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- 25 Aug 2022
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The Great Priority Reset
1998), CEO of the global airports and travel retail group daa plc since 2017. (He starts a new role as CEO of UK-based food manufacturer Greencore this fall.) This idea of “travel with intention” is a key trend in the industry that... View Details
- 17 Mar 2020
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A Bid for the Future
included growing the tech sector through a large investment in computer-science education. That idea would become the centerpiece for the commonwealth’s bid for the Amazon headquarters. “People think about economic development folks... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Rent the Runway Sets Up Shop at Neiman Marcus
the Journal notes, dates back to 2008, when Hyman first met with Nieman Marcus president Jim Gold (MBA 1991). Ms. Hyman, then at Harvard, convinced Mr. Gold to meet her to discuss a potential job, and mentioned she’d had an idea for an... View Details
- 24 Jun 2016
- News
Reinventing Pharma
(photo by Claire Pearson for eyeforpharma) (photo by Claire Pearson for eyeforpharma) The newly appointed Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Novartis Pharma is bringing ideas from her time at HBS to drive an evolution of the... View Details
- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Real-World Learning for the Digital Generation
Marc Prensky (MBA 1980) is founder and executive director of the Global Future Education Foundation and Institute, which is promoting new educations goals for 21st-century learners. In this video, he explains the basis of his ideas for... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
attention, Matthews remains focused on new ideas and new opportunities to bring change to people who need it. “It truly is a question of, How do you execute on this invention? What do you have to do to make it come to life and reach the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2014
- News
Building a Startup Community Beyond Commencement
became a “pain point” for her. “That’s when they need us the most,” says Goldstein, a 20-year vet of the Boston startup scene. Click here for a behind-the-scenes look at the Launch Lab. (Video) In early 2013, Goldstein took the idea for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World
life, and we need to strive for balance. Is the idea of privacy generational? Allegra Jordan (MBA 1995), Chapel Hill, North Carolina Young people don't seem to care as much about their online privacy as their elders do, but we've all... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan
the country in the 1970s and 1980s - ideas such as lifetime employment, cross-shareholding, and keiretsu (Japanese corporate groupings) - are currently undergoing fundamental changes and offer fascinating research possibilities. With the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Selling Digital Privacy
that they set cunning against cunning and self-adjust to technological innovation.” Although he admits that selling personal information is a difficult idea to embrace, Deighton believes it is one whose time has come. “The challenge is to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Where Are They Now?
driven to test my ideas in real-world settings.” And might he one day teach again? “I’ve never planned to do anything I’ve done, so the notion of planning to be doing something else does not register. Which means, who knows?” View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
partial corporate funding could then be sold to prospective investors as a way to kick-start things. — HBS Senior Lecturer Jeff Bussgang I do like the idea of offering an upfront prepay deal. Like your business, mine (different industry)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Doctoral Alumni Take Stage
presentations, panel discussions, and dinner at the Spangler Center. “The idea behind YARD is to create a community of HBS scholars, from doctoral students, recent graduates, and HBS faculty,” says Dianne Le, associate director of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
The Wisdom of Crowds
ago, and he’s now its COO. Zagat (pronounced “zuh-GAT”) worked for the company while at HBS and came up with the idea of introducing nightlife guides, which have become a successful part of the business, the Boston Globe reported (July... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
idea. Some think it is cool but get distracted by the next cool idea that comes along. Some embrace the concept for a time but give up because implementing it is too hard. And a few fully commit to the model and get incredible results.... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
Whitman explains Quibi’s great gambit: by doing for short-form mobile media what HBO did for premium television, the company (whose name is shorthand for “quick bites”) will revolutionize the way we watch video on our phones. The idea was... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
Elizabeth Dole dropped out of the race? It was partly a campaign finance issue. Whether you agreed with her policy ideas or not, her departure from the campaign was regrettable, as is the fact that women have not yet broken through the... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
ideas can come from anywhere — inside or outside, up or down an organization.” Sorrell, whose firm places up to one-third of all the advertising seen around the world, addressed the challenges WPP Group faces in developing a global... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
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A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
different." To achieve that, the company follows a process that features a continuous series of brainstorming sessions, where new concepts are presented to a "product planning council" representing all parts of the organization, from engineers and operations experts to... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details