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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Do You Really Want to Be an eBay?
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
allows its 600,000 resellers to sell their unused telecom minutes to smaller customers for a profit. "These kinds of entrepreneurial activities strengthen the social fabric by engaging people as equity partners in their own future,"... View Details
- 21 May 2016
- News
The Age of Consignment
“Ethical elimination” is the necessary corollary of ethical consumption, writes the New York Times, and HBS alumni are leading the way with online resell companies that make it easy to get rid of—and even make a profit from—your old... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Selling Digital Privacy
those companies, not to the individuals. The companies in turn resell that information to others, leaving the source of the information — the individual — out of the loop. Today, consumers face a stark choice between blanket do-not-call... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
and send it to the company via a prepaid shipping box in exchange for cash. After that, Gazelle resells the tech to individuals, wholesalers, and international buyers. So far, so good: To date, Boston-based Gazelle has handed out $150... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
department and we agree to move them." In an arrangement with Federal Express, the modems are shipped to a warehouse in Memphis, Tennessee, and inspected. FairMarket then posts a description of the merchandise online for the next scheduled auction. Most buyers, says... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
Entrepreneur Of The Year, Financial Services 2013 James Center for Molecular and Life Sciences opens at Eckerd College Tom James's entrepreneurial bent was apparent early on. An avid coin collector, at the age of 15 he began to buy and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Côme Laguë (MBA 1993)
Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) founded his company, Zetta Research, to restructure patent portfolios and other intellectual property assets from closed startups, develop them, and resell them to companies that wish to unlock their potential. He... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
limited upside (no chance of brand extension, no reselling to existing customers), but you have to pay for customer acquisition even inside Amazon. Shopify requires you to invest in many things beyond product development and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
While James Hoagland is correct that in recent years there is a growing tendency to flip or resell buyouts after a rapid turnaround, the general experience is actually quite different. As I mentioned, holding periods and investment time... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
company, Zetta Research, is dedicated to rescuing those patents and reselling them to companies that wish to unlock their potential. Of course, the CEO's goal also is to make money, but he also sees his company's efforts as serving a... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
and resells it at market rates to consumers. Working Assets takes the equivalent of 1 percent of each person's phone bill and enters it into a nonprofit donation pool that goes each year to a rotating roster of sixty nonprofits voted on... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
“Right now, our affiliates are often able to make a purchase at 50 percent of what it might have cost in 2007.” Many affiliates are also buying foreclosed and abandoned properties, rehabbing and reselling them to Habitat families. “We are... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
profitability. He notes that Xerox Corporation, for example, is currently implementing a plan to reclaim its equipment, refurbish it, and resell it - without having any waste leave the plant in the process. "They not only hope to achieve... View Details