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- Portrait Project
Ann Chao
developmentally delayed. I fell in love with her immediately. She was beautiful; perfect. Her gentle smile lit up my day. She loved music, and would lean back and close her eyes to the simple melodies on toy keyboards. My family began... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sylvie Tran
In an isolated, desolate leper village in Vietnam, I observed a small child. The little boy was freely running around, pushing a makeshift toy, despite the harsh conditions. He was determined, energized, and intensely focused on his toy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
1,000 retail outlets, including Target and Toys “R” Us. Revenue has grown rapidly with just one flavor, but after multiple discussions with venture capital groups, it became clear that investors were looking for companies that had reached... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Class of 2007 Fellowship Awarded
“Coming to HBS has widened my scope and outlook on life,” says Kim, who arrived at HBS with eight years of work experience — as a Bain consultant, an officer of a campus church, and a marketing manager of a toy company. “I have learned... View Details
- Student-Profile
Ryann Noe
meaning-making. Her PhD qualifying paper is a longitudinal study of social resistance to technology in the toy industry. Together with Professor Raffaelli, she has written about how independent bookstores were able to resurge in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In the Driver's Seat
toyed with the notion for Fanz before. But in 1999, when one of his newborn twin sons, Jackson Roscoe, died shortly after birth due to congenital heart disease complications, the idea took on a new reality for Hitchcock and his wife,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
a "warehouse club" store. Although it didn't have the item he wanted, Stemberg was struck by the store's low prices on office products. "I began thinking," he recalls, "why not start up a kind of Toys 'R' Us for office supplies?" Thanks... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Passion Projects
Turning teddy bears into art On a trip to London in the 1980s, John O’Donnell (MBA 1977) and his wife snapped a picture of two teddy bears posed near a Buckingham Palace guard. The normally staid guard bowed to the bears, and the couple realized the power of View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Reflections From My First Month at HBS
communication. As someone who is fairly logical and data-driven, I find myself grappling with this idea of authenticity. It’s a new feeling, and I’m still learning how to embrace it. Here’s a question from our first Field course that I’m still View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
Toy State, retails for about $170. Spring 2018 The 2018 season is unveiled, with races scheduled for broadcast by six networks across more than 87 countries. View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
Show!’ Partner with a toy company and there could be a Boaty under every tree this Christmas and a Boaty Book explaining his or her research mission.’ Others were less enthusiastic. Darmody1 reminded us that, “it’s important to consider... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
earned a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard in 1971, Fung has built Li & Fung into a multinational trading and retailing company with 36 offices in 20 countries and an annual turnover of more than $1.6 billion. In Hong Kong, where Li & Fung operates View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
image of a hard-driving entrepreneur who is on call around the clock doesn’t mesh well with the nonstop demands of family life. But that didn’t stop Allison O’Kelly (MBA ’99) from leaving a fast-track management position at Toys “R” Us... View Details
- Profile
Alex Nelson
graduation," Alex says, "and will continue to focus on retail management. Longer term, I'm interested in entrepreneurship. I'm toying with a variety of ideas, including one for a fashion business that redefines luxury in terms... View Details
- 08 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
CS50 for MBAs: Coding at HBS
digital innovation compelling - especially if you think about the democratization of access that digital technology enables. It also meant I needed a serious boost in my digital literacy, so I ended up taking CS50 for MBAs during my second year. I had View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, and Patrick J. Barry look at three of the largest debacles so far in the 21st century—the BP affair, the mortgage meltdown and resulting crisis, and the use of lead paint in children's View Details
- 09 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 9
http://hbr.org/search/113045-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-478 LEGO (A): The Crisis As this case opens, iconic toymaker LEGO stands on the brink of bankruptcy. Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, LEGO's young and newly appointed CEO, must size up changes in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
marketing director at L'Oreal, also serves as Heritage Link's CFO. The Cuffes have two sons.) Asked where she'll be in 10 years, Cuffe replies, "I think I'll be a serial entrepreneur, with the wine business going well but maybe other businesses within that portfolio.... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
about what they've learned, and what changes they're planning. This collective, public conversation was critical when sales managers at Mattel Canada were trying to initiate a different kind of innovation: introducing a new sales channel. Due to the cyclical,... View Details
- 24 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
My Journey to Joining the first MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Cohort
that must be answered for drugs to make it to market. And I especially loved any chance I got to dive into the science behind these questions. A few years ago, as I started to think about what I wanted to do longer term, I toyed with the... View Details