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Nvalaye Kourouma
I was seven and I was dreaming of a toy car. I made my own out of wood. I looked at my new toy and it made me very happy. I was fifteen and I was dreaming of a holiday full of parties. I convinced some merchants in my home town that they...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
The Simplest Taste
After combining two names, one from each side of his family, Stanley Marcus (MBA '27) went on to make "Neiman Marcus" a household name. It was a pairing that would prove as successful as the company's "his-and-hers" holiday gift offerings...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
A Bankable Trust
Florida high school and at Harvard College. And now her music is furthering her academic outreach efforts. Last fall, Harris released a holiday CD, "Carla's First Christmas." All proceeds from its sale are benefiting not only her...
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- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
"repatriation taxes" that occur under the US system of worldwide taxation. Simply put, multinational firms currently have an incentive to keep money abroad. A temporary holiday of the repatriation tax coupled with the tax on...
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by Mihir A. Desai
- Portrait Project
Sharon Liszanckie
never drive me. Success will be: Buying my brothers' families plane tickets for holiday visits; Trying to do good, forever increasing my parents' ROI; Never losing sight that everyone, from diplomats to homeless, can and will be my...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Coach “Chuck” Jukes Convention
’Tis the season for bowl games and playoffs! If you’re stuck at midfield on your shopping list with the clock winding down, The Complete Handbook of Coaching Wide Receivers would make a great Hail Mary holiday gift. The treatise’s author...
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- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
It’s going to be a beautiful summer…
attending a meeting where we play with a bunch of samples and design sample bags for the upcoming holiday season (probably most fun meeting of the summer so far), followed by another meeting where we discuss what tags we want on the back...
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Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
noted, Cordero started GradSave, an online college savings registry that makes it possible for family and friends to contribute directly to a child's 529 plan or savings account. Parents can send digital reminders of the account's existence as a birthday or View Details
- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
that is so assured that it no longer requires conspicuous display. They lease their cars, rent other people's holiday homes, and would happily outsource other aspects of their lifestyles. They reject the marketer's continual pressure to...
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- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
K1 Investment Management, is leading an effort in his investment firm to give time off for voting for all K1 employees and over 5,000 portfolio company employees. K1 recently announced election day as a paid holiday on LinkedIn. “People...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
team was down a body. But just as important, he threw himself into the lifestyle, hoping to better understand what makes Eddyline’s customers so passionate about the products. A novice kayaker before, Holley says he’s now hooked. Asked if he’d spent any time on the...
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Ryan Jones
- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
Made-up Holiday The company is throwing itself a party where all its Prime customers get the gifts. How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com Independent bookstores managed to survive and even thrive in spite of...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Reunion Snapshots
Erik Sorensen (22nd OPM) Currently the managing director of Club Sultan in Marbella, Spain, an exclusive European holiday ownership club, Erik Sorensen specializes in marketing luxurious vacation opportunities. "My business is about...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
(above: photo by Getty Images/Patrick Foto) A mathematics major, Don Carty (MBA 1971) has always seen the airline business as a huge puzzle, with the equation involving inventory and pricing, cruising allocations, weather, and holiday...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
about vacationing and holiday merrymaking have been instrumental in shaping the modern travel and leisure industry. (Not the least of its contributions has been the introduction of the all-inclusive, prepaid, hassle-free View Details
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- Web
4.4 Harvard University Identification Cards Policy - MBA
your card may be requested include, without limitation: Access to areas on campus that are normally closed or locked; For identification purposes after hours or on holidays or weekends when parts of the University are typically not open...
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- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
have included gangster elf-themed holiday wrapping paper and a Valentine’s Day condom giveaway. “I tell my team that ideas are key and if those ideas are good, I'll reallocate budgets to make them happen,” Braterman said in the June 3...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Lisa Frankenberg
Jewish community, which was nearly annihilated by the Nazis and the Communists." While living in Prague, Frankenberg worked to bring together the small remaining Jewish community with expatriate Jews through social and religious events. She even helped organize the...
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- 27 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right
should survive. The CEO knows that Mattel's brand trust—built up over 62 years—is at stake, just ahead of the holiday selling season. And with 80 percent of U.S. toys sourced from China, other U.S. toy marketers are under equal scrutiny;...
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