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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Reinventing Radio Days
COO—he followed his passion for music and took the helm at Savage Beast Technologies (SBT), a cash-strapped San Francisco start-up. How bad were things at SBT? “The company wasn’t running on fumes,” Kennedy recalls. “The fumes were gone.”... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
Harsh Bhargava (MBA 1977) was visiting his hometown of Jaipur, India, in 1999 when tragedy struck. In the midst of an unemployment crisis during the Kargil War, the government advertised for 120 open positions in the nearby town of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
advertising company from Independent News & Media, an Ireland-based media company that decided to focus on the United Kingdom, and Shell's downstream fuel business (e.g., gas... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
Dozens of blue-chip advertisers have flocked to the site; according to Carpenter, iVillage may be the only private content company with more than $1 million a month in revenue. Although the View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Martin V. Marshall Remembered
retired from the active faculty in 1993, was a marketing and advertising expert whose practice-oriented approach to teaching and course development left a lasting impact on countless Harvard MBA students and business leaders. “Marty was a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
small, regional employment agencies have existed in the space for decades. But Nomad’s digital marketplace is an innovation, allowing clinicians to advertise their availability and health care institutions to View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
they experience the cultural, sexual, and student revolutions and the music of the age. The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us by Ray Fisman (PhDBE 1998) and Tim Sullivan (PublicAffairs) Breakthrough companies... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
Man with a Plan
practice law and head the company for another 15 years. “I had an undergraduate degree in business and a law degree, [but] I knew we needed help with managing our growing business,” Rane said in a recent interview. That’s when he decided... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case
1983) guided his charges through a case about an online company named Neopets. The central question Eisenmann posed was: Should the company grow or stay about the same size? An interactive Web site, Neopets... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
than you are and learn from them. Remember that being a business leader is about giving-not taking-and that you can and must make a difference." Recently named by Fortune as one of the ten greatest CEOs of all time, Jim Burke recommitted Johnson & Johnson to a credo... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
automotive company Aptiv for the first autonomous commercial rollout in 2018. To date, customers have logged about 25,000 driverless rides and awarded them an average of 4.94 out of 5 stars. (A human pilot and copilot tag along, both to... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
require lifelong care; and at about the same time, Tuchman sold his company for a profit. “Those events really shaped the way I invest,” he says. Amid the dot-com boom, when “people were doing a lot of really dumb things with money in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
pursuing a strategy for the Washlet were “gung ho” and suggested a variety of tactics. Students liked TOTO’s “Clean is Happy” advertising campaign but generally agreed that the company needs to start by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
voters would get the chance to choose their administrator of choice. While I am serious about this idea, I know that it can’t work without the input of visionary policymakers who would hammer out all the details. If a company or nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
Continental -- Brier went dot-com in 1998. He cofounded and became president of Priceline Travel, a division of Priceline.com, the e-commerce company that enables its customers to name their own low price for airline tickets, hotel rooms,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
company Mobley to offer an alternative: an affordable way to furnish a home with stylish, quality pieces with a lease of 3 to 12 months, without the burden of ownership. Mobley’s entrée to the $230 billion market for furniture and home... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)
times, and I had given the finest presentation he had ever heard,” recalls Murphy. “That cold call—and HBS—set me on a path to building my self-confidence and developing the skills to succeed in business.” After graduating as a Baker Scholar, Murphy worked in View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
through the Boston medical community, but it set the stage for more major hospital mergers in subsequent years. McArthur served as the founding cochair of the merged entity, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., stepping down in 1996. Jack Connors — cofounder and chairman... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Giving Live Sports Another Dimension
with is how to make the in-stadium experience as valuable, or more valuable, than that of someone sitting at home in front of the television,” says Mariner, senior advisor for Imagination Park, a company focused on augmented reality... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
Amazon purchases accounted for about half of the company’s revenue. But Ford quickly discovered the platform wasn’t a perfect fit. In addition to the 18 percent commissions, she had to advertise with the View Details