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- 25 Mar 2019
- News
Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club
woman’s need for wanting access—not necessarily ownership—to designer apparel, accessories and now home products,” she tells the magazine. What’s behind RTR’s rapid rise? The article quotes a T. Rowe Price... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
they took in this guy who didn’t know much about retail at all and were quite patient in showing me the ropes. I’ve been very fortunate in that sense. Your annual revenues for fiscal 2009 totaled $1.3... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
Laura S. Scher (MBA '85) is something of a modern-day Robin Hood, an entrepreneurial activist who redistributes the wealth of the marketplace to those in need. Through her company, San Francisco based Working Assets Funding Service, this CEO View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Jul 2008
- News
No Pulp Fiction Allowed
a lot, it turns out in this centennial year of the MBA. Keeping the degree fresh and relevant — and worth the large price tag — actually makes for interesting reading. My... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
one year. Such a holiday would raise revenues and create jobs in the United States, according to the WIN America Campaign, a coalition of companies including Apple, Google, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
sweet spot; designing the offer to create customer value and secure differential advantage; integrating to serve the customer; and measuring what matters. Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
manager in Silicon Valley for a few years before his green impulse kicked in again. In 2001, California was in the middle of a full-blown energy crisis, complete with 800 percent wholesale price spikes View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
Venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund partners — a group heavily laden with HBS alumni — may have dodged a tax bullet late last year, but they can expect Congressional advocates of higher taxes for investment View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
that described why competition in health care had failed. Some health-care experts, he feared, would take offense at any critique written by mere management professors. To the surprise of Porter and coauthor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a flash-in-the-pan fad? In the “Clocky” case, Nanda cites the Roomba, iRobot’s robotic vacuum cleaner, as an example of a product that View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
opinion and climate policies, and the relative cost of various energy sources. “There is always lively classroom discussion about whether industries that pollute are paying a high enough View Details
- 03 Aug 2011
- News
No Ducking the Debt Ceiling
Lecturer Robert Pozen succinctly proposed what he called “a debt plan Republicans can support with $400 billion in revenue raisers.” To many Americans, this is now read-it-and-weep material. Just days before the vote, Professor of View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
irrelevance. The company's signature wild cherry–flavored product all but disappeared from retailers' shelves; by 2012, annual revenues had sunk to about $1 million. Enter Steve Silk (MBA 1978), turnaround maestro View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
long been a focus of my own research." The case outlines the events that led to Morton's consideration of Buffett's offer to buy 63 newspapers from his highly leveraged company, which had experienced a 31 percent decline in revenues over... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh
then rent to marketers, who send our members online advertisements that match their stated interests and activities." So what's in it for members? ClickDough shares with them at least 50 percent of the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
Sean (left) and Kenny Salas Photo courtesy of Camino Financial Sean (left) and Kenny Salas Photo courtesy of Camino Financial Twin brothers Kenny and Sean Salas (both MBA 2015)... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
More Than a Business
attempted a career in professional sports, playing for a year with the Milwaukee Bucks and the Cleveland Cavaliers. But the lure of business ultimately proved stronger, pulling Graves to HBS, where he explored his interest in View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
manufacturing hives and offering village-level demonstrations and training. A social enterprise that has won multiple international awards, Honey Care also provides a guaranteed market at fair trade View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
the global economy. BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors offer five steps for bringing in a new generation, noting that some degree of conflict is not only inevitable, but desirable. As family firms grow and scale, BCG offers a roadmap... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
most of the talking. Slowly, he gets the buy-in he’s been looking for as affiliates see the new logo’s influence on clients. At the same time, Boyd and his senior management team invigorate a jaded corporate... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna