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- 28 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)
Omowale Casselle What does your work involve? "My official title is director of product management, SAMPLEit, a new venture at redbox. In this role, I'm responsible for leveraging technology across our different product lines—kiosk,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
trading partners, a considerable amount of time is spent transferring physical documents back and forth between traders, banks, and ports—as well as managing hundreds of emails to keep different parties in... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
Schiffer Illustration by Daniel Vasconcellos Founded in 1982, 99¢ Only Stores is the oldest single-price retail chain in the country, with 273 locations in California, Texas,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
Image by Chuan Khoo / Getty Images Learning to Speak the Language of Business In March 2010, CEO Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) stood in front of his employees at online retail giant Rakuten’s Tokyo... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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Sarah Talley’s Key Negotiation Principles
When you have a problem, when there’s something you engage in with Wal-Mart that requires agreement so that it becomes a negotiation, the first advice is to think in partnership terms, really focus on a... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
As Head of Fidelity, Abigail Johnson Is Just Getting Started
record $3.5 billion operating profit for 2016, in part due to targeted expense cuts. Fidelity recently cut its fees for online brokerage trades on a bold bet it would result in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Navigating rough waters
for the nuts and bolts of his company, from understanding the processing of checks to the most complicated financial report. He had been CEO of Bank One when JPMorgan Chase purchased it in 2004. During his tenure at JPMorgan Chase, where... View Details
- 04 Oct 2019
- News
Changing of the Guard at Tesco
Photo via Tesco Photo via Tesco In July, the British retailer Tesco marked its 100th birthday with a 30-hour dance session in Wembley Stadium. Historic milestones aside, the company could also celebrate its... View Details
- 23 Apr 2016
- News
Tipping His Cap to Open Source
As COO at Delta Airlines, Jim Whitehurst (MBA 1994) helped bring the legacy carrier back from the brink of bankruptcy in 2006 while fending off a takeover bid by US Airways. That feat accomplished, he moved... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
A native of rural Chehalis, Washington, Orin C. Smith (MBA '67) was an EVP for Danzas, an international freight shipping company, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz approached him in 1990 to join the fledgling company. Schultz, Smith... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
Levy: Ingredients for beauty from an unlikely source. Photo courtesy Kerty Levy A company that manufactures the nutritional ingredients used in animal feed doesn’t seem like the most likely incubator for a beauty products division. But... View Details
- 15 Mar 2019
- News
A Model of Drive and Impact
Pablo Fernandez Alvarez (GMP 17, 2014) is cofounder of Clicars, an e-commerce platform in Spain that allows users to buy and finance refurbished cars hassle-free. In this interview, Fernandez explains the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Climate Change starts in the same place Jobs’s discussion with Claure did—fear of risk. In Apple’s case, customers can trade in their used... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
bankruptcy before leaving the industry in 1990 to found the investment firm, Savoy Capital. Lorenzo offers a blow-by-blow of the industry's transformation in his new memoir,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Len Schlesinger Returns
Len Schlesinger A longtime favorite in the classroom, Len Schlesinger returned to the HBS faculty this fall after a five-year stint as president of Babson College and eight years as vice chairman and COO of Limited Brands. "Whether it's... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
careers and team chances of winning championships. The aches, pains, and strains that these professionals endure are also a personal concern for weekend warriors and anyone who works in physically demanding environments: “We are all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Warren Buffett Speaks at HBS
Warren Buffett, the Sage of Omaha, blew in from the prairie last October, and some 1,oo0 HBS students responded with standing ovations before and after his wide-ranging remarks. The energetic, 74-year-old Berkshire Hathaway CEO did not... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
as a Baker Scholar, in his spare time Rogers honed a system for trading over-the-counter stocks and left HBS with his bills paid and $50,000 in the bank. Eager to return to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Online Fashionistas
MAYBANK AND WILSON: Doing well while looking good. Courtesy Gilt Groupe Cofounded in 2007 by Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (MBA ’04), formerly of Louis Vuitton and Bulgari, and ex-eBayer Alexis Maybank (MBA ’04), Gilt Groupe is an online,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Bottom-Line Beauty
discussed the technology purchasing decisions she made when equipping her company, a "clicks-and-bricks" retailer of high-end, hard-to-find beauty products. The Washington, D.C.-based firm now has two boutiques in the nation's capital, as... View Details