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- 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story
developers that couldn’t play by the discounters’ strict rules had fewer sales channels. With all the fun that toys bring to kids, the business is characterized by copycats, empty piggy banks, and aggressive competition that might make a... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
transition then. Sulyman: One thing I would say that I have taken away with me from just living in Lagos, and being Nigerian, is we have a very warm culture. When people show up, we embrace them and we try to invite them in as part of the culture. You go to the View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
the first time I had a psychotic break in my second year at Harvard Business School. When I looked back after that, I realized that I had actually had symptoms as early as fourth grade, but it really wasn't until I had that break, that I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
from a franchise on the brink of leaving town in 1992 to toast of the town in 2010 is the stuff of Hollywood scripts. And indeed, when the lanky, loquacious executive talks about his lifelong history with the team, his reminiscences are captivating. Baer’s career in... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
forwarded the business plan. “By the end of 2013, we reached the point where I confronted either writing it off and writing off my friend and benefactor’s money—or I was going to pull the nose up.” Lo stepped in as CEO in July 2014. She... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
spring’s Commencement address. As he greets a visitor to his bare-bones office in Mountain View, California, there’s little evidence of this former hedge-fund analyst’s meteoric rise to rock-star status as a kind of online pied piper for... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
the full size and development that they need. Dan Morrell: Born and raised in New Delhi, India, Naina Lal Kidwai and her sister lived in a household where business and social issues were important family concerns. When she visited her... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
table, a tray of sandwiches nearby. Two more join via videoconference. The pesky buzz of BlackBerries punctuates the lengthy and sometimes contentious discussion. It’s a familiar scene in the modern business world, but not one normally... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Nancy Barry (MBA 1975), founder and president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, which mobilizes and supports leading companies and entrepreneurs in building profitable and inclusive businesses that incorporate millions of low-income... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
plan will go to the governor's office sometime in the first part of July for him to sign off on, and then the State agencies need to get to work and will on implementing that plan. And that will be a multi-month process to implement the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
picked the word “zipper,” and one of the guys from England made up this elaborate business theory that intertwined something or other (I can still picture him intertwining his fingers as he spoke) that in the end he claimed was called the... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
my father called one day, I'd just gone to work, I left HBS and went to work in the Office of Secretary of Defense. And I was in the secretary of the Air Force's office, and I got a call telling me my mother had died that morning. And I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
canoes, dwellings, and totem poles. A road now bisects the hill and the coast, with a busy logging facility operating just off the water. Hulking yellow vehicles relocate felled trees around a dirt lot, navigating stacks of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous