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- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
raise money by selling merchandise in New York, London, and Tokyo. “It was a win-win for consumers who were able to buy beautiful clothes and bags at discount and still feel like they were doing something View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
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Ellen Harris
career steps that may not be readily obvious. Her background in advertising and marketing, and subsequently Organizational Behavior and Development/Facilitation/Consulting, shaped her belief that students and alumni generally have a good... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
climate change: policy, joining startups or building your own, investing, scaling new technologies in large corporations and beyond. Mitigating emissions requires reimagining entire sections of the economy - from where we live, what we eat, how we move and View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
A self-discovery journey
family someday. I need to live close to a city where there is cultural life. I want strategy. I want operations. I need to work in one or several industries where I can relate to tangible products: hardware, software, consumer View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Metail Economy: 6 Strategies for Transforming Your Business to Thrive in the Me-Centric Consumer Revolution By Joel Bines (MBA 1999) McGraw-Hill Armed with computers, tablets, smartphones, and... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
Product is Worth the Price (37,030) Are consumers more likely to buy if they see the price before viewing the product? Uma Karmarkar and colleagues scan the brains of shoppers to find out. How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
determine if the brand involved had been destroyed in the eyes of consumers. If not, there was a good chance of recovery. In consumer products, you usually aren’t threatened by some radical new technology... View Details
- 06 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities
societal consequences. Despite these challenges, we were inspired by the innovation and resilience at both sites. As MBA students, we saw the immense potential of businesses as a force for good and the power of partnerships. Both... View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
Buffalo. We would use the same basic steps to purchase a pen, generator, or a hammer. The point was to use new technology to take advantage of economies of scale. The executive committee for our company met one month to discuss changes that were needed in our View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
report violations when they observe them, so they are actually violating their ethics code by not reporting violations,” Soltes says. Companies have good reason to try and change that. For starters, firms that have an effective compliance... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
segmentation, and price discrimination through consumer self-selection. I evaluate these perspectives in the context of a major fashion goods firm using newly available and highly granular data. Model-free... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
of both their consumers and regulators. “Usually, with debt collection, the object is to dial for dollars—collect as much as you can in the first phone call, and then outsource the work to the legal system,” says Campbell, whose research... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
some eternal issues of patient care: not only good health, but also quality, choice and trust? To consider these questions, the IS2K conference assembled a panel of experts, with HBS Professor Lynda Applegate as moderator, to talk about... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
someone at the top who says, ‘This will be good for the city‘—and who will make sure it isn't corrupt," said Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (HBS MBA 1987), chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation, one of the largest business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2009
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?
"discovering" their authentic leadership. These often moving descriptions are packaged in a book, True North, to signify that the process is intended to create a personal compass, not a watch, built around the elements of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
It takes more courage, and by the way, everyone can't do it.—Ed Kania Firms do need to focus more than ever on industries they are good at, said Kevin Jacques, senior associate of Sevin Rosen Funds. "It's probably impossible"... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
in revenue—as much as 18 percent of all physical music sales. Consumers covet vinyl as a piece of tangible art in a digital age, but for the indie bands selling those records, it’s not about nostalgia, says Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010). “For... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
didn’t even work—and sent him digging into the larger challenges posed by the pandemic. He soon discovered a gap he knew he could fill: While there was a good deal of clinical research underway, 85 percent of testing, drug, and vaccine... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace