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01 Jun 2020
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Lesson Plans

consuming stories, whether it be Netflix or a video game. So you associate sitting down and looking at a screen with entertainment. That said, it can be a slippery slope; we want to make sure we’re not making “edutainment.” But humans... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

01 Jun 2016
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Feedback

food, the health and safety of its consumers will fare better as well. All countries maintain their social fabric through food and family. Doug realized early on that food is fun, and food drives community... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?

powerful emerging nations; security threats from radical movements, failed states, asymmetric warfare, and crime; and global health issues, including pandemics. Finally, our participants cited the inability of existing global institutions... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

22 Aug 2020
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Bluemercury’s Marla Beck on How Covid-19 Is Changing the Beauty Business

Marla Beck (MBA 1998) Marla Beck (MBA 1998) Bluemercury cofounder and CEO Marla Beck (MBA 1998) recently spoke to the Wall Street Journal’s Secrets of Wealthy Women podcast about how her company has adapted during the pandemic. One of those changes has been reacting to... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference

FDA Commissioner Mark B. McClellan doesn’t approve of Americans buying low-cost prescription drugs from Canada or over the Internet. But he understands what drives them to do so. At the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association’s fourth... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Jan 2014
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Sprouts Sees Healthy Growth Ahead

Keywords: Whiole Foods; Retail Trade; Agriculture

01 Jun 2023
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The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope

Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA),” recalls McGee. They ultimately decided to focus on Apple, because of the company’s emphasis on consumer privacy, and their 2016 case, “Apple: Privacy vs. Safety,” addressed the federal... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

14 Feb 2019
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Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

HBS Professor Mike Toffel; Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), cofounder and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC; Gina McCarthy, Director of C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

help consumers locate a business or person to handle local service needs, get price quotes, and book appointments. Southern California: Kiwilimón (Deborah Dana Beyda, MBA ’08, cofounder) is a food and recipe Internet portal for... View Details

Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!

The choices available to consumers in the postwar boom transformed societal norms and expectations. With the advent of fast food, for example, millions of men, women, and children began to break bread — or hamburgers, chicken wings, and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2020
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Meal Plan

consumed outside of the home, we felt it was critical to continue to operate—our restaurants serve 4.3 million meals a day on average. With so many of our locations already set up for drive-in, drive-through, and takeout, about 97 percent... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

05 Aug 2015
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Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery

work there before launching Bantay—raising funds for education and rural health care. “It’s good, but not very scalable,” he says. “And also, I’m not a great fundraiser. So it would be a lot of work just to send one kid to college.” Prior... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

25 Sep 2009
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Are You Being Served?

finding plenty of ways that companies frustrate their customers. These days, health care, airlines, and telecommunications, to name a few, are sectors that can drive consumers up the wall. Are you, valued... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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, and what... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

16 Oct 2014
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Innovating for International Aid

environmental sustainability, health and wellness, natural and organic consumer products, and business services. He was also a member of the founding team of Upstart, which is pioneering crowdfunding for... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Jun 2012
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What Industrial Policy?

value iPhones and high-definition TVs, but there is a big difference between them in terms of trade. Homes and health care can’t be exported, while manufactured goods make up about 80 percent of world trade. If Americans want to keep... View Details

Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Agriculture; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Manufacturing

26 Apr 2011
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BioMine Strikes Gold

Rohit Dev Thakwani, OPM 37 2008 SpendWisor.com consumer electronics marketplace Watch their pitch. Midwest/Central U.S. Marc Hoecker, MBA '08 vinsnap mobile automotive marketing Watch their pitch. New England Marco Bitran, MBA '03 AI... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

18 Mar 2014
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The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain

crunching. Acxiom, say analysts, has constructed the world's largest consumer database. Nearly 25,000 servers track data on 700 million consumers worldwide, including most US consumers, assembling... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Mar 2025
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Heartland

Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

25 Apr 2023
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Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

hospitals with its nursing workforce management platform. “We’re building the technological layer that hospitals and health systems need to adapt to the expectations of modern nurses in a post-Covid world,” says Borkenstein. “Nurses are... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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