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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Quicken Loans and Rock Ventures headquarters from the suburbs to the downtown area in 2010; and add urban-dwelling millennials, who see opportunity in Detroit’s relatively inexpensive real estate. Of some potential foreign investors... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of what exactly had happened to the 62-year-old icon. The redesign is part of an initiative by McDonald’s corporate to modernize the customer experience, which began in the US as a pilot in early 2016.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
factors: a relatively untapped pool of high-quality candidates, the introduction of various perspectives into the deal-evaluation process, and a new source of deal flow. “When I get an all-Caucasian male team pitching me, one of the... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
people have died. More than 1,000 children have been orphaned. The total cost to rebuild and restore the region hovers at $100 billion. Atabek then shared a list of established aid and educational organizations that have already mobilized... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
delivering reams of sophisticated real-time financial information and analysis to customers through a unique computer terminal called a "Bloomberg." Currently, more than 65,000 "Bloombergs" - the company builds the hardware and creates... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
considered the fourth sister for the protection they provide from damaging winds. Their seeds also distract birds from the corn.) Keen wades into the mass of foliage, checking the corn's progress: "Oh, cool. A little bird relative dropped... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than in other auto-producing countries. With no serious challenge from abroad, and only relatively benign competition among themselves, the Big 3 and their stakeholders were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
US history for hundreds of years, so when I read headlines like that, as a consumer and as an Indian American, I’m already skeptical: Why do you think my demographic matters now? We’re doing some data analysis in partnership with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
declined. As the twenty-first century unfolded, many families found themselves caught between the rock of expanded consumption and the hard place of seemingly static incomes. And to make matters thornier, the costs of some of the most... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Publishing The 2008 financial crisis triggered a worldwide recession. Unlike the American banking system, which experienced massive losses, takeovers, and taxpayer-funded bailouts, Canada’s banking system withstood the crisis relatively... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
director Maureen Harrington (MBA 2001)—around how to respond to the government's insistent request, relatively late in the planning process, for increased community services in areas such as education, water and sanitation, and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96) Down on the Farm: Frank Burke (MBA '87) A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98) As in any business, the sports industry's mounting costs are eventually passed on to the consumer - at the stadium, via... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
(MBA 1984) Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Associates Driving against Type I passed on CarGurus back when it was a young company. It is now public and trading at $4.7 billion. At the time, the company was raising money at a very high price View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
differentiated, personalized look. “People live differently today,” says Haupt. Asparagus tongs, for example, are a thing of the past. Multiuse items — like Steuben’s Magnolia bowl, which doubles as a caviar server when flipped over — are in demand. AN EMOTIONAL BUY... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and in a few cases by economies of scale. The Chemical/Chase merger is an example of the latter; there was so much overlap in back office costs and overhead that the new entity will save hundreds of millions in those outlays alone." The... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
support lined up, Tierney and Bradach faced a final hurdle, writing a business plan. “There was no analysis that could have been done that we hadn’t done,” recalls Tierney. “But it’s one thing to help somebody else write a business plan.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more environmentally accountable. He... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
interior. But no more. Since China was admitted to the WTO, many favorable trade policies have been extended to the interior of the country, Oberholzer-Gee explained. Moreover, the data analysis “does not allow you to predict a company’s... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
making business decisions," observes Lecturer Thomas J. Kosnik, who teaches Entrepreneurial Marketing. "Entrepreneurial Marketing encourages students to embrace analysis and logic while remaining open to the experience of creativity,... View Details