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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
When it comes to marketing next season’s trends, the brightest fashion brains rely on more than just last year’s numbers. They also tap into their own innate, if unscientific, intuition—what Trendalytics’ Karen Moon (MBA 2008) calls “the art View Details
Howard R. Hughes, Jr.
Hughes began his business career at the age of nineteen by taking over his father’s business, Hughes Tool Company. Hughes parlayed this small business into a highly successful and well-regarded aircraft manufacturing operation. Through... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
class.” Paine and the other LCA faculty members will teach the course again next year. She describes creating the course as like planning a long trip. “You spend a lot of time thinking about your itinerary and imagining different... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
A conversation with Nancy Koehn, author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust From Wedgwood to Dell, HBS Press, 2001. "I am just fascinated by the power, the quirks, the determination, and the durability View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Perfection’s Price
“start-ups are about speed to market. You get in there and learn and react quickly.” Kaplan grew up immersed in the plus-size retail world of the Lane Bryant chain, founded over a century ago by his... View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
care delivery system. By focusing on greater value, the issues of who should be covered (access) and what should be covered will be easier to resolve. While policy changes to require informational disclosure and to align incentives can... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
stalled. Eager to succeed in his new role in Paris, Jianguo has lots of fresh ideas, but they seem to be falling on deaf ears. Members of the executive team, for their part, find Jianguo to be largely... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
at Entrepreneurial Speed For Peter Michailidis (MBA 2011) the financial aid he received while attending HBS made it possible for him to follow his dreams and make a difference in the world. “The fellowship reduced my debt, so I could... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
inevitable. However, little evidence exists regarding whether harmonizing accounting standards will result in actual harmonization of accounting practices. Using a sample of non-US firms that adopt US GAAP... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
simulate it, which means, on the computer, you would launch a golf ball at it and watch it come off. And the simulation program would measure the speed the golf ball was moving at, its spin, all that. And it would give you a really good... View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
each branch of the armed services must make. Army and Marine Corps officers operate in an inherently uncertain environment. They define the mission but then give subordinates the flexibility to adjust to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
where you are and catch up. At the beginning of every school year, getting kids back up to speed has always been an issue, but it’s going to be that much bigger this year. If I were a district administrator,... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
the few years it has operated in the U.S.—or adjust elements of its model? Should it look to acquire established providers or possibly even franchise the brand? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/819038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-005 BancoSol and Microfinance in Bolivia BancoSol, a microfinance bank headquartered in La Paz, Bolivia, was forced to adjust its lending strategy and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
of new fintech entrepreneurs began to change that by improving the speed and ease of the small business customer experience, and making their financial activity more visible to... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
as a pull instrument. Given that shrinking release times can also have important disadvantages for movie marketers (e.g., it necessitates additional costs of movie prints, limits possibilities to adjust... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
faculty, students, staff, and alumni groups about the challenges we face and the opportunities we see, the few important initiatives that I've heard individuals tell me about. First, I think implementing with speed and urgency the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
this article, I outline an agenda for strengthening the links between key institutions. Leaders, I argue, should focus on four goals: 1) linking knowledge creation to venture creation to speed the conversion View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak
and 47 minutes—29 minutes faster than any woman before her. The record she hasn’t broken—yet: The original objective was to break the speed record from the park entrance to the Aconcagua summit as part of an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
values and tried many times to formulate the distinctive characteristics of the various services." In essence, the "Navy spokesmen attempted to distinguish between the Army as a 'manpower' organization and the Navy as a finely... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat