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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
the MBA Program Office. Admissions As part of its ongoing commitment to attract and admit the best candidates to the School, the MBA Program now requires all applicants to take the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT). "The GMAT... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
business conditions has become an essential CEO survival skill. "The challenge of change has given rise to a CEO labor market that places a premium on a person's track record in leading change," write HBS professors Michael Beer and Nitin... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
potential subscribers,” he says. The Question: News Bling has been focused on growing its audience, believing it would need to reach at least 50,000 to confirm market fit. Without any paid advertising, the subscriber base has reached... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
whopping $5.2 billion. In creating Staples, Stemberg drew on the knowledge of modern distribution techniques he had acquired during his twelve years in the grocery business. As a vice president with the Jewel Companies' Star Market chain... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
everything from R&D and manufacturing to marketing (the company also owns a small plant in South Hadley, Massachusetts). That vision, which Wilcox attributes to MIT professor Joe Jacobson, was nothing less than the ability to hold all of... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
would describe people's attitude for entrepreneurship in Indonesia in 2010 as mostly unaware and confused. What are you doing? Why are you starting a company? It was very, very unusual for somebody who had potential to start a company. Morrell: That attitude also made... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
pharmaceuticals and software, and far above the average of all industries. Many apparent paradoxes add to the puzzle posed by the industry. While rarely considered fundamentally “bad,” such as the trade in narcotics or tobacco, the beauty industry has View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
turbulence in talent markets that isn't ending anytime soon. "There's been a fundamental shift in the marketplace, where employees have more power than they had in the past," says Kwok. "So companies are asking, ‘how do we View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
as CEO and president of Palm Computing and a decade as a marketing and logistics executive at Apple and its spin-off Claris, Dubinsky cofounded Handspring. As the company’s CEO, she oversees development, production, and View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
know that that's something that attracted you philosophically. FL: Well, it attracted us philosophically when we were in our twenties, but as we now had an airline that was being protected by deregulation,... View Details
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
Hitting the High Notes
needs are the same. The number-one priority among C-suite executives is talent attraction and retention,” says Sheridan, who guides companies on best practices for employee engagement. “I’ve run three companies myself, so I use a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
coursework similar to what I had been doing at JPL.” As his doctoral work progressed, Light became “more and more interested in the Business School side of the joint program.” He found mentors in Raiffa and Finance Professor Eli Shapiro, who encouraged Light’s growing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
offer an attractive retail environment to move a company’s products — a clean, well-organized store where a brand’s cachet isn’t damaged. One closeout we bought were sleeves of three Top-Flite golf balls. They’re the same high quality as... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
Illustration by VectorStock As a doctoral student at HBS, Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury identified a little-studied phenomenon in innovation: Managers from emerging markets who migrated to the United States for jobs at multinational... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
distance learning while supporting the development of Baker Library's Working Knowledge Web site (www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu). HBS Clubs Recognizing that clubs must "reinvent" themselves in order to stay current among competing groups and continue to View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
Charlotte, North Carolina, where Socarras is vice president for sales and marketing at Afton Village, a mixed-use real estate development company. “It was a pretty intense course, a lot of work, but I invested in something I really... View Details
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
partner, Honda) began in August 2014, when Misra started his year as a Blavatnik Fellow in Life Science Entrepreneurship, a program launched in 2013 at HBS. Among the numerous scientists Misra met with in his search for marketable life... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
imagine Ted Levitt was one of them.” At Antioch, Levitt met Joan Levy, who was attracted to his straightforward manner. “I was working on a paper in study hall, and he suddenly appeared and asked if I wanted to go out Saturday night,” she... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
elements are added.” Both businesses require vision and a healthy appetite for risk. Another similarity is permits, budgets, and a cast of people who come together to work on a common project for two or three years. Attracting a... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?
ability to act on ideas using zero-cost trading tools like Robinhood. On the positive side, Cohen notes, meme stocks signal levels of engagement with the stock market that haven’t been seen in decades. But the valuation of meme stocks is... View Details