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- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
record industry, 1996 was a bluesy kind of year. As revenues increased less than 1 percent and consumers bought 8 percent fewer CDs and cassettes compared to the previous year, the pause button, it seems, was hit on a decade of...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 2000
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A Place in the Sun
edge. READ MORE The World at a Click A stay at Turtle Island is an eagerly anticipated experience, and those expectations create management challenges for Evanson and the resort's 130-person staff. "One thing my HBS professors would love...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top
management and career development," she says. "I feel like I could call on anyone who was there for help with the next phase of my career. The program clearly exceeded my expectations." Broom echoes Bourneuf's sentiments, commenting, "It...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2017
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Yoga Inc.
an estimated 36.7 million US practitioners purchasing classes, gear, and accessories—an increase of 80 percent in four years. It has also spawned a number of lucrative business models: Vancouver-based apparel company Lululemon Athletica View Details
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Deborah Halber
- 01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
Museum's Web site are increasing dramatically — with well over two million expected this year. The Field has also branched out into distance learning with a program that reaches people who otherwise could not visit the museum. "We put a...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group), Bloomberg sees cities as focal points in the struggle against global warming and climate change. Urban areas are now home to half the world’s population, consume half the world’s energy, and,...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
Torras (MBA '50) established Preco Corp., a pulp and paper operation, creating more than one thousand jobs. In consumer services, David S. Paresky (MBA '65) opened Crimson Travel Service in Harvard Square a few months after graduation and...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative
we rail against in class is that product development just throws a new product over the wall to marketing and expects them to go sell it. For the last 50 years, innovation theorist Everett Rogers told us that the difference between a...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
collect — may sicken or even kill them. The ocean-dominated Earth is indeed the “blue planet,” but only 1 percent of its water, the equivalent of one tablespoonful in a gallon, is fresh and accessible. Agriculture and industry are thirsty for that limited supply, too....
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- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Metail Economy: 6 Strategies for Transforming Your Business to Thrive in the Me-Centric Consumer Revolution By Joel Bines (MBA 1999) McGraw-Hill Armed with computers, tablets, smartphones, and...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?
Facebook which have first-party data? That remains a big question.” Gupta expects companies will adapt in the post-cookie era by relying more on contextual advertising—a bit of a throwback. “If you’re reading the Wall Street Journal, I...
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- 02 Mar 2023
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Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
Assistant Professor Michael Luca found in a field experiment. “As consumers come to expect everything on-demand in the wake of the growing popularity of on-demand apps, such as Uber, Lyft, and Instacart, we...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
could communicate to your fans, "This is what we've done. This is what it'll look like. This is the expectation to come back, and what we'll do to protect you." So I think it's a whole host of things in terms of your internal staffing,...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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In Review
institution needed to do better. It made us more mindful that society had new expectations of business leaders, and we needed to redouble our focus on developing leaders with both the competence and character to make a difference in the...
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- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
Wondering what to get the HBSer in your life this year? In the holiday spirit, we're highlighting a few alumni-led companies and ideas that you may not know about. Since roughly 1 in 6 alumni work in manufacturing, high tech, retail, and View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
average American consuming 3.1 servings of meat daily, Muir (MBA 2004) realized that food was a place he could make a difference. In 2008 he started Clover Food Lab with the goal of making vegetables irresistible for people who love to...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life
European consumer products business. In her first Bulletin interview in 1983, Dodi envisioned the future ideal of "a pregnant CEO of a corporation walking into a board meeting" while her other child was down the hall in daycare. But she...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
documents the development of scholarship devoted to marketing, consumer behavior, and industrial psychology, academic disciplines that have helped to spread American-style capitalism into every corner of the globe. — Deborah E. Blagg...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation...
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