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13 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

What Deep Metaphors Reveal About the Minds of Consumers Authors:Gerald Zaltman and Lindsay Zaltman Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2008 Abstract Why do advertising campaigns and new products often fail? Why do consumers feel that View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2003
News

Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

enabled everyone to say, 'Here's what we're doing to improve things.'" Rossotti dramatized the scope of the agency's IT problems by taking key congressional staffers on a bus trip-first to the virtually paperless office of a credit card View Details

14 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

Harlem, New York and started an angel syndicate in which they invested their own personal capital into startups, small business, and real estate. “After two years, we pivoted the syndicate to be venture only and focused purely on... View Details

21 May 2020
Blog Post

Creating a World with Trusted Leaders: An Open Letter from MBA Students

get them the help they needed. At that moment, our professor suggested that I do some more digging and write an op-ed to elevate the voices I had been hearing. He reminded us that one day we may be looking to work at the companies that... View Details

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The data files may be placed directly onto your computer or device by your web browser or they might be embedded in a webpage or email that you access. Cookies are small text files placed on your computer or device that store information... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee

2018, Keller left his position as global president of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company to become CEO of Peet’s Coffee; in January, he was named CEO of JDE Peet’s, a merger that added a portfolio of coffee and tea brands represented in more... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

03 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

Kendall Square Research was a small competitor in the supercomputer industry. Sales grew rapidly in 1992 and early 1993 and the company sold stock to the public for the first time. Analysts forecast higher... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Aug 2024
News

Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details

02 Jul 2014
What Do You Think?

Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?

school of leadership to the diversity within any small group of leaders, or to the world of high-tech startups? Regardless, they cast long shadows in that they appear to be the inspiration for a new generation of entrepreneurs who are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

many consolidations in the past decade. Does the rapid consolidation of New World producers make profits at the cost of diversity? Should a beer company own a vineyard? A: The scope economies across the beer and wine businesses appear... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

01 Jun 2008
News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

General Motors morphed into a nation driven by small and nimble venture-backed start-ups such as Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Starbucks, and many others. Ever since, those small, innovative View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

17 Jan 2025
News

Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details

09 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary

CORRECTING THE IMBALANCE To account for this first-timer penalty, Stanton recommends that platforms like Upwork reduce fees for inexperienced employers. Presently, the company charges a flat 10 percent fee on all transactions. Cutting the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment; Technology; Computer

21 May 2018
Blog Post

Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

donated to nonprofits, Accion Chicago is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to build communities through entrepreneurship. We all know that small business is the growth engine of any economy. This is even more true for distressed... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

19 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating Black History: Elevating the Voices of Our Student and Alumni Communities

making money; they want to "impact a culture by investing in innovative companies led by women and diverse entrepreneurs." Read more about their journey to becoming Managing Partners at Harlem Capital, and how they're revolutionizing the... View Details

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Facing Job Loss? More Skills Meant Faster Recovery in Uganda | Working Knowledge

basically an absence of a robust social safety net and formal support,” Alfonsi says. “But really, this makes Uganda pretty much a proxy for understanding the entire region.” Protecting workers, companies, and economies Uganda’s economy depends largely on View Details

25 Jun 2019
News

After the Storm

throughout Latin America for GTECH, a Rhode Island–based firm, but when the company expanded into casino gaming and wanted Dyson to manage the portfolio, it was finally too much. He was already spending 80 percent of his time traveling... View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery

25 Jun 2020
News

Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic

Others are even approaching the crisis as an opportunity to enter new segments,” Sadun says. “There is tremendous energy across firms, and I hope that the report will be able to provide useful examples for other companies navigating these... View Details

03 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 3

PublicationsTalk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations Authors:Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract How can leaders make their big or growing View Details