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- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
industries that are going through a sea change. He recalled how a two-dollar ATM fee he once paid at an airport spurred him to start his own ATM network featuring out-of-town banks. Other ventures he helped create were a credit card processing center for supermarkets,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
student volunteers from the Communications, Media, and Computing Ventures Club who organized seven provocative panel discussions and a number of leading-edge product demonstrations and entrepreneurial workshops. The two-day event...
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Meg Gardner
- 14 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation
coffee shops are being transformed into webinars, video calls, and 1:1 conversations. Other organizations are building on their already robust virtual recruiting practices and sharing ideas on to how to adapt. There are also new...
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- 18 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Applying HBS Lessons in an African Context
team spent several days in Casablanca interviewing local consumers about their furniture shopping experience and helped the client create a strategy to compete against IKEA in Morocco. This experience allowed me to learn about the...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
Courtesy Birchwood Sustainable Development Courtesy Birchwood Sustainable Development When Betsy Harper (MBA 1984) was shopping for real estate in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2018, she had some atypical requirements. Her dream house...
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- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
behavior of a sample of online grocery shoppers over the course of a year. We compare the purchases customers make when redeeming a $10-off coupon they received from their online grocer with the purchases the same customers make when View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
average person is going to want to shop in a few years? I don't think so. This is true for the supermarket space in general; it's really not about Kroger as an organization. Supermarkets are these very large, impersonal, and inefficient...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a...
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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
members-only shopping site Gilt Groupe with classmate Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (MBA 2004). Now Girls Who Code students work as summer interns at the Gilt Groupe. The nonprofit has middle school and high school View Details
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April White
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
business borrowers can comparison shop among a range of products from a variety of lenders--including community and regional banks, online balance sheet lenders, and others. Some of the most prominent of these players include Biz2Credit,...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
each year who are interested in careers in health care. Our HBS Healthcare Club is one of the largest on campus, and the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association is huge. So I guess I was onto something back then! We've talked about the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
office here in New York City. I’d go into schools, and I’d go into their robotics classes and their computer science classes. I would just see lines and lines and lines of boys. I remember thinking, “Where are the girls?” I knew that Silicon Valley was a boys’ club,...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
same time, American families flocked to locations such as Walt Disney’s Disneyland to experience new forms of leisure. Shopping itself became another form of entertainment, as the number of shopping malls...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
JULY 12 The HBS Club of India recently launched an “Alumni in Action” campaign, which highlights stories of members who have led pandemic relief efforts. The first two alumni highlighted are Akshay Navaladi (HBS MBA 2013), founder of...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
club (mahogany trim and neatly pigeonholed shirts) with a sense of whimsy and fun. “There is a vast profusion of colors and patterns that makes it like a candy store, so you want to come in and treat yourself,” she says. In addition to...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
country has 20 million affluent households, growing at 15 percent per year, with an annual income of $10,000 to $60,000. While deregulation in recent years had created an explosion in financial products to choose from, distribution remained a problem — no one had yet...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
some $130 million each to join the major-league fraternity. Since these teams will largely consist of players existing clubs deemed expendable, backers can have few illusions that their investment will be rewarded - on the field or at the...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
done, but we retain U.S. production. That flexibility and one-stop shopping is a key to attracting business.” For manufacturing operations conducted in China, CGM has experienced on-site teams that are well-versed in Chinese culture,...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Related Links Ten Amazing Facts about Beauty Register for a Club presentation with Professor Jones on October 19 In his new book, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford University Press), HBS professor Geoffrey...
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- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Maddalena Hotel & Yacht Club in north Sardinia, pose a branding challenge. Can all the properties, including the Forte Village, be successfully brought under one umbrella brand, namely, Eleganzia? Moreover, what should the character...
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Sean Silverthorne