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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
the corner store, and helped his mother, a single parent of four, sell furniture at weekend flea markets. Although his family was "periodically on welfare" and food stamps were a regular part of life, Rogers describes his upbringing with... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
coverage—and improve the quality of care. Insurers could also offer plans that would be politically unfeasible for the public option. For example, private insurers can offer policies that transport members from high-cost locations for care to high-quality, low-cost... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
to bulletin@hbs.edu Case Study Update: GAIA Design When they launched Gaia Design in 2014, Philippe Cahuzac (MBA 2014) and his cofounders set their sights on building an iconic modern furniture brand for Mexico’s young urbanites. But by... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
Retail and Luxury Goods Conference on April 3. Chadwick noted that while department stores used to be where shoppers went for everything from baby clothes to furniture to power tools, many stores have now limited their assortment and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
to children's furniture and toys. Upon leaving the Commission six years later, Franklin joined the Wharton faculty. However, her public service continued. She served four terms as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an... View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
says, executives whose companies extract resources will feel an obligation to return the favor, whether it's a furniture company that plants trees to offset its extraction of lumber or a bottling plant that initiates a water conservation... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
1968. "Owned" is perhaps the wrong word, for Jenrette seems to be more curator than owner as he moves from room to room, pointing out the Rembrandt Peale portrait of George Washington above a fireplace, the suite of silk-upholstered Duncan Phyfe View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
the short-sighted and inward-looking approach to marketing that focuses on the needs of the company instead of defining the company and its products in terms of the customers' needs and wants. If IKEA founder and CEO Ingmar Kamprad had simply thought of his business as... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- News
Where Are They Now?
Mahesh checks in from the factory floor. Courtesy Krishna Mahesh Related Links Alum startup wins HBS contest New Venture Contest: Call for entries Upcoming webinars for entrepreneurs HBS New Ventures group on LinkedIn “I am still amazed by our win,” says Krishna Mahesh... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
delivered to my house tonight, where it will be set up and ready to go. Lal: Furniture is often sold that way today. It's a showroom where your order is customized and delivered in six weeks. Q: What retail segments are most vulnerable to... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
telephones sometimes resting on the carpet where furniture had not arrived. Things seemed to be moving fast even for the placid Bussgang, who said, "It's a real challenge putting together a group of people who have never worked... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
founded Kvadrat in the 1960s. Byriel and Bendix had joined Kvadrat in 1992, and since that time, Kvadrat had grown from 19 million in annual sales to over 86 million. It had expanded its focus on selling textiles to European architects and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
Confectionery, including Wrigley's chewing gum and Brach's candies, provided another 11 percent. Household products, including Ecko hardware, Woolite (a cold-water wash), Black Flag insecticides, and Old English furniture polish, added 14... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Beiersdorf, to its Nivea line, following the events of the A case, and how the commercial success of the product informed thinking by leaders in R&D for the future. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Nivea--B-/an/614043-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
“If you want to do one-to-one negotiations for the first part of the day, then meet in bigger groups, or maybe jump to a case room to debrief, the layout and furniture will let you make those transitions seamlessly. The hive is a design... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
Gold Illustration by David Cowles Leslie Goldbloom (MBA ’85), aka Leslie Gold, the RadioChick, first established herself in the male-dominated world of talk radio as cohost of Two Chicks Dishing on Boston’s WRKO in the mid-1990s. She later moved to New York’s WNEW,... View Details
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Commencement 2012 Address | About
their home to celebrate the person’s life, much like a Christian wake or sitting shiva in the Jewish tradition. So we emptied all the furniture out of the main living room for our guests, ordered food, and made arrangements. We figured... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
define a proper strategy for the design language of their products. An empirical analysis was conducted on the product language strategies in the Italian furniture industry; in particular, the present article explores the relationship... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
the job to be done, you have to organize in a very different way than if you're just selling furniture. And hence, a company that is selling sub-par furniture to the low end of humanity, people we call college students. Nobody can copy... View Details