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Finalists | New Venture Competition
and software to enable bi-directional EV charging and then aggregates this capacity to trade energy in the electricity wholesale markets. Oply Lindsey Chrismon (MBA 2025) Gabe Chrismon Oply is an AI-powered home management assistant that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
IPA Meets IPO
KOCH: Putting shares of the company in the hands of the people who really believe in its product. Lots of business executives tout the importance of focusing on the customer. But craft brewmeister Jim Koch (MBA 1974), founder and chairman of the Boston Beer Company and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
mischievously saying: “I don’t speak Russian. Who the hell could I talk to over there?” ... In 1939 Weinberg got another assignment: conducting an exhaustive study of investment banking for FDR, with particular attention to the wholesale... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Mar 2010
- News
A Business Ripe for Picking?
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Good luck with that. Industry fundamentals are corroding so rapidly that they will eat through even the noblest of cross-financing oblige. Newspapers, for one, are seeing the wholesale kneecapping of each ad driver, from classifieds to... View Details
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Demo Day | New Venture Competition
the in-home hardware and software to enable bi-directional EV charging and then aggregates this capacity to trade energy in the electricity wholesale markets. Lexi Linh Pham (MDes 2025), Siddharth UR (MDes 2025), Jen Li (MBA 2025), Luke... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
never happened in Japan. However, the average Japanese company is still only taking baby steps in these directions. What I want to get across is that we are not advocating the wholesale adoption by Japan of the Western system. While Japan... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
experience has been a mixed blessing. In Argentina, liberalization and opening to the world in the 1990s first produced growth, and then instability as the Asian financial crisis impacted the country. At the turn of the century a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
tight security worldwide. There could be no soft targets anywhere. That was the wake-up call.” Bonnie Rubenstein Cohen (MBA ’67) grew up in the blue-collar “Shoe City” of Brockton, Massachusetts. Her father, Harold Rubenstein (MBA ’40), ran a View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
leadership, strategy, people management, operating metrics, and relationships with external constituencies. As a result, they picked up on problems Kaufman might not have noticed, provided counsel that made him a stronger leader—and avoided disasters along the way.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
systems were in need of an update, and since GLBG last made heavy IT investments in the late 1990s, the technology had changed considerably. GLBG sought Rechtin’s advice on whether or not it should build a new data center, pursue a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
as new financing and payment models or health plan contracts, can only provide an incentive for change. Nor is it simply a matter of adopting wholesale a successful management model from another industry. It is more difficult than this.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
organizations. That may sound like standard practice today, but ten years ago a lot of nonprofit leaders were deeply suspicious of “suits” showing up with advice lifted wholesale from the for-profit arena. They had tried that before, and... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
public documents. More generally, a wholesale revisiting of the rationale for departing from conformity in the reporting of book and tax income seems long overdue. Given that financial report accounting has evolved over the years while... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
find it in Ruth M. Owades's (MBA '75) Calyx & Corolla catalogue. Since 1989, Owades has been offering American consumers mail-order cut flowers and plants, FedExed directly from the grower. Eliminating wholesalers and distributors clips a... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
distributed their products through company-owned salons. Estée decided to focus her efforts on premium department stores. Estée had spent most of her adult life marketing directly to consumers. But in the late 1940s she and her husband began to envision the family... View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716426-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-446 IC Group A/S IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its primary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
pineboards and department stores to follow these guidelines or face being blacklisted. At one meeting, Gleason confronted a wholesaler who was selling below cost. She was initially dismissed as being “hysterical,” as trade journals... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
of Charleston, South Carolina, dated March 11, 1856. (Frequent abbreviations are used in the reports; subsequent quotes have been translated for clarity.) Three months later: “In business a long time; doing a very extensive business View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
“I think there is a growing consciousness around some of the centers of capitalism, but I don’t think it’s a wholesale movement,” says Chorengel. “As much as there is a tremendous amount of interest in impact investing, the floodgates... View Details