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- 01 Apr 2002
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Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
A classic business problem from the 1950s illustrates the tension between inventory costs and missed sales. A newspaper vendor must decide how many papers to buy each day based on typical demand. His profit is optimized, the solution says, when he buys just enough to...
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- 22 Oct 2013
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Pulling the Plug
mention his entrepreneurial spirit—can be traced back to his time at HBS. As a student, he loved former HBS lecturer Irving Grousbeck's popular course on starting new ventures and conducted a field study of Analog Devices, View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
some HBS classes, including those in which edu.com was developed as a business plan. After moving back home to launch his company, Adam didn't look far for his first partner. "I was doing some consulting work and considering opportunities...
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Julia Hanna
- 27 Mar 2023
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A Sporting Chance
actually was in Pamplona for the Running of the Bulls. "I slipped. I had climbed to the top of a tall wall, and I just plummeted and hit my head." Perez de Leza was 25 at the time, a native of Madrid taking an extended summer vacation...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2009
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Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
recruiting the very best people and sorting them out as to who is the most effective, then empowering them, and watching closely while they run like hell for victory and achievement. As mentor and protégé, what drew Sidney Weinberg and...
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- 19 Jun 2013
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Your Guide to Social Enterprise
in Boston. "But I wanted to really learn how to run a nonprofit," she recalls. After considering law school, she applied to HBS because of its increasing emphasis on social entrepreneurship. "I had a mentor who helped me realize that not...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Steven C. Watson
Massachusetts, classroom. Explaining the decision that led him to this radical midcareer transition, Watson, an engaging veteran entrepreneur with a long and successful record of cofounding and running early-stage companies all over the...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Newman's Own Brand of Charity
Sector, details the 1982 launch and subsequent development of Newman's Own. Based in Westport, Connecticut, the company began as "something of a lark," according to Newman, with two thousand bottles of vinaigrette salad dressing made from his own recipe. He marketed...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Knowing the Score
network’s formidable financial might. The knowledge base required to fully understand the various takeovers and rights deals originated back in corporate finance class. Since Disney’s purchase of ESPN in 1996, management has chosen never...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
Business and Pleasure: Kim and Coup Coupounas enjoy the scenic beauty of the Rocky Mountains just as much today as when they moved to Boulder almost a decade ago. (photo by Stephen Collector) The trail weaves back and forth in steep...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
nationwide high-speed, high-capacity fiber-optic network covering fifteen coastal cities and over 80 percent of the domestic data services market. With backing from shareholders, including the Ministry of Railways (fiber is being View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
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How Do I Get Your Job?
to start and run a company, but I hadn’t had that aha moment. I decided to make the leap when I couldn’t stop thinking about a reusable water bottle. If I didn’t do it, someone else would do it first, and I would kick myself later on. I...
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April White
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
huge global companies that are very well run and have been very financially successful. In the US beer business we have a little bit less than 2 percent market share. So, we have to keep the heart and passion of a small business....
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Batteries and Chocolates
Illustration by Adam Niklewicz/theispot.com by Debora L. Spar In 1991, when I joined the HBS faculty, men outnumbered women by two to one in the student body and four to one among the senior faculty. Back then, male students saw nothing...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
institution; a number of volunteer student organizations were formed to reach out to the surrounding community; and the term "social responsibility" found its way into case discussions with some degree of regularity. "Looking back, those two years are probably a little...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
It's got to have breadth and depth, and be a quality, trustworthy resource.” Khan Academy has developed daily schedules and learning plans for students of all ages, runs webinars to support teachers and parents, and offers homeroom...
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- 01 Aug 2002
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Seventy Years Out: Class of 1932 Celebrates Reunions
John Brink (left) attended his last five reunions and came back for his 70th to “keep the record going and to see the old gang.” Brink said that times were tough when he was at HBS and that half the class didn't have jobs upon graduation:...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Donors Invest in Students’ Future
BARCOTT: Pledges to pay back donors in “service and deeds.” I am here tonight to thank all the donors who believe in the promise that the students in this room represent,” Rye Barcott (MBA ’09) told the nearly 550 people gathered in early...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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José Royo
General Management course, and he has conducted research with Assistant Professor Robert D. Austin. Royo credits his parents, who instilled in him a sense of responsibility about giving back to the community, for his ambitious...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Brick by Brick
Meanwhile, birth rates declined, and children had less interest in toys that didn't offer instant gratification. Serious jolts were also taking place in the LEGO Group. Kjeld, out of the office for a year following a serious illness in 1993, appointed a management team...
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