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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Noted & Quoted
"I was always a windup toy for achievement." —Barry Rowan (MBA 1983), on taking a "purposeful pause" in his career before moving to Cool Planet Energy Systems. (CFO.com, December 19, 2012) View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
As one of the largest toy makers in the world, the LEGO Group has been riding high in America and Western Europe. To grow, however, LEGO recently faced a decision familiar to many other multinationals: should the company shift from... View Details
Robert D. Stuart, Jr.
Joining the family firm after serving in World War II, Robert Jr. was responsible for Quaker Oats’ biggest diversification since his Uncle John was president. Much of Stuart’s expansion came in non-food business areas, his most notable purchase being the Fisher-Price... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Michael D. Eisner
Eisner headed the second-largest media and entertainment company in the U.S. having grown its market value from $3 billion to approximately $70 billion in his first 14 years as CEO. Eisner has released animated movie hits such as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Lion... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
can firms do to prevent it? A: When you go buy a toy at the store, the only cost that stands out is the price you pay for the toy, not the coins you put in the parking meter near the store's window. If you buy View Details
Milton Bradley
history. In addition to games, Bradley designed jigsaw puzzles, wrote and published children’s books, and created model houses and other components for toy railroads. He was also an early prominent advocate for the establishment and... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
exposed to many different properties and have a strong affinity for characters,” he says. Characters like Superman, Scooby-Doo, and Shaquille O’Neal can be a great way to engage new Lego users on or off the big screen, Moynihan adds, with one caveat: “We cannot just... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Necessity became the mother of invention for staffing-firm founder
O’Kelly, who formerly held high-profile positions as a CPA at KPMG and Toys “R” Us. “It’s important to know that you can be an entrepreneur, or continue to work, and still have a family,” she says. Pairing the hundreds of thousands of... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the Process of Innovation
Idea Group's four-phase process of innovation: the generation of ideas and the winnowing of the ideas down to a manageable few. There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lackluster.— Clayton Christensen The... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gray
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
system, much more so than in the United States," the New York Times (June 7, 2000) reported. Merchants, ranging from toy stores to fishmongers, pay a monthly fee to access Rakuten's e-commerce software and customer database. Merchants... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5652.html. How Brand China Can Succeed A series of recent setbacks, including the Mattel toy recalls, threatens China’s new and improving image, says Professor John Quelch. There is just not enough preexisting... View Details
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
entertained. I’ve always been someone who wants to brighten peoples’ day, and I sought to integrate that into my career. I took on roles that combined creative development and strategic leadership, working my up to CMO, and then President and CEO roles. I worked on... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sundus Husain
"Courage," I thought, "it's a toy pistol." I had never seen a gun before. But now I was standing with one pointed at my head. My mother had spied car thieves from our balcony and had raced down, barefoot and alone. So... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
What New York City attraction brings in more tourists each year than the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty? Why, it's FAO Schwarz, the famous toy store, of course. It's not hard to understand the draw. The flagship emporium... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
leadership, working my up to CMO, and then President and CEO roles. I worked on educational toys and entertainment properties (Hasbro), contributed to taking an early e-commerce company in the educational View Details
- Portrait Project
Stephen Elliott
take her to concerts, go on long walks in Manhattan, eat Italian food, cheer on Japanese runners at the Boston Marathon, and allow her to spoil our toy poodle/terrier Lupin. I have finally realized that memories are the most important... View Details
- Portrait Project
Monica Sharma
these toys helped to instill an entrepreneurial and inquisitive mindset that resides deep within me today. In third grade, I won an award for my invention of an air-cooled hat for hot summer days. As a consultant, I was able to build... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
related merchandising licenses for toys and other consumer products. The first Marvel-produced theatrical release (Captain America is a likely subject) is scheduled to appear in summer 2008. Marvel, based in New York, with offices in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
growth rate. Clearly eBay was doing something right.” At the time, Whitman was a general manager of the Preschool Division of the Rhode Island–based toy company Hasbro, overseeing brands like Mr. Potato Head and Teletubbies. eBay’s... View Details
- 05 Jan 2016
- News
Alumni Top Two New Lists of Rising Stars
Ventureminded. Stefanie Botelho (MBA 2013), founder and CEO of the B2B marketplace Fitzroy Toys for independent toymakers. Divya Nettimi (MBA 2014), an investment analyst with Viking Global Investors. Gabriel Parisi-Amon (MBA 2013),... View Details