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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
together, Mitchell and Humpierres launched a line of microwavable heating pads filled with cherry pits. “It’s a very niche market,” Humpierres acknowledges, but once they saw that it was also successful, they decided to diversify. In June... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA '93) is the founder, president, and CEO of Rakuten, Japan's leading online shopping destination. He believes that because the Internet allows merchants to circumvent the many intermediaries who jack up prices in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
economic shocks, corporate scandals, international competition, or technological disruptions. Zero-Sum Game: The Rise of the World’s Largest Derivatives Exchange by Erika S. Olson (MBA ’03) (Wiley) Olson, a former managing director at the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
terms with what business itself should be. Is it a method for delivering goods to consumers at the lowest prices? Is it a mechanism for providing employment? Is it a tool for asserting national power abroad? Is it a vehicle for building character? Many Americans would... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
younger brother grew up speaking French and a smattering of Arabic. Cohen’s father, whose family traces its roots to the Syrian trading center of Aleppo, started a successful... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
how individuals can capitalize on the new, equal-opportunity economy and all of its exciting possibilities. Davis and Meyer describe a world in the not-so-distant future in which we will trade everything... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
communication devices, the tools of Anderson’s trade are more prosaic — a scalpel, a soft-bristle brush, tweezers, a razor knife, Q-tips, and the like. As collections conservator at the Baker Library |... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
commonsensical, and proven to work.” Klarman’s long-term outlook has served him — and large numbers of clients and community members — extremely well. At Baupost, the Boston-based 165-person firm he has led since earning his MBA, Klarman... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
parents started introducing us to the stock market. I was trading stocks with my allowance money by fourth grade. I'll tell you, you don't make a lot of friends in the cafeteria trying to View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
balance between nations on trade and tariff issues, as well as a more globally competitive US corporate tax rate. Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, cochairs of the US Competitiveness Project at HBS,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Anthony Demas (39th PMD) Anthony Demas (39th PMD) of New York City and Madison, Connecticut, was managing director at Aon Corporation, a Chicago-based insurance and risk-management firm with offices in the World View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
organic practices. SFP provides the land and contributes to paying expenses; operators provide the labor, equipment, and fuel. The program is designed to deliver a stable income to investors in the fastest-growing segment of the food... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
multilateral trade mechanisms in the aftermath of the Second World War, is changing rapidly and creating waves of uncertainty. This is especially true in higher education, a... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
Above: Chris Kempczinski is one of the alumni working to modernize McDonald’s. Nick Karavites owns 24 McDonald’s restaurants in the Chicago area and the surrounding suburbs, and when he visits them, he always keeps his eye out for a... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
concert held at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum on the second night of the conference. The following evening, alumni traded their tie-dyed T-shirts for more formal... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Sumner Feldberg (MBA 1949), who died on July 1, 2022, was remembered in an obituary in the Wall Street Journal as an innovator in the field... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance by Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman (Harvard Business Press) Professor Raman and his coauthor explain how to use analytics to better... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
anticipation of the national election, Uyterhoeven wrote an op-ed article published online in Yahoo Finance that emphasized the importance of free trade to the US economy.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
online stock trading and online auctions are the few places in e-commerce that approximate "wow" today. Noting that 30 percent of all securities trading is done by individual... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
which panelists discussed the integration of financial markets and collaboration among different players in technology sectors as evidence of the power of globalization.... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner