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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, Bilmes began her career at the Boston Consulting Group, focusing on cost structures in large-scale industries where fractional commodity fluctuations result in global price shifts. After she was... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Dec 2009
- News
In the Zone
Geoffrey Canada on a number of large and small special assignments, including a two-year project that analyzed and streamlined the organization’s database so that the information can be used by staff to improve the programs and services... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
photo by Clara Molden / Camera Press / Redux Corporate turnarounds aren’t known for being a walk in the park. “Anybody who does what I do has to be incredibly resolute, to the point of bloody-minded, about the need to fracture an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Open Canvas
“that kind of broke our backs because it was so expensive,” he recalls. In 2003, on the brink of collapse, the Vaziranis sold most of their private art collection to bootstrap the business. It was a turning point, allowing the time to capitalize on the trust and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
earning a $15,000 runner-up prize. Shortly thereafter, the three founded Sonation and renamed the product Cadenza. Chao and her cofounders met with Apple last fall and are focused on developing an iPad and iPhone app for Cadenza, the first in a series of products... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
HICKS Illustration by Joe Ciardiello Jeff Hicks (MBA ’97) arrived at HBS with ten years of experience as an advertising executive at Leo Burnett in Chicago. Disillusioned with the trend toward “unbundling” agencies into different... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Delivering Trust
Illustration by Marcos Chin Illustration by Marcos Chin When they married, Deborah and Jake Anderson (MBA 2010) knew that they might have difficulty starting a family due to a preexisting medical condition.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
Illustrations by Chris Gash Illustrations by Chris Gash It sounded like a cynical money grab, a 90-minute commercial that no adult would willingly watch. But The LEGO Movie, released in 2014, surprised... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
legislative bills and trying to pass a budget; we are now in an emergency-management situation,” he recalls. Difficult as that time was, it set Simmons up as the perfect candidate for his next role. In April 2021, after Cardona was appointed View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
Dick: From Les Bizerables to Hollywood and the Emmys. Courtesy Leonard Dick It’s been “a very kooky couple of weeks” for television writer Leonard Dick (MBA ’90). Season Three of the critically acclaimed CBS show The Good Wife premieres on Sunday, September 25, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Boosting Boardroom Diversity
accelerate that trend. In addition to helping senior women executives develop the knowledge and skills sought by boards, the weeklong program (next offered in November) demystifies board selection and offers the opportunity to explore... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
structure is a textbook duopoly, they add, surrounded by a “political industrial complex” of special interests, donors, and lobbyists, resulting in competition that fails to deliver what citizens should expect: practical and effective... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
Howard Stevenson (photo by Stuart Cahill) Howard Stevenson (photo by Stuart Cahill) [Editor's note: This article was updated November 25, 2019] As former dean of External Relations, longtime faculty member... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
developing “ecosystem” for starting new ventures. HBS professor Lynda Applegate moderated the event, which was inspired by a case she coauthored with Alexander Meyer (MBA 2005), SAP vice president of global business development. “Rising... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
products—such as price and the number of similar products sold at the same time—that we could map to features of new products as a way to predict demand. We also took into account the need to price multiple products in the same category at the same time, since demand... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community security model piloted View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
Cashing in on the $60 billion global luxury goods market has never been tougher — or more rewarding. Competition is keen. And consumer preferences are constantly shifting, causing the concept of luxury itself to change over time. As a result, the market’s most... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
Lead to Rome, a one-off elective course team-taught by HBS professor Frances Frei (left) and Harvard history and classics professor Emma Dench (right), juxtaposed ancient texts by Julius Caesar, Seneca,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
GROUP DYNAMIC: (Clockwise from bottom) Andrew Saunders, Sonia Sahney, Tyler Koop, Courtney Hughes, and Peter Stone. Not pictured: Amyn Pesnani Photographs by Webb Chappell For this year’s feature on the School’s newest alumni, we selected... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
(photo by Cade Martin) At my 20th HBS reunion I heard faculty member Michael Wheeler describe behavior people engage in when they’re being deceptive. The room was transfixed. No one was on their phone! It turned out there is a robust,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna