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- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
for, back into sole stewardship of a brand new 2nd year MBA course in Channels of Distribution at HBS, heavily over-subscribed (DANGER, DANGER) while consulting for Coca Cola and finishing my PhD thesis on the side. It should perhaps be... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
for 10 years, taking over as CEO in 2011. Match has a three-pronged approach: it runs a system of six public charter schools, manages its own master's degree-granting graduate school of education, and operates a publishing arm that View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Caufield & Byers have invested over $200 million in green technologies; Mark Tercek (MBA 1984) serves as president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy; and Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund.... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
safe to return to the office? Last March, remote work happened—and happened quickly. It’s an ongoing experiment, taking place in real time, which happens to dovetail with Tsedal Neeley’s 20 years of research on the particular challenges of global and virtual teams and... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
snack his company produces from the potatoes grown on the very farm featured in the movie. While not a single package of Terra Chips graced the screen, the company’s behind-the-scenes financial, marketing, and distribution support of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
American and European MNCs. Writing for managers who seek to boost firm performance and for academics interested in organizational design, the authors detail how MNCs can fully tap the value creation potential of their globally View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
intensified as well. "In the last fifteen years," Tufano says, "competition has centered on the most effective means of distributing products; on the quality, immediacy, and depth of information made available to consumers; and on the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
"complementor," the natural counterpart to "competitor." Although you probably know your competitors, chances are you have thought less about your complementors. More to the point, do you know which complementors are missing? Even a great... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
Eacho, left, and Minnick (Getty Images) Congress is at a standstill over carbon. One side wants to regulate emissions as a pollutant; the other fears that any move to regulate oil and gas will impede growth and cost jobs. A compromise... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other natural disasters. As such, “helping people through times of crisis is second nature to Filipinos,” says Alicia Morales (AMP 186), co-president of the HBS Club of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
built his family’s New Jersey–based industrial distribution business over 15 years (to sell to a Fortune 50 company), and then as a consultant to family businesses and international investors. “We’ve witnessed countries mount concerted... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
creation plans.” What is your favorite HBS case and why? Pradhan: “I don’t know if it is my favorite, but a case that comes to mind that I really enjoyed was “Europe, Russia and the Age of Gas Revolution.” I’d always thought about View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
investment banking, law, and management consulting firms — are unique in that they have no products, manufacturing plants, or distribution systems. Their financial success depends entirely upon the capability and performance of their... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
schedule. (In 2018, S’well distributed bottles to every public high school student in New York City, where the company is headquartered, displacing as many as 54 million single-use plastic bottles in one fell swoop. The company also... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
2013 with one product: a shelf-stable chocolate milkshake so tasty that children might not realize nutritious whole foods like vegetables had been snuck in there too. Within two years, Sneakz’s distribution had grown to more than 1,000... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
opportunities with social media, and we’re exploring how we might incorporate this into the curriculum. And alumni have a big impact by being case protagonists. So the curriculum naturally adapts to change. What changes are you seeing in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
vans because back in the 1960s and ’70s—and still now—there was no way to reach the consumer who shopped at mom-and-pop stores. Today their distribution networks are formidable barriers to entry for most competitors in their segments.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
Offspring Beth, MBA '97 John, HBS '03 Hobbies Sailing, skiing Recommended Reading A Conflict of Visions, by Thomas Sowell "Sowell provides important insights into public policy and how it is driven by certain assumptions about human View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
because they don't live close to a physical distribution point or they are exposed to elevated risk of identity theft by carrying around a DD 214 when they do claim benefits. Correcting that injustice motivates me." The two founders... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Harvard University project. Notice the fifty-gallon barrels beside the steps of the houses on the left. This was for storage of kerosene used to heat the apartments. Natural gas or propane would not have... View Details