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- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Editor's Note
C L A S S N O T E S I S S U E ith thoughts of summer getaways on nearly everyone's mind this month, we report on a bittersweet farewell, the Class of 2002's Class Day and Commencement. This year's traditional rites of departure were... View Details
Seth E. Thomas, Jr.
Having joined the company immediately after college, Thomas was responsible for the largest wave of expansion in the history of his great-grandfather’s firm. In addition to introducing a line of electric clocks in 1927, Thomas also raised production of its View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
disagrees. Key concepts include: Most B2B marketers cannot economically address thousands of small businesses using the traditional direct sales force. If left unattended, individual managers will each do their own ad hoc marketing. B2B... View Details
- 21 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
My Fear of Student Debt: Funding the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
years instead of the traditional two years for an MBA or MPP alone. I also knew I wanted to start or join an early stage and socially focused venture after graduation that would likely not pay me as well as some more View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
and his cofounders saw an opportunity to create a new kind of energy company—a hybrid of a traditional utility and a financial entity. Guzman Energy, a subsidiary of Guzman & Company, would not be weighed down by the same legacy... View Details
- Career Coach
Ellen Harris
(including those from ExEd leadership programs AMP,GMP, PLD) as well as those without traditional business backgrounds, especially people transitioning from military. With an unconventional 25+ year career path, Ellen especially likes to... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Hospitality; Manufacturing; Retail; Social Enterprise
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
earned approximately $1.5 billion in revenue in 2015 from serving top brands, including Hugo Boss, Nautica, and Ralph Lauren. Yang is a catalyst for change in a traditional industry. As wages rise in China, many textile companies are... View Details
Samuel H. Kress
Kress built a discount chain store based on an economies of scale model. He started offering fewer items than traditional 5- and 10- cent stores, in order to offer bargain prices to a lower-income clientele. Kress’ stores were a great... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 02 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: A Circular Journey Through JSW Cement - From Steel Slag to Stronger Shores
door. Its location, strategically chosen, allows it to directly harness the waste products of steel production. Blast furnace slag becomes a substitute for clinker, the traditional backbone of cement. By incorporating this slag, JSW... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
enables the fledgling units to share important resources from the traditional units—cash, talent, expertise, customers, and so on," they write, "but the organizational separation ensures that these new units' distinctive... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
their most critical projects. This flexible system avoids the activity/budget focus of traditional project planning and increases managers’ ability to achieve big-picture strategic objectives. How the Wise Decide: The Lessons of 21... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
ten careers for the 1990s, with 50,000 to 85,000 new chefs needed annually. What's behind this boom? A big factor has been women entering the work force; they don't have as much time for shopping and cooking. Today, that traditional... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Funding Circle, among others. It was a wide circle. These startups are part of a new ecosystem filling the void left by traditional banks that don’t want to lend to small businesses because they are too risky or because interest rates are... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
deal with change, turmoil, the unexpected? All too often we have been surprised by our lack of foresight close to home. The traditional family structure has broadened to accommodate divorce, single parenthood, common-law partnerships, and... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
company’s product throughout its Seattle headquarters. Other customers include NASA, the Ritz-Carlton, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Amazon, Disney’s Epcot theme park, and Google. IceStone has come a long way since Magagnini’s dark day, and not only by View Details
- 29 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Pursuing Independent Projects
looking to do outside of traditional coursework. I had actually worked with Impact Weighted Accounts tangentially during my internship the summer before, so I had a chance to get to know the team and I knew what they're working on, so I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
entrepreneurial. And they are less hierarchical, with flatter management structures. Service and knowledge industries have overtaken traditional manufacturing businesses as the engines of growth in the West, while China and other... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
human-resource foundation. As more and more companies come to that conclusion, competition for scarce human resources heats up. The Role Of The Executive In The "war For Talent" Era Senior managers at most traditional companies... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Tapping into a sustainable enterprise that provides income for indigenous Mexican families
adhesives, chewing gum, and soft drinks. Resin tapping by these indigenous nations is a millennium-long tradition in Mexico. The tappers make a steady income, and help to preserve the environment (pine trees protect aquifers, arresting... View Details
- Career Coach
Martha Tassinari
particular expertise in assisting those seeking leadership roles in tech based start-up and high growth companies, she has coached scores of professionals across industries, functions and geographies on traditional and non-traditional... View Details