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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
helm, The Esquel Group makes more men's cotton shirts than any other company in the world, producing private-label apparel for high-end chains like Brooks Brothers and designers like Ralph Lauren. Egon P. S. Zehnder (MBA '56) Founding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Spreading the Words
When the youngest of his three sons went off to college in 1994, Carey Cook (MBA 1969) finally had time to pursue a lifelong dream: creating word games and puzzles designed to build the vocabulary skills of school-age kids. At the same... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)
think Hello Kitty is just for kids, but it’s for all ages. For example, a lady might want a Hello Kitty golf bag or jewelry for herself. We also have a licensing partnership with the hard rock band KISS. We don’t believe this is a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
that doesn’t work sometimes,” says Hoye. “This is why we do what we do. So far, it’s working.” From Baker Library: Want to excel at customer engagement like Faction Collective? Read McKinsey’s advice on truly listening to customers and on using View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting cranberries. Students got to see the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
Illustration by Brown Bird Design Walk the streets of New York City around the first of the month, and you’ll see the symptoms: orphaned couches, credenzas, and swivel chairs that were left behind after a move. The problem, according to... View Details
- 03 Dec 2019
- News
Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
few of us felt that since giving back was a core value of our club; the idea of mentorship was very important,” says program co-founder and current HBSCS President Stan Furman (MBA 2005). “We’d all had the experience of thinking ‘I wish I... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
experiment required virtually no investment or additional cost—apart from minor website design changes—it can be done by almost any e-commerce business, with significant impact to the bottom line. How can what we’re learning about... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
phones, and focused the company on the critical launch of its next iteration of handsets, BlackBerry 10. The phones came in two versions: first launched was a touch-screen phone designed to attract mass-market consumers, followed by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
disruptive business model: an online site that requires customers to register, featuring flash sales of discounted luxury goods for men and women in categories including designer clothing, accessories, home goods, food and wine, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
that Serafeim organized as part of the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard. Read more about Advancing the Mission Serafeim’s interest in Apple’s approach on circular economic models led to the case study “Apple’s iPhone Revolution:... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
where there’s a critical mass of people who are actually using these currencies for transactional purposes, rather than speculation. Kominers: You raise a good point. If this stuff does become backbone transaction infrastructure, I think... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
entrepreneurial and get my hands dirty—I develop fitness choreography, select music, work with graphic designers on the look and feel of my blog, and write all the content." How did Grit by Brit come into being and what are your goals for... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
for women to think more about their marriage prospects than their business future. Nevertheless, Haberkorn walked into the Baltimore employment office of the AT&T-owned Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Maryland and landed a job in... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
throughout the year on four specific areas, and I'd like to summarize each committee's work. Communications Under the leadership of John Hoffmann (MBA '64), this group focused on segmentation, design and content, and delivery. The... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Class of 2004 Gives Fellowship
designated that the fellowship be used to support a student “with a particular focus on professional or volunteer work that has benefited underprivileged or deserving children.” Aliya Shariff (HBS ’06) was a fitting choice for the... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
kitchen, how it’s designed and how it flows is to help us achieve those really high throughputs. And some of the customer engagement you were talking about is really designed to help people understand and... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
of Milwaukee (her father worked at the Miller brewery), Gehrke attended Northwestern University, where she was introduced to poster design while working in a print shop. From there she went to the Pratt Institute for a master’s degree in... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
retailers). Another day, we will be testing formulas for a new product, sending pitch emails to editors for PR coverage, and meeting with our designers on packaging updates.” What do you know now about startup life that you didn't know... View Details