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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
Above: The Ario Lamp parallels the sun’s schedule. (Courtesy Ario) Ario is a smart lighting company in the Bay Area whose lamp changes light direction and color dynamically throughout the day, promoting better health. The shifts in...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
business by focusing on the small- and mid-sized market across all industries. The question is how to get there. Slang.ai is currently serving clients in three verticals (restaurants and hospitality, ecommerce, and brick-and-mortar retail...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
analytic engines to more aspects of what workers are doing, slicing the data ever finer — IBM modeling individual employees, retailers using so-called human-capital management systems to time even the smallest task and to schedule people...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Corps leaders in 1992 to report what had happened to her. But senior leaders, some of whom were her father’s friends, ultimately allowed Culver to stay on in a senior role at the organization until his death in 2005, when he was celebrated for View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
his way up the job ladder at a garment factory, in due course becoming plant manager. By speculating in the stock market, he turned bonus money into enough cash to start his own clothes-making operation, which eventually became Giordano, a wildly successful casual...
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- 30 Jan 2012
- News
Shopping Around
Calabrese: "Never mistake motion for action." Courtesy Julia Calabrese A commercial real-estate mogul who quotes Hemingway? That would be Julia Calabrese (OPM 22, 1995), CEO at London-based McArthurGlen Group UK Ltd., a leading owner, manager, and developer of designer...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
new working paper, "How Promotions and Stockpiling Affect Brand Competition," HBS assistant professor Samuel S. Chun looks at the ways in which retailers influence competition among manufacturers when they...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
a dramatic impact on life in the 21st century, from online retail giant Amazon.com to Internet behemoth Google to synthetic biology leader Amyris. Doerr has become a leading advocate of innovation and investment in green technologies....
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
company Long-Stanton and a 2013 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard, has been promoting competitiveness-based ideas to improve the regional economy. During the past 18 months, he’s given dozens of talks about US competitiveness to state...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
marketplace status quo. Demanding a voice and sometimes a hand in the products they buy, these digitally empowered consumers― “Me’s”―have inverted the traditional power dynamics of retail into metail. To put it simply, your customers are...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Of Dugouts and Sweatshops
another of Reich's interventions. He recounted the controversy surrounding accusations that clothing promoted by Kathie Lee Gifford had been manufactured in a sweatshop environment. Even though Gifford had no legal liability in the...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
million in revenue in 2013, up from $58 million in 2012. And it touts a Net Promoter Score—a customer-satisfaction indicator—in the low 80s, saying it is "significantly higher than Apple and Amazon, and nearly 50 points higher than phone...
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- 25 Jun 2020
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Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
featured are Rishad Premji (MBA 2005), chair of Wipro Ltd., which is supporting COVID-19 relief efforts in India; Ameera Shah (OPM 42, 2012), promoter and managing director of Metropolis Healthcare, a diagnostics business in India’s...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
Lazarus puts it, that have characterized his career. He enrolled at HBS directly out of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, with plans of going into retailing. "Business school convinced me that retailing was not what I...
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Jeffrey Lazar
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
our marketing program was very much in line with what we do in product development.” The plan, then, became to look at how Terra could best support the making of the film, without interfering with the creative content in any way, while still getting a message to...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Beyond the Numbers
Robinson in 1986 as assistant controller for their international consumer businesses, including bank cards and retail banking. His first task, he recalls, was to "take a look around and advise my boss what his group should be doing...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 29 Jul 2013
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Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
Selena Cuffe On a trip to South Africa in 2005, Selena Cuffe (MBA 2003) happened across an advertisement promoting the first Soweto Wine Festival. Cuffe, the director of an exchange-student nonprofit, didn't know a lot about wine. Yet the...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
unposted openings, discussing salaries, and how getting recognition for accomplishments can lead to promotions and pay increases. The book’s case studies and expert contributions provide many examples and recommendations to manage stress...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
about the glamour for a minute—the celebrity sports endorsements, team sponsorships, promotions featuring models and freestyle rappers. Is branding your top priority? Building brand is fundamental to what we do. We play at this very...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Class Notes Extra
central belief is that humanity is meant to live in unity and harmony. As a leader of his local Spiritual Assembly, he conducts interfaith and intercultural (especially with Chinese) discussion groups and has continued to promote social...
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