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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Career Services Shifts into High Gear
searches to cope with what portends to be a long-term economic slowdown. To contact MBA Career Services, call 617-495-6232 or e-mail mbacs@hbs.edu; for Alumni Career Services, call 617-495-1433 or e-mail career_advisors@hbs.edu. CLASS OF...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
BALLMER: Microsoft plans to remain on the cutting edge of digital media technology. If you think that the last decade produced a torrent of consumer high-tech innovation — notably personal computers, broadband Internet access, cell...
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- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
Above: Sid Misra (MBA 2013) cofounder, Perceptive Automata (Len Rubenstein; courtesy of Perceptive Automata) Amid the hubbub of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s largest technology tradeshow, Sid Misra (MBA 2013)...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
from the book follow. An Affront to Public Morality The beauty business began modestly with the sale of products widely deemed an affront to public morality. Today, consumers around the world spend $330 billion a year on fragrances,...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
online digital world, consumers are searching for ways to reclaim these values in many of the industries I’ve studied. What advice would you offer to an endangered industry? If you foresee your core...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
launching Anomalie in 2016, she was a supply-chain manager for Apple Watch—and a bride-to-be in search of a wedding gown. In the process, the self-described TOM nerd discovered that one city in China produces 75 percent of the world’s...
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April White
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
for-profit. She began to make her mark as vice president of business development at Novica, in Los Angeles, an e-commerce company that connects artisans in developing countries to businesses and consumers in the US. "It's an innovative...
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- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
status quo, at the expense of searching for (and investing in) the kinds of novel breakthrough ideas that originally propelled them to the top. Atari, Wang, Polaroid, DEC, the examples are so numerous it is actually harder to point to...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
In 1994, the World Wide Web was not yet a household name. A new company called Yahoo! had just developed a way to look for sites on the Internet -- the search engine. HotWired debuted as the first online magazine to carry advertisements....
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
consuming stories, whether it be Netflix or a video game. So you associate sitting down and looking at a screen with entertainment. That said, it can be a slippery slope; we want to make sure we’re not making “edutainment.” But humans...
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Jen Mele
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
change the face of the consumer marketplace. Effortlessly rattling off a string of statistics, he notes that while China and India now represent more than one-third of the world's population, that figure will climb to two-thirds for Asia...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Oscar Winners
To your health: Nazemi, Schlosser, and Kushner roll out their consumer-friendly online insurance company. For aspiring entrepreneurs searching for a sexy start-up idea, it may not seem a very glamorous notion. But ask Josh Kushner (MBA...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
the more general reader interested in national parks. The Health Care Consumer’s Manifesto: How to Get the Most for Your Money by Deborah Dove Gordon (MBA 1999) Praeger Health care consumer policy expert Deborah Gordon offers a guided...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Professor of Business Administration. "There are many challenges for firms in figuring out how to position themselves," notes Crane, who has taught finance and banking at HBS for many years. As consumers get more accustomed to using their...
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Susan Young
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
HBS students worked on their project with representatives of the bakery chain Benjamin in São Paulo. (photo by Cintia Farago) In the United States, brand loyalty is often a powerful motivator—consumers will drive miles in search of a...
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- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
Arab Emirates Rohit Dev Thakwani, OPM 37 2008 SpendWisor.com consumer electronics marketplace Midwest/Central U.S. HBS Club of Chicago Marc Hoecker, MBA '08 vinsnap mobile automotive marketing New England HBS Association of Boston Marco...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
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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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
improve stability on trails. The company now holds patents on the technology. It was an innovative product in search of a brand. “Is this really a Timberland idea, we asked ourselves,” Smith recalls. “Timberland is all about leather and...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Leadership by Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria, and Mark Rennella (Palgrave Macmillan) This book examines the evolution of leadership through the story of the American airline industry. Early airline entrepreneurs searched for a viable...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
three days straight, but it was the best three days of my life—much better than flying to Europe and dealing with labor unions in France." Wolf Creek Farm produces 30 tons of beef a year for the local market, selling directly to consumers...
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