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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
HourlyNerd online marketplace, which recently received an upgrade, 6,000 MBAs and 3,500 businesses interact, with projects ranging from the creation of a marketing plan for Jenny the Juggler to strategic... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
collaboration within Harvard, and ensuring that the School’s educational programs remain challenging and engaging. Light served as senior associate dean, director of Planning and Development (1998–2005), overseeing the School’s strategic... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Course descriptions by Elaine Gottlieb, Judith A. Ross, and John Simon (sidebars by Elaine Gottlieb) Whether they come to HBS with a business plan in mind or become entrepreneurially inclined later in their careers, students who take HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
important information." Learning by Doing Introduced in 2011, FIELD 2 is a transformative experience in learning that sends all 900-plus first-year MBA students across the globe to emerging markets each January where they work with... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
markets that don't yet exist. How then can managers identify and assess market potential? The simple answer is that you must "sense" a market's potential by actually being where the technology is emerging.... View Details
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
In 2002, we carried out a two-stage research project in partnership with the market research company Research International/USA to find out how consumers in different countries value global brands. First, we conducted a qualitative study... View Details
- Career Coach
Craig Husa
As the founder or CEO, Craig (HBS ’90, USNA ’83) has grown and sold four technology-enabled companies to leading public companies. He attributes most of his success (the rest is luck) to building and leading high performing teams who can grow companies and revenue by... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
advisor, and a stint as managing director of Sotheby’s in Japan, Shibayama runs the consultancy AG Holdings, which plans and manages corporate art collections and art support programs in his native Japan. The best known of these is the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
track its effectiveness and set benchmarks for improvement. "Nonprofits are so important in our society," she said. "They fulfill essential purposes. But they lack the market mechanisms of corporations where, if a board falls asleep at... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- Web
Tools | New Venture Competition
Starting a Social Enterprise Experts from Foley Hoag LLP address high level legal issues that New Venture Competition business plan entrants might have, and practical advice for starting a business. Legal Aspects of Starting a Social... View Details
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?
lost sales (demand of products that had sold out) and predict demand for new products that Rue La La was planning to sell in the future. As a part of the analysis, they realized that the demand for any given item depended on the price of... View Details
- Profile
Venus Miller
In high school, Venus Miller got the marketing bug in a big way. Recruited into DECA/Delta Epsilon Chi, an international organization that promotes marketing and business education among high school and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
High Yields
Illustration by Chris Philpot Hobbyist drones might make headlines with their crashes on the White House lawn, but the market for unmanned vehicles is rapidly expanding beyond the niche: Over the next decade, according to industry trade... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
everything—was reportedly in conversations to buy some of those storefronts—possibly its first real beach-head in the brick-and-mortar world. As harbingers of the future of retail, these events certainly caught the attention of Harvard Business School View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
was largely a formality. The CEO saw it differently. He felt that the company's advertising had become stale and that a makeover should start right away—and this would most likely mean hiring a new agency. He put the marketing campaign on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
SOMETHING NEW happening with the newspaper ownership model. With John Henry, Warren Buffett, and Jeff Bezos, we're starting to get some enlightened buyers. It's the first ray of hope I've seen in a while. The Seattle Times is one of only five newspapers in the top 50... View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
Mid-summer Update
marketing plan that I’m working on at Beckman Coulter Genomics. On the first day of presentations, I was at the edge of my seat not because of the content, as engaging as it was, but because I couldn’t wait... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- Profile
Hunter Goble
experience at Eli Lilly, and I liked that I could understand what they were doing! I know there will be a market for what they’re trying to do.” Hunter will intern at Huron, a life sciences strategy practice based in New York City. But he... View Details
- 04 Feb 2016
- News
From Super Bowl to STEM Bowl
families. Led by Santa Clara University professor Juan Montermoso (DBA 1977), a member of the Community Partners team, SCU business students developed plans to engage area technology firms as partners or sponsors as well as create a View Details