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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Wheel Change
A serial entrepreneur, Paris Wallace (MBA 2007/MPA 2008) is founder of Ovia Health and Good Start Genetics. But he started his first business—an online store selling bike parts and accessories—at age 16. With his launch this year of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 26 Jun 2013
- News
How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
negotiating licensing and royalty agreements. One key move involved persuading TV Guide, in exchange for increased royalties from additional sales, to carry free ads for stores that would sell the game. Drawing on his trusted contacts in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
department at a Woolworth store back when they had manual cash registers. Candy bars used to sell really quickly, and the department needed constant restocking. During lunch, hundreds of customers would come in to buy snacks, and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
understand. The bits that classical computers use to store data and perform calculations have only two possible states: 0 or 1. But the laws of quantum mechanics, which govern the world of atomic and subatomic particles, are inherently... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
cases Stefan personally wrote, I also am using the BMW Chrysler case that I taught 16 years ago. My experience in the class years ago encouraged me to pursue this adjunct teaching position. —Les Williams (MBA 2005) Back to top “Managing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Unlocking the Power of Community
When Tara Fung (MBA 2016) explains Co:Create, the company she cofounded in 2022 and now leads as CEO, she doesn’t mention Web3 first. “We help innovative brands and creators unlock the power of community,” she explains. Co:Create does this with a new, gamified approach... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
Checchi puts it. "My grandparents symbolize what America is all about," says Checchi proudly, describing how his Italian immigrant forebears, from their corner store in rural Maine, first put the family on the path to self-betterment... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Photography by Jared Leeds "Our students use traditional academic theory to take on problems that have fundamental relevance in today's business world," says Janice McCormick, executive director of the HBS Doctoral Programs. "Many come in with practical business View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
was the best in the country: Radcliffe. “I was a feminist early on,” says Lang, whose life’s work includes building a picture-framing store and a photo business, blazing a trail as a high-tech leader, raising three children, and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
industry. In Know What Matters, Shaich reveals what he learned about entrepreneurship, running large enterprises, business transformation, and life itself. He illustrates these lessons with his experiences turning a 400-square-foot cookie... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
and with a family to support, “living in a dump over a hardware store with kerosene heat,” one biographer wrote. But the Army learned that MacDonald had done well in Industrial Procurement at HBS and offered him a job. He enlisted in... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
had experience with retail in emerging markets: Monroy, who is Colombian, worked for Procter & Gamble in Mexico for seven years, while Campbell held a number of positions at Walmart, with stints in India and China (which was “like going... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
we are experimenting a bit in our Texas stores by selling produce by the pound. For example, there are only a few times a year when we can offer an entire pineapple for 99.99 cents, but we can sell it for... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
Sequoia Fund,” according to the article. Feldberg’s roommate was Marvin Traub, who later ran Bloomingdale’s, the high-end department store chain. After HBS, Feldberg worked for his father at Bell Shops, where he unpacked and inspected... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
an empty lot. To the east stands a vacant building; to the north, a liquor store with iron bars on its windows. In short, it could be any corner in any struggling neighborhood in the United States. Yet for Dlodlo, it might as well be the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Former Buyer Turns Designer
(MBA ’05) first line of women’s clothing, AMMARA, won’t hit department stores until this fall, she’s already landed in Women’s Wear Daily for bringing fashionable apparel to mature customers at a lower price point. “I felt there was a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Len Schlesinger Returns
other. Right now I feel very much like a kid in a candy store who is trying not to overeat. What are you looking forward to working on? I continue to be intrigued by the role of entrepreneurial activity inside large corporations. Right... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
supply. In 2009 we started shaping the kind of inventory we needed and partnered with brands in the same way department stores do to make sure that we’re not left empty-handed when we have surges in demand. MT: How are you responding to... View Details