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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
department at a Woolworth store back when they had manual cash registers. Candy bars used to sell really quickly, and the department needed constant restocking. During lunch, hundreds of customers would come in to buy snacks, and the... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
trying to protect the forest,” he stresses. The company uses quarter-inch taps and marks the position of the tap on each tree every year to avoid re-tapping in the same place twice. “We adhere strictly to best practices for forestry,”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
because they are selling you more than books. In the early 2000s, when these bookstores were competing with Amazon on price, they were losing; they will always lose in the face of Amazon’s buying power. But since the late 2000s, many... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
And Aisha unfortunately had the same condition that Tanya did. And then we had to battle like crazy to save her. We had to fly her to the UK. I had only $2,000 in my pocket. Enough to just buy an air ticket, one-way air ticket. I didn't... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
learned at HBS: “I developed a sense of confidence in myself and in my ability to go out and compete in the business world.” Inspirations & role models: “As a woman, there were no role models!” Best business advice ever received: “When I... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
short-term, bottom line thinking drive decisions contrary to the best interests of that business (and society) over the long term. Frankly, the threat that is posed by climate change to our planet must now be thought of as short-term.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
theory by constructing a measure of overconfidence, using the indicator of when a CEO exercises his or her stock options. She found a strong connection between executives who habitually hold their options longer and continue to buy stock... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Maurice Pinto, MBA 1960
so glad I listened to him. It was the best educational experience I've ever had." After earning his MBA and working on Wall Street, Pinto joined the family investment business and eventually cofounded Sea Containers, a container leasing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
niche advertising. But these marketers realized the best way to create cachet for a young audience was to make it inaccessible and let the kids discover it on their own. So classic marketing wisdom doesn’t always hold true? That’s right.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
foreign executives conducting calls in English. New research by Assistant Professors Gwen Yu and François Brochet provides guidance to executives speaking to investors in any language. Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts edited by Tom... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
says Lee, noting that it’s a business that’s fairly common in Europe, whereas Redbrick has virtually no U.S. competitors. Through its three funds financed by private investors, Redbrick buys up quantities of single-family houses in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
will give you the money it now spends on buying your health insurance. You will be required to use the money to buy insurance for yourself. People like me who prefer HMOs could still View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
but the communities needed a lot more than loans. The loans were just the beginning. They needed the ability to just buy things that weren't available. Simple things like pots could cost twice what they would in another place. They didn't... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Terry Finley turns race horses into investment opportunities. As president and CEO of West Point Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs, New York, Finley buys promising colts... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
made Harden’s CEO appointment official in 2018; now, as then, the Australian native is leading Hello Sunshine’s efforts to focus on strong, female-focused narratives across film, television, unscripted, and animation divisions, in addition to a slate of podcasts (How... View Details
- 25 Mar 2008
- News
Whistling Past the Graveyard
cite when claiming that the economy is basically doing OK. It was those “fundamentals” that Herbert Hoover was extolling just before the Great Depression hit. Some of the fundamentals, macro and micro, anecdotal and otherwise, that matter to the majority of Americans... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Markets’ Moral Limits
Limits of Markets. At an HBS panel discussion in April with University Professor Rebecca Henderson and HBS associate professor Karthik Ramanna, Sandel said that “the buying and selling of a non-material good changes its meaning.” For... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
interconnection and assembly with other tiles via “plug & play” connectors. Crossover Energy is an energy services company, helping organizations reduce their energy costs and embrace sustainability by reducing their carbon footprint. Dr. Consulta uses production line... View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Today's episode of Skydeck features alumni weighing in on where and when they do their best thinking. The podcast team collected these thoughts during Spring... View Details