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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
with a long history in the airline and hotel industries now gaining traction in the arts world. By analyzing existing data, Hodges and her team have the flexibility to adjust ticket prices on a weekly, or even daily, basis to smooth the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
Fran Seegull by Jill Radsken Fran Seegull is a woman on a mission, and it started with a paper she wrote at Harvard Business School. A lifelong passion for philanthropy brought Seegull (MBA 1998) to HBS, to see if she could mobilize the business world to View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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Going For The Summit
company, explains the former American Express marketing executive, an online firm "must delay profitability to build brand equity." In other ways, however, doing business on the Web is unique. Like mountain climbing, Carpenter says, it's not for the faint View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
planned to stay in Boston after graduation; part of her learning curve has been getting up to speed on the ins and outs of state and local government, as well as zoning... View Details
- 21 Aug 2008
- News
Stylin’ at Gallatin
A note to the 73 incoming MBAs moving into newly renovated Gallatin Hall: You are some lucky ducks. I tagged along on a tour of Gallatin led by principal architect Steve Erwin and project architect Patricia DeLauri, both View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Rx for Too Big to Fail
In the wake of the financial crisis and the massive federal response, it has become fashionable to declare that “too big to fail is too big to exist.” Powerful lawmakers and popular commentators regularly endorse this notion, promising to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
Starting a business is never easy. But staking your future — and your bank account — on a concept that’s never been tried before makes it especially difficult. Just ask Stephen Stuntz (MBA ’69), the founder and president of Greentech... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
buildings and homes so they’re warmer in summer and cooler in winter has more impact than a lot of technology fixes for those same buildings.” Attitude adjustment can be driven by financial forces. Says... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good
Fran Seegull (MBA 1998) seeks to mobilize the business world to adjust its thinking on socially mindful investing, also known as impact investing, and "use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the... View Details
- 09 Apr 2016
- News
Introducing Panera 2.0
As Panera Bread opens its 2,000 location, founder and CEO Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) is preparing to launch Panera 2.0, the company’s ambitious plan to use technology to speed up the ordering process and enhance delivery options. Shaich tells... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: Brand New
by Nancy F. Koehn (Harvard Business School Press) The creation of a powerful, widely recognized brand is the ultimate goal that every entrepreneur dreams of but few achieve. In her new book, Brand New: How... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Stem Cell Man
Last year, Brock Reeve (MBA ’88) was named executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to bring his managerial and diplomatic skills to bear on achieving organizational cohesion and help speed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
income, adjusted for inflation, was 300 percent higher than in 1869. Combined with the early 20th century’s rise in leisure time, the use of installment credit, and advertising, Americans acquired a taste... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
When it comes to marketing next season’s trends, the brightest fashion brains rely on more than just last year’s numbers. They also tap into their own innate, if unscientific, intuition—what Trendalytics’ Karen Moon (MBA 2008) calls “the art View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Students craft their post-HBS lives
the pandemic. She expects that such adjustments will continue in the future. “Like life itself, the course will always be a work in progress, evolving to meet the changing needs of the people involved.” View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
need to adjust to the new reality that customers prefer not to come into their stores. B2C firms must enhance their delivery and pickup options and provide incentives [such as rewards points for using a mobile app] to customers to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
three of the women had been employed continuously in a full-time position. The remaining women, she recounted, had moved in and out of the workforce, adjusting the scope and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
market; and a set of financings reasonable for all parties. Fifth, and most important, is a tremendous sense of urgency. We want to back ventures that are the first or second entrants in their markets, so... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
“Speed Trap” Can Snare Companies
The worst you might think you'll suffer from a speed trap is a hefty ticket, but research by HBS associate professor Leslie Perlow suggests that another kind of speed trap... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
faculty, students, staff, and alumni groups about the challenges we face and the opportunities we see, the few important initiatives that I've heard individuals tell me about. First, I think implementing with speed and urgency the... View Details