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Angela R. Hicks Bowman
employees, along with 3 million members in more than 200 cities. The service now includes health care professionals, pet care and even offers a special subscriber list for buying and selling classic cars. Given competitors such as Yelp,...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
DNA.) We're also planning to launch an AKC-branded pet insurance product to meet a critical need since medical advances that have served humans well are now being made available for our canine companions. Procedures such as hip...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2003
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Andrea Silbert
who took a start-up course at CWE after being laid off from her job as a pet groomer. She now owns Animal Spirits, a successful pet-grooming store in Cambridge. Next to her is Carrie, who came to CWE looking for advice on how to expand...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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High Honors
botanic gardens, pet shelters, and arts organizations near their Miami home, the Stampses have partnered with some two dozen (and counting) universities around the country to offer more than 300 merit scholarships to the very best and...
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- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
series, gathers in a basement studio at HBS with Desai and Oberholzer-Gee, as well as the occasional guest, to talk about current events, pop culture, and pet peeves. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance; Moon is the...
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- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
and donate part of the proceeds to a charity to feed the hungry. Not all PWYW strategies are created equal, however. Santana investigated data from a pet adoption agency in New York, finding that on average patrons paid close to the $150...
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- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
spend a lot more time researching where products come from and what ingredients they contain. During recent scares concerning pet food ingredients and some children's toys, people suddenly had to research which products were recalled and...
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- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
operational inefficiencies in recycling facilities, which can’t recycle compostable plastic. After months of research and analysis, Puri and his team resolved to package their produce in #1 PET plastic, the type most universally accepted...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 01 Jun 2010
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Michael Depatie
differentiated product in a commoditized business, even if it’s becoming less so through competition. Some of the stuff we do is fun, and whimsical, so it makes good copy. The media reports on our tall beds for tall people, our “Guppy Love” program that offers guests a...
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- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
why the brain evolved to pay attention to other people.” The problem was that while the film's characters appeared astonishingly human in many ways, their eyes looked lifeless. Viewers were creeped out. Humans are often delighted by objects with vaguely humanoid...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2012
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Straight to the Heart
emphasizes the power of fate and serendipity in finding love. How do you respond to those who find your proactive approach too contrived? If there’s one pet peeve I have after 10 years in the love business, it’s people’s complete faith in...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback
there were great rewards for VCs who focused on a very specific investment category, such as online pet food. You could invest in five or six companies in the same area and do quite well with all of them,” he explains. Now, across the...
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- 06 Dec 2018
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Source Code
Picture a dog. The image you have in your mind probably has a long history. It likely started when you were very young and came across a dog for the first time: Maybe you pet the dog, maybe it licked your hand. You met a few other dogs,...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Next Normal
and in office moving forward. Building culture in all environments is critical. AND less travel and more video calls from now on!” —Jessica Gelman (MBA 2002) “The power of routines and rituals to anchor my day/week. Also, it’s great having View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
the Discovery Room, where youngsters can touch a snake skin, model a Japanese kimono, or pet a ten-foot-tall stuffed polar bear. "This museum can be a powerful tool to keep kids interested in science," NMNH director Bob Fri observes....
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- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Case 818-079 Chewy.com (A) In late 2013, Ryan Cohen, cofounder and CEO of online pet products retailer Chewy.com, faces a “bet the company decision”—whether to stay with a third-party logistics provider (3PL) for all of its e-commerce...
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Dina Gerdeman