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- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
kid. He was struggling at school, but he loved his football and it gave him the self-esteem and confidence that he missed at school. So I decided to make him captain for the day,” Traill says. “He really stepped up and played well, and it... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
was named at the time) buy the Internet media company Excite in the largest Internet merger yet. It's heady stuff for a guy who started out in the unglamorous position of controller of a semiconductor firm after graduating from HBS. But... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
isolated. Ascending to ubiquity from the car-obsessed America of the late 1950s, McDonald’s became a common language and a cultural export—an affordable and dependable escape. For decades, McDonald’s was a place to feel good. How could they View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
assumption is the notion that you can make things go viral—and in fact, studies show that’s not easy. A 2012 study of millions of messages on Twitter and Yahoo! found that more than 90 percent of the messages didn’t diffuse at all, about... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
invest in the women who make the industry run. Each brightly colored bag of Kahawa 1893 features a prominent QR code that allows purchasers to give to the women behind the beans. “People have been very receptive to the idea,” says... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
inheritance to purchase the Wall Drug Store in 1931, it was just that: a drug store. At the height of the Great Depression, in a part of the country sometimes described as “the geographic center of nowhere,” the family struggled to make... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
news these days. The last innovation we had was 200 years ago, through the Industrial Revolution,” says Hanazawa. “Fashion is not doing anything for our health. It’s not making the environment any cleaner. I feel strongly that we can do... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
redesigned in a manner that would make Martha Stewart proud — and also gives an outsider a hint that she’s not exaggerating. During her New York days, Reade specialized in buying and selling firms that had... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
On The Case: The Base Factor
insights that we develop collectively is very, very rich,” she says. A customer-base audit is not about knowing the customer in a traditional market-research sense, Ascarza explains, but rather looking at dynamics of historical data to understand how customers differ... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
market is still the most efficient in the world,” he says. “Over the longer term, one can buy and hold investments and be confident that price disparities will smooth out with time and be reflective of real value.” The author and coauthor... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
are buying an item with the proceeds going to charity, or you are making a donation and receiving an item in return. We found that the former ends up being a stronger motivator than the latter, because... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
the most popular worldwide choice for getting around—even for the short, solo trips that make up most of driving life in dense cities and sprawling suburbs. Swapping in smaller, energy-efficient electric vehicles, like bicycles and... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
goals probably, but definitely commercial too. Businesses are here to make money. So we have ambitious goals that are energizing to everybody. It also has a sense of duties that we here have duties to our customers, to our communities, to... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
targeted advertising, and now advises startups and early-stage companies as they get their own ideas off the ground. In this video, Grouf reflects on his track record as a tech entrepreneur and innovator. “The whole idea of making a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Serving through TechnoServe
to ask the right questions — ‘Who is buying cashews?' and ‘What is the best way to enter that market?,' for example. It isn't rocket science, it is basic technical help.” While Tierney thoroughly enjoys the opportunity he has to View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
"Lots of companies were buying the same products for different prices, and we were trying to make it more transparent. The problem was that the product users did not want transparency. We approached it like... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
INK-STAINED ORACLE: Buffett's Media General bid focused on small-town papers. AP Photo/Nati Harnik by Deborah Blagg In 2012, legendary investor Warren Buffett made a bid to buy a troubled Southeastern US newspaper business just three... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
inside the booth owned by tech startup Barared to do everything from place phone calls to pay bills, deposit money, and buy minutes for their mobile phones. It’s a convenience for her customers, Reyes says: Chimalhuacán has only two bank... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
contract with California utilities for $0.14–$0.16 per kWh. As the technology matures and scales, that should fall below $0.10. And these plants can be realized in three to five years, compared with ten or more for nuclear plants. As the rest of the December issue... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
make the job better for them.” The prize money will also allow the cofounders some room to be creative. “We can explore things that we otherwise might not have had the freedom to do,” says Borkenstein. Gruskin says there were other... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley