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The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room | About

the future without learning from the past.” About the Name A member of one of the oldest merchant families in Quebec, Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien, after graduating from HBS, transformed Telemedia Communications, Inc., into a major media... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

Virginian-Pilot, a daily newspaper owned by his uncle. After graduating from the University of Virginia (UVA), serving in the Merchant Marine, and earning a Harvard MBA in 1952, he took a job as a reporter and ad salesman for his uncle's... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave

his card and warned merchants about his creditworthiness; MacDonald sued for $500,000 in damages. JDM, INC.: MacDonald became wealthy from his fiction, which detailed financial maneuvering and business issues to an extent unusual for... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2020
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Giving Amazon the Boot

Amazon was one of the big beneficiaries: The tech giant’s second quarter revenue was $88.9 billion, up a staggering 40 percent from the same period a year earlier. Amazon is the cornerstone of ecommerce—but are the merchants that offer... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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Baker Old Class Collection | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details

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Hancock Family Papers | Baker Library

Hancock Family Papers The Hancock family of Boston included wealthy colonial merchant Thomas Hancock (1703-1764) and his nephew John Hancock (1737-1793), president of the Second Continental Congress, governor of Massachusetts, and signer... View Details

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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Collection Guide Records of Leading American Trading Firms in China Russell & Company records Mss:766 1820-1891 25 volumes, 1 box, 1 carton Collection Guide Russell & Co., founded in 1824, was one of the most prominent commission merchant... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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Where Are They Now?

Merchant When Ken Merchant arrived to begin teaching at HBS in 1978, he knew there was no other place he wanted to be. “At the time, HBS was the Mecca for the subject area about which I wanted to do research... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

when several other similar services with big name sponsors such as Google have failed to gain much traction? Apple has a chicken-and-egg game to solve. Consumers won't use the service unless it's in use at a compelling number of stores. But View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

09 Feb 2012
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing

ever-improving technology, customer loyalty programs are proving extremely popular among retailers—but merchants are not getting all they should out of them. The reason? Professor José Alvarez says retailers need to see customers as... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Technology

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Lehman Brothers Archives | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details

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Global Investors

By: K. Merchant and Tatiana Sandino

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01 Oct 2000
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Internet Tsunami

Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA '93) is the founder, president, and CEO of Rakuten, Japan's leading online shopping destination. He believes that because the Internet allows merchants to circumvent the many intermediaries who jack up prices in... View Details

Keywords: Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

03 Feb 2014
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The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

If the user makes a purchase, the affiliate is credited. Loyalty programs: Code inserted surreptitiously on a computer sends the user through an affiliate link when the user attempts to visit a merchant directly. Best case, the user... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing

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Baker Library Collections | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details

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Lehman Brothers - Introduction | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details

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Hiroshi Mikitani

and Japan’s answer to Amazon, Mikitani has built the world’s third largest e-commerce marketplace, where more than 41,000 merchants sell their wares and more than $15 billion in goods were sold in 2013. Rakuten employs 10,000 people and... View Details

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Video-Coverage of the Financial Crisis | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details