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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
of at least 51 people in Panama after they ingested medicine made with diethylene glycol, an industrial chemical similar to antifreeze that a Chinese company used as a substitute for pharmaceutical-grade syrup. In June, officials at the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
trade organization, the Outdoor Industry Association. In 1999 GoLite introduced its first line of products. They consisted of Jardine designs to be used together: backpack, sleeping pad and bag, insulated clothing, tent, umbrella, and... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
H. Stevenson, for instance, discussed the evolution of the field of entrepreneurship at HBS and beyond. Professor Malcolm S. Salter addressed "Facing the Modern Industrial Revolution," focusing on the tools established companies can use... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
communities." Today, the WWB network provides financial services in more than forty countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. At the same time, this global organization helps microfinance institutions and banks build View Details
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
swipe of a credit card. “Automated retail sounds better,” suggests Gregg Kaplan (MBA 1997). Recruited by McDonald’s to help start new businesses within the fast-food giant, in 2002 Kaplan oversaw the installation of six kiosks in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
that allow for unlimited shelf space and access to whatever products we want, whenever we want them—and if technologies make it cheaper to produce these goods—then demand will shift to the tail of the demand curve. His suggestion was that View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Kill Groupthink
or former college lacrosse teammates, you are limiting the likelihood of out-of-the-box ideas, Bouygues says. “What you want to think about is best-practice crossover across industries.” For a retail board, for example, the CEO would be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
come. But this is a highly regulated, technology-intensive industry with third-party payers, not a retail industry. It’s a very unusual sector and you need to know a lot about how it works. How do you align... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
job was in grocery retail and I knew the food space was where I wanted to be long-term. Food forms such a foundational part of life and I immediately found it meaningful to be part of the industry providing... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
MBA and AMP programs, details the challenges faced by Woolworths (unrelated to Woolworth, the U.S. company), a major South African retailer poised to test its mettle as an international competitor. "The case is about building a unique... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
had operating profits of $1.9 million on sales of $4 million. Mikitani, formerly a banker at the Industrial Bank of Japan, became a man with a mission after attending HBS: He founded Rakuten, he told the magazine, because "I wanted to set... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Lal, Jose B. Alvarez, and Dan Greenberg (MBA 2012) (Rajiv Lal) Professor Lal and his coauthors go beyond the common belief of retail as a monolithic industry and provide a framework that any brick-and-mortar... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
entrepreneur Fabrice Grinda and worked with him on various ventures. We found that there was a big opportunity in the intimates industry, which is what eventually led to the launch of Adore Me." How did you come up with the idea? "My family has a history in the garment... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
Company; and HBS professor Michael Porter (MBA ’71). In addition to the pioneering roles played by this innovative quartet, there is another leitmotif — a fifth key player — that runs throughout the book: The industry would not exist as... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
from the Class of 1977 interviewed for this article, Fox came to the restaurant industry by an indirect path, but now finds himself completely immersed in its unique complexities and rewards. The National Restaurant Association projects... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
things,” says Archie Norman (MBA 1979). “The genesis of any turnaround is facing into the unvarnished truth.” A somewhat unwilling veteran of doing “the hard things,” Norman became chairman of 133-year-old British retailer Marks & Spencer... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
said yes and immediately asked to also build an energy practice. “Oil prices were soaring, silicon prices were fluctuating, and solar and wind were huge topics at that time. I saw that as an opportunity,” she notes. “So I quickly got View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
Illustration by Taylor Callery Remember a decade ago, when the main cybersecurity worry was a retail breach of credit card information? “Obviously that still happens,” says Chris Young (MBA 2003), CEO of the security software company... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
industries — from automotive and semiconductors, to banking and pharmaceuticals. Citing the falling costs of computing and advances in simulation and combinatorial technologies, he urges companies to capitalize on new opportunities for... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
own activities many functions that were formerly the province of marketing," says Professor Alvin J. Silk, unit cochair. "Marketing is indeed experiencing a watershed," adds Silk's colleague and the unit's other cochair, Professor John A. Quelch. He notes that dynamic,... View Details