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- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
secret,” she says. “I’ve spent the last 15 years in Africa really trying to not only unlock the agricultural and food potential on the continent, but also to enable our enterprises to scale.” Sahel Consulting provides strategy consulting support, View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
demand shifts by season. Brands and retailers must correctly stock items in their customers’ preferred color, pattern, style, fit, and price without much historical data. “Most of the software out there is backward looking and purely... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
market in early 18th-century Japan, Wall Street’s first financial panic in 1792, and the Federal Reserve’s highly controversial response to the global financial turmoil of 1931. The course debuted in the spring 2008 term; six weeks later... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
(self-reliance)—proof that Indians could make their own products, without the British. Today, Godrej has a more than $4 billion global market for its products, which range from security appliances to furniture, soaps, and real estate. A... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
with the management team at the time, to scale back all of those businesses, focus on the diamond in the rough that we had within our midst, the Dunkin’ Donuts business, polish that up, standardize the format, standardize the menu, the configuration, pricing, focus on... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 22 Sep 2022
- News
The Beauty Guide
gave her some advice: Leave the comfort of marketing and join sales; learn the business from the inside out. The suggestion made little sense to Freyre, who considered herself a marketer and a brand... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
on practical economic grounds. You want a strong economy, a strong country, and, if you’re anything like me, a strong stock market. Well, note first that stocks do better under Democratic administrations... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
year to the second. The segment now has a dedicated trade association and big expectations to meet: Global Market Insights predicts the sector will reach $30 billion by 2025. Mariah Wood (left) and Vanessa... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
expected to grow. Those combined forces present an existential challenge—and a megalopolis-sized opportunity—for entrepreneurs. “As population growth and weather-related pressures increase, the necessity of using our existing resources... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
urgent systemic changes needed to address climate change. By doing what’s right for people and the planet, pep+ will help position our company as a consistent top market performer by generating stronger, more loyal connections with our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
Combining action and analysis, they are a formidable crime-fighting duo. In Pale Gray for Guilt (1968), Meyer carries out an intricate con to trick a wealthy bad guy into stock market losses that will... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
As a longtime authority on marketing communications, HBS professor John Deighton has analyzed the consumer-product relationship from every angle. But when he heard the best-selling author James Patterson address a meeting of the Direct... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
and modernizing its capital markets. Prospects are intriguing: Last year, of Africa’s twenty stock markets, the indexes of Kenya and Uganda performed in the top ten globally, with Ghana’s stock View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
purpose can propel an organization’s accounting and stock market performance. According to a recent working paper coauthored by Associate Professor George Serafeim and Claudine Madras Gartenberg (MBA 2006,... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
professional athletes, the top performers in any industry — make all the money. That includes the executive market as well. The irony about pay-for-performance is that pay packages had no built-in control for the general rise in all View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India is more Transparent
First, as a result of a legal system derived from the common-law tradition, annual reports provide the basic rudiments of information that Western observers expect, and familiar rules govern corporate disclosure. Real-time stock View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
“As long as the stock market trades within a narrow range, and long-term interest rates don’t go much higher, I think real estate is here to stay as a very important place where people want to invest.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Ask fund managers covering the Hong Kong market about smart technology plays in these days of crashing dot-coms and you’re likely to hear one company name repeated often. Li & Fung has become the firm to watch for post-frenzy investors.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
No wonder the economy is slow to recover. At the end of 2013, industrial firms listed on the US stock markets held an astounding $1.6 trillion in cash reserves—that’s 12 percent more than a year earlier. And... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
You Can Bank on This
go to Wall Street, the worse the market will do. "It's not that Harvard MBAs are stupid," Soifer assured the Financial Times (September 12, 2001). Instead, he explained, Wall Street firms make generous offers in good times when the View Details