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- 01 Oct 1997
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William K.L. Fung
told my father that I didn't want to be in a family company," says Fung with a chuckle. The elder Fung challenged his son to use his HBS skills to breathe new life into the trading company, founded by Fung's... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
with a product lauded for its high quality, distinctive style, and approachable prices. While most of its clothing is designed for children’s sizes from infant through age 12, the company introduced a small line of women’s clothing last fall. The company’s designers... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
of social responsibility." CURRENT READING In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, by Robert E. Rubin and Jacob Weisberg When Minoru Makihara was named president and CEO of Mitsubishi Corporation in 1992, Japan's largest View Details
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Entrepreneurial Marketing
href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/go/buscomplete.html" target="_blank">Business Source Complete: includes scholarly and trade journals relating to sales and marketing strategies. Business Source Complete contains full text of Harvard... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Nearly 600 years after the closure of the storied Silk Road trade route between East and West, 44 second-year MBA students traveled to Asia to gain a firsthand... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
Associate Professor Antonio Moreno and Senior Lecturer Jill Avery (image by John Ritter) While legacy companies like Sears are shuttering their doors, a growing number of online-first companies—from Amazon to Rent the Runway—are opening View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
In Brief
New Alumni Board President; Chandler Jr. Remembered; Spring Reunions; Am Ex’s Chenault; Where Are They Now?; of Note; Alumni Bookshelf; The Scene Ideas Faculty Q&A with D. Quinn Mills; Faculty Books; Faculty Research Online; Caseworks:... View Details
- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
reported (December 18, 2010), prompting thredUP to launch the new exchange. thredUP’s 50,000 registered users swap more than 1,000 boxes of clothes a week. Buyers pay $5 plus shipping per box. Since it’s a swap service, users must send as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
reports on their stock trades and forces CEOs to return pay based on financial results that were later restated. The new disclosure requirements unexpectedly lead to uncovering the widespread practice of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a subsidiary of Swiss commodity... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
problems. Supply chains will be disrupted. There will be new conflicts over water, resources, and human migration. The very physical integrity of factories and buildings will be threatened. So what can businesses do? For most firms,... View Details
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Kim Chen
experiences that enable me to be effective leader in pursuit of these goals. As part of this, I accept that my career trajectory may have a few bends in it, but the end goal is clearer, brighter, and more aspirational than it used to be. What are you most looking... View Details
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Bibliography - The Art of American Advertising
1996. Harris, E. P. “Random Thoughts on Trade and Advertising.” Inland Printer , vol. 8 (December 1890): 202—203. Hawkins, G. H. E. Poster Advertising . Chicago: G. H. E. Hawkins, 1910. “High Art on Cardboard.” View Details
Richard H. Jenrette
Jenrette founded DLJ in 1959 with Harvard Business School classmates William Donaldson and Dan Lufkin. Under Jenrette’s direction, the firm concentrated on in-depth analysis for institutional investors. In the process, DLJ raised business analysis to a View Details
Keywords: Finance
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Rocio Parra
life and recruiting can often be time consuming and overwhelming, but these interactions made it more manageable for me as they allowed me to be more focused in my approach. How has HBS prepared you for your new job? HBS has prepared me... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
Last June, Johnson was named by the White House to head SelectUSA, a new US government–wide initiative to encourage, facilitate, and accelerate business investment in America by both domestic and foreign firms. As the organization’s... View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
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Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club
milestone, CEO Jennifer Hyman (MBA 2009), told Forbes that the company “has created a new consumer behavior of dynamic ownership and clothing rental has become an essential utility in our members’ lives.” Hyman goes on to say that RTR is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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Downhill Re-Boot
HANSON: For boomers who still dare to schuss, a new way to keep them from getting cold feet. Former ski racer Denny Hanson (OPM 2, 1977) saw a lot of his contemporaries giving up skiing because they were tired of being cold and dealing... View Details
- 29 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Global Change in the Built Environment
away with? We had sessions on innovation, real estate derivatives, the history of housing crises, trade deficits, the global economy, business ethics, stem cell research, and China's role in the new world... View Details
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Resources for Harvard Economics Students
other criteria. Compare a company to its competitors along multiple dimensions. WRDS (Wharton Research Data Service) Provides access to financial databases through a uniform, web-based interface. Databases include Compustat, CRSP, OptionMetrics, View Details