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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
Anomalie offers brides a new way to buy a wedding dress—custom designed, online, and at a reasonable price. That makes the company, well, an anomaly in the $55 billion United States wedding industry, which is well known for its opaque... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
ecosystems around the world had created all [the] billion dollar businesses. Today, over 84 startup ecosystems have created one billion-dollar business. It isn't that the startup movement is globalizing alone, it's that the biggest and View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
Founder and CEO, Year Up Download Gerald Chertavian profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Lowell, Massachusetts 1987 Earns BA, Economics, Bowdoin College 1987 Joins Chemical Bank 1992 Earns MBA 1993 Cofounds Conduit Communications... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
there's people trying to sleep, because they know that burn night is always a very, very late night. Throughout the day, people are preparing, putting on their best costumes, creating final installations with their camps or their friends,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
isn’t high-quality health care more expensive? Health care is not like buying a car. If you want leather seats in a car, this costs more because leather costs more than vinyl. Health care is different, because most of the time the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
odds to make his company successful. The Best Chapter: Keeping It Real As We Get Older By Teri Martin (MBA 1980) NFI Publishing Through a series of short and quick vignettes, the author lightheartedly shares her views, tips, and advice on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
private equity firm AEA Investors, which expanded Burt’s into stores like CVS, Walgreens, and Target. Burt’s subsequent acquisition by Clorox raised eyebrows. After all, Clorox is best known for making household bleach. “We did not want... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
was about 15 years ago, maybe 20 years ago, from a technology perspective, from a startup perspective—where the domestic market actually was sufficient enough to essentially allow for creation of these companies. And therefore what you see here today is, you know, the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
regional and final pitches. “That was the best part about it. The club connected us with four advisors to coach us for the pitch in the New York region and helped us craft our story more succinctly. And more powerfully, they connected us... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
best people you can find and then let them do their job." CURRENT READING Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age, by Christopher T. Cross As head of Hazleton, which he turned into the largest independent contract laboratory in... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
kitchen, how it’s designed and how it flows is to help us achieve those really high throughputs. And some of the customer engagement you were talking about is really designed to help people understand and appreciate all the new things on the menu. Because the way a lot... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
sustainable use of resources. Wal-Mart, for example, just committed to buy seafood only from MSC-certified fisheries. This decision has rocked the industry because Wal-Mart is the second-largest buyer of fish in the United States. We’re... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
knitted into the fabric of how people buy and sell goods and services." Skeptics might disagree with such a sweeping declaration, but they would be hard-pressed to disregard TIBCO Software's growth since its founding in 1996. Total... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
the well-worn paths to tenure. On this morning of mourning, Frances was vintage Frances. “We had a faculty meeting this morning to discuss the importance of class. I just didn't buy it. This week, do whatever you need to do. Leave now.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
since women control or influence a lion’s share of household buying decisions. That includes cars, vacations, electronics, health care, and more. We also see a lot in the media about work-life balance and the difficulties working mothers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
dynamic pricing is twofold: to maximize revenue, but also to encourage ticket-buying behavior that is beneficial to the arts organization and, importantly, to its customers. Customers are more likely to buy early instead of last minute,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
looking for a business to buy when I had no money, and people didn’t really want to talk to me. But it took around ten years to sell it, which is a very long exit strategy. We could have found somebody to liquidate the business and take... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
your view, and that is important to you personally. For heaven's sakes, take advantage of that freedom and use it well. So you don't retire from something. You go to something of deep personal and social significance and do your best, do your best. Jeff Singer, MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
Linda Katz (both MBA 1994) considered thirty different companies before buying Molded Dimensions, Inc., a manufacturer of rubber and polyurethane products located outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Since purchasing the company in April 2001,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Marketing After the Recession This downturn has likely changed... View Details