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- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
interesting activity, Lawani says, has been Helios's acquisition from multinationals of African businesses that, because of changes in strategy or focus by the parent company, have become "non-core" View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
with the right investors," advised Burgstone. Satchu added, "Choose a business model you can be passionate about 24/7, then focus on the product and listen to the customer." View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
operators exist in the countries where Roshan is staking its claim. But it will focus in part on the rural areas that have the lowest service penetration and the fewest social services, a strategy that fits... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune response to treat disease. But for too many patients, dysfunctions... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
will help it thrive in captivity? Three professors in the School’s Entrepreneurial Management unit who focus on the study of creativity recognize the romantic allure of believing it’s a rare quality bestowed on a chosen few, but all agree... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
there is anything he could have done to reverse the decline. In essence, Blackberry fell victim to a challenge that affects many companies in fast-paced, technology-based industries. Once they achieve market leadership, they focus their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
dedication to finding solutions to huge challenges? For example, should blocks of the HBS curriculum focus on big, multidisciplinary problems — such as the world’s water shortage — and how to solve them? How about increasing the number of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986
financial ship as CFO, built the company’s advertiser and publisher group as EVP, and oversaw global business operations as president. Since leaving Yahoo! in 2009, Decker has taken time out from the corporate world to View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
are very important. One is generalist investment skills combined with industry specialization. A balance between investment prowess and operating knowledge is important as well, since we really do typically lead or colead our investments... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
and the MBA elective The Coming of Managerial Capitalism. Koehn's research and writing focus on branding, business strategy, and connecting with customers and on the broad range of economic, social, and organizational transitions that... View Details
- 02 Aug 2017
- News
The Atlantic Finds a New Home
right.” The Emerson Collective engages in cross-sector partnerships that focus on education, immigration reform, the environment, and social justice initiatives. Bradley has told the story of transforming a magazine (purchased from Mort... View Details
- 01 Oct 2020
- News
Are You Really Innovating Around Your Customers’ Needs?
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
start seeing the strategic benefits of remote work? Prashanth Chandrasekar: There’s actually been, in some ways, a rise in productivity because people are able to focus and be very efficient with their time. We have not seen any kind of... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Market day also means it’s a busy day for Gregoria Alvarez Reyes, whose store sits on an adjacent corner, right in the path of foot traffic. For the past 11 years, Reyes has owned and operated Farmacia Fradoni in this northwest section of... View Details
- 10 Apr 2023
- News
Health Care Systems Need to Better Understand Patients as Consumers
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
Most Powerful Women in Business.” Based on her experience in retailing and her current service on the boards of global giants Nike and McDonald’s, Jackson says, “Whether you’re in Texas or in China, you must focus business practices and... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
speaking, people were more defensive and pessimistic, with a strong focus on income stability,” he says.“Now there’s a greater sense of the rewards that come from doing something interesting that you enjoy.” How to: Introduce consumers to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: Brand New
by Nancy F. Koehn (Harvard Business School Press) The creation of a powerful, widely recognized brand is the ultimate goal that every entrepreneur dreams of but few achieve. In her new book, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust from Wedgwood to Dell,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
achievements and volunteer roles. The result is a hiring process that is more fair, and one that helps companies access talent that they are excited about. “For too long, we’ve depended on degrees as proxies for competence and capability. It’s high time to bring the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
it "dress casual." So, we combined that need with our equity, and we found our mission. Defining a mission is just the beginning. How about the implementation phase? We started with the product. We took inventory of what we had and found we were too skewed toward... View Details