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- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
On April 29, the HBS community gathered in Burden Auditorium for the final presentations and judging of the School's sixth annual Business Plan Contest. At the end of the afternoon, two winners were announced: FishLogic in the traditional... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
He Begs to Differentiate
Sorrell also noted the irony of investment professionals with "all their portfolios in traditional businesses, who are now running hotfoot to invest in all these new models that threaten to destabilize and disintermediate all these View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation
fidelity. Experiments of lower fidelity (generally costing less) are best suited in the early exploratory stages of developing a product. High-fidelity experiments (typically more expensive) are best suited later to verify the product. Combine New And View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
cofounders saw an opportunity to create a new kind of energy company—a hybrid of a traditional utility and a financial entity. Guzman Energy, a subsidiary of Guzman & Company, would not be weighed down by the same legacy investments in... View Details
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Scott Renner
consulting (or both). He often discusses the tradeoffs of the two paths, and can help craft a dual search approach if needed. Scott’s experience in both large and small companies working in traditional roles (general management,... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
soundtrack of Dominican life. The young musicians are all a part of the nonprofit iASO Bachata Academy, established by Ben de Menil (MBA 2006) in 2013 to preserve the country’s musical tradition and educate a new generation of Dominican... View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
Traditional financial advisors cater to baby boomers with substantial savings, requiring minimum amounts for investment upwards of $100,000 to access their services. By contrast, industry-leading Wealthfront and similar firms such as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New 1908 Society Embraces Senior Alumni
forward to our first annual reunion this fall. Nothing will please me more than attending many more Society reunions.” The Society’s reunions will include special programming and social opportunities patterned after the traditional... View Details
- 22 Jul 2024
- News
Viral Marketing’s Early Muse
year but got nowhere—so in 2009 he produced a music video, “United Breaks Guitars,” and posted it to YouTube. The video went viral, received widespread coverage in traditional media outlets (Wall Street Journal, CNN, and others), and... View Details
- Profile
Fabian Frick
making; I wanted more of a management role,” says Fabian. A consulting assignment with McKinsey gave him the opportunity to explore strategic digitization projects. “In Germany,” Fabian notes, “we have lots of large, traditional companies... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
A Helping Hand for Health Care
The HBS Buffalo Club continued its tradition of sponsoring community leaders for HBS Executive Education courses by sending senior management teams from two of the area’s health-care providers to the School’s new Managing Health- care... View Details
Henry P. Crowell
Whereas traditional producers marketed oatmeal to wholesalers, Crowell packaged and marketed his brand of oatmeal, Quaker Oats, nation-wide as a breakfast cereal, a unique product at the time. Crowell utilized aggressive marketing... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
than traditional businesses that employ their workers. And so it seemed until June, when the California Labor Commission disrupted the sharing economy when it declared that an Uber driver was an employee, not an independent contractor.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rob Price (MBA 1997)
I learned classical piano in the traditional way as a kid, but as soon as I could get a synthesizer and play Foreigner and Journey, I escaped. That, for me, reinforces how our method builds on traditional... View Details
Leading with the Long View
had a couple of friends in the class, so I decided to take it. I didn’t know there was this business history niche at HBS, and it ended up being an awesome class. The cases we discussed were international and covered a longer time horizon than cases in more View Details
George A. Schaefer
A trained accountant, Schaefer’s first task as CEO was to dramatically cut costs. Caterpillar’s large, earth-moving products were no longer in high demand as in earlier years, so Schaefer decided to invest in making smaller machines for urban construction projects and... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
to whom the traditional in-residence MBA might not otherwise be accessible. But it extends also, in the eyes of respondents, to those onsite programs with the foresight to take advantage of the unique capabilities inherent in their online... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
New Releases
practical solutions some have developed in response. Bradach explains that traditional chain enterprises comprise two organizational units: company and franchise. The company-owned unit is run on a military model - the superior exercises... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Media
Tate's Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum What happens when the traditional museum-going experience meets the world of digital marketing? WORKING PAPERS Competing with Privacy Personal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
approaches taken by most of the students’ organizations. That’s an insight into the creative process the class couldn’t have gleaned from the traditional white-paper case. “There’s so much information that comes from video,” says Buell.... View Details
Keywords: April White