by Peter Jacobs - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Oct 2024
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Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting

with each other. The HBS Alumni Board, whose members are selected from a pool of active and committed volunteer leaders, represents the global HBS alumni community. Members serve as resources for the Dean, faculty, staff, and students by... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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Donors Praised for Fellowship Support

Student speaker Peter Michailidis (MBA ’11) also expressed gratitude for his fellowships, funded by David M. Hicks (MBA ’60) and George M. Humphrey. “I did not have the resources to fund my MBA, but I was... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Streamlining the Supermarket

boring stuff are gathered for them. “The name of the company, TakeOff—to us it means freedom,” says Aguerrevere. Illustration by Peter Hoey 1.Using a smartphone or web browser, you select from as many as... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

19 Aug 2016
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Using Technology to Help Reclaim Lives from Addiction

“Lionrock is my revenge against addiction,” says Peter Loeb (MBA 1991), cofounder and chief executive of Lionrock Recovery, the largest online addiction recovery program in the US and Canada. “This venture is part of my healing.” A... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Case Study: Declawing the Competition

Illustration by Peter Arkle KitNipBox is a monthly subscription service for cat owners. Each box contains products designed to keep cats happy, healthy, and fit: toys, treats, health and hygiene products,... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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Ink

Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, by Peter L. Bernstein, and The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, by Hernando de Soto From a... View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

conditions," Peter Tufano observes. For his part, Fidelity's Johnstone remains bullish about the investment management industry. He sees the currently favorable investment climate, helped by baby-boomer... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Feb 2001
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The Doctor Is In

Dr. Peter L. Slavin (MBA '90) nods toward a long line stretching back from a gourmet coffee counter. "That's one of our most utilized facilities," he says with a smile. "The joke around here is that the hospital operation is a loss leader... View Details

Keywords: healthcare; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way

1970s," says Andrews, "a number of firms, many headed by HBS alumni, set an example for other companies by eliminating racial discrimination and, in certain cases, by... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

01 Apr 1998
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New Releases

traditional business practices. Fueled by the Internet, the Information Age allows companies to create infrastructures to connect with their customers electronically. With this connection they can sense their customers' needs in real time... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Laura Scher of Working Assets

Most of the money is taken from revenues generated by the Working Assets credit card, long-distance telephone, and Internet businesses, whose customers sign on for these services because they support the company's progressive stance and... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

26 Jan 2021
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Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

says Greub. “We see outsized returns in female founders and women’s health companies, but the two are being ignored, or overlooked, or misunderstood.” For the HBSANC panel, Greub was joined by Stasia Obremskey (MBA 1987), Directing... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

history courses today. The first HBS course designed specifically to teach entrepreneurial management - The Management of New Enterprises - was introduced in 1947, one of several HBS initiatives undertaken to address the unique circumstances presented View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

what makes these CEOs tick and how they manage their most valuable assets. Research Methodology: The Aims, Practices and Ethics of Science by Peter Pruzan (MBA 1959) (Springer) This in-depth guide to... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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At Your Service

Frei and Morriss: No heroics, please—partner with customers to make strategic service choices instead of trying to be the best at everything. In their new book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; customer service; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Sep 2016
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Feedback

June 2016 (Cover illustration by Victo Ngai) Our new podcast Not everything we learn as we’re assembling the Bulletin makes it into print. Our alumni interview subjects often have more to say—additional perspectives or personal... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

organizations which has largely overlooked the changing design of executive power and the means of senior executives, who have more leeway to construct their roles than managers at any other organizational layer. F.A.R.T.: Top Secret! No Kids Allowed! View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Labs Enable Large-scale Research

Illustrations from VectorStock.com The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) aims to supercharge HBS’s research agenda by applying a lab-based model similar to that used by the scientific... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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The Future of Stem Cells

stem-cell R&D will almost certainly fade,” explains HBS professor Debora Spar, “because determined would-be buyers and sellers will eventually constitute a market of their own, either by circumventing the law or View Details