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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
see some of the traditional historic sites and provided a unique perspective on business issues. Our alumni had the opportunity, while in China, to participate in three case studies and to visit joint ventures between Western companies... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
the decision-making process. From Global to Metanational: How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy, by Yves Doz, José Santos, and Peter Williamson, focuses on a new breed of global company — the metanational — that is turning the strategies of View Details
Henry P. Crowell
Whereas traditional producers marketed oatmeal to wholesalers, Crowell packaged and marketed his brand of oatmeal, Quaker Oats, nation-wide as a breakfast cereal, a unique product at the time. Crowell utilized aggressive marketing... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 23 Apr 2016
- News
Tipping His Cap to Open Source
deconstructs the traditional software value chain at big tech employers like Oracle and IBM. “What are the boundaries of an organization going forward in a world where information and content are open or can be made open? Institutions as... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Harvard MBAs Rule?
GE among them. As if that weren’t enough, it noted that even the newest occupant of the Oval Office, George W. Bush (MBA 1975), “spent some time hanging at Harvard.” With HBS producing so many entrepreneurs in recent years, Fortune apparently had forgotten that one of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest
The School’s eighth annual Business Plan Contest proved that entrepreneurship is alive and well at HBS: Close to forty teams entered plans to be judged by a panel of experts. This year’s traditional track winner was Extend Fertility,... View Details
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rob Price (MBA 1997)
I learned classical piano in the traditional way as a kid, but as soon as I could get a synthesizer and play Foreigner and Journey, I escaped. That, for me, reinforces how our method builds on traditional... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
often fail to take into account the complete value of the customers they are trying to retain. "What's missing from traditional methods is that they focus only on a customer's likelihood to churn, but not on the overall profitability of... View Details
- 10 May 2019
- News
Shining a Light on Black Brilliance
thing is, the creation of this course has allowed us at Harvard Business School to retain and to continue our tradition of educating the world. Now we have case studies that have black protagonists that the world is desperate for, that... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
A Family Investment
gotten more involved with decision-making, I’ve appreciated HBS even more.” Inspired by a family history of giving back to society, primarily through supporting educational endeavors, Özyeg in continued the tradition by establishing the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
A Miller's Tale
chairman is Frank Sands (MBA '63), who, according to a long-established tradition in this family-run enterprise, did not inherit the company but bought it, at fair market value, from his father. Milled from the heart of the wheat berry... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
technologies. The Individualized Corporation by Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher A. Bartlett (HarperBusiness) In an economy of explosive global growth and rapid technological advancement, traditional corporate organizations and management... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
invention. Who better to teach students how to give consumers a magical experience? Recipes Chili Cook-Off recipes Matt Ashbaugh's (MBA 2014) traditional Texas recipe took first place in the beef category of the Texas Club's 21st annual... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Providing lessons in financial literacy
very excited for her vision,” Wood says of Morrison. “I thought, given my background, I could come in and make a difference.” Wood, who previously ran traditional and online businesses for Bertelsmann and Pearson Education before... View Details
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Kesha Kanakiya
without a traditional finance background; and 4) pivoting to Big Tech from consulting, especially for a StratOps / BizOps role. Finally, Kesha loves to work with students to develop a hypothesis-based approach to exploring potential... View Details
George A. Schaefer
A trained accountant, Schaefer’s first task as CEO was to dramatically cut costs. Caterpillar’s large, earth-moving products were no longer in high demand as in earlier years, so Schaefer decided to invest in making smaller machines for urban construction projects and... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
FAQ: How is research funded at HBS?
www.hbs.edu/faculty. All research at HBS is funded internally, without the constraints of traditional external grant funding, thanks to alumni support and income from Executive Education and Harvard Business Publishing. This unique... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Putting the Game Within Reach
traditional sports—and it is only the beginning.” —Angela Ruggiero Jen Rottenberg (MBA 1996), CMO at Fan Controlled Football League (photo courtesy of Jen Rottenberg) Jen Rottenberg (MBA 1996), CMO at Fan Controlled Football League (photo... View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
- News
Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
the project in early 2015, but it proved ill-suited to crowdfunding. Alden is now looking at more traditional investment, banking on still-active interest from Logan.” READ MORE View Details