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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
gotten used to as consumers. Antonio Moreno: People still like going to a physical store to have an experience and learn about products, but now that can be decoupled from the act of taking possession of a product because there are better... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
arena, for example, Forest Reinhardt has found that when companies see environmental regulation as an opportunity to look critically at their production processes — not just to figure out the minimum they can do to comply — they can make... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he became chief executive of WPP,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
SpaceX vessels.) Of course, the Limiting Factor and the Pressure Drop would need to be maintained, and the ship needed a crew. Vescovo tapped EYOS Expeditions to organize the trips and handle permits and logistics. A film crew from Atlantic View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
beginnings of the genomic research industry and all the companies that grew —and are still growing —from that. It was also the time when the concept of diagnostic related groups DRGs was introduced. DRGs essentially redefined health-care services as View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
is the Bakken formation, a 25,000-square-mile underground deposit that—thanks to a rise in fracking and new oil extraction technologies—has produced as much as 1 million barrels of oil and gas a day, or about the production equivalent of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
help students launch and creatively manage new businesses, including both stand-alone start-ups and ventures operating within an established organization. Tripsas notes, “Whenever a firm introduces a truly novel product, it has repercussions beyond the narrowly defined... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
large internal market and easy access to raw materials and fuel. But America's real edge lay in its genius for mass production and not labor-intensive work, which could be done more cheaply overseas. Since imported glass was typically... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
student volunteers from the Communications, Media, and Computing Ventures Club who organized seven provocative panel discussions and a number of leading-edge product demonstrations and entrepreneurial workshops. The two-day event... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
purchase on approval. This strategy, she explains, helped create elite patronage for the young Wedgwood brand. It was also one of the earliest recorded examples of "inertia selling" - a practice commonly used by book and music clubs today. The View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
pursued a looser, more flexible organizational strategy drawing on employees' experience with previous generations of products rather than formal training. Although these differences became more pronounced between 1985 and 1995, the... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
maintains minimal inventory, delivering finished units in a matter of days. Dell's direct-access model makes extensive use of computer linkups and information shared among customers, suppliers, and the company itself in order to facilitate and monitor all facets of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
through 2019. “The big objective of my tenure is to help Europe to be able to have an ecosystem where you can actually create the conditions for fundamental science and research to be transformed into real products and businesses that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
the HBS multimedia production group every few weeks to videotape sessions for the case. Garvin and Roberto then spent several months editing and organizing some twelve hours of tape into bite-sized clips. “Students get to see what a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Clubs Click with New Web Services
he says. For the club, the ability to put its membership directory online has saved the time and expense of producing a paper version. The Harris technology will also benefit groups like the HBS African-American Alumni Association, whose membership is worldwide. “It... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
want to be remembered just as the guy who got the Coop out of suits,” he notes with a grin. After restoring the store's fiscal health, he now looks forward to strengthening services to the Coop's 65,000 paid members and more than 400,000 alumni worldwide by enhancing... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
Throughout his career, Kuhns says, he has never forgotten an exchange that took place in his first-year MBA production course taught by Professor John Bishop. In response to a student whose answer to a question had clearly missed the... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
with a product lauded for its high quality, distinctive style, and approachable prices. While most of its clothing is designed for children’s sizes from infant through age 12, the company introduced a small line of women’s clothing last... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
Development program. This program is more effective than a typical microfinancing program because it lets the beneficiary cooperatives become part of our supply chain. They provide Manila Water with products such as meter protectors,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
capitalist system works the way it does is because there are cycles, and the cycles self-correct. With too much excess, eventually you get a downturn. So the explosion in securitized assets was a ticking time bomb? It’s not amazing that securitized View Details