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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Editor’s Letter
In 1984, I took my babysitting money to the Sam Goody store at the Short Hills Mall and purchased a copy of Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A., on LP. It was the best-selling album of the year and, for a kid growing up in New Jersey, not owning it was unthinkable.... View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- News
Part Ownership of a Dream
way to participate in the once-exclusive sport of racing. That model also applies to Flightline, purchased for $1 million by a West Point consortium; by the time he won the Breeders’ Cup, that ownership had extended to four other... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
all in, purchasing inventory at volume up front to enter the market with an abundance of options? Or should the company continue to take pieces on consignment, offering a limited assortment of plates and bowls to test the demands of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Artful Tour
Planning Director Sharon Black, right, gave fall reunion attendees a briefing and tour of HBS’s growing Schwartz Art Collection, which includes about 200 contemporary works. Gerald Schwartz (MBA ’70) purchased the first two works for the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
life, we make these types of decisions with our partners. We have some data now on time-saving purchases and heterosexual couples. The general pattern is that time-saving purchases promote relationship... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Big Deal
Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) made big news in February when his Tata Group purchased Corus, the Anglo-Dutch steel producer, the Financial Times reported (February 3, 2007). The $12 billion deal was one for the record books as the largest... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Double Vision
found that TV ads not only can spur web traffic—the browser is at the ready, after all—but can drive sales, too. But which ads push the most? As part of the study, Teixeira and his colleagues collected thousands of ads hawking products frequently View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 13 Jun 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
and ranked. In February 2018, tronc, the company formerly known as Tribune Publishing, purchased a majority stake in BestReviews.com. What inspired you to launch BestReviews.com? Ben:“We both grew up reading Consumer Reports regularly and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Nurturing students who can think outside of the box
“Liberal education prepares you for the rest of your life,” he says. After returning to China in 1994, Chen worked at large multinationals and in banking before purchasing the land for Xing Wei College in 2005. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
High Brow
Flock (MBA ’00) decided to have a go at. The two Yanks have purchased the North American rights to Truefitt & Hill, a venerable British purveyor of grooming products and the operator of what’s believed to be the world’s oldest barbershop,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Hoop Dreams
similar results, Belkin nearly gave up on becoming an NBA team owner. But when the Atlanta Hawks surfaced as a hot prospect last August, Belkin moved quickly with seven partners to purchase the Hawks, the Thrashers hockey team, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
with Laura, to Columbus, Indiana, and then to Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Rogers was impressed with the emphasis on values as well as profit at Cummins, where he worked both as a customer-service supervisor and as a purchasing agent. "I... View Details
- 31 May 2013
- News
Seeing the Light
Opal, moved to New Hampshire, where Opal opened an art gallery. When Evans's work, some of which was on display in the gallery, began outselling that of the other artists, the Evanses decided to decamp to Woodstock, Vermont, where they View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Reinventing perceptions of Africa through wine
winery Seven Sisters, produced the first South African wine served on American Airlines. The South African government helped to negotiate a land purchase for Seven Sisters, which, until that point, owned no vineyards and had to contract... View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- News
A Course Correction at Chris-Craft
Riva. The plan for Christ-Craft? Getting rid of generic model, and focusing on “watercraft that were high-quality and unusual in their focus on nautical beauty.” Stellican purchased the company in 2001, and sold it to Winnebago in June... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Second Acts
When Glen Meakem (MBA ’91) couldn’t persuade his employer, General Electric, that he was on to a hot idea to revamp corporate purchasing using the Internet, he quit and started his own firm, FreeMarkets, which charted the way for... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success
beekeeping demonstrations and training. It purchases honey at fair-trade prices and also processes, packages, and distributes the honey to markets. HCA’s business model, which is being replicated in other African countries, places an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Stealth Mogul
purchased and revived Wired magazine before selling it at a sizable profit to CondŽ Nast. Last year, Providence led a consortium that bought the largest cable television company in Europe. A native of Providence and a graduate of Brown... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
82 percent of all consumer purchases still made in retail and a time-starved customer segment, I’d strongly encourage Saigal to consider expanding her distribution model. It is truly the brand’s job to be available, not the customer’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
New Idea: On-Demand Package Delivery
potential customers on Facebook and LinkedIn, and purchase mover’s dollies to help them make deliveries. The cofounders successfully tested Boxxify throughout April and May in Boston’s Back Bay, where their research showed only 3 percent... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs