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- 06 Feb 2015
- News
The Billion-Dollar E-commerce Company You Know Nothing About
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
Competition (photo by Susan Young) That realization later led Paiji Yoo (who left HBS after her first year to pursue a mobile shopping startup she created) and her sectionmate John Mascari (MBA 2012) to cofound Blueland, which makes... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
logistics can be outsourced to a global company like DHL. Mexico has a cost advantage, so it can naturally be a production center. —Ali al Shihabi (MBA 1985) Consider researching how Indian furniture startups and food companies are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
everything from R&D and manufacturing to marketing (the company also owns a small plant in South Hadley, Massachusetts). That vision, which Wilcox attributes to MIT professor Joe Jacobson, was nothing less than the ability to hold all of... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
recruiter and marketing director to head of innovation. Today, she runs Fueled for Growth, an innovation consulting company, which assists financial firms with due diligence in the energy and industrials sector and helps companies solve... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
can make or break it all. “Plus, in a world where people want to work from home and other companies offer that option, it’s difficult for us to ignore the market and what people want,” Lerner says. On the other hand, the founders have a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
to interact with financial markets, even indirectly.” It’s still too early to evaluate KBRA’s results, although in 2011 the firm came in third place in the first market where it chose to compete (commercial-backed securities with a single... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
markets are going to bear. That’s the core challenge. Can we find solutions that can scale quickly enough to start allowing us to make some headway against CO2 emissions and do it at a cost point that’s going to work in the marketplace?... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
is targeting seniors, when 90 percent of today's marketing spend is aimed at people under 50. And he's hedging his bets on something we all think seniors run from—namely, technology. It all came together in 2012, when Johnston and... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
and with investors from across Africa. He believes those connections could be the key to the program’s success. “Entrepreneurship is not just about capital; it is capital plus X. That ‘X’ is the mentoring and training, and it is the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
counts thousands of members throughout New England and New York, a market that Cummings believes could support 100,000 customers or more. In the last year, Cummings hired sectionmate Philip Giampietro as CFO, a signal of the company’s... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
credit card companies have become much better at shutting that down quickly.” Now hackers look for personally identifiable information—think birthdays, social security numbers, and addresses—that they can sell on the underground market... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
line succeed. Aim to be world’s best at one thing, regardless of customer size. Okay, two things, just in case. But not everything. And aim for a very specific acquirer of the company at a time that’s right for you and your lives. Good luck! —Bill Mirbach (MBA 1976) is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
cofounder and COO of FarmTogether, a startup connecting investors to farmland investment opportunities. “There is a strong coalition of alumni working in various roles and industries here in New York City who are committed to generating... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
industry, men earn 24 percent more, on average, than women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) These stories aren’t encouraging, though the widespread response to them is. And these numbers, and others looking at woman-founded View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
power and shale gas are on the right side of the fight against climate change, and why markets have a better shot at winning the fight than governments do. Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation Clear communication is critical for a... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
now, but that could change in a few years when the markets are right. "We specialize in restructuring patents, carrying out further development work, then getting them into the hands of strategic buyers who can bring them to market."... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
fiercely competitive market for outdoor wear and gear. GoLite’s mission sounds simple and logical enough — give serious trail runners, alpine athletes, fast-packers (backpackers who speed along trails), and even once-discouraged hikers... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “We are only as good as our experiences. I think of every setback as an experience to make me stronger, more marketable and a better executive or entrepreneur. While I... View Details