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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
time. Yes, that’s right — we have to sell a huge number of items to generate that figure. Our average price works out to be about 80 cents because we also price many items at well under a buck, so we sell around 1.5 billion items annually. It really is a...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) (Harvard Business Review Press) The employer-employee relationship is broken. The old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business environment of continual change,...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
leading figure in the nonprofit world. The first priority for the site is a memorial, all agree, but after that, there is much disagreement. "The size of the plot is not nearly as important as the nature and quality of what is built there," Whitehead has said. "We want...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Mawilmada helped secure a $1.25 billion investment for the line from the Japan International Cooperation Agency, with two other 25-kilometer corridors prepped for public-private partnership funding. Buses are another piece of the puzzle, with the current View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
brittle page from the R.G. Dun & Co. Collection provide a slow-motion close-up of a 50-plus-year span when American business expanded from small, local exchanges within a day’s horseback ride to transactions spanning multiple states and...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
a deep need to honor my family’s history and the memories of thousands of others by creating a place for them to tell their stories. In the beginning, the Partition Museum was just an idea. We had no money, no collection, and no building....
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- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
point-of-sale systems at the retail stores. They had some policies that were interesting. One of the policies is, they cleared the POS systems every night. They’d wipe the hard drives, just in case someone...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
founding Quovo, which would allow banks, investment advisors, and other service providers to connect and analyze customer financial accounts, there was virtually no fintech support system in place in New York: no close-knit community of...
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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
board examinations. Out of 30 students, 3 had failed. The memory of one of them, Akash, still haunts me today. The failure that day wasn’t just Akash’s. For 10 years, we had promised his poor parents that if they sent Akash to school, he...
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- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
remember my first movie theater experience. It was in 1971, so I'm dating myself. And it was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I just kind of wondered what are your movie theater memories if you have any. What are some of your strongest...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
use becomes more mainstream," she says, "hospitals will be seeing this as a service they'll routinely want to offer their patients." —L.G. « Back Virtual Commerce Like the phone or fax, the Internet is now another major tool for View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
think the labor market will have a sorting system in place. There are going to be those of us who think of work as a transaction and nothing more. And there are going to be organizations that are going to...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
and have kids, but Guillaume and I decided that we would rather take a reduced income from one of us not working full-time so that there’s a sort of shock absorber built into the system to handle sick days, teacher meetings, school...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
Spar In her new book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception, HBS professor Debora Spar takes an unflinching look at a taboo topic: the myriad kinds of interpersonal arrangements and financial View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
their education system different from ours? What is their farming system that's different from ours, or similar to ours? So I always seek out to meet the locals. April White: So how did your love of travel...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic failure? This roundtable discussion, moderated by Professor Krishna Palepu, sought answers and suggested some corrective measures. Highlights of the conversation follow. Krishna Palepu:...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
determine which unique capabilities your company values the most. K-12 On the Brink: Why America’s Education System Fails to Improve, and Only Business Leadership Can Fix It by Tom Coyne (MBA 1984) Independently published Ask yourself...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
have a long break-in period: I got out of the Navy on a Thursday before Memorial Day. A week from that Monday we had moved to Boston, and I had two sections of Finance for the summer session.” A native of West Virginia, Charlie Williams...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The...
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- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
intriguing. That experience planted the seed for a 50-plus-year career at Stanford exploring new auction designs and formats—work recognized in 2020 with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In this special edition of Skydeck...
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