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  • 10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

if anybody has purchased them, they're very, very expensive. And they wanted to disrupt that as well. But what they recognize is that the older customer wanted the hipster brand, they wanted the same frames. They did not want their frames... View Details
  • 25 Feb 2020
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Beyond the Plastisphere

2050 our oceans will contain more of it by weight than fish. Single-use petroleum-based plastics contaminate our water, pollute our land, and contribute to global warming. And given current rates of production and consumption—1 million plastic bottles are View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 05 Oct 2016
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Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab

research directly to the community. To that end, the Life Lab has pledged to provide a one-time grant totaling over $60,000 to fully fund the purchase of Chromebook laptops to provide every Allston-Brighton public school student access to... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 01 Sep 2004
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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
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality
  • 01 Mar 2012
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She’s Got Your Back

Bill Corbin (MBA 1968). After relocating to Columbus, Ohio, Oesterle bought another old house and ran into the same problem. In 1995 he convinced Hicks (who had worked for him as a college intern) to move to Columbus to start their own version of Unified Neighbors. In... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; online reviews; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate
  • 14 Apr 2014
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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
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; crowdfunding; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 01 Sep 2013
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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
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; e-commerce; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 01 Oct 2002
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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 2014
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Screen Saver

Upon the deal's completion, the group committed $500 million to make Lopez's quality-over-quantity vision a reality. And in December 2013, the company raised $355 million with an IPO that made headlines by offering members of its AMC Stubs loyalty program the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment
  • 26 Jan 2015
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The Ingredients for Success

new public-private partnership to launch the city’s first cooking school. Within a few months of her hire, the New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute (NOCHI) had purchased an abandoned, 93,000-square-foot building in downtown New... View Details
Keywords: Tyler Bridges; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Educational Services
  • 01 Jan 2004
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A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

that sells its products in 160 nations. "The biggest thing I worry about is that we'll make an acquisition or expand into a new market that stretches our capabilities beyond what we can really handle," he observes. So far, Lafley's instincts have been right on the... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
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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
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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
Keywords: April White; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 01 Oct 2001
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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
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 01 Sep 2006
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One-on-One with Carter Roberts

for example, buys copy paper, it knows where the trees it’s made from were cut. That means the company can create and enforce purchasing standards so it’s not unwittingly contributing to illegal logging. We’re also exploring how you... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
  • 01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient

Individuals who fail to purchase coverage are penalized up to $912 on their taxes; companies with more than eleven employees must pay the state $295 per year per employee if they don’t offer their workers a company-based plan. The plan’s... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance
  • 06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?

companies have been shown to attract and retain talented employees, to increase the attractiveness of product and service purchases by like-minded customers, and to foster environments of creativity and community. “What does that lead to?... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged

purchasing and infrastructure management makes it easier to manage costs efficiently. Moreover, while electric buses can carry heftier price tags than gas-guzzlers, their lower operating costs pay off in the long term: Proterra estimates... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn
  • 01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues

future." Two years later, an article charting the history of computerization and noting that the School had recently purchased its own data-processing equipment concluded with a prophetic question, "Is individual privacy to become the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons
  • 19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered

the concept that the person who “owned” the final purchaser actually could control the supply process all the way up the line, by controlling the shelf space. From that evolved the concept of private labeling, and Peter formed a company,... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
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