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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. It’s one of the stories... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
But we felt if we marketed the shoe under a smaller brand, it might be taken more seriously as a specialty product.” The creative deal hashed out between the companies called for GoLite to get a cash infusion (neither party will say how... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
to check on them, posting videos, delivering groceries, dropping off yarn for knitters who are making blankets to give to new babies in the community. We've also been able to provide some direct cash assistance grants, mostly to help... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
were conducted during the lockdown last year in Tamil Nadu and real-time implementation of the drones delivering COVID-19 vaccines looks promising.” JANUARY 11 Ten years ago, Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) founded Hope and Comfort, a nonprofit that collects and View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
restricted, in binding terms laid down by the donors. Fortunately, those gifts go right to the core of what we do; half of the endowment is devoted to professorships, for example, and close to a quarter to financial aid. The second point is that the View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
development cycle used to be 24 months; it's now 12." Complementing this, he adds, is a knowledgeable sales force that fosters relationships with home-care providers, nursing homes, and medical equipment retailers; a wide assortment of finance options; and a View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
television. We were a cable television company. So the first thing is we had to create a unique distribution model. Many of them still watched broadcast TV, so first we had to convince Viacom to allow us to acquire broadcast stations in... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
keyboard on smart devices (just like Polaroid believed consumers needed to instantly print their digital photos—when was the last time you printed a photo!). They kept their platform closed, avoiding the design and distribution of public... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
University Press) Walter Friedman’s Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America documents the history of salesmanship, from the days of peddlers to the creation of modern sales forces at companies like National Cash... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
builds. We think that our distinctive competence is operating excellence and the way our people show up for our guests — which isn’t to say that the Hiltons and Marriotts aren’t trying to be good operators. But their niche is distribution... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
meeting with the CEO, Lo drew him a network diagram of what the future infrastructure of TV distribution was going to look like. “It’s all going to be bits and bytes,” she told him. Lo would later help stitch together some 200 European... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
of mentor capitalism brought HBS professor Dorothy A. Leonard and Professor Walter Swap of Tufts University to Singapore and Hong Kong last fall. The pair had been studying Silicon Valley mentor-capitalists (successful entrepreneurs who have View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
continue to thank us for the information we provide, which confirms there is a real need out there. What's been most surprising? Even with a good idea, it's hard to figure out how to make money. What's the biggest takeaway? There's never enough View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
recall of 450,000 tires missing a key safety feature that a U.S. importer had purchased from a Chinese manufacturer and distributed to retail outlets. “I don’t think there is a strong culture of adherence to regulations in China right... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
investors), creating philanthropic endeavors and single-mindedly pursuing her dream of building an empire, taking it public, and cashing out all the investors. Corporate and Family Governance: The Two Disciplines That Carry Family... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Entertainment, HBS professor Anita Elberse documents the powerful, long-term success of high-investment, high-reward entertainment products, including movies. "She's absolutely right," says Lopez. "Those big successes spin off cash like... View Details