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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her new community, Kwiker began... View Details
Keywords: Elena N. Berg
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
diagnose patients by comparing their symptoms to millions of similar cases stored in a database. One can imagine, for example, a health worker in a remote area of a developing country where there are no doctors making a cell phone call to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
still operates, a sporting goods store in suburban Boston. Having worked in business for decades, he was well known in his niche but not beyond it. In a telling anecdote, Tony relayed to me how, one October afternoon, he got a call from a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Go Mobile stores were located in higher-income neighborhoods and focused primarily on selling phone handsets, Phirbol stores could be found in less—developed areas—most were not accessible by car—and focused... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
Explicit intellectual capital can be identified, quantified, stored, accessed, and accumulated through the effective use of technology by and for managers. Tacit capital, however, is stored in the minds of people and has to be unlocked in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Interning as a Software Engineer while at HBS
got picked up in The New York Times, Business Insider, LifeHacker and many other publications. Somehow Apple found out about it, and showcased Ummo in the App Store as The Top 3 "Apps We Love" in the US, UK, Canada and India. It... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
elements that give shea butter its gold status in Africa. “The next time you’re at the grocery store or a beauty store, flip over one of the containers that says ‘shea butter’ on the front,” says Akuete. “A lot of products will have a... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
battery life, and ability to store hundreds of titles, the devices launched the e-book revolution and transformed book publishing in arguably the most significant way since Gutenberg's printing press. Russ Wilcox discusses his new... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
grown the concern into one of Brazil’s largest nonfood discount retailers with some 500 stores and a powerful Internet presence: Today, half of Lojas’s sales take place online. In 1993, Sicupira, Jorge Paulo Lemann, and Marcel Telles,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
IN HIS ELEMENT: Peter Thayer has spotted nearly 3,500 species of birds...and counting. Peter Thayer (MBA ’73) didn’t recognize the little bird hopping about in his backyard outside Cincinnati. His parents had given him a field guide for his 11th birthday, but he hadn’t... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores
- 22 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
HBS Takes Business Education Online
to the grocery store take on new meaning once you understand bundled pricing! We’ve also had students who have taken on new responsibilities in their current jobs, gone onto new careers, been accepted into their top choice graduate school... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Leadership In Challenging Times: Thierry Ibri (MBA 1997)
access to food because stores were destroyed or closed for safety. Transportation was shut down. We had to identify partners and mobilize distribution very rapidly. And not just food, but diapers, baby formula, toilet paper. Collaboration... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg
electricity to operate their sea-water heat pump when power is cheaper, then storing heat as hot water and sending it to customers when electricity prices are higher, thus lowering heating rates and helping to balance the grid. Din... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
military, legal, and humanitarian strategies. Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom by Marc Prensky (MBA 1980) (Palgrave Macmillan) Both the human brain and technology have strengths: cognitive function for sense-making and complex reasoning, and... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
methods, compared to statistics, of being stored in the brain, but because they are more likely to include distinctive details or context that aid recall. By contrast, statistics and numbers, being abstract concepts, can be harder for the... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
have a natural authority." In retail, Trumbull found more evidence that diffuse groups impact outcome, comparing retail policy in France and Germany. Mom-and-pop stores in both countries have faced the threat of large retail chains that... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
that we hadn’t structured our capital right; we had a payment problem. In the consumer world, if I walked out of a store without paying, that’s called stealing. But in B2B it’s accepted that I’ll deliver my product or service and send you... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
innovations in transparent packaging, specifically cellophane in the mid-twentieth century United States, helped retailers create full self-service merchandising systems, including selling perishable food. While self-service stores began... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
use of knowledge previously codified and stored in the organization affects team performance. We draw upon the team effectiveness, knowledge management, and information systems literatures to develop five hypotheses on the effects of team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
standards, the fix would have added too much weight (in the form of stored chemicals) to the vehicle. One answer was to develop software that automatically turned off the noise reducer during emission testing. It was tempting, but... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett