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Louis F. Bantle
During his tenure as CEO, Bantle generated a 10-fold increase in revenues (from $100 million to $1 billion) for United States Tobacco. He divested of non-core operating units and launched a major advertising initiative which enabled UST to achieve an 80%+ View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
South Africa Explorer
with the naked eye. This was the experience shared by the thirty people who participated in the HBS alumni travel program in January. “South Africa Explorer,” a thirteen-day trip that originated in Johannesburg and concluded in Cape Town,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
long-running family agricultural businesses: emphasizing high-quality raw materials, building close relationships with farmers, and spending on vigorous marketing and advertising. Born To Innovate Born in 1968, Francesco was full of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
marketing for the budding business. “It provides all the charting information on your computer, but it also connects to Internet databases and brings in all the latest weather and other flight condition information.” Hamilton discovered... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
ideologies at the door and approached the topic as we do any other topic involving investment under uncertainty. OP-ED COLLECTION The Business of Climate Change What role should business leaders play in trying to affect climate change? Harvard Business School faculty... View Details
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
materiality map. Once I did that, I was able to come to the conclusion that acquiring a leading ESG position would potentially help this company gain market share during an upcoming industry consolidation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
associate Emily Stecker dig deep into the rebranding of a company founded in 1934 that, by the 1980s, was rapidly losing market share and was often equated in the popular mind with anything generic or bland,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
integrated chain. The presence of an e-intermediary with limited market share improves farmers' profits; however, if the e-intermediary grows too large, it negatively impacts both farmers' and supply chain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
support and market their film,” says Simon, senior director of marketing at Hain Celestial, a leading natural and organic food company based in New York and maker of Terra Chips, a brand of unique vegetable... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
Ravi Venkatesan If anyone could write the recipe for business success in emerging markets, it would be Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992). After all, he's led not one, but two, major multinational companies—Cummins and Microsoft—in India and brought both to dominate their... View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
"I'll take that bet." Despite having come off a solid win as chief marketing officer of the NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee, Amy Aronoff Blumkin (MBA 1988), isn't talking about football. She's recounting what she told her boss at AT&T... View Details
Charles L. Brown
returns to investors of 25%. In the process, he reinvigorated AT&T’s research and development efforts and continued to solidify AT&T’s 70% market share of long distance phone business. View Details
Keywords: Communications
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
Miwa Seki (left) and Yumiko Murakami Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui shared the same birthday month and year, so they started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
barely spoke during those years. In 1967 I became president of Emerson College, where the General’s wife was a trustee! Doriot and I got reacquainted, which led to a long-delayed sharing of his immense goodwill and deep understanding of... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
easier to achieve in a for-profit organization than in a comparable nonprofit," he writes in a recent working paper, "Philanthropic Social Capital Markets and Performance-Driven Philanthropy," and the most important reason is capital. "It... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
years: unbundling of agency services, the problem of competing clients sharing a common agency, and concern over consolidation with the growth of holding companies. To understand them, it's first important to appreciate how advertising... View Details
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
they cannot spend on marketing the way their competitors do. The case invites students to explore an unusual business model in both concept and execution. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/609106-PDF-ENG Pfizer:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Podcast - HBS Online
24 Feb 2025 The Parlor Room Season 2 Finale: Top 8 Q&As with Harvard Business School Faculty In The Parlor Room's season two finale, host Chris Linnane shares his favorite questions and answers from his conversations with Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
HBX: Expanding Our Reach
In the last few years, the landscape for online learning has changed dramatically. Using new and ever more powerful technologies, the market is shifting rapidly, with many dozens of organizations, aggregators, and educational institutions... View Details
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Global - Global Activities 2020
Activities The following highlights illustrate the breadth of HBS’s global activities before and during the pandemic. Africa Research Center The Africa Research Center contributed to HBS’s Creating Emerging Markets collection, a unique... View Details