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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
bags and bags of dirt up six flights of stairs, Reade soon created an urban sanctuary, complete with flowers, vegetables, and an automatic sprinkler system. Longing for more, she began looking for a few acres to purchase outside the city.... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
are used only once or twice in a person’s lifetime—a far different business opportunity than the one presented by drugs that treat chronic diseases. In addition, governments are the major purchaser of many vaccinations, effectively... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
capital.” Cummings made another purchase about the same time that he and his partners bought the Fisher Building. Comparatively, it was a small investment—just $80,000—but it is in some ways a riskier one. Cummings wants to show me the... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
into the space heaters in the apartments. The photo can be dated by the cars. The center car is a ’41 Chevrolet, and those parked in front and to the rear of it are from the late 1930s, judging from their headlights, which were not encased in the front fenders. It was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
online-shopping type of operation, using broadcast to pitch the product, with people beaming in orders and making purchases without ever leaving the broadcast, something neither radio nor TV can do. As it is for my show, Shovio can be a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
the same time, housing of all kinds - for buyers and renters - has become more expensive precisely because of the country's prosperity. With the wages and purchasing power of working people largely stagnant over the last two decades, the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
million students consume more than $1 billion worth of food annually. “There are 371 colleges and universities here, so 371 food service directors are making decisions about where and how the food for a million students is being purchased... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
moving springs are envy, greed, uncharitableness, or disappointed ambition.” Libel suits were a more serious threat. The first, filed in 1851, claimed that two Ohio business partners were prevented from purchasing goods in New York... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Rogers In a self-indulgent moment in his late 20s, Gary Rogers (MBA ’68) bought a Porsche, a flashy status symbol befitting his standing at the time as a well-paid McKinsey consultant. It turned out to be the single most important View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
and cutting wages, this will reduce the purchasing power of Americans, shrink the tax base, and eventually undermine the business environment in America. Conversely, if workers get higher pay while American-based companies are not able to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
to outsource water treatment because of its increasing complexity and strict regulatory requirements. Industrial water treatment is a capital-intensive industry, so that tends to drive it into the hands of large multinationals.” Indeed, Ionics itself was View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
travels to Russia three times a year in conjunction with her work for the Russian Medical Fund (www.russmed.com), a nonprofit foundation she launched to finance the purchase of medical equipment and supplies for the hospital in St.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
entire supply chain, from purchasing thread to delivering finished goods complete with price tags to individual stores. William Fung (MBA 1972) and his older brother, Victor (PhD 1971), who taught at HBS for four years, are the third... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
has paid lower prices for a huge range of high-quality foreign-made goods. The resulting increase in the purchasing power of consumers’ income—combined with our highly efficient retail distribution system—has created a shopper’s paradise... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
Zurich and secured European distribution rights for our products, set up a joint venture with a partner in Mexico to build our brand there, and purchased Astro Gaming, a California-based gaming accessories company. Our office in southern... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
resources to help the government address the needs of the Filipino people while ensuring the safety and well-being of the employees, staff, artists, and journalists of the network. Together with its foundation, the company has raised US$6.8 million from donations to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
an estimated 36.7 million US practitioners purchasing classes, gear, and accessories—an increase of 80 percent in four years. It has also spawned a number of lucrative business models: Vancouver-based apparel company Lululemon Athletica... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
former assistant principal at St. Mark the Evangelist School in Harlem, Leschly later founded Exchange.com, an online marketplace for rare and hard-to-find consumer products. When his company was purchased by Amazon.com in 1999, CEO... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
makes a purchasing decision.” Levitt’s influence reached well beyond the classroom. “Ted Levitt was the most influential and imaginative professor in marketing history,” HBS professor and senior associate dean John Quelch stated on the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
is as competitive, as global Uber and region-wide Grab compete with local startups. In China, Uber was up against Alibaba-backed Didi Chuxing until that company purchased Uber China in late July. In India the home turf favorite is Ola,... View Details