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- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
climate-friendly technologies for controlled environment crop production are demonstrated and tested. Offal is a problem for ranchers who sell direct-to-consumer because it is frequently sent to rot in landfill, with the cow’s hide and... 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
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
crucially, by selling billions of dollars of bonds to the People’s Bank of China, the United States has been able to enjoy significantly lower interest rates than would otherwise have been the case. Welcome to the wonderful dual country... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
different economies that you're selling into," he continues. "For example, no one was able to foresee the recession in Asia. On the supply side, oil production has a very long lead time, particularly the big fields." Stobaugh also notes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
sell its products, Neurosmith decided it needed to reorient its strategy toward mass-market accounts in order to survive. “This isn’t a change you make overnight,” notes Abercrombie wryly. In addition to needing to design toys to hit much... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
up the next morning and asked, ‘What can we do to help?’ This is a wartime environment, and businesses need to step forward however they can,” said Harl. Originally planning to make and sell units at cost, a shield producer in Maine... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
to realize I had made a complete and utter mess by picking the views of one partner over another. I just picked the wrong partner, and I realized why I did. But I didn't see the logic all the way through of what the downside was. We put some more money in, we almost... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
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
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
one-cup feedings per day costs $20.95 — more than most grocery brands but a manageable sum for customers who value the convenience of automatic shipments that make taking care of the family dog as easy as peeling the top off a SmartPak. Gisholt notes that this last... View Details
- 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
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
to be shared in perpetuity, they donated their shares back to a nonprofit. The money involved is pretty staggering. We sell tickets. They're $400 each this year. That changes year to year. And we have to lease the land it's on from the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
west coast airline at the time. This memoir gives a play-by-play of the high-stakes negotiations that got Lorenzo there, including faceoffs with Carl Icahn and a chapter devoted to selling the Eastern Airlines Shuttle to Donald Trump,... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
you write in that book that you consider yourself to be happy about 80% of the time, which I feel like its pretty high on a happiness scale. But as someone who's, quote unquote, "brand" is happiness, how do you sell happy when you're not... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
able to take vacations with the kids." While Morse is conflicted about her next move, she does feel that her background -a Harvard MBA and a very successful career at Lehman -gives her an advantage. "I am confident that I could go back to the workforce and View Details