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22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes

you run the marathon. And it is a marathon, not a sprint—especially in life sciences, where it can take several years to get products to market. So culture is critical: You need people who can last, and,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Alvaro Dominguez

01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message

about the product. "With the Internet," says Deighton, "you can seamlessly move the customer from awareness, to temptation, to transaction." Thus, a Web surfer intrigued by an ad for a camera can click on the ad and be taken to a Web site... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 1998
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New Releases

capacity, and identify where improvements in quality and productivity will have the highest payoffs. The authors reveal how managers can conduct fact-based negotiations with... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out

Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) In the face of economic challenges, hospitals in the English National Health Service have turned to a strategy that has proven effective for small private View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Oct 1997
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Terence P. Stewart

happens, lawyering didn't come first for Stewart. After graduating from HBS, he worked for several years in the business trenches, in marketing at J.C. Penney and later as product manager at Kroehler... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

16 Oct 2014
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Innovating for International Aid

is really the first time I can take my professional expertise in venture capital and finance and apply it in this fashion toward entrepreneurs and others working on solutions... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Mar 2016
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The People’s Pods

or six or seven years ago, I’d be at the mercy of my local public radio station, which really controlled the means of both production and distribution. Now it’s into the great wide open. It’s really the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jun 1997
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Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference

States and from international markets and skyrocketing production costs pose huge challenges to the movie industry. Film- production costs alone,... View Details

Keywords: Paula Maute

01 Oct 1996
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"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit

elective that looks at changes in the ways products and services -- both new and traditional -- will be bought and sold in the emerging universe... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2019
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@Soldiers Field

WHAT’S THE BUZZ? EARLY TASTE In early December, the School’s Doctoral Programs hosted an interactive poster session in the Baker Library|Bloomberg Center that showcased several students’ early-stage research. One finding? In a sample of View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

01 Apr 2001
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Beyond Accommodation

blind people through a network of associated agencies, NIB had once enjoyed a relative monopoly of the federal procurement market for its SKILCRAFT® brand of office supplies and some two thousand other View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; AT&T; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

01 Jun 2016
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Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead

(MBA 2002) BUECHLER: Our success starts with great products. We brew more than 100 new products we like to drink at our R&D facility every year. We couple that with an amazing team that loves to work hard View Details

05 Sep 2017
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Living the Quantitative Life

beach person and I'm not really a beach person. We're wonderfully compatible, but that's not an area. But I do want to support beach vacations. And part of it is it just it kind of feels like I'm wasting... View Details

08 May 2015
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Prestige brands can expand their reach—and make their core customers proud

“Brand extensions and new users are not by definition a threat to exclusive brands,” Keinan says. “But it is essential to understand and manage the perceptions and reactions of... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Yoga Inc.

amenities. (Bloomberg/Getty Images) “Yoga is at the core of our identity and culture,” Yeung continues. “It has kept us grounded in who we are as a company. It influences our brand strategy, the product... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Halber

01 Mar 2016
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Measuring Impact

founders of firms that collectively have an indelible impact on the world economy by creating jobs, fostering prosperity, and bringing innovative products and services to... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2017
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Surveying Students’ Summer Plans

of commercial tech monetization, which includes wearable products in the health care category. The opportunity appealed to me in part because it uses so much of what I learned this year, including term sheets, market evaluation, View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Feb 2000
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Short Takes

of organizations were very productively linked and in which significant value was being created, both for the collaborating nonprofits and for the businesses." A 1997 ISE... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 2014
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Start Me Up

ball forward every day." Culture "Too many founders get caught up in raising money or getting a product to market, while neglecting culture and cofounder relationships, which are integral to a startup's... View Details