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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
SELLING SHOES on the Internet was pretty far from Barbara Thornton's mind when she enrolled at HBS at the age of 45. The city planner and international consultant figured that opening power plants in Southeast Asia would best challenge... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
created a market out of thin air. “We have customers who have come to us and said, ‘I never previously considered a diamond because of the impact,’” says Aether’s cofounder and chief marketing officer Robert Hagemann (MBA 2011). “That is a View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
one time, consumers readily shared personal information. Recently, however, many customers have begun to bristle when asked personal questions. They wonder: Who else is privy to this information? What's in it for me? In their 1996 working... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
about the glamour for a minute—the celebrity sports endorsements, team sponsorships, promotions featuring models and freestyle rappers. Is branding your top priority? Building brand is fundamental to what we do. We play at this very View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Alumni Books Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking by Paul Butler, John F. Manfredi, and Peter Klein (MBA 1971) (McGraw-Hill Education) The authors provide a proven plan for making strategic thinking part of any... View Details
- 27 Nov 2013
- News
No Bologna, Please
public in 1991. In 1993, the pair acquired St. Louis Bread Company, a 19-store chain of eat-in cafés based in St. Louis, Missouri, serving freshly baked artisanal bread, sandwiches, soups, and salads. By this point, Au Bon Pain had 250 stores. But Shaich saw a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
the armed forces came at this time. On the policy side, Nixon's Labor Department enforced new requirements for contractors to hire and promote women; conducted compliance reviews of universities; and gave the Equal Opportunity Commission enforcement View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
chemical engineering from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School. His résumé also includes stints at Disney and the Texas Pacific Group. With some $2 billion invested in more than 30 countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, Helios's focus is mainly in financial services,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
participate in clinical trials. On March 29, Kapoor and his wife devised a solution: WorldWithoutCOVID.org, a nonprofit public health initiative that connects medical researchers with willing volunteers. A longtime student of network effect marketplaces, he had seen... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
sellers can be highly mobile, although subject to licensure by states. Therefore, you want a national (or international) pool of sellers, and you want it to be as large as possible as soon as possible. —Roger Cole (MBA 1985) While this is an online platform,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “I definitely don’t think that virtual will ever cannibalize the real thing. I genuinely don’t see that happening. That’s some people’s fear. But I do think the benefit is that we are educating the View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
that department stores organized cosmetics by brand, making comparisons difficult, she was determined to offer consumers a better option. “I wanted to build an empire in the beauty industry,” says Beck, who oversees Bluemercury’s 195... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
as a sublime integration of operations and marketing,” says Deighton, who taught the case to MBAs for the first time this fall in the elective course Consumer Marketing. “Patterson understands that if you want shelf space you need to... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
for-profit. She began to make her mark as vice president of business development at Novica, in Los Angeles, an e-commerce company that connects artisans in developing countries to businesses and consumers in the US. "It's an innovative... View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
- News
On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)
After nearly nine years in a series of marketing and strategy roles at Samsung—where he logged approximately 2.5 million air miles and earned status as a “permanent resident” of Korea—Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008) made the leap to Electrolux Group Chief Marketing... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
WWE’s pay-per-view model wasn’t failing. It was still a viable model. But as Wilson began diving deep into consumer habits after joining WWE 10 years ago, she saw some distinct trend lines: “Our fan base was over-indexed for video... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere by Christopher Meyer (MBA 1974) with Julia Kirby (Harvard Business Review Press) The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75 percent of the world’s output will View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
When the coronavirus pandemic led many brick-and-mortar retailers to close their doors, consumers turned to online shopping in record numbers—US ecommerce sales rose by 31.8 percent between the first and second quarter of 2020 to $211.5... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
Against Discrimination, led a town meeting on lessons learned from last year's revelations of racist attitudes among certain corporate executives at Texaco. Hugh B. Price, president and CEO of the National Urban League, concluded the conference with a dinner address on... View Details