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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
to do something extraordinary and every other brand in the market simply emulates it, those other brands lose, the marketplace loses, consumers lose, and you end up destroying value for everyone. So differentiation is not a formula.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Square, set out to answer this question after she started to wonder about her own complicated feelings concerning the changing Square. Diving into Harvard Square’s past and present, Turco explores why we love our local marketplaces and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
The similarity is about the need to make great first impressions, to really stand out in a crowded marketplace and figure out a way to find a personal brand and create that compelling 30-second elevator pitch. So in dating, singles are... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
Creative abrasion was what Hill had witnessed at Pixar—amplifying differences to create a marketplace of ideas through discourse and debate. After all, creative organizations are all about celebrating the opinions of people whose thinking... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
One key to becoming more integrated into the global marketplace will be southern Africa's ability to respond to the radical economic and social changes taking place in its own backyard. "This not only poses complex challenges for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
Gurfein and friends at Iraqi marketplace Courtesy David Gurfein Marine Major David (“Bull”) Gurfein (MBA ’00) was a platoon commander during the 1989 invasion of Panama and the first Gulf War. He left active duty as a reservist in 1998... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
same or increasing. So what should business schools, and HBS in particular, be teaching? Morals, ethics, and values led by a wide margin, followed by globalization, entrepreneurship, technology, and leadership. Suggested essentials for HBS include "equipping students... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
on-demand video content. But he’s also quick to note that the evolution of shorter-form content such as that being offered by Vessel and Vimeo probably represents the biggest marketplace opportunity in the years ahead. “Traditional film... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
25th Annual African-American Student Union Career/Alumni Conference
opportunities of operating as general managers in the emerging global marketplace and to examine the continuing obstacles we face as a group in gaining access to capital for startup endeavors. "The AASU annual career conferences are... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
marketplace (made up of Levi Strauss and VF Corporation, followed by Claiborne, Jones, and then a host of $50- to $500-million firms). "With the right combination of human and technological resources," Charron adds, "we can respond... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
companies with a commanding presence in their home markets. But to call Mikitani’s company, Rakuten, the Amazon.com of Japan would overlook fundamental differences for customers and merchants alike. “We created a real online marketplace... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Is the Auction House of the Future Online?
about unused assets,” he says. “Everybody has unused assets sitting in their homes—art they don’t really love. If we can create a marketplace where people feel comfortable selling that piece and then buying something they truly love, then... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
twenty years ago the company was unprepared for changes in the marketplace as competitors emerged that offered clients individual pieces of the technology package, such as a database program or storage device. This brought about increased... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
business plan for Exchange.com, an online marketplace for rare and hard-to-find items he founded upon graduating and sold to Amazon.com for a reported $200 million in stock seven months later. Leschly counts himself among the new network... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
reasons. In general, the private-equity industry recognizes that it has to tell its story and compete in a marketplace of ideas. I think it’s pretty widely accepted now that private-equity firms have suffered in terms of being... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
be a relatively low price for E Ink, given its essential role in manufacturing a device that some predict will become “the iPod for reading.” In a May 2009 report, Forrester Research predicted that the number of e-readers in the global View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
is not ideas or even talent, it is attention. This groundbreaking book argues that unless companies learn to capture, manage, and keep it — both internally and out in the marketplace — they will fall hopelessly behind. Drawing from an... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
near-failure. Other keynotes included David P. Perry's "The Ups and Downs of the Modern Entrepreneur." Perry (MBA '97) is the founder of the B2B marketplace Chemdex (which recently closed its doors) and CEO of its parent company, Ventro... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
spirit to build a successful business, whether it be from the ground up or by representing a company’s product, is at the heart of direct selling; and it is people who have made—and continue to make—direct selling the successful View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
all these students, learning practical business skills every day but not yet applying them in the real world,” says Petitti. “And we saw all these businesses with needs.” To connect the two groups, the team built an online marketplace... View Details
Keywords: April White