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- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
mill stores were merely a fad. Instead, he bet on supermarket-style stores, with self-service, offering clothing, toys, beauty supplies and housewares. That idea became the basis for the family’s chain of Zayre discount stores, introduced... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
since 1866 and end up being nationalized. Back in July 2007, before the trouble started, one American hedge fund manager had bet me seven to one that there would be no recession in the United States in the next five years. “I View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
the next step in growing their business.) These borrowers are already organized in groups, so there’s a community of people that knows them very well. We do a variety of formal and informal interviews to understand who they’d feel comfortable taking a View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
When public television’s Charlie Rose asked Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Henry M. (“Hank”) Paulson Jr. (MBA ’70) whether his firm, a pure investment bank, could survive in a world dominated by consolidations, Paulson didn’t miss a beat: “You View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A Call to Innovation
become one of the most competitive economies on earth. What can we do? Kao isn’t looking only at oft-cited remedies, such as increased teacher salaries and more homework for pupils. He’s proposing a comprehensive plan similar to President Kennedy’s moon-landing... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
also call it an audaciously big bet on an unproven format in an ever-crowded market of streaming content. With an April 6, 2020, launch, Whitman and Katzenberg have 20 months and $1 billion to build the whole thing from scratch—from a... View Details
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
just participating,” he said. All agreed that starting a company is a significant risk and that an HBS degree is a solid insurance policy in case things don’t work out — but you can’t expect success by hedging your bets from the get-go.... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
marketing costs down by targeting the teens and twenties age group and by focusing — unlike some competitors — mainly on selling mobile phones. Although Phones 4u offers a range of mobile communication and entertainment equipment, Braterman believes cell phones are the... View Details
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
of three investment professionals, offering Sheyner the same thing that first attracted him to private equity: ownership. "It's an opportunity to place a really big bet on myself, which is what I want to do." View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
(once a characteristic of living things only, right?) in its answer. It assessed the situation, took a calculated risk, and bet just enough to win. Game, set, and match—$53,601 to $42,399—to the still-undefeated Wired One. (Dollars are... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
coach’s school of experience didn’t offer open enrollment in a course on “How to deal with pressure.” It was closed for everyone except his five starting players. And the team paid the price. Sending Your Kids to the Right School Thinking back on your own life, I View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
platforms at once. “Nobody had streamed a service at that scale before,” says Wilson. “We were holding our breath, because we were basically betting our business that this was going to be a successful pivot.” It felt like a sharp turn not... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
Colgate's North American business and in 1997 was promoted to her current post as executive vice president for CP's North American and European business. She played a big role in Colgate's emergence last year as America's toothpaste leader, and some observers are View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
people would not have considered ‘hot.’” Same with the storage software company Virsto, which Correlation put $1 million into in 2011. When it was later acquired for $200 million, Correlation’s bet paid off handsomely. Big windfalls are... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
are made on the Internet, it's difficult to bet the whole organization on one approach," he explains. "We've developed a world-class Web site that's supported by a state-of-the-art fulfillment center. But we also want to bring new... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Disruption doesn’t create growth; instead, growth creates disruption. Growth is always hard, and disruptive growth is exponentially harder. It requires companies to make tough decisions in the face of daunting uncertainties: Should we bet... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
censorship on the rise, most young people in China today have no awareness of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. The government can kick Google out of China, but all bets are off when Chinese students return from travel outside the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
Altiostar Networks, Inc. Dahod outside his Tewksbury, MA, office “The best way to deliver on shareholder value is not to focus on shareholder value. Focus on meeting customer needs and taking care of employees. That leads to success.” A serial entrepreneur with an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
service, monetizing empty seats, allowing a driver to split the cost of gas or tolls for a given trip to the airport or into work. Passengers can pay as little as half what would ring up on a taximeter for the same distance. Although still a niche player, Zou is View Details