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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
been introduced to the world of “blogs” — where teenagers, including her son Brendan and his friends, often keep online diaries. “But I’m not sure that the technological changes have been any more dramatic than during other 25-year... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Ralph Lauren Home shop in Filene’s. That forced me to engage with people on a new level and to convince them to spend $50 on a towel,” he says. He ultimately finished Duke and moved to New York City in 1987 to work at Chemical Bank, first... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
odd to them, and the notion of writing a check at the corner store to get money in a pinch suggests a scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. It is only a matter of time, online banking enthusiasts say, before the process of writing a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
The future of retail won’t be brick and mortar or online, says Musab Balbale (MBA 2007). Instead, it will be a more inclusive combination of the two. Balbale, who spent several years of his career focused exclusively on online sales, is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
multimedia company, devise a monetization strategy for its online presence, primarily by gathering information about the viewing habits of young, well-educated, upscale consumers. A key finding that emerged from their surveys, conducted... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he became chief executive of WPP,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
launched Tokyo-based Rakuten, a 10,000-person company that began as an online shopping mall and now includes banking, travel, e-book, and credit card divisions. With a market capitalization of approximately... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
programs and CD-ROMs, including a travel title called Expedia, which was later spun out of Microsoft as an Internet IPO. With the rise of the Internet, Murch led Microsoft's online games division and produced the hugely popular MSN Gaming... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
When the coronavirus pandemic led many brick-and-mortar retailers to close their doors, consumers turned to online shopping in record numbers—US ecommerce sales rose by 31.8 percent between the first and... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
stories, their pain, and their loss, and also focus on the most vulnerable: the children," says Hammerman. The March 15 online event featured Atabek and fellow panelists Samir Beyaz (PhD 2017, GSA Harvard), an assistant professor at Cold... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
Launched in 2017, Clay is an artisanal ceramics startup for the sharing economy. Founder and CEO Rukmini Giridharadas (MBA 2014) has partnered with potters in the Bay Area to offer their wares online to the chefs, caterers, and florists... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
In 1994, the World Wide Web was not yet a household name. A new company called Yahoo! had just developed a way to look for sites on the Internet -- the search engine. HotWired debuted as the first online magazine to carry advertisements.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
Even though at the time these things seem like the worst thing ever, they really made us a stronger company. + ONLINE web-only content OW: How did your aha moment come about? Was it an active process of brainstorming or something that... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
$25,000 of in-kind accounting and legal services. Traditional Track OFF AND RUNNING: Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn have opened shop in the Bay Area. Business: CloudFlare, a Web security venture that will help Web sites protect... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
revolutionizing everything from online payments and wealth management to cybersecurity and insurance through digital technologies as diverse as blockchain and artificial intelligence. Despite being the world’s financial capital and home... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
rich Brazilians. That sprawling financial district outside Sender's window? It didn't exist 20 years ago. "This was a swamp," she says. "There was nothing." Now it's considered one of the city's "downtowns," with lunch hour mobs of dress shirts and heels flooding... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
moves about a dozen times before buying a home, and all too often the bookshelf purchased for one apartment isn’t needed in the next. As a result, about 10 million tons of furniture go to landfills every year, Ramírez says. He and Aditya Khilnani (MBA 2019) founded the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
emergency phase, 230 trained miners from FIBA's lignite mining subsidiary, Polyak, spent 10 days searching under the rubble and rescuing 30 people. FIBA CP, the Group's commercial property management subsidiary's shopping malls, as well... View Details