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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Artful Tour
Planning Director Sharon Black, right, gave fall reunion attendees a briefing and tour of HBS’s growing Schwartz Art Collection, which includes about 200 contemporary works. Gerald Schwartz (MBA ’70) purchased the first two works for the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
life, we make these types of decisions with our partners. We have some data now on time-saving purchases and heterosexual couples. The general pattern is that time-saving purchases promote relationship... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Fall Reunions
were joined by AMP and ISMP alumni for the usual full-plate banquet of academic sessions, parties, networking, and good conversation. The Classes of 1966, 1976, and 1986 all set new attendance records for their respective reunions. For more about fall reunions: View... View Details
Keywords: reunion
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
online platforms such as YouTube or, more recently, TikTok, to discover new products, but digital sales in the category were not on par with other consumer goods. The explanation: “Beauty is a fun purchase for consumers,” observes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
all in, purchasing inventory at volume up front to enter the market with an abundance of options? Or should the company continue to take pieces on consignment, offering a limited assortment of plates and bowls to test the demands of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
with Laura, to Columbus, Indiana, and then to Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Rogers was impressed with the emphasis on values as well as profit at Cummins, where he worked both as a customer-service supervisor and as a purchasing agent. "I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forum
Feedback The “Assets” department in our March issue featured some of Professor Joe Fuller’s flying pigs and a call to share what’s in your office. Keep Pulling “My time at HBS overlapped with Professor Fuller, who graduated from HBS the year before I did. While he was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Double Vision
found that TV ads not only can spur web traffic—the browser is at the ready, after all—but can drive sales, too. But which ads push the most? As part of the study, Teixeira and his colleagues collected thousands of ads hawking products frequently View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
invest in the women who make the industry run. Each brightly colored bag of Kahawa 1893 features a prominent QR code that allows purchasers to give to the women behind the beans. “People have been very receptive to the idea,” says... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
Berryman and Gary A. Zebrowski purchased the near-bankrupt Nashville, Tennessee, company in 1986. Gibson was suffering from the neglect and mismanagement of its previous owner of nearly twenty years - an Ecuadorian conglomerate that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
millions in investment capital and has purchased more than 60,000 acres in Chile’s Patagonia region, reported the Martha’s Vineyard Times (December 22, 2010). Adams’ approach recognizes that conserved land has many values—for recreation,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Markets’ Moral Limits
Limits of Markets. At an HBS panel discussion in April with University Professor Rebecca Henderson and HBS associate professor Karthik Ramanna, Sandel said that “the buying and selling of a non-material good changes its meaning.” For example, the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Nurturing students who can think outside of the box
“Liberal education prepares you for the rest of your life,” he says. After returning to China in 1994, Chen worked at large multinationals and in banking before purchasing the land for Xing Wei College in 2005. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
High Brow
Flock (MBA ’00) decided to have a go at. The two Yanks have purchased the North American rights to Truefitt & Hill, a venerable British purveyor of grooming products and the operator of what’s believed to be the world’s oldest barbershop,... View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
- News
Is This Disney’s Next CEO?
the company should focus on franchises. “After that, Mayer began working on acquisition candidates, including comic-book publisher Marvel and Lucasfilm, the home of ‘Star Wars’,” the article notes, also mentioning Iger’s previous $7.4 billion View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Navigating rough waters
for the nuts and bolts of his company, from understanding the processing of checks to the most complicated financial report. He had been CEO of Bank One when JPMorgan Chase purchased it in 2004. During his tenure at JPMorgan Chase, where... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
82 percent of all consumer purchases still made in retail and a time-starved customer segment, I’d strongly encourage Saigal to consider expanding her distribution model. It is truly the brand’s job to be available, not the customer’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Big Deal
Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) made big news in February when his Tata Group purchased Corus, the Anglo-Dutch steel producer, the Financial Times reported (February 3, 2007). The $12 billion deal was one for the record books as the largest... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 12 Mar 2013
- News
New Thinking for China
purchasing the site that would become Xing Wei College in 2005 (it opened in 2012). “Liberal education prepares you for the rest of your life,” he says. “We want to introduce different ways of thinking.” View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Bottom-Line Beauty
discussed the technology purchasing decisions she made when equipping her company, a "clicks-and-bricks" retailer of high-end, hard-to-find beauty products. The Washington, D.C.-based firm now has two boutiques in the nation's capital, as... View Details