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- 14 Apr 2014
- News
The Puzzle of Life
(acquired by Covidien), which uses a wire-mesh balloon technique to treat brain aneurysms; and Spinal Modulation, a company with a new, dramatically effective technique for blocking chronic pain at the source. (In June 2013, St. Jude Medical invested $40 million for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
proving the freshness of his eggs. Empower partners over products. Rakuten allows its merchants great leeway in crafting their online portals. Site designs encourage customers to linger and explore rather than purchase and leave, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
“establishing a sense of urgency” — is told by a middle manager who sought to spur change in his company's purchasing process by highlighting its inefficiencies.The manager hired a summer intern to catalogue all the types of gloves being... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
league—began to play without fans in the stands. Outside, that is, of some cardboard facsimiles of fans that were purchased as part of a pandemic relief program. It’s an imperfect—albeit necessary—set up for fans. And Ruggiero, who is a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
purchase on approval. This strategy, she explains, helped create elite patronage for the young Wedgwood brand. It was also one of the earliest recorded examples of "inertia selling" - a practice commonly used by book and music clubs... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
hours a day, has a development team instead of a staff, and has no checkout lines. Bricks-and-mortar firms such as Walgreens, on the other hand, must build physical stores and employ and train store staff. Customers have to show up in person to View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
products. Offer a rewards program that for every X number of boxes purchased through subscription, a box will be sent free to a friend or family member of their choosing. The objective is to convert the recipient into a subscriber. Use... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
education expenses and home purchases for a million new IDA holders. But even if that funding comes through - no easy task, given Washington's post-September 11 spending priorities - convincing financial institutions that low-income... View Details
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
the pandemic impact you and your work? “The pandemic actually helped us, because it raised awareness about the importance of social and environmental responsibility. Also, customers became more prone to online purchasing and technology... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
the Washington Post and sports mogul John Henry's purchase of the Boston Globe, there has been much speculation lately about the trend of well-heeled investors making bets on the future of print media. Yet Esty says the power of this case... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
have been a huge mistake. Two years earlier, she and her partner, Peter Strugatz, had purchased the assets of Great Harbor Design at public auction for $26,000. The former owner had invested $4 million in perfecting a durable building... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
network’s formidable financial might. The knowledge base required to fully understand the various takeovers and rights deals originated back in corporate finance class. Since Disney’s purchase of ESPN in 1996, management has chosen never... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
industry. Joined in 1979 by Douglas M. Schair (MBA '71) and another partner, Hawes followed an ambitious agenda. By 1988, the firm had completed more than one hundred deals and outdistanced even the leading Wall Street investment banks in its specialty. In 1988, Hawes... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
Fundación with a first-of-its-kind transaction, allowing to purchase Mexican bonds in the market below face value and then redeem the bonds immediately at face value. The transaction almost doubled the $2.6 million endowment the Fundación... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
things people had never seen." While on a purchasing jaunt in Africa, she discovered the Serengeti. "There were a million and a half wildebeest all traveling hundreds of miles to give birth in one place!" she recalls. Rapone soon began... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
easy; finding a business model that was going to be sustainable was the hardest. There was a lot of competition, people weren’t purchasing things online yet, funding started drying up, then the Nasdaq crashed. We had to figure out how to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
explains the reflective, soft-spoken Plochman, "represents the importance of renewal and change while honoring the past." This perspective is integral to how he manages the nearly 150-year-old family business, purchased in 1883 by his... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
$13-billion acquisition of Kraft Inc. and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company's $25-billion purchase of RJR Nabisco. Wasserstein's success has come as a surprise to no one. The son of a well-to-do ribbon manufacturer, as a child he was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
savings bonds, the government sends out as much as $2.5 billion less in cash and raises the same amount in new securities held by patient domestic investors. The Treasury should also loosen limits on savings-bond purchases by individuals... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
is unfair has been eroded. Now consumers almost expect prices to be different every time they check, which opens up more opportunity for prices to oscillate and vary according to consumer. In a recent case study, you question the notion that always making View Details