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- 01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
temperate climates that have access to water and are in higher latitudes tend to be more developed than those in lower latitudes with tropical climates and minimal water access. Sachs explained that tropical climates are not good for... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and alumni undertook this year have changed the way we understand... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products that customers will pay premium prices to bring into their lives. Entrepreneurs in Every Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop... View Details
- 30 Jan 2021
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Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
items, is about $35. Simon’s troops clean more than 100,000 pieces a year,” Heath writes. These higher volumes and higher prices helped Parkway reach almost $4 million in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
are numerous media accounts of the corporate monolith riding its suppliers into the ground. But what about those who manage to survive, and thrive, while dealing with the classic hardball negotiator? In “Sarah Talley and Frey Farms... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
Walker, who was invited by the student-led High Tech and New Media Club to speak at the School in March, equated the changes brought about by the Internet with the transformational effect the automobile, the telephone, and television have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
affordable prices, a unique offering in the otherwise crowded wedding industry. But custom design creates ongoing operational challenges. As it grows, should Anomalie leverage its supply-chain advantages to create a line of off-the-rack styles, with the potential for... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
part of Harvard's “American Secretaries of State Project” that Sebenius and Mnookin have co-directed since 2014 with Nicholas Burns (now U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China). War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
prices are significantly lower than its competitors. Assuming the company’s prices are 8 percent lower — at the low end of the estimates from various studies summarized in a recent report by Global Insight —... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
as original equipment, therefore, that was the signal for tire companies either to insist on higher prices to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) -- prices that would not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Professors Recognized with New Chair Appointments
in 2001 after teaching at the University of Michigan Business School. His research investigates the structured finance market and how investor reliance on rating agencies and unsound pricing models led to the market’s rise and collapse.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
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At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
movie theaters did with the advent of television. Myth #2: There are no barriers to entry on the Internet. What about the huge sums, asked Bezos, that Amazon and other e-commerce companies invest in their businesses? Barriers to entry are actually getting View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
into a product affects how easy it will be to market. There’s always this idea of feature creep that leads to adding bells and whistles. But every time you add bells and whistles, chances are you’re also adding costs. The ideal situation is one with the same cost and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
centers profitable more quickly. — Bob Poulin (MBA 1985) The premium in the hourly rates is well deserved, but you are giving too much value away by not covering fixed/setup costs. I believe the source of funds to finance the expansion is in your View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
film-related internships, which furthered her interests in movies and television, as did serving as director of the HBS Entertainment & Media Club, coproducer of the club’s annual Entertainment & Media... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
so one of the advantages of being in a conglomerate is you can see trends earlier, right? So if you go back to 2004 and 2005, I could see, like, energy efficiency in our appliance business. I could see fuel efficiency in our jet engine business. I could see green... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Gazprom Goes Global
helpless neighbor and to flex its geopolitical — and potentially expansionist — muscles. Big bully vs. little innocent. Case closed? Nyet. “The Western notion that Russia uses energy as a weapon is a media oversimplification of very... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
Illustration by Istvan Banyai Since 2006, Gazelle has offered consumers an answer to the question of what to do with their old electronic devices when they upgrade: Sell them to us. Customers can go to Gazelle's website; get a price for... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
made it far enough to launch a spring and fall collection and received widespread media coverage. The brand was slowly starting to gain traction with customers, too. But by the end of 2012, the startup—running low on cash and plagued by... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios