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- 01 Jun 2003
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Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
of the authors’ research, marketers may need to re-examine the idea that they should imbue their brands with either respectability or rebellion. Instead, as Holt and Thompson’s study suggests, it is in the tensions between the two where... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Faculty Research
How to Avoid a Price Increase Manufacturers usually pass on any cost increases in their materials to consumers. The result is often a price increase (gasoline) or, less often, a smaller amount of product at the same price (potato chips). Which option is more likely to... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
having a guaranteed job for life.’ I’d always been intrigued by finance, so I applied to HBS.” Leaps and bounds: “It’s not the only measure to consider, but Medtronic had tremendous growth from 1993 to 2006. The market cap went from about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
delegating authority to them.” Currently a marketing manager at General Mills, Sundy has a long-term goal: He’d like to become a member of the U.S. Senate, “to influence public policy and make a real contribution to society.” — GE Martín... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
of customer-equity management in a variety of industries, the authors outline how to build and implement powerful new business and marketing systems. A comprehensive guide to managing customer portfolios across segments and over time,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
thinking,” Kang said to laughter. “It’s another online dating site.” But VC firms have shown a great deal of interest—almost $150 million worth since early 2010—in the revitalized online dating sector, which market research company... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn
reason that these people are more constrained by bumpy labor markets than others. The paper has implications for founders and funders alike. Entrepreneurs, Roche says, need to be true to themselves if they’re launching because of a lack... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
between ideas and then visualizing and building maps to explain those correlations. These cartography skills have proved vital to her career. In the late 1990s, Lo was working on innovation and ventures for a media company in London when she realized that the View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
approach to marketing works. The scrappy activities that have kept them close to the customer, and let them iterate quickly on messaging and product, can start taking less of their time as they scale D2C View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
classroom perspective, I’ve retained more content and material that I can apply later on than I thought I would. I think a lot of that speaks to the case method and the way you learn how to apply a concept across different industries and... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
this activity: Egypt's population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
how the use of AI will disrupt labor markets or that it may make humans lazier, Feinzaig said she believes it will make us more human. “Since the Industrial Revolution, the focus has been on turning humans... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Robin Kovitz (MBA 2007), president and CEO of Baskits, one of Canada’s leading gift services companies, about why she chose Baskits, how she weighed the personal and professional risks, and how she found a competitive advantage in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
up with Margaret Glover, she had just left her position as director of planning and information services for Clean Sites, Inc., a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit involved in hazardous-waste cleanup, to become an environmental consultant.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pedigree, becoming a VC wasn’t the original plan. Instead, Tim Draper wanted to be an entrepreneur. He had some good ideas, he says, which ran the gamut from digitizing music (back in the early 1980s) to a new global stock market to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Game Time
game board coated with a ‘retroreflective’ surface reflects those images directly back to your glasses and into your eyes, no matter where you are sitting or standing. This creates a 3D, stereoscopic hologram on the board; it is the brightest and most vivid 3D AR... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
insights to execute a more compelling product or service is a best practice we’ve studied in cases about certain companies, and it is definitely one of Randal’s strengths,” Martin said. Thomke described what he calls Randal’s “3Ms of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
capacity she helped lead the MBA Silicon Valley Immersion Experience Program. As a newspaper industry analyst at DLJ early in your career, did you anticipate the industry’s decline? I put a “sell” on newspapers in 1988 when I saw threats... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
you knew it, new factories were built close by to supply the first plant. Out of what was one plant, often in the middle of nowhere, seven or eight years later you’d see thriving communities. These plants produced products and services... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson