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- 01 Jun 2011
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Walking the TalkTalk
challenges.” She embraced a formidable task in 2010 when, with years of experience at supermarket chains Sainsbury’s and Tesco but none in telecom, she became CEO of TalkTalk, which supplies telephone and broadband services to more than 4...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Chaku Foods Nikki Okrah (MBA 2021), CEO and Founder Concept: A snack-food company in Okrah’s native Ghana that is building farming supply chain infrastructure for other consumer...
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- 21 Jul 2022
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How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
mill stores were merely a fad. Instead, he bet on supermarket-style stores, with self-service, offering clothing, toys, beauty supplies and housewares. That idea became the basis for the family’s chain of Zayre discount stores, introduced...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
and courses (the supply side)—for example, enabling the power of peer-to-peer learning. Done right, this could revolutionize education.” —Professor Bharat Anand Return to Year in Review 2017
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- 08 Mar 2017
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Helping vets become resident landlords
some market power, particularly if the issue isn’t the supply or the amount of suppliers. “There are many people that are focused on vets in a foundation, nonprofit, and government effort. And in terms of lending and the basics of a...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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James McKenney Remembered
Waves of Change: Business Evolution through Information Technology, McKenney also wrote numerous case studies, among them the first on airline-reservation systems and inventory management across the consumer-products supply chain. Active...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Case Study: Up in the Air
whether to build the supply of talent to attract clients first, or vice versa. Building the supply side has been straightforward, but convincing enterprise clients to leverage talent as a service as part of...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
option to her online consignment ceramics offerings, Giridharadas recouped about half of her investment within four months. Now she sees a bigger opportunity: Party supply rentals were a $5 billion industry in the United States in 2017,...
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- 13 Nov 2020
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Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
part of the HBS's Arthur Rock Center Accelerator program last year. ShelfLife is a B2B marketplace that enables small businesses to take advantage of economies of scale in the food and beverage packaging supply chain. “Specialty food and...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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A Plastic Fantastic Friendship
A. Reynolds Morse (MBA 1939), founder of Ohio-based Injection Molders Supply Company and a longtime friend of artist Salvador Dalí, died last August in Florida. He was, the St. Petersburg Times (August 22, 2000) reported, "a political...
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- 08 Jun 2021
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New Funding for Female Founders
including such investors as Foundation Capital, XFund, PJC, Precursor Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, SV Angel, Underscore VC, Alpha Bridge Ventures, and April Underwood. Kudos operates a D2C subscription model, offering a monthly supply...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Faculty Books
The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance by Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman (Harvard Business Press) Professor Raman and his coauthor explain how to use analytics to better...
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- 31 Mar 2011
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Building an Online Swap Shop
on paper: ‘Yeah, sure, we’re just going to create demand here and supply here, and it’s all going to work out.’ Even now, we’re still dealing with big challenges.” Soon after launching in April 2010, thredUP received seed financing from...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond
of the country, Green tried to negotiate space on a Soviet flight. They refused the American officer’s request. “This is the final contact from here,” Green wrote on October 25, as the OSS agents destroyed classified records and gathered what View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
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A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. They wanted to support...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Kill Groupthink
members should be cross-pollinated across other sectors: digital omnichannel, supply chain, and so forth. “You want a group dynamic that allows for fluid and thought-provoking discussion, where fact-based dissent is welcomed and heard.”...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
e-commerce solutions for the laboratory supply market; CitySoft, which builds Web sites and intranet applications and recruits and hires employees from underrepresented urban areas; and ZEFER Corp., an Internet consulting firm. The...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
helping lower-income homeowners add a second unit to their property, both to create financial stability and expand the housing supply in singlefamily neighborhoods. Here, Oakes takes your questions about zoning, displacement, and best...
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- 28 May 2019
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Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
I think you need to determine the underlying value driver and then see if there’s more supply or demand for that value driver. So it’s not fundamentally different from the rest of the market. What is different is that there’s no...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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The Business of Babies
demand payments of $10,000 and up. “We’re not talking about demand for potato chips,” Spar added. “This is the kind of demand that becomes an obsession. Price is less of an issue than it is in other markets.” Despite the classic components of View Details