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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
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and the organization's impact on its members' creativity. The book also includessuggestions for managers and leaders on how to boost creativity within their organizations. HBS Research Available on World Wide Web Pondering a business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
HBS Honors Four Alumni
woman who, fresh out of HBS, had taken the lowest-paying of thirteen job offers to become a Time financial analyst simply because she loved magazines. Rising through the ranks, Moore today presides over an empire of more than 145 magazines, their View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
especially in Europe and Japan — are also starting to issue corporate social responsibility (CSR) or sustainability reports. Sometimes these are mailed with the annual report, but more often they have to be ordered separately or downloaded from the company’s View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
boring stuff are gathered for them. “The name of the company, TakeOff—to us it means freedom,” says Aguerrevere. Illustration by Peter Hoey 1.Using a smartphone or web browser, you select from as many as 50,000 items—basically the... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
Future of Retailing." Participants reported success in leveraging advanced technology to reach more customers and provide better service. Tuck Rickards (MBA '91), CEO of Virtual Emporium, an online shopping company, predicted that "in the next five years, we'll see a... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
commerce came from consumers and small businesses; nine months later, 80 percent of that business was from large to midsized companies and from the federal government. "We now have about 100 million visitors a year to our Web site and we... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
breathtaking Internet IPOs - the company's stock went from $17 to $95.50 on its first day of trading. "It's the first pure-play journalism IPO," Kramer told USA Today (January 26, 1999), adding that the wonders of the Web are such that... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
of membership and now as club president, Kwiker has worked to build a basic loyalty to the club and to foster connections to the extended HBS community. Her innovations have included more events targeted toward the entire alumni base, young alumni socials, and a club... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
pension funds, to former and current Disney employees. Taking a page out of Howard Dean’s book, they used the Internet to reach supporters via a Web site, SaveDisney.com. Thousands of e-mails poured in. Beaulieu plans to teach the case... View Details
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
Almost fifty years before HBS developed a broadcast presence with its own Web site in 1996, the School had a rather limited one: the radio station WHBS, which was in operation from 1948 to 1964 or 1965. It was limited because the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease
receive this potentially lifesaving therapy. Most of them will not live that long." Contributions to The Children's Pompe Foundation are tax-deductible. Those wishing to help the Crowley family can call 1-800-316-0964, visit the foundation's View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
brochures, and Web sites. While making moves to cut costs and stabilize the company for the short term, Slayton sought new ideas from his team for future growth possibilities. “The company needed a high-growth idea that would work or else... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
and build a Web page that describes the company to potential investors. Of these electives, the new interdisciplinary course Business and the Internet: Strategy, Law, and Policy is a joint offering of HBS, Harvard Law School, and the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
While a core group of alumni regularly attends reunions, contributes to the annual fund, and joins clubs, questions remain about how best to reach the larger alumni body. The committee is currently focusing on two primary vehicles for communication: the alumni View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
competitive edge. As one example of a winning strategy, Nolan cites Cisco Systems, a twelve-year-old company that makes routers for networks. In 1998, Cisco reached a market value exceeding $100 billion in record-breaking time. It did so, in part, writes Nolan, by... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
Eventually she realized that opening a store specializing in designer women's shoes size 9 and up would be the perfect fit. Last August, Thornton set up one shop on Boston's trendy Newbury Street - and another on the Information Highway. With an impressive View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
gym, for example—and sustaining it over time, says Sean Eldridge (MBA 2009). He and his cofounders at Gain Life, an early-stage startup based at the Harvard Launch Lab, have an app for that. By combining behavioral science and marketing best practices with the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
achieve their long-term financial objectives through an array of services, products, and coordination between the Web, the phones, and our service centers. We let people pick the service they're comfortable with, including face-to-face advice." Fidelity's Bruce... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 18 Nov 2021
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Strength in Numbers
Their solution? The Goodness Web, a nonprofit that finds its strength in connection, through “a web of people who can aggregate resources—whether that is philanthropic dollars or contacts—to do good, better,” Swartz explains. Currently in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
Andrew Miller (MBA 1988), writer and coauthor, Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN Nick Taranto Photo courtesy of Nick Taranto "We will see more investment in the tech-enabled food space. Many investors and entrepreneurs were scared away from food... View Details