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  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Faculty Books

operations covering widely recognized brands including Lipton, Hellmann’s, Birds Eye, Ben & Jerry’s, Dove, Sunsilk, and Pond’s. Taking advantage of full access to corporate archives and executives, Jones discusses Unilever’s strategies to... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Negative Ad Power

Political candidates are often said to be marketed just like consumer products. But there’s a big difference. Consumer marketers such as Coke and Pepsi or Toyota and Ford focus on building up their brand, not on tearing down their... View Details
Keywords: John A. Quelch;Katherine E. Jocz; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)

managing call centers for insurance companies but wanted to switch from telephonic to face-to-face service, so I decided to focus on restaurants. I spent the first year at HBS researching the industry and settled on desserts. They are the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; desserteries; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 31 Jan 2023
  • News

Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups

that thesis and focus on operational efficiencies and profitability. This runs counter to the model and doesn’t seem like it’s a narrative that will last forever. However, we know it’s here to stay at least... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • Web

Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog

leadership to the often-messy reality of rolling up one's sleeves and getting things done. It takes the point of view of a leader who: (1) is new to a situation, (2) must take action, and (3) is asked to operate within a system that she... View Details
  • 28 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

Lal says. “But 80 to 90 percent of mobile money operations are failures.” “If you don’t identify the right problem, the rest of it will not go anywhere” His research shows that companies are starting their market analyses in the wrong... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Yoga Inc.

meditation: Can yoga lose its spiritual focus and still be profitable? Yoga first appeared in sacred Hindu texts as a means to broaden consciousness, calm the mind, even mystically inhabit the bodies of other beings. The current notion of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

WATER Ltd.

for-profit, or “investor-owned,” entities, with the remaining 85 percent operated by municipalities themselves, the Environmental Protection Agency says that the U.S. water industry needs $500 billion of infrastructure investment over the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Double Vision

change your attitude about the brand. RESULTS: Just like the product focus ads, these reap immediate online sales but drive fewer people to the websites in general. And while you can't buy beer online—even the Internet has its limits—the... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

challenging the modern supermarkets. Since its founding in 1995, BIM has adhered to a business model based on a relentless focus on costs and operational efficiency, built on private labels and an unswerving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jan 2012
  • Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing
  • 03 Mar 2014
  • HBS Case

Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato

supermarkets over independent shops and the fact that processed tomatoes were considered a commodity, fierce competition for miniscule profits was the norm. So Francesco decided to close Mutti's side businesses in cheese and cattle and View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 08 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

assigned to a team led by another woman, the experience was revelatory. “I could see myself in that more senior role,” she says. Still, Eberle Walker had never envisioned herself on the path to CEO. Her mentors were chief operating... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • 13 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

flying high in the sky and low to the ground, over water and below the treeline. I led organizations ranging in size from 17 soldiers to 120, in missions both operational and maintenance support. Yet one consistent theme throughout all of... View Details
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Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library

aim to support the research and curriculum of the Harvard Business School today and into the future. Collection activities focus on the career and professional development needs of our MBA students and alumni, as well as on access to... View Details
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

figured out the business model, bringing the operation to scale is a necessity for their own bottom line. Investments will flow automatically without many gut-wrenching debates on theories of economic development and so on. That is the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

appealing, then boosting the company’s sales and marketing capacity and acquisition tactics to suit each industry. The biggest challenge with this approach, Sambvani explains, is having enough resources for the sales and marketing needs of multiple industries.... View Details
Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Jan 2005
  • News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

company's long-term viability. The strategy paid off, with sales jumping well over 50 percent in the first year alone. Under intense scrutiny, Gerstner then reversed a plan to split IBM into independently operated "Baby Blues," choosing... View Details
  • 19 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

registration process. We’re the TurboTax of carbon credits, allowing you to focus on the science while we support the rest. PARALLEL - Abdullah Al-Shakarchi (MBA 2024) - We convert vehicle lots into utility-scale storage through DC... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning

deliver programming by then newly launched HBX (now called Harvard Business School Online). Fast forward six years and online learning—and the need for it—has evolved significantly, leading the School to expand and move the operation onto... View Details
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