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- 01 Jun 2002
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Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
programs and CD-ROMs, including a travel title called Expedia, which was later spun out of Microsoft as an Internet IPO. With the rise of the Internet, Murch led Microsoft's online games division and produced the hugely popular MSN Gaming...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Giving Amazon the Boot
When the coronavirus pandemic led many brick-and-mortar retailers to close their doors, consumers turned to online shopping in record numbers—US ecommerce sales rose by 31.8 percent between the first and...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7
odd to them, and the notion of writing a check at the corner store to get money in a pinch suggests a scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. It is only a matter of time, online banking enthusiasts say, before the process of writing a...
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
app with a cheap, cheerful, low-friction ethos. The items in the app’s feed are customized based on your online habits, no doubt leveraging the company’s strong technology around contextual ad targeting. The concept took off: Wish is now...
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- 29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
emergency phase, 230 trained miners from FIBA's lignite mining subsidiary, Polyak, spent 10 days searching under the rubble and rescuing 30 people. FIBA CP, the Group's commercial property management subsidiary's shopping malls, as well...
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- 01 Jan 2007
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Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he became chief executive of WPP,...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
Launched in 2017, Clay is an artisanal ceramics startup for the sharing economy. Founder and CEO Rukmini Giridharadas (MBA 2014) has partnered with potters in the Bay Area to offer their wares online to the chefs, caterers, and florists...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
immersive shopping experience in your home or in a brick-and-mortar store. Some customers are set in the way they shop. Will they appreciate these changes? Who knows? But the next generation will be AI natives—the way millennials are...
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April White
- 22 Feb 2022
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Savings and Loam
Illustration by James Steinberg Illustration by James Steinberg Picture today’s conscious consumer pulling on a fresh organic cotton tee shirt, then driving their hybrid or electric vehicle to the grocery store to pack reusable shopping...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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How Do I Get Your Job?
Even though at the time these things seem like the worst thing ever, they really made us a stronger company. + ONLINE web-only content OW: How did your aha moment come about? Was it an active process of brainstorming or something that...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
$25,000 of in-kind accounting and legal services. Traditional Track OFF AND RUNNING: Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn have opened shop in the Bay Area. Business: CloudFlare, a Web security venture that will help Web sites protect...
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- 02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Ralph Lauren Home shop in Filene’s. That forced me to engage with people on a new level and to convince them to spend $50 on a towel,” he says. He ultimately finished Duke and moved to New York City in 1987 to work at Chemical Bank, first...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message
In 1994, the World Wide Web was not yet a household name. A new company called Yahoo! had just developed a way to look for sites on the Internet -- the search engine. HotWired debuted as the first online magazine to carry advertisements....
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Susan Young
- 25 Feb 2020
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Case Study: The Credit Bureau
moves about a dozen times before buying a home, and all too often the bookshelf purchased for one apartment isn’t needed in the next. As a result, about 10 million tons of furniture go to landfills every year, Ramírez says. He and Aditya Khilnani (MBA 2019) founded the...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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These Are the Good Old Days
been introduced to the world of “blogs” — where teenagers, including her son Brendan and his friends, often keep online diaries. “But I’m not sure that the technological changes have been any more dramatic than during other 25-year...
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- 24 Mar 2023
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Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
Clubs News Clubs News Toronto Alumni Explore Shift in Talent Markets On February 9, the HBS Club of Toronto held an in-person fireside chat and Q&A with Ethan Bernstein, Edward W. Conrad Association Professor of Business Administration, to explore the post-pandemic...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2012
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High Honors
launched Tokyo-based Rakuten, a 10,000-person company that began as an online shopping mall and now includes banking, travel, e-book, and credit card divisions. With a market capitalization of approximately...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf
Use LinkedIn to network with an expert and ask her a question about a critical assumption. Run online surveys using SurveyMonkey.com. Tap into Amazon Mechanical Turk, which offers cost-effective ways to perform mundane tasks." The book...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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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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