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- 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 1996
- News
New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting
database architecture, including company, faculty, student, and alumni information, MBA Career Services plans to put its services online to make them more accessible, efficient, and customer-oriented. "In the next few years," says Kirsten... View Details
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
What are your long-term goals for the company? “In the short term, we are raising a new round of financing to boost our growth in Mexico and to launch an operation in Brazil and in Central America. In the long term, we aspire to be the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Taking Tailoring High Tech
the Boutique Online Shoptiques founder Olga Vidisheva (MBA 2011) offers all the technical tools and support a small shop needs to get started in the e-commerce world and a one-stop boutique shopping portal for customers. Thinking Inside... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
size of the database the WEBSE offers users. Whether a WEBSE is operating an online giving directory, workplace-giving center, or any other transaction-based service, it must decide how many nonprofits will... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
create the elective course Product Management 101. Update: A former business operations intern at the software company Autodesk, Soheili recently landed a product manager job at design firm Homepolish. SS: What are the characteristics of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
Áslaug Magnúsdóttir (MBA 2000) in the New York office of Tinker Tailor, her new online couture business. When HBS first turned a scholarly eye to retail in the early 20th century, department stores were king. Institutions like Filene’s... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
As Head of Fidelity, Abigail Johnson Is Just Getting Started
record $3.5 billion operating profit for 2016, in part due to targeted expense cuts. Fidelity recently cut its fees for online brokerage trades on a bold bet it would result in a strong increase in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
states such as New York, California, and Tennessee, we are seeing meaningful partnerships, to the benefit of both the students and the economy. What’s next in education? “Technology has the potential to profoundly change education. The question mark is if high-quality,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
The Cole Room: A Wealth of Resources for Job-Seekers
recruited at HBS, industry-specific directories, numerous business-related periodical databases, and video- and audiotapes from recruiting companies. Cole Room professionals, experts in finding and using career- and job-related information, guide alumni - in person,... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
Blake Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Related links Learn how alumni apply military experience to leadership in nonprofits, industry, education, and more. Maura Sullivan (MBA 2009), PepsiCo Robert Goodwin (GMP 3,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2024
- News
Generosity Multiplied
There’s little doubt that James Reed (MBA 1990) loves his job. After all, he’s the chairman and CEO of Reed, the United Kingdom’s first and largest jobs website, and he takes the company’s slogan—“Love Mondays”—to heart. Even so, he admits he has a side hustle. When... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Bringing New Life to an Iconic Magazine
the organization (now operating as the Advisory Board Company and Corporate Executive Board) employs more than 6,500 people and generates annual revenues approaching $1.5 billion. While he didn’t fulfill his political dreams, Bradley... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Microsoft's online advertising business, began steering the company on a dramatically new course last year. In September 2013, Acxiom unveiled the beta version of a free website called AbouttheData.com, which gives individual consumers an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
all these students, learning practical business skills every day but not yet applying them in the real world,” says Petitti. “And we saw all these businesses with needs.” To connect the two groups, the team built an online marketplace... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
buying to operations management, for nearly nine years. She finally felt like the biggest challenges were behind the company. The year 2020 was going to be stable, she recalls thinking. But by late 2019, it was clear that would not be the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Dressing by Number
of expertly picked goodies delivered to your door. (True story: That “aha” moment came courtesy of a delivery of farmer-endorsed seasonal veggies.) Now she’s translated that idea into Stitch Fix, the Pandora of fashion. This rapidly growing View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
The Birds and Bees in China
The fact that they are one billion in number confirms that the Chinese have at least a passing familiarity with the means of reproduction. Yet Leslie Kenny (MBA 1997) has built a thriving online business based on a Chinese desire for more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Double Vision
web-only offerings like dating sites and streaming content—and divided them into four ad types. Then they matched the ads with the advertisers' web traffic and online purchases in the minutes and hours after they aired to measure their... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
can go really high tech, with algorithms behind the scenes that post prices at very high frequencies, or you can go the route that we took in collaboration with Zalora, which was to approach the problem by designing the online store in... View Details