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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Change
way it did in other countries. That’s largely due to the predominant culture of lifetime employment, which ties workers to a single company and values years of service more than the development of skills.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
you don’t, you’ll be leaving value on the table.” Tell a Story But Choose Your Moments We’ve all experienced the staying power of a good story—the kind that gets told and retold at every family gathering. There’s good reason for this: The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
route that no one else was taking: “I really thought that a private-club model could work.” McCarthy was well versed in how private clubs operate—both how they deliver real value and where they can fall short. A member of Sarasota’s Bird... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
Illustration by Shane Cluskey Like pet owners everywhere, Katie Spies (MBA 2019) would do anything for her dog. In 2014, when her Italian greyhound, George, started experiencing seizures and other health problems that didn’t respond to medications, the vet recommended... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim
rented, leased, or borrowed cars). Because other agencies aren’t chasing these young people, Surround enjoys a low cost of customer acquisition for a customer that has “the highest lifetime value of any... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
the conglomerate and Mumbai business circles. Above all, family-run companies in India value loyalty and seniority. But the maneuvers worked. Over the next few years, the business started to rebound, marking a turning point for Godrej,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
More Faculty Honors
Professor Max Bazerman has received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program. The institute, dedicated to fostering enlightened leadership, recognizes exceptional professors who are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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New News
going through the process of pricing discovery over time and optimizing for the best LTV to CAC [customer lifetime value to customer acquisition cost] ratio, which brings you... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
founder of Avid Technologies. He’s still on our advisory board, and he has also put us in touch with a contact at Lifetime Television. Since then we’ve produced two films for them.” Montage, with offices in New York and Los Angeles,... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
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Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt
Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt In honor of his 50th Reunion, Robert Burt established a charitable gift annuity that will provide his wife, Lynn, with an income stream from Harvard during her lifetime and then fund a permanently endowed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
deeper medical research — could change as much as attitudes about smoking? Guesstimates as to the value of the sports business range into the hundreds of billions of dollars — could that juggernaut be affected simply by parents refusing... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
answers." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "One of the most important elements of leadership is fairness. You have to be consistent in the decisions that you make and the messages that you deliver. An organization looks to you as representative of the View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Relations staff with a goal of describing HBS finances and demystifying some of the commonly held beliefs about the School's funding needs. These sessions were instrumental in informing the students and setting expectations for a lifetime... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
for our users and, in the process, increase our customer lifetime value (e.g., our successful decision to repurpose our video content into textbooks).” Guram: “I remember that the TOM case on Cincinnati... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
parcel of land in a rapidly growing city of some 14 million people with one of the highest real estate values in the world. In “Dharavi: Developing Asia’s Largest Slum,” HBS assistant professor Lakshmi Iyer and lecturer John Macomber... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
it happens), they often see dollar signs first and foremost. Salaries are soaring - even a journeyman player can earn in a few seasons what the average fan makes in a lifetime - and ever-increasing revenues are required to fund expanding... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
executive table. I do think, however, we’re setting a good pace for change. We’ve introduced an approach we call One Anglo that’s based on the core values that underpin the company in all its activities. With the support of the executive... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Playbook: A Practical Guide to Building a Successful Business By Paul H. Woodruff (PMD 27, 1974) Independently Published Many people want to turn their passion into a successful business. With this book, Paul Woodruff compiles his View Details
- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
overestimating the value of an item—and overpaying for it. Nobel Committee: In the 1960s, Robert Wilson started to investigate auctions with a common value. That is, a value which is unknown beforehand, but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices
much in the employer’s interest to also be there for them. I ask you, does it maximize profit to treat customers well by selling them products that represent good value for the money, or is it best to charge them as much as you can while... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)