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Richard A. Bloch

Bloch and his brother, Henry, pioneered the franchise tax preparation business. H & R Block grew impressively throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Richard understood that the tax preparation business is a service industry, and along with... View Details

Keywords: Services

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In the News - Entrepreneurship

Knowledge How One Coffee Shop Is Brewing Change for Business and Society Re: Robin Greenwood & Richard Ruback 14 Jan 2025 Times of India An Idea That Got Its Aim Right By: Tarun Khanna 09 Jan 2025 Family Capital Family Dynasties Increasingly Drive M&A Deals Re:... View Details

Henry W. Bloch

Bloch diversified H & R Block by purchasing Personnel Pool of America, CompuServe, and Hyatt Legal Services. By the mid-1980s, H & R Block was spending at least $20 million a year on advertising. By... View Details

Keywords: Services

07 May 2016
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Retail in the Blood

As a boy, Simon Belsham (MBA 2007) hung out on the shop floor of Scally Wags Fun Factory, the toy shop his parents ran in the English town of Ashford. The shop closed with the arrival of Toys R Us, but “it gave me an insight into the... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade

10 Dec 2024
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The FamCap25 – Women, Boston and Harvard

09 Jan 2025
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Family Dynasties Increasingly Drive M&A Deals

01 Jul 2023
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Onboarding NextGens

12 May 2020
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Christina Wing Shifted Her Teaching and Offered Insights from CEOs Worldwide

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Technical How-To’s & Notes - Research Computing Services

Help Help Technical How-To’s & Notes 3ms Archiving Your Research Files on the HBSGrid Change your Unix command prompt Changing permissions on the HBSGrid Monitoring CPU usage of your jobs on the HBSGrid HBSGrid Project directory space notifications Saving plots and... View Details