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- 25 Mar 2019
- News
Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club
Photo via Forbes, courtesy of Rent the Runway Photo via Forbes, courtesy of Rent the Runway Rent the Runway’s latest fundraising round—a $125 million investment led by Bain Capital Ventures and Franklin Templeton Investments—has pushed the company’s valuation to $1... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Previously, Martin, at French mass retailer The Casino Group, and Giraud, at Euro Disney (with Bourguignon), had both proven their mettle as managers in turnaround situations. Martin and Giraud stress that Club Med's core business is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
the models that online retailers use to prevent internet fraud, even the most high-tech modern businesses are empowered by theory first envisioned by economists. Pakistan, India and the Bomb: Spy versus Counterspy by James Glenn (MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Where Are They Now?
works on strategy issues, is point person for global initiatives and acquisitions, and oversees day-to-day operations across all of the group’s functions and its multiple brands, which reap $9 billion in annual sales and include Bath &... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
TOGETHERNESS: Mark and Kim Lackley based their furniture business in Vermont. Learn on someone else’s dime. That’s a lesson from HBS that served Kim Alley Lackley (MBA ’94) well as she made the leap from software and Internet start-ups to launching her husband’s... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- News
The Federator
Keywords: Reva; Mahindra; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
competition with upstarts like Southwest Airlines and the clashes with unions that led Fortune to name him one of “America’s toughest bosses,” along with accolades from his employees. Along the way, Lorenzo highlights the strategies and... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- News
Breaking Ground in Manufacturing
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
running out. The old low-cost manufacturing-for-export strategy had run out of steam. They were developing a new economic formula based on stimulating consumer consumption. More recently, there was an anticorruption campaign that created... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
30 to 40 tons of dry biomass per hectare (just under 2.5 acres). (The energy balance ratio of corn ethanol is around 1 to 1, while sugarcane ethanol stands at about 8 to 1.) None of this was lost on Brazilian native Ana Maria Diniz (OPM 36, 2007). Formerly a high-level... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
expansion (President Johnson's Great Society); there were more opportunities for advancement. I soon became manager of the research department, then advertising manager of the book clubs division—Doubleday's largest and most profitable... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
about it because it resulted in a number of layoffs. Even so, I remember someone pointing at me in a bar, and we hustled out of there. It certainly left a taste in my mouth of the power of strategy and thought, but I felt really bad about... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
revenues. Busy managing several hundred employees and a network of 25 growers, Ruth Owades may not have time to smell the roses, but she's not complaining. « Back Supplies and Demand Sometimes a small inconvenience can lead to a revolution. The day in 1985 when View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
not solved) by walk-in retail health-care organizations such as the MinuteClinic, staffed by nurse practitioners, inside CVS/pharmacy stores. “The clinics and nurse practitioners have specific protocols to follow for common, nonemergency... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
Museum of Natural History, Chicago Strategy for the Field: "More. Faster. Better." Operating expenses FY '99: $60 million Square feet he oversees: Close to a million 33 Web site: www.fieldmuseum.org Best part of his job: "Knowing that we... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
any of a host of gaps in the marketplace. At a panel in 2016, Shousha remembers bankers droning on about opening bricks-and-mortar retail branches—when only about 10 percent of Egyptians had bank accounts. She left her talking points and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
admissions office to develop and implement new strategies for attracting more students from the continent. Both always knew they would ultimately return to their home country to try to address hunger and build Nigerian enterprises. The... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
get scrubs to nurses on the front lines who really needed them,” Singer told CBS News, noting that they worked through their network of retailers to deliver the donation within ten days APRIL 17 After he and his wife recovered from... View Details