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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
after he graduated from HBS, when Loews bought Bulova in 1979. “Although Bulova had a strong brand name,” he explains, “we soon realized it was losing out to its Japanese competitors in technology, styling, quality, marketing, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
between ideas from unrelated fields; challenging common wisdom; scrutinizing the behavior of customers, suppliers, and competitors to find new ways of doing things; constructing interactive experiences and provoking unorthodox responses... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)
its competitors in the hunt for talent in the high-stakes, trilliondollar finance industry. Ratio’s focus is on search for private equity and hedge fund firms, and its founders’ strategy for winning in that specialized, competitive market... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
Corporation and led the creation of AltaVista Internet Software Inc., an Internet search and software subsidiary. In the first year alone, she grew AltaVista's popularity, brand awareness, and revenues, driving it ahead of competitors... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
Southeast states. (Fans recommend the Cold Mountain Winter Ale and award-winning Black Mocha Stout.) "Highland is well-known for its support of the Asheville community," notes Baker. "It's an especially interesting business because it's a locally based and growing... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
that trigger a director's resignation. Section 8 of the Clayton Act, for example, prohibits a person from serving as a director or officer of competitors (to avoid possible antitrust complications). A new job may preempt time and... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
"Since well before biblical times, the basic unit of commerce has been the family," explains HBS senior lecturer John A. Davis, coauthor of Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the Family Business, who helped create the program. "Family companies can be the most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
$18 billion per year. And because Wal-Mart forces its competitors to charge lower prices as well, this figure is a fraction of the company’s real impact. These kinds of savings to customers far exceed the costs that Wal-Mart allegedly... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
cofounded Boundless Immigration, a Seattle-based startup that streamlines the processes for applying for a marriage green card—permission for a US citizen’s non-citizen spouse to live and work permanently in the United States—and US citizenship. (In September, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
outside the banking system. BancoSol's success has spawned competitors in both the nonprofit and formal financial sectors that are eager to serve microentrepreneurs. Every Bolivian political party now includes microenterprise as part of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
comparisons of performance among industry competitors and to measure whether owners could actually affect performance over time." Kang's data reveal that there were 81 publicly held U.S. textile firms in 1983 whereas by 1992 only 47 such... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
time," Tumulty recalls. "The paper was owned by Hearst, and our chief competitor was published by Rupert Murdoch. It was a classic newspaper war, with dueling headlines along the lines of 'Baby Eats LSD' and 'Pregnant Cat Gunned Down.'"... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
of profitability. But those changes have made a level playing field for everyone; there’s no competitor of size that is not now a bank holding company. Goldman Sachs is always changing its various businesses — often greatly — but the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
of 93 teams that competed in the 13th annual HBS Business Plan Contest. Final presentations were held in Burden Auditorium in late April. A number of competitors from years past (Endeca, Finale, New Leaders for New Schools, and... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
competitors had recently been forced to pay a record $108 million to settle a class action suit brought by female employees who had been denied advancement opportunities. Aiyer wanted to know what Albertsons was doing to avoid this costly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
behavior of the customers is so vastly different that having the same policy often doesn’t make sense. It’s very much like you’re selling a certain type of product in Japan and China: different markets with different competitors and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
THE BOOK “Tom Witt [MBA 1987] originally told me the story of how his father had owned a small, family-run grocery store and successfully fought off a big, new competitor over the price of sugar. The new store trumpeted a big special: 49... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
need something to sell in return. And one look at the trade deficit ($558 billion in 2011) clearly indicates we don’t have as much as our foreign competitors to sell in return. To make up the difference, we just borrow. Sure, with... View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
indeed, the entire travel-nursing sector—entered a growth phase as newly insured people sought health care and the demand for nurses surged. During this time, many of Nightingale’s competitors sold to private equity firms. But Moreno took... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
person who has the broadest support—and create space and opportunity for new competitors in politics. “When we do these two things together, we connect solving problems for the American people with a likelihood that [politicians] get... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan