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- 01 Jun 1998
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is run more like a partnership. Bradach quotes a popular industry adage, "You can tell company people, but you have to sell franchisees." These two units have often been viewed as operational opposites, with academics and managers trying,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
Yu has only a tiny stake in Goldbank — “too embarrassingly small to mention,” he jokes. He is selling off most of the company’s 25 subsidiaries to leave just 3 business units. “We were a first-generation Internet venture that tried, but... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
about where he keeps his Oscar (in the living room, over the TV). He was probably thinking about something else. Awards are great, but they aren’t the point. For Singer, the stakes are higher: to create socially relevant movies that sell... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
is behaving in predictable ways once you understand their circumstances and historical context. Do multinationals treat India and China largely as sales opportunities? Yes. I think most multinationals traditionally have gone to these countries seeing them as big... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
be part of GE just as it’s relocating its headquarters to Boston.” Graham Fairbairn (MBA 2018) Hometown: Sydney, Australia Destination: General Mills, Minneapolis “I come from a consumer packaged goods background and have had the privilege of View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
we’re selling them Coke Zero, Jettas, and GTIs. We’ve grown up with them, and that experience gave us a leg up on the learning curve about this cohort’s acceptance of the Internet, instant messaging, and many other technologies. That... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
Editor Julia Hanna talks to Wilson about thinking beyond standard economic models, what collaboration looks like to him, and the work that has fundamentally changed the way governments and corporations buy and sell essential goods and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
An Orchestral Startup
one-time-only product offering - economically speaking, even if the series sells out, you can't make it on that alone. Thus, we view Metamorphosen's four-concert Boston series as a marketing effort that establishes our musical... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
development, and other business activities where on–demand creativity is essential to success. — Deborah Blagg Wheel, Deal, and Steal by D. Quinn Mills (Financial Times Prentice Hall) As a follow–up to last year’s Buy, Lie, and Sell High:... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
convey? You have to stay close to your core consumer. Even though Skullcandy has grown over the years, and we now sell in mainstream places like Best Buy, Target, and Apple stores, the consumer at the center of our circle is still the... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
people, how to have a good investment committee, how to figure out what was the right type of thing to be buying at the right time. We had a great conversation. In the middle of it I tried to sell him some products, which I normally would... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
while the engine is running. We're still selling cameras and film and growing all around the world," he notes, "but it's not the kind of growth befitting a company in this exciting digital arena. Still," he concludes with a smile, "we'll... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
important; the rest of the meeting often serves to confirm an initial judgment made very early on.” That confirmation process frequently begins with an open-ended question such as, “Tell me about yourself,” which Butler views as a prime opportunity for applicants to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
vegetable and flower seed, which Batcha sources, packages, and labels in a dozen languages, working out of his home in Charlotte, North Carolina. In the past four years, SPI has shipped nearly six million packets of seed abroad. Batcha View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
has to perfect the product first and then sell it. While each company could learn something from how the other operates, Nolan suggested they should stick to their own knitting. After all, he queried, if Microsoft could build an airplane,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
their time on the conference circuit, selling to the wrong audience. At the end of the day, I was only as good as the next woman in Indiana deciding if she wanted to play FarmVille or not. Bill Campbell is the most gifted coach I’ve ever... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
leadership position?” The Answers: Create an Etsy-like program for subscribers to sell and distribute their own cat products. After being vetted for quality and fit, independent producers receive distribution and a percentage of sales.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
wants to open a chain of retail shops selling a commodity product you can get anywhere for 25 cents, but he will charge 2 dollars. Of course, you listen politely and then fall off your chair laughing when he leaves. [Starbucks founder]... View Details