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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
moves about a dozen times before buying a home, and all too often the bookshelf purchased for one apartment isn’t needed in the next. As a result, about 10 million tons of furniture go to landfills every year, Ramírez says. He and Aditya Khilnani (MBA 2019) founded the... View Details
- 01 Nov 2013
- News
Selling Crafts with a Story
turned into Brika.com, an online marketplace featuring everything from handmade tea towels and dishes to tote bags and "Mr. T" onesies for baby. Brika, which takes its name from the Spanish word for factory,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
companies with a commanding presence in their home markets. But to call Mikitani’s company, Rakuten, the Amazon.com of Japan would overlook fundamental differences for customers and merchants alike. “We created a real online View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Is the Auction House of the Future Online?
“Balloon Dog (Blue), 2005” by Jeff Koons sold for an undisclosed amount as part of a May Paddle8 auction. (Photo courtesy of Paddle8) When the hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan decided to produce just one copy of their album Once Upon A Time in Shaolin as a work of... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
each of these areas: Innovation—Redefining management education for the 21st century through current-use and endowment gifts to support continued innovation in the MBA Program, such as the field method, and HBX, the School's new online... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- News
A Business Plan with Spice
Emily Miller (MBA 2015) and Kimberly Jung (MBA 2015) both served in the US Army in Afghanistan. “We wanted to continue that service through a different avenue, which was through business,” Jung says in an interview on Chicago Tonight.... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Providing the Care That Seniors Need
and raising a family, and becoming a caregiver to an aged parent. “Through that process I began to look at what was available in the marketplace for the aged who had cognitive disorders like dementia, but also the aged in general, and I... View Details
- 21 May 2016
- News
The Age of Consignment
article highlights the efforts of online fashion resellers Material Wrld, founded by Rie Yano and Jie Zheng (both MBA 2010), and thredUP, founded by Christopher Homer and James Reinhart (both MBA 2009) as well as gadget collector Gazelle,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Changing Student Life
Inc., whose online "Campus in a Click" intranet services provide cost-effective, interactive communication for all people associated with an institution of higher learning. "We're changing student life,"... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBSi Combines HBS Content with State-of-the-Art Technology
online materials in business education; and for online access to the intellectual capital of HBS. It draws upon the breadth of the HBS faculty as well as the unparalleled resources of Baker Library. HBSi's... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
on IT services in 2018, and the direction of global tech trends, the shortage isn’t going away quickly. Berendt cofounded Talent Alpha in 2018 to fill that gap. The Kraków-based startup is building a View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
fundamental changes that are happening to business as a result of the Internet, digital communications, and ubiquitous connectivity. From building online business models, to formulating digital strategies, to competing in the uncertain... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Selling Digital Privacy
a middle ground, says Deighton, but it will take a new kind of institution, a personal data clearinghouse, to give consumers back their marketplace identities. In proposing a market-based solution to the consumer-privacy problem, Deighton... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
on hand at this year's event to offer some words of wisdom to those following in their footsteps. Jon Burgstone and Asif Satchu (both MBA '99) have raised $48 million in venture capital to fund their online View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Care
MARCELO: "So much of the leadership is helping other people and being selfless." Frustrated by her inability to find high-quality care for her children, Sheila Lirio Marcelo (MBA 1998/JD 1999), a former consultant and executive at Upromise, founded Care.com in 2006.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
all these students, learning practical business skills every day but not yet applying them in the real world,” says Petitti. “And we saw all these businesses with needs.” To connect the two groups, the team built an online View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
daily grind: “Forget the city, forget work, and remember who and what is most important.” Born at the Harvard i-lab, Getaway recently used an online real estate investment marketplace to raise $110,000 in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
GLF Showcases London
for the GLF, the board this year has organized around three committees, each with a variety of projects. Priority one for the Alumni Career Services Committee, chaired by Andy Waite (MBA ’93), is assisting with the successful launch of... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
name, and cast your vote to the right to predict the winner. asia-pacific HBS Club of Shanghai Sophia Shing, MBA 1997 Founder Little Teacher mobile language learning canada HBS Club of Toronto Jennifer Lee Koss, MBA 2008 Co-founder and CEO PIXIE curated View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
all confined to India, although some of the auxiliary services Clove has developed could be marketed beyond. For example, Singh created an online marketplace for dental... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg