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- 13 Aug 2017
- News
Business Book of the Year 2017 — the longlist
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
share who I am in a fullest sense. Now, that being said, there are some of those identities that are important that do fall into those categories of race or gender or politics. If I'm someone who, as a minority, has experienced different... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
Illustration by Shane Cluskey Like pet owners everywhere, Katie Spies (MBA 2019) would do anything for her dog. In 2014, when her Italian greyhound, George, started experiencing seizures and other health problems that didn’t respond to medications, the vet recommended... View Details
- 18 Jan 2024
- News
Match Game
When the Bulletin included Faye Iosotaluno (MBA 2008) in its December issue, the longtime consumer tech executive was COO of Tinder. On January 9, the company announced Iosotaluno would become Tinder CEO. “It’s hard to overstate the impact Tinder has had on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
indulgence or a necessity. If a tub of ice cream gets too expensive, someone might just choose another dessert. It makes less sense for necessities—like reducing the number of diapers in a package of Pampers—and in categories when there... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
others will be making along the way. The number of places that don’t belong to any one of these three categories and that are not interested at all is, nowadays, very low. Frei: That final category has to be... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
within the next seven years. He sees growth potential in international sales, a new line for women, and licensing categories such as fragrance and footwear. Other ventures that fall under his purview include Justin’s restaurants, with... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
number of people who used the pandemic as a time to scale back. In doing so, the latter category has given rise to entire movements of more flexible drinking styles, from the sober-curious or “flexi-drinkers,” who take a part-time view of... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
into my mind that I wanted to actually learn new skills. And I think with that, I've always been very drawn to coffee as a category and a product. And, I was therefore thinking of Caribou Coffee, Peet's Coffee, and so on and Pret a... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
employees’ needs fit into a combination of six categories Werk devised after reviewing existing company policies, including “remote,” an employee who is never in the office; “desk-plus,” an employee who has the option to work from the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
Jet.com, and then, when Walmart acquired the young company, as vice president and general manager of the retail giant’s health and beauty e-commerce business. In that role, he saw the potential for the beauty category to be a pioneer of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
narrowly about the product as just a music device, he quickly added. Thinking more broadly about portable digital media, “it’s a category that will continue to change,” explained Ballmer. “Unless you think the View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
invention. Who better to teach students how to give consumers a magical experience? Recipes Chili Cook-Off recipes Matt Ashbaugh's (MBA 2014) traditional Texas recipe took first place in the beef category of the Texas Club's 21st annual... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Candy That Is Good for You
“The gum category is extremely interesting because it's dominated by two large players, who own 95 percent of the market. There are very few independent companies, very few startups that have entered the space. So that made it daunting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
Choi Greenthal (MBA 1991) The key to creating a category here is getting the cards into people’s hands and letting them see the value. Relying on purchases at retail value to drive word of mouth will be slow, and will open up the View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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WesTrek: Students Find Options in Bay Area
and a host of firms in between. While most of the companies fell into the category of high tech-new media, communications, and computer software and hardware-others represented more traditional business activities, such as consulting,... View Details