in 2020 due to the pandemic), Westphal utilized his experience in investing to help the company gear up to... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
Sciences (SEAS), and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences debuted the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP), an online certificate offering for executives focused on quantitative analysis and data science. A few months later, the first... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
based upon cost, customization, or convenience, and they can start winning business at the lower end." Profit is maximized, the authors suggest, in situations where product quality is not yet meeting View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
to freeride and freestyle skis that can be used to navigate obstacles and jumps in terrain parks and away from established runs. Based in Verbier, Switzerland, Hoye and cofounder Tony McWilliam started the company in 2006—the same year... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
Photo Courtesy MATTHEW R. SIMMONS In his new book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67) sounds an alarm about a finite resource that he believes is running dry. View Details