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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
true of her techno-savvy son Adam (MBA '98). "He's had a million ideas forever," Kanner laughs. "I was always Adam's sounding board." One of those ideas was for an e-commerce Web site that would offer discounted goods and services to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
alumni and their guests will experience a “State Dinner,” modeled on those hosted by U.S. presidents for foreign dignitaries. As always, the Alumni Board strives to ensure a great event at an affordable price. To encourage greater participation among recent grads, we... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
overly dependent on downtown locations that were losing shoppers to suburban malls. Some New England rivals were opening discount stores in abandoned textile mills, which came with cheap rents and plenty of parking space. Mr. Feldberg,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
he cited the restructuring of WPP in 1991 and 1992 as a difficult time. Sahlman then noted that Zobel had guided his firm through volatile markets in the Philippines. “It’s easy to discount bad times,” Zobel observed. “Make the assumption... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
founder. Under his management, product demand was so high at times that executives actually found themselves discussing ways to slow sales. That all changed in the early 1990s as seismic shifts pounded the toy market. Big-box toy View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
grown the concern into one of Brazil’s largest nonfood discount retailers with some 500 stores and a powerful Internet presence: Today, half of Lojas’s sales take place online. In 1993, Sicupira, Jorge Paulo Lemann, and Marcel Telles,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
by Gabriel Wisdom (OPM 26, 1998) (Wiley) Wisdom shows how to capitalize on value plays where the fundamentals are strong but the “general wisdom” about the security has turned negative. Most promising are the stocks Wall Street has marked down without regard to their... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
raise money by selling merchandise in New York, London, and Tokyo. “It was a win-win for consumers who were able to buy beautiful clothes and bags at discount and still feel like they were doing something good for others,” she observes.... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
arena," Goldman says. "More than a discount transaction house, we're positioning ourselves to compete now as a full-service investment firm without charging the hefty commissions that 'full service' usually implies. Our online presence is... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A World of Information at Your Fingertips
news sources that covers the globe; and ABI/Proquest, which aggregates business and management publication articles. For those who need in-depth information on companies, including financial reports and market research from more than 2,500 sources, OneSource is... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
socially responsible Working Assets Money Market Fund. Working Assets Funding Service emerged from the fund entity in 1988 and now operates various enterprises, with telecommunications as its core service. The company purchases long-distance telephone time at bulk-rate... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Sun Dress
Barrow that this cohort often ignores doctors’ recommendations that they use sunscreen. “We wanted to super-focus on this customer, who sort of has this health problem and is not going to want to shop at a discount store,” said Barrow,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
but most have been driven away by fears of liability and government discount price-setting. “No one company or handful of companies can undertake all the research” necessary to produce needed vaccines, he said. Incentives must be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
addition, online retailers have a vast amount of data at their fingertips; solving complex problems with data seemed like a natural fit. Tell me about the research you did with Rue La La. Rue La La is in the online flash sales industry, offering designer apparel and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
Great Firms to Fail, which sounded the alarm on how disruptive innovations — such as the personal computer and discount retailers — caused many otherwise strong and healthy companies to fail. The Innovator’s Dilemma looked at the threat.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Running faster to compete
lobster traps anymore,” Knott once observed. His distinctly “made in America” trap soon caught the eye of competitors in China, who discounted their traps. “Our customers came back because they realized cheaper wasn’t better.” Knott... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
convenient place to shop ("7-Eleven is more convenient, but it doesn't have the retail share Wal-Mart has"), the discount retailer gained market supremacy by proclaiming, and delivering, "always the lowest price" -- typically by wringing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
leading-edge R&D, Novartis considers community outreach an essential part of its mission. It offers some drugs at a discount or free to needy patients; a new malaria therapy will be available at cost. Greylock, one of the country’s most... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
as others in the same industry. In time, the discount will be corrected, and you will have the wind at your back as a holder of the stock. Do you set an annual return target? We think it’s madness to target a return. Return lies in some... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
well as access to other financial services such as credit cards, mortgages, mutual funds, insurance, and discount brokers, all conducted online. Because Internet-only banks have lower overhead costs, they can pass savings on to consumers,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young