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- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
exactly where you are and when the sun sets, and we could unlock that content literally the second the sun dips below the horizon.” The opportunity for that kind of blue-sky engineering has been a selling point for Conrad as he builds his... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
whether a song or album soars to the top of the charts or plummets to musical oblivion depends on one final factor over which music executives have no control. "It's just the luck of the draw," says Zelnick wryly. Some critics charge that by pressuring musicians to... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
own advisory firm. We had this idea that the industry over time was getting to be more flexible on low fares. One of the first manifestations of this was the appearance of full plane load charters. You could sell a trip to Cancun and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
considered selling your company?’ He replied, ‘Well, no, not until just now.’ Within days, I had an option to buy it.” Upon hearing this oft-told story, many people evidently have marveled aloud at how “lucky” Rogers was to be at the... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
any profit on the sale, no taxes are owed. The dummy corporation in the tax haven then sells the copiers to another subsidiary in country C, at a price of $2,000 each. Now the company in country A is making a profit of $1,000 on each... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
As an HRPBA student, Gibson recalls how she and her classmates were occasionally invited across the river to offer their point of view on a case if it had a particularly "feminine" slant: "One time, the case under discussion was, 'Should Company X try to View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
1990s, she recalls, “I had dozens of people walking through the door with business plans for InStyle.com or Time.com that were essentially trying to sell me my own content.” The situation, she reflects, reminded her of the era of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
system of choosing directors to “the old Soviet-style elections” in which shareholders’ real choice is to vote for anointed nominees, abstain, or sell the stock. Of all the nominees put forward by boards, 99.7 percent win election. Also,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
Braterman: The man to call when it comes to selling phones. Photo courtesy Russell Braterman When it comes to selling mobile phones to a youthful market, Phones 4u’s marketing director Russell Braterman (MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
the existing target markets. Great enterprise selling happens at the intersection of true customer pain and a credible solution. Play to win the game! —Rob Biederman (MBA 2014) is a managing partner of Asymmetric VC, the chairman and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
methodologies differ so much that “the best” school in one ranking can fall far behind in others. So while the rankings game is great for selling publications, it’s confusing for readers. Bloomberg Businessweek bases its ranking largely... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
some stock. The first stock I bought—Northeast Airlines—was the only one I had heard of that was selling for less than $5 a share. I figured I could buy more. There’s obviously no sense in that, but I tripled my money. I said hey, this is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
there’s just less appetite and acceptance for failure. Lazarow: In many emerging ecosystems, failure is real. Failure is a black mark on your career. It isn't something that you can get a soft landing and sell your company for an... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
lifetime of use,” says Hagemann. “It’s not really about selling jewelry,” says Hagemann. “It’s really about focusing on an industry that has for so long been allowed to use the planet as a bank that it will continue to borrow from and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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Back to School
who began his card collection as a kid in the 1940s and recently wrote Time to Sell Those Sports Cards. “If you’re in it for money, it’s a little bit like playing the lottery. But if you just enjoy being able to try to test your acumen in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative
we rail against in class is that product development just throws a new product over the wall to marketing and expects them to go sell it. For the last 50 years, innovation theorist Everett Rogers told us that the difference between a... View Details