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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
is filling a market need, and the first-year revenue response is confirmatory. Since many events like weddings are planned far in advance, I suspect that Clay can still deploy a consignment model until it builds up the needed inventory by... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
Always impressive, the annual conferences organized by HBS student clubs bring together industry leaders, alumni, and students for meetings marked by informative discussions of key business issues. Earlier this year, gatherings sponsored... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
and the business of movies, both concepts of which were totally new to the trio. “We didn’t go into this as a vanity project,” observes Munger. “We did our due diligence first, knowing there are enormous risks involved but that they’re... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
giving advice and not being in the position to actually execute it." Today, as president and CEO of CNBC, the financial news network viewed in almost 200 million households worldwide, the Detroit native's job is all about execution. Her dual role includes overseeing... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
entrant in last year's HBS Business Plan Contest) and several other situations as solid research topics, Darwall and Roberts gathered information and lined up contacts for Katz so that he could "hit the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
so, as they're responding, I'm literally writing, like an HBS facilitator, on the board, and writing their responses. What they don't know is, as I'm doing that, I'm engineering, or re-engineering, what I'm planning to discuss as a part... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
and planned to get her money's worth." Keep those cards and letters coming! February 1, 1928 Theodore Sander, Jr., has resigned his position with Goldman, Sachs & Company and has been appointed assistant sales manager of the Royal Baking... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
It's been a busy autumn at HBS. In September, the School successfully launched its first-ever capital campaign (see coverage). A few weeks later, the fall reunions were very well attended. The Alumni Board then held a productive meeting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
TUFANO: His new consumer finance elective is part of a broader effort to legitimize the field as an important area for research and teaching. Last spring HBS became the first top-ranked U.S. business school to offer a course in consumer... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
native English speaker, and I have carried those learnings and me into my new role. I'm CEO of Sodexo's US business for one of their lines of activity. So, I think it has made me just a better, more effective, more compassionate leader.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
1990s, she recalls, “I had dozens of people walking through the door with business plans for InStyle.com or Time.com that were essentially trying to sell me my own content.” The situation, she reflects,... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
as a business student at nearby Brigham Young University, pursing a degree in organizational behavior. The original plan was to go into accountancy, but a finance internship was enough to convince her that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
written a series of case studies on Minneapolis–St. Paul, Charlotte, and Detroit that look at the initiatives business leaders in those regions have launched to improve competitiveness. How do you plan to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
wave of new business ventures in areas such as microcomputers, software programs, and hardware-related peripheral equipment that has changed the world forever. "During the early '80s, I'd get a lot of View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
socialist state, a land of overarching regulation rather than of opportunity. "As a result, there was no entrepreneurship, and businesses couldn't do a thing without government approval," recalls Rahul Bajaj, a member of one of India's... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
didn't plan for those to be control areas on our survey work, but that's what they've become. And the results are dramatically different in those geographic areas where we never ran any ads, where we never did anything. Hanna: Jim, as... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
moments of a boy’s life. Silent Winds, Dry Seas is a poetic, powerful, and universal novel of identity and place, of the legacies of colonialism, tradition, modernity, and emigration, and of what a family will sacrifice for its children to thrive. Direct Selling: A... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
Immelt had spent his second year at HBS reflecting on his career path, and he decided that he was more interested in being an operator than an investor, accepting a position with a lower salary at GE. Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) His initial View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
happiness and altruism, the psychology of cheating, and our amazing ability to rationalize our questionable behavior. Almost all have implications for business as well as public policy. He plans further... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
patented, and whether or not a viable company could be based on it. This is pre–business plan stuff. It’s still so far out there that it’s not clear it will ever have any commercial impact. So the scientists and engineers on the teams... View Details