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- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
Petzel. "I was already toying with the idea of an MBA, and I was allowed to sit in on classes at MIT's Sloan School and at HBS. I found the atmosphere at Harvard totally different; I much preferred the interactive style." Petzel wasn't... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Passion Projects
Turning teddy bears into art On a trip to London in the 1980s, John O’Donnell (MBA 1977) and his wife snapped a picture of two teddy bears posed near a Buckingham Palace guard. The normally staid guard bowed to the bears, and the couple realized the power of View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her new community, Kwiker began... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
sons down to sleep. By that time it was 9:30 or 10 p.m. at night, and figuring out what one teenager was going to say to another teenager was the very last thing I wanted to do. Writing can make cleaning up toys look really attractive. So... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
image of a hard-driving entrepreneur who is on call around the clock doesn’t mesh well with the nonstop demands of family life. But that didn’t stop Allison O’Kelly (MBA ’99) from leaving a fast-track management position at Toys “R” Us... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
radically challenging our sense of the exoticness and uniqueness of being human." She cited popular children's toys such as the Tamagatchi and Furby ("machines that say 'you have to take care of me'") and children's belief that such... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, and Patrick J. Barry look at three of the largest debacles so far in the 21st century—the BP affair, the mortgage meltdown and resulting crisis, and the use of lead paint in children's View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her new community, Kwiker began... View Details
Keywords: Elena N. Berg
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
a "warehouse club" store. Although it didn't have the item he wanted, Stemberg was struck by the store's low prices on office products. "I began thinking," he recalls, "why not start up a kind of Toys 'R' Us for office supplies?" Thanks... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
very good at developing, qualifying, and commercializing innovation, we're not necessarily any better than others at creating it. So when we learned about a toothbrush that an entrepreneur had made from a spinning toy he had developed, we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
the changing global landscape for business leaders Look in any closet, toy chest, or family room in a typical Western home, and you’ll find a trove of goods supplied by a century-old Hong Kong–based export trading company— Li & Fung Ltd.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
person, on the senior leadership team. No one had stepped back and asked, How would you make this work? What would it take?” Enter Henderson and Carter and the Leviathan. Henderson says he figured out the logistics of battery-swapping by tinkering with his daughter’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
he is a former Ironman triathlete who, egged on by his children, once toyed with the idea of auditioning for Survivor. Of his current job, Riley observes, “I’m not making a career of this, and there’s a certain freedom, even power, in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
uncomfortable question in the age of globalization. At a time when the ingredients of our foods and medicines, parts for our cars, and toys for our children come from countries around the world, who is minding the store? What is the best... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
coincided with both the rise of the home computer, marketed mainly as a toy for boys, and the rise of the male tech geek. This stereotype of a so-called brogrammer played an important role in the development of the now male-dominated tech... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
days, Leboyer was part of a convoy driving 16 refugees (and one dog) from the Polish town of Chelm to host families who would receive them in his hometown of Munich. Read his story of the experience. APRIL 13 Joel Poznansky (MBA 1986) owns the View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
identify the game's new rules and players and switch gears ASAP. Bennie Wiley (MBA 1972), principal, Wiley Group, Brookline, Massachusetts One of my favorite ventures was a toy store I created on Martha's Vineyard. I loved everything... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
collaboration, and teamwork, and fighting against evil together. That was really why I did It. In the case of The Lego Movie, it was I just loved the theme of imagination and creativity. And I loved playing with the toy as a kid. And I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
audiences to the theater than selling toys and other consumer product tie-ins, which is a significant revenue stream for studios. At Roadside Attractions, Eric d’Arbeloff (MBA 1993) has found a niche as a distributor of independent films... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
end of the studio’s decade-long string of successes that included Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo—each movie breaking new ground in its own way, pushing the boundaries in terms of both technology and storytelling. It was... View Details