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- 18 Feb 2009
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Creating a real healthcare market
- 19 Dec 2018
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When Your Moon Shots Don’t Take Off
- 13 Dec 2014
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The openness revolution
- 01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead
20-person team when your venture is pre-revenue is not impressive; it could be worrisome.” While the forecast is far from sunny, entrepreneurs are still raising funds, Austin notes—and plenty is still possible with little to no financial...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small
bus to restock. Their orders are relatively small, so they can’t negotiate on prices or credit terms,” adds Shruti, who watched her uncle’s kirana go out of business years ago due to issues with pricing and...
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- 22 Sep 2023
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Capital Connection
housing complex. “They’re updating living spaces, replacing roofs, addressing years of deferred maintenance, and creating vibrant community spaces with playgrounds and picnic areas, with modest rent increases so residents are not priced...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Rounding the Bend
closets over the last year: the retired styles, outgrown sizes, anything you let go because it was no longer sparking joy. Now estimate how many clothes you’ve bought secondhand. “If you’re like most people, the first number is far...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
today’s fastest digital supercomputers years to complete. Quantum computers will be able to carry out complex financial chores like pricing derivatives and optimizing portfolios in the blink of an eye. They will crack even the strongest...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
John Gourville and Alex MacKay (Image by John Ritter) Rising inflation and pandemic-related supply-chain challenges are driving up prices at the grocery store. While some manufacturers, like Procter & Gamble, have come forward to announce...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
it's supposed to." Bower continues: "Theoretically, when an industry has excess capacity, prices fall and the least efficient producers can't survive." But, Bower adds, that doesn't always happen. "In many countries, for all sorts of...
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Garry Emmons
- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
four to one. When another premium brand lowers its wholesale price in an attempt to stimulate sales, Heublein’s president decides to increase the price of Smirnoff and put the additional revenue into...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success
exponentially since we were at HBS. I marvel at how quickly things have changed. When I started in this business, if a client wanted price and volume information, someone had to literally go to the library to consult the books put out by...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
neighborhood and partying with the rich and beautiful in chateaux across France. But darker truths lurk behind the façade, and Mason and Kelly find themselves caught in the crosshairs of competing government agencies on opposite sides of the Atlantic. Suddenly, it’s...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
to Finding Your “Enough” By Manisha Thakor (MBA 1997) Harper Business No matter your age, income, or profession, it’s all too easy to fall prey to the false belief that the amount of money you earn, or accomplishments you achieve, or...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Marquis Jet Takes Off
existence hinged on a highly unlikely partnership with NetJets Inc., the nation’s leading purveyor of fractional private-jet ownership. “Without them we didn’t have a business,” recalls Bill Allard (MBA ’89), Marquis’ president and CEO. “There was View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
the production line in just three days. While the unassuming Bullard, who recently stepped down from his duties as president, is reluctant to take credit for the company's progress, he is happy to brag about its working conditions. Unlike most factories, there are...
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2021
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From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact
prices and expand access to life-saving therapies,” she says. After college, Rabah joined the biotech company Sio Gene Therapies, where she had the opportunity to speak with parents of children with Tay-Sachs disease, an ultra-rare...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani
do already in modern portfolio theory." Modigliani doesn't attribute the market's rise entirely to technology stocks. "Technology is a big part of it -- technology-related stocks are now about 30 percent of the S&P 500 -- but there are other stocks that are trading at...
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Julia Hanna
- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Swiss Re, which predicts that even if some mitigating actions are taken, global GDP will shrink by 14 percent by 2050 by 18 percent if no actions are taken. Okay, the sky may really be falling. However, research that my co-author, Bonita...
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