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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
irrelevance. The company's signature wild cherry–flavored product all but disappeared from retailers' shelves; by 2012, annual revenues had sunk to about $1 million. Enter Steve Silk (MBA 1978), turnaround maestro and patron saint of lost... View Details
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
purchasing health plans start to demand something different, which in turn is going to require insurers to deliver a product that is more focused on what patients need. Hopefully, that also pressures... View Details
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
in many creative industries, monetary incentives play a reduced role in motivating authors to remain creative. Data on the supply of new works are consistent with the argument that file sharing did not discourage authors and publishers. Since the advent of file... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Be Unapologetically Yourself: Interview with Singer-Songwriter and Banking Strategist Andrea Mendoza
with folk, blues, funk, and traditional Peruvian drums and charangoes. Mendoza has also returned to Banco de Crédito BCP, the bank that launched her career after undergrad, just like she aspired to do in her HBS admissions essay years ago. Now as Head of Daily Banking,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
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, even if they don’t stay on until... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
customers rather than take possession of and responsibility for the products or services in question, they have inherently low cost structures and fat gross margins. They are highly defensible once established, owing to network effects.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
one of the Big Four accounting firms (PwC), focusing on strategic planning in financial services, business services, telecommunications, and consumer products. It was during a product line analysis for a pet... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
Grommet The Grommet, an online product launch platform, was at the brink of scaling its business. The Grommet's daily launch and sale of innovative consumer products, using personal videos created by product... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the pantheon of classic French treats. In the 1980s, the company employed nearly 400 workers and enjoyed a 40 percent market share. Subjected to a series of buyouts, the product line shifted to a more mass-market approach that led to a... View Details
- 10 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details
- Career Coach
Vincent Dessain
Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in the US and in Europe to counsel students and alumni as they evaluate, prepare for and pursue their career options.... View Details
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- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
in self-confidence, assessments of others, and behavior in a cooperative game. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55101 forthcoming Management Science Effects of a Tournament Incentive Plan Incorporating... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
Good and bad service experiences die hard. Who can forget the hotel receptionist who went above and beyond the call of duty to accommodate a last-minute change in travel plans in contrast to the sulky server at an expensive restaurant who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
support this response by doing workforce or business-continuity planning and by helping to meet the demands that will be created by a pandemic, such as by increasing production of essential services and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
situational or strategic, emotional or contextual. The point is not to choose one over the other but to learn to move across a continuum of perspectives. Read the paper: http://hbr.org/2011/03/managing-yourself-zoom-in-zoom-out/ar/1 'Bricks and Clicks': The Impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
telehealth to our advantage more than we have in the past. Because now the providers have ripped off the bandage. Telehealth procedures are in place. The health insurance plans are seeing the benefits and the cost savings. Beyond that,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
misperceptions that surround hedge funds, one of them being that the funds were driven by meticulously planned and well-coordinated malign forces. Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More by Stever Robbins (MBA ’91) (St.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
million in US investor capital, Perkowski launched ASIMCO in 1994, quickly cobbling together a network of far-flung joint-venture factories, each number one or number two in its product category. And in each case, he managed to wrest... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
Natty. The pair grew up in Burnaby, British Columbia, where the proprietor of a local forest products company spotted McArthur’s potential and helped fund his college education. Upon earning his MBA, McArthur entered the DBA program and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
http://www.amacad.org/publications/Challenges.aspx Advertising, the Matchmaker Authors:Bharat N. Anand and Ron Shachar Publication:RAND Journal of Economics 42, no. 2 (summer 2011) Abstract We empirically study the informational role of advertising in matching... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne