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- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
recalls the remark about magazine piles. "That has come back to haunt us," Fahey says. "People today don't want clutter." It turns out that many things that made National Geographic one of the world's top brands during... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
describes seeing the destruction—combined with the loss of relatives and friends—as a turning point. “It made me realize that I wanted to revitalize Japan’s economy,” he says, recalling his decision to resign from the Industrial Bank of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
brought a lot of perspective and intellectual fire to class discussions. But it was also clear that there was a darker part of that experience for her.” Dixon recalls those two years at HBS, when she could just do the work and show up as... View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
Sijh Diagne (photo by Michael Bucher) In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) was asked to serve as an advisor to Senegal’s minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. He was charged with leading the country’s private-sector development; but just as became the case... View Details
- 09 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual
marketers, says HBS professor John Quelch. Credit: Gage Skidmore Show the past as prologue. Offering consumers the adventure of voting for an uncertain future never works with the majority, especially if your brand is new to the game. Trump, the political neophyte, won... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
- 25 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Women's Student Association
meetings in the office. Recalling my own experiences in the workplace, I try to empower the women around me. While pursuing my undergraduate degree, I led a branch of SheCodes, an organization that helps women to learn how to code. Before... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
development-oriented, production-intensive, and competitive global economy of the future. In that context, what seems certain is that some companies and countries, when confronted with overcapacity, will nevertheless plow ahead with the kind of go-for-it attitude that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
members they’d been cast to play: John; his wife, Aileen; John Jr.; Megan; and Patrick. But the eeriest moment was coming face-to-face with his Hollywood “family.” “They were putting together photo shoots re-creating our family pictures from vacations and Christmas,”... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
the facts as they were known a week after the incident occurred and raises a wide range of questions regarding consumer behavior, corporate responsibility, and competitive reaction. I recall only two cases that we spent more than one... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
over $4 trillion under management and maintains a sharp focus on low client costs for its 25 million investors. In 2008, at the age of 54, Brennan turned the company over to his handpicked successor, Bill McNabb. “Jack surprised us,” says McNabb View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
design a high-tech armored suit for a person when artificial intelligence could do the job with significantly less risk. “Why wouldn’t they just put in a computer to control the suit?” he wondered. “‘Good mission, but it sounds like a horrible business idea,’” Tseng... View Details
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
women." Hence brands like Broga (yoga for bros) and Powerful Yogurt ("the first yogurt for men," according to its website). Brand managers also must consider the effect of expanding a historically male-centric brand to include female consumers. Avery... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
recalls his father asking. That question stayed with Pete Stavros. There had to be a better way. Early in his career as an investor, Stavros was part of a deal with a company that had an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), an... View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
actually makes you better.” An idea taking root Despite the success of his firm, Brown had not been immune to brushes with bias. Growing up in a small segregated town in Florida after World War II, Brown recalled being awestruck by white... View Details
- 18 May 2023
- News
India's New Money Managers
I pitched it in class—about 80 percent men and 20 percent women—most of the men asked, ‘Why do you need a separate platform for women?'" recalls Gupta. "The women all said, ‘Wow, can we take it back to our countries? I wish I had... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Portrait Project
Amy Long
I was supposed to be a writer. As a child, I treasured no sisterhood of dolls. I yearned for no film stars. Team sports, I simply ignored. Instead, I recall only my fingers working feverishly over my grandfather's typewriter, a roar in my... View Details
- Web
The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
introduced in the photographic field, which he considered ripe for invention." 42 The inspiration for instant photography planted itself in Land's imagination during a family vacation in 1943: “I recall a sunny vacation day in Santa Fe,... View Details
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
decline, and even the spike created by the delta and omicron variants could not stop corporations from recalling workers to the office. Many companies want to go back to the way things were, but that would be a mistake. “Organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Competing in the Age of AI
Above: Karim Lakhani discussed GenAI with alumni during his presentation at When Professor Karim Lakhani leads discussions about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), he often begins by asking audience members to stand if they’ve used an AI tool like ChatGPT or... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie