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- 09 Nov 2023
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A Third Act for Ron Shaich (MBA 1978)
Widely credited with pioneering the concept of the restaurant industry’s $80 billion “fast casual” segment, Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) started small: a 400-square-foot business in Boston’s Downtown Crossing that sold cookies. From those humble but tasty beginnings, Shaich...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Engaging Students More Deeply
landing page with text, photos, interactive graphs, and video clips. In class discussions, Greenwood can see that many students have dug more deeply into the key questions than they might have with a print case. “You can’t just skim a...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2023
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3-Minute Briefing: Frances Haugen: (MBA 2011)
I went to a Montessori preschool. My parents were very big on the idea that children are people and treated me with great seriousness. If they asked me to do something, I was allowed to ask why. Debate was a big part of my high school experience. Coaching debate...
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- 20 Dec 2023
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New School
In the early days of the pandemic in 2020, Curriculum Associates, a Massachusetts-based company that creates research-based print and online instructional and assessment tools, made the decision to make its products free to teachers and students who suddenly found...
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- 24 May 2017
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David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
time, print media was rapidly losing ground to its electronic competition, but Bradley was undeterred. “The happiest day of Mort Zuckerman’s career was the day I bought the Atlantic from him,” says Bradley with a laugh, noting that he was...
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Susan Young
- 10 Apr 2023
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Leading the Way
bought Standard Printing Company, a provider of bill printing and mailing services, and business form printing. Since then, Trejo has been learning the ropes as president and CEO, while Trujillo serves as...
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Margie Kelley
- 31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection
number of launches per year from, say, three or four a year to more than 20 a year. As they’ve been doing that, they’ve experimented with new technologies like 3D printing of rocket parts, like reusing rocket parts, like using new...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
Illustration by Dana Smith Illustration by Dana Smith Throughout your work at HBS and HKS, you’ve studied the changing media landscape from several angles. What are some of the major challenges to sustainability that local newspapers face? On the business-model front,...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
Ninan Chacko (AMP 158, 2000) was on vacation in Turin, Italy, when he stopped to snap a photo of a street sign. In the picture, all you can see is the name: Via Roma. But for Chacko, the CEO of Monotype, the world’s largest type seller, the classic letters told the...
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- 01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
in the Northeast, responsible for everything from running the projectors to selling more than 1 million pounds of popcorn each year. To help Hollywood fill seats, O'Donnell bought Allied Advertising, which, with the clout befitting the nation's third-largest View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
York after graduating from college. Then, in 1988, Ferguson and Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990) founded Urban Profile, a lifestyle magazine for young African-American professionals. “We didn’t consider printing costs or subscribers,”...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
sell toothpicks; you can just follow a linear regression line. But if you are trying to sell a three-quarter-length floral print dress that’s only available for one season, you need more sophisticated models to predict inventory needs.”...
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April White
- 31 Jan 2022
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Michael Trejo Brings Business Back to the Valley of the Sun
bring back to my community,” he explained to the magazine. “It was time to come home.” Trejo is now president and CEO of Standard Printing Company, a commercial trade printer located in an industrial Hispanic neighborhood of Phoenix. The...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Say “Green Cheese”
HOUSENBOLD: Picture perfect. All over America, shoeboxes full of print photos are gathering dust. But hard copy is not dead: There’s a growing demand for homemade picture books and scrapbooks whose pages people can design online...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
A Fine Collection
“We're just not prepared to create a public space with a full-time staff,” explained Mrs. Williams, who earned a Ph.D. in art history in 1996. “We'd like to be compared to the New York Public Library's Print Room, where scholars from...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Extra! Extra! Newspapers Miss the Story
compared with other online content sites. In an effort to defend their print businesses, newspapers have failed to realize that a new business is growing all around them,” says Gilbert. For example, he adds, “the Internet is the only...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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Commemorating a Milestone
printed pages (page 24) —and more than double that amount here on the alumni website. Be sure to see both the printed and online formats; they're a rich and rewarding read. One final note, about this issue's...
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- 08 Oct 2014
- News
Making a Difference
Print this PDF, write your message, snap your high-res photo, and share it on Twitter (@HBSalumni) or Instagram using the hashtag #HBSMakingADifference. Be sure to tell us your name, program, and graduation year. Follow @HBSAlumni on...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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The Cole Room: A Wealth of Resources for Job-Seekers
The Cole Room in Baker Library offers an extensive range of useful information for alumni conducting a job search. Resources include a database of more than twenty thousand alumni career advisors, printed and electronic files with...
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- 09 Jan 2019
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Why New England Needs New Ideas
foster economic prosperity. The trio offers the anecdote of Isaac Merritt Singer, a Charlestown-based printing machinery maker who became a sewing machine magnate thanks to a smart business model, a strategic sales approach, and...
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New England