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- 01 Jun 2023
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Pet Project
Illustration by Shane Cluskey Like pet owners everywhere, Katie Spies (MBA 2019) would do anything for her dog. In 2014, when her Italian greyhound, George, started experiencing seizures and other health problems that didn’t respond to...
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- 06 Jul 2023
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Home Economics
provides financial and business education, monetary investments, and coaching to women who live in extreme poverty. “We are very proud and happy to be able to save,” says Anita Aguilar Cruz, a shop owner in the community, as each peso is...
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April White
- 11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart
into my mind that I wanted to actually learn new skills. And I think with that, I've always been very drawn to coffee as a category and a product. And, I was therefore thinking of Caribou Coffee, Peet's Coffee, and so on and Pret a Manger. And it turned out that the...
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- 30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE
first job interview in 1990. When the owner of the company asked if I had any other questions, I made clear that insurance coverage for my domestic partner was a condition of my employment, which wasn’t really done then. Had I not had the...
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- 12 Jan 2023
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‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
Seke Ballard (MBA 2010) says he owes the inspiration for BetaBank, his small business-focused digital-banking venture, to his father—and not just as a person, but also as an archetype for every minority entrepreneur who has struggled to find capital in a banking system...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
only get so excited about another round of seltzers with lime. But as obvious as it is that non-drinkers thirst for more interesting options, bar and restaurant owners have been slow to see the opportunity. “They told us that nobody ever...
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- 05 Apr 2018
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50 Years After King
she knew a curfew had been declared. The shop owner and her grandfather rushed outside to vouch for her, but the experience left an indelible mark. Fudge made a commitment to excel in all that she set out to accomplish. She went on to...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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House of Bread on the Rise
overbake nor underbake — both fatal to the bakery business. But when she opened her second bakery in 1999, she suddenly realized how hard the business could be. The new House of Bread was in Santa Cruz, three hours away. “It had better View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Elevator Pitch: First Byte
March, the company announced $5.5 million in funding. COVID-aware: “Our business model is CapEx light; business owners pay on a commission basis for every meal the robot makes, which alleviates a lot of risk. And in terms of health and...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference
run your company.” Mentors are also critical to entrepreneurial success, according to panelist Karen Kerrigan, president and CEO of Women Entrepreneurs Inc., a nonprofit association that supports women business owners through education,...
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- 09 May 2013
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Road Trip
"Sarah and her team are tenacious and we think we'll learn a lot from them." Highland Brewing Company (Asheville, North Carolina). Cofounded in 1994 by owner Oscar Wong (SBA North Carolina Person of the Year), it began brewing locally in...
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- 11 Feb 2017
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Harvard Business School Makes a Case for Diversity
As central as case studies are to research and learning at Harvard Business School, they’ve been missing one major feature, says senior lecturer Steven S. Rogers (MBA 1985): diversity. Notably, the stories of African-American business View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
in part, perhaps, to its tough, unglamorous realities. “Anyone who does a good job in the food industry and makes money works really, really hard,” says Keith Garner, owner of Pasta Cuisine, a restaurant and catering business in Oakland,...
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2024
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Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
the first in a long series of “what ifs” that would shape Puck’s career. The next morning, Puck did indeed return. The furious cook demanded that he leave, but the owner intervened, sending the young man to work at a sister establishment....
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Christine Speer Lejeune
- 14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka
visits a noodle shop with an unnecessarily long wait, for example, she’ll reengineer the process in her mind: move the food there, put one employee here instead of two to reduce the line by half. “I’m pretty sure the owner would not...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
sales below pre-COVID levels, a figure that tracks closely with figures represented by small-business owners overall; yet only one in five of Camino’s members has received some form of government relief. “Credit models have been turned...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
is the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration and head of the School's Entrepre-neurial Unit. An HBS faculty member for over 25 years, Applegate also serves as faculty chair of the Business Owner Portfolio of Executive...
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- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
there are a couple of other heroes, if you will, I think that will emerge as the story gets written. Owners of private companies—the Patagonia’s, the Dr. Bronner’s, the Ben & Jerry’s—who for decades have been slowly but steadily paving...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
celebration, considering Kettle Cuisine's long and bumpy road to profitability. The son of a Polish Jew who fought in the British army during World War II and who later became the owner of a scissors and shears distributorship in New York...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2013
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Sea of Dreams
was coming to form was struggling to survive and shedding some of its employees. As the vessel's future became uncertain, the interdependence between the owners of yachts and the people who put them together came into perfect focus. Do I...
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