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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
industry is reacting to similar challenges. As trendy financial dot-coms with huge technology and advertising budgets emerge offering everyone an equal - and inexpensive - chance to trade stock, apply for a loan, buy insurance, or pay a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
float DeWitt a loan for $3.5 million, which he used to buy the team in 1961. It’s hard to imagine better circumstances for absorbing the many financial, legal, and political details that go into the successful management of a professional... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
path toward peace and sustainable change than just a good business idea. “I mean, I almost cried uncle 10 times in the first month.” “I mean, I almost cried uncle 10 times in the first month.” Making things that move was in his DNA. His grandfather, Ralph Rogers,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
in their free time seemed too much like work, so we shifted to companies allowing employees to work on company time. We also began working with companies to align efforts to their core human capital and business development strategies so it was not some View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
everything from mangoes to light bulbs to plastic flowers. Just across the road is Fort Railway Station, a major transportation hub used by over 200,000 people every day. For now, this spot at the water’s edge is no more than an ad hoc... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the end of July, the business tribunal in Caen was considering four offers for the Jeannette brand and leftover machinery, Viana’s among them. Two focused solely on the purchase of the machinery; one proposed buying the machinery for 2... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
affordable rates," Balogun says, adding that his bank expects lending to increase 21 percent a year for the next three years. Here's what all of that looks like in practice: With a $500 input loan, 22-year-old Jamila Josua was able to... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
studio and uplink center. Not bad for a kid who received a “low pass” in Production and Operations Management and thought he could get away with not having to buy a pocket calculator to do the math for Managerial Economics. Life throws a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
fatigue syndrome (CFS), which for a long time went undiagnosed; battling CFS for some ten years, she could no longer work and therefore lost her health insurance. Her prescription bills alone were $600 a month, and she sometimes had to choose between View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
difficult,” he says. In its new incarnation, EyeView provides advertisers, agencies, and video networks a platform to create personalized online, broadcast-quality video ads tailored to the viewer by location, time of day, real-time... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
(NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), and the National Hockey League (NHL), television, both national and local, has been a boon as well. Television provides significant direct revenue as well as the added exposure that stimulates other... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
through Jakarta are jammed so tightly that walking from car rooftop to rooftop seems feasible during rush hour—roughly three hours from six o’clock in the morning and then again for about four hours in the evening. Japanese-made minivans inch through key interchanges... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
activity pales in comparison to what's happening today on the Internet," says Sahlman. "Whereas in the early days of the microprocessor, for example, it was expensive and complicated to buy computers, develop software, and break into the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
to be better way.’ But you’ve got to buy into the whole philosophy, and most people don’t buy that way.” Still, the nimble little company with big ideas began to attract suitors searching for growing niches... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
musician, entrepreneur: “I was buying some bananas from a 7/11 in Seoul, South Korea, when the email appeared in my inbox. I was with a dear friend of mine, Elliott Davis, who graduated from HBS in 2016. He gave me a huge hug and hearty... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
Nickelodeon and Univision. "We know," O'Reilly observes, "that other entertainment and sports interests are competing for these groups and that we can never rest on our laurels." Innovation can mean basics like reducing parking and traffic hassles as well as View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Christensen (MBA 1979, DBA 1992), Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan (HarperBusiness) The long-held maxim that understanding the customer is the crux of innovation is wrong. Customers don't buy products or services; they “hire”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
re-create the transparency and social accountability that would come if a couple met offline through a mutual friend. The app populates a user’s dating profile with information and current photos from Facebook; recently Hinge added... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
who don't know, it's a kind of speaker phone and he had me on speaker phone with John Georges. And Joe was an accountant by training, so he had one of those little ad subtract, multiply, and divide, calculators. This was long before HP... View Details