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- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
rapidly covering Weston’s remaining open space, he initiated a land acquisition plan with another planning board colleague that raised some $5 million and preserved some 10 percent of the town’s acreage as conservation land. With George... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Bó Lè’s acquisition by a Japanese firm was finalized in 2013, the company had a network of 15 offices across Asia. If I were to assess my personal life from an investment-return perspective, however, I would initially get an... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
and approach to business that stresses employee satisfaction, creativity, irreverence, and fun. In implementing that philosophy, Branson has been named England's best business leader for the last two years by his business peers. Branson noted that he shuns View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
additional costs, we don't look at what we've gained from it. AW: Throughout your career, you thought about growth mostly through acquisitions and mergers, some very successful, some thwarted repeatedly. Why did you pursue this strategy?... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
snacks are the company’s most recent innovations.) By mid-1994, Dreyer’s fulfilled its dream of becoming the leading premium ice-cream brand in the United States — a mixed blessing. “As we approached a billion dollars in sales, it was clear that we were a plump target... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
leadership skills were apparent. After the collapse of the tech stock market, Trilogy bought pcOrder back as a subsidiary, and Jones led the acquisition integration team. Now 34 and single, Jones’s next start-up may hit home with many in... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- News
How Separate Should a Corporate Spin-Off Be?
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
you to be your most confident self. And how that manifests itself in our teaching philosophy, in the content that we've been building with our accent coaches, the method that they use is one of accent acquisition rather than accent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
used every single fundraising round for a very specific purpose. Lazarow: It was to expand to another city or it was to do a small acquisition or something like that. That they really took this long-term approach. I asked Mike, I said,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
Last year, foreign investors set new records for their acquisition activity in the United States. And 2008 began with nearly daily stories of American financial executives courting foreign direct investors, particularly sovereign wealth... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
short time frames," "the role of business as society begins to seek more balance between material acquisition and spiritually oriented directions." Both alumni groups, especially younger grads, saw business schools as having only the same... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
online streaming field with Otter Media, a joint venture with the Chernin Group. And industry observers agree that more acquisitions and partnerships in the years ahead will only accelerate the pace of change in a tech-heavy business that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
needles in a haystack, but that’s where crowdsourcing comes in—defining a challenge and offering an incentive, whether in status or money, can get people to self-select as resources to you. You may even want to hire some of them. So this strategy can play into talent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
their apps (minimizing Nix’s customer acquisition costs), and then used and repurposed by vast communities of fitness consumers in novel ways that only escalate the value to them and to Nix. Yes, Nix still needs the physical product, but... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
Harden worked on the acquisition and creation of a number of media brands, including Hello Sunshine. “Reese has this incredible ability to step back and ask a question that shifts my thinking,” Harden says. “We’ve come to consider... View Details
- 16 Feb 2010
- News
CIT Taps Thain to Run 102-Year-Old Lender
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
173, 2007) Go big or go home. Instead of competing against the “heavies” in a “land grab,” Ario should position itself as a target for acquisition or as a partner. The heavies and the IPO market value innovative tech and business models... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
part time. ”I have now been to 10 countries in Africa in three years, and often times feel more comfortable here than I do in my other home, the USA.” With the acquisition of two universities (Cavendish in Uganda and Zambia) and a... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
race to win new customers and e-reader converts. It will make the company a truly global entity, bringing it closer to its customers in Asia. And the acquisition will simplify the supply chain, driving down costs (the Kindle DX,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
environments," Sahlman says. "It is an integrative course in which managers can learn to use the financial perspective to inform resource acquisition and allocation decisions." Today the Entrepreneurial Management unit includes five full... View Details