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- 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 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
needed.” In cities where private car ownership isn’t yet prevalent, Dediu hopes preference tilts to micromobility, as it has in India. Drivers there have long favored gas-powered motorcycles and scooters, but one analysis projects new electric versions will make up... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Releases
experienced practitioners, this second edition offers 34 essays and articles, including HBS cases and pieces from the Harvard Business Review. More than twenty of the articles are new, representing recent research on the subject. Among the topics covered are preparing... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
paternal grandparents who immigrated from Russia to Brooklyn, where they raised Bob and Larry Tisch, the legendary duo who parlayed the purchase of a New Jersey hotel into what today is a hugely successful conglomerate, the Loews... 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
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
interactions between humans and technology. Are computers the perfect tool for customized marketing? The tailoring of messages via computer technology to a person’s interests based on past purchases or preferences is of course very... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
First, she looks for existing trends and a big market. If the world’s 2.7 billion people with smartphones that they can’t put down are any indication, “that’s an absolute walk with Quibi,” she says. Second, is the customer behavior already there? Online 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 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
in on a treatment for age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness. In October 2009 the company entered into licensing and purchase option agreements with Alcon, which is now taking Potentia’s drug candidate through... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
enterprise. In some cases, to accommodate the sheer grandeur of their vision, other entrepreneurs shaped new business and organizational models. Consider the role of Roy L. Ash (MBA 6/'47) in the emergence of the modern American conglomerate. In 1953, Ash and Charles... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
identity was, to the next stage. For a time, it seemed that this model would involve the reuniting of beauty and health. The world’s largest pharmaceutical companies purchased some of the most iconic brands of cosmetics and fragrances.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
students to fill the remaining six floors. In relatively no time, Russo had turned a high-risk acquisition into a high-profile success. Her name now personified the company, and her determination propelled it to new heights. Even then, she recognized that the View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
funds." A few years later, he adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
a day to purchase goods and services (such as magazine subscriptions) advertised on Time Warner Inc.'s World Wide Web site, for example. The software leads customers through a series of screens and procedures that ends with them providing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
stark symbol of America’s forgotten poor, tonight it is lit with the iconic symbol of Mercedes-Benz, which purchased the stadium’s naming rights in 2011. Asked how the orchestra has been important for the city’s renewal, Prieto becomes... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
needed, and supply them with cheaper minutes that it had bought at a bulk discount. Because the buyers would purchase these minutes on credit, it made sense for their neighbors to sell to them, because they could more easily assess the... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details