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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
sure signs of stability, and Lidya’s in-house, Portugal-based engineering team developed an algorithm that can quickly assess more than 100 data points. “We don’t do consumer loans. We’re not the best for long-term asset financing. We’re the best for working capital... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
and selling were not demeaning; they were the vital strengths of a great organization and should be so recognized. It takes time and thoughtful attention to each client organization to become an expert on the opportunities and problems... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
will always be people who want personal interaction with a broker." Much attention recently has centered on the Internet-enabled activities of online "day-traders"-do-it-yourselfers who buy and sell individual stocks daily, often holding... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
sales force and establishing training courses in the United States for surgeons interested in learning the new techniques of bone fixation. More recently, he led the firm's global expansion by acquiring the two other companies that were View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
market. Wall Street helped the RTC solve another big problem: how to dispose of billions in S&L loans that were not in default. The agency came to Wall Street with a proposal to sell loan packages rather than one property at a time, an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
“My first entrepreneurial venture was around age 10, catching fish off a jetty near my house and selling them to fishermen as live bait. They paid 20 cents per fish, and for a dollar I could buy my own game of mini golf.” First order:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
write for on The Good Wife: The title character, Alicia. “Because Julianna Margulies could read the back of a cereal box and make it compelling. The beauty of it is that you tend to write less dialogue instead of more, because Julianna View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
company’s engineers integrated a sensor into the bearings used on light trucks that would not only serve the friction reduction purpose of the bearing, but also be the sensor for the antilock braking system. As a result of this added value, Timken is View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
how should it price and position its offering? Current eldercare/EAP solutions use a standard per-employee, per-month pricing structure (usually $0.30 or less). Should Wellthy use this standard pricing structure and sell itself as a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
Philippe Cahuzac (far right) and his Gaia Design cofounders (Photos courtesy of Gaia Design) Philippe Cahuzac (far right) and his Gaia Design cofounders (Photos courtesy of Gaia Design) Gaia Design is a Mexico-based online furniture company, View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
for compact discs, with section mates Bill Heye and Paresh Shah. “We were the CD tower guys. We produced thousands of them, selling the first ones for $199 at City Schemes and Brookstone. Then everyone got in the game, and retail pricing... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
enough that I wanted out.” Since selling the team in 2001, Tierney now focuses his interest in soccer on the men's league that he plays in on weekends in Darien and on America SCORES, a nonprofit that uses soccer as a springboard to teach... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
that sells its products in 160 nations. "The biggest thing I worry about is that we'll make an acquisition or expand into a new market that stretches our capabilities beyond what we can really handle," he observes. So far, Lafley's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
to start the company together and I went back to Boston to sell my furniture; I started working with Josh the following Monday. What makes Bubble unique? Bubble is different from other website builders, because it has much more... View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
the game and everything associated with it was a shared experience. With game day far in the future, however, what they were selling was the region and the excitement of the Super Bowl in general. "The Host Committee had a 75-mile radius... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
beginning. Before Roshan launched, demand for its service was so high that a prelaunch informational leaflet began selling in the Kabul bazaar for $1. Police were called in to control the crowds waiting outside Roshan’s flagship store in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
baby sector, fashion, bath supplies, furniture, office supplies—that's all starting or started a couple years ago," he says. "In the States, if you want to be really successful, you have to create something like Snapchat. In Brazil, you just View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
to catch up to the technology of today.” She cited the Seaport District as an example, where small condominiums sell for more than $1 million, but builders are not required to make their projects energy efficient, nor are incentives... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
the corner store, and helped his mother, a single parent of four, sell furniture at weekend flea markets. Although his family was "periodically on welfare" and food stamps were a regular part of life, Rogers describes his upbringing with... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
poverty level. As a result, about 1 million participants in the United States alone receive a 25 to 40 percent discount on their prescriptions for a wide variety of illnesses. Internationally, the company provides free leprosy medication, has a program to View Details