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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
service. As for customers, in addition to making purchases, they use Rakuten for online auctions and chats about the site's vendors. According to Business Week (July 7, 2000), Rakuten, founded in 1997, has 3,100 vendors, attracts some 70... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Building business for a better Brazil
Heinz, and Burger King. “Create a big dream. Keep it simple, easily understood, and measured. Attract the right people who work well together. Measure results consistently,” says Lemann. “You can create, run, or improve anything with this... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Merlin Entertainments Taps Scott O’Neil as CEO
Entertainments is second in size only to Disney in the theme park space, with more than 140 attractions in 24 countries, featuring partnerships with Lego, Hasbro, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. “We will be very active in making sure... View Details
- 13 Sep 2006
- Op-Ed
Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do
compensation committee wants to admit that its CEO is below the median. In fact, most want to place their CEO in the upper quartile. As a result, CEOs are like the children of Lake Wobegon—all are above average. Another upward pressure occurs when boards are trying to... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
than $100 million. These transactions are large enough to require the help of a financial adviser and attract both strategic and financial bidders. The sale process described is that of a private auction, including a confidential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail
makes them important partners for retail companies seeking to attract and retain talent. What Students Want HBS student interest in retail has remained steady over the past five years with approximately 3% of the class joining the... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
Turning a Disorder into an Opportunity
Dandelion Program is focused on building careers, resilience, and independence for the individuals involved,” he says, adding, “Ultimately, I hope that we will not need a Dandelion program as organizations become more inclusive in View Details
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Tim Nicolette
finance, but in leadership, operations, and marketing—and in how they all fit together for high-performance. That’s what attracted me to HBS's general management approach. Second: the case method. It helps you develop functional... View Details
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Steve Alden
weren't grimly serious, as I had expected. There was a lot of laughter and fun along with the learning — an element of congeniality and community I was attracted to." In his RC classes, Steve has found a ground-level view of the... View Details
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John Bracaglia
AI," the conference was hosted by the Code Club (John is VP in 2018/2019, and will be president next year), attracting more than 150 people to events with eleven speakers spread out over two days. "We focused on three industries... View Details
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Kine Seck Mercier
about what I wanted to do, how I wanted to contribute. It would also give me access to opportunities I wouldn’t otherwise have.” Participating in the positivity HBS attracted Kiné by virtue of a brand known worldwide: “It gives you... View Details
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Alika Phipps
eye toward returning to her family’s businesses, Alika was attracted to HBS’ emphasis on general management. “The program gives you a broad overview of many different skills,” she says. “Daily case study actively builds leadership... View Details
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HBS - From The Dean
the world. We can only achieve that by attracting the most innovative thinkers and the most collaborative learners to our community—regardless of their financial means. To that end, last year we announced that we would provide... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Innovation as P&G’s Key
IDEO, we are told to speak in visual terms, use props, and let the conversation flow into “odd territory.” Also helpful is a look inside P&G’s quarterly and annual innovation reviews, which answer such questions as “How robust is my innovation portfolio?” and “Is it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
successful?” “One of the big things in recruitment is figuring out how to attract employees who reflect the people we are trying to serve. For instance, one of our core areas is criminal justice. Today, one in four Americans has a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
New York Times Company are all family enterprises. Yet until recently, the phenomenon of family businesses has attracted little formal attention in academia. Building on a long tradition of research on family companies, HBS has started... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
economic growth, and promote American competitiveness. ÃÂ That means that Johnson, who had previously led several Obama administration regional innovation initiatives, logs a lot of time on the road touting the United States as an View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Soul Man
and evangelical exercises have attracted some 2 million young people, “more than Paul McCartney has pulled in,” Luce said. At one such recent gathering, Luce exhorted his audience to write down on pieces of paper all the negative societal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
something relevant.” In 2000, Nkontchou, a veteran of Andersen Consulting and Merrill Lynch, started LiquidAfrica with $250,000 of his own money and $2.5 million from Modern Africa, a Washington-based private equity fund. Among his goals are helping to View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
recreation-promises that would not be possible without conservation easements." Many investors are attracted to this model. "Some are conventional investors who think the strategy makes sense on a risk-adjusted basis-and they consider it... View Details