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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
situations. She had participated in negotiations with tough-as-nails CEOs and landed major clients like Nike and Coca-Cola. “But when the doctor threw the chart at me, I was about to cry,” she says. She grew up in Osaka, a merchant city,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 04 Aug 2011
- News
Sales Taxes for Online Merchants
- 06 Mar 2015
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Goldman Alumni’s Mozambique Merchant Bank Eyes Gas Boom
- 19 Oct 2014
- News
All You Need to Know About Apple Pay
- 09 Jun 2011
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Will Groupon Survive Until 2016?
- 11 Aug 2011
- News
Groupon IPO dented by market, new numbers
- 15 Jan 2022
- News
Tiktok Isn’t Silly. It’s Serious
- 19 Dec 2018
- News
Beware the Big Tech Backlash
- 12 May 2023
- News
Alabama's Yella Fella
Photo credit: Auburn University Photo credit: Auburn University In 1970, Jimmy Rane (OPM 11, 1986) took over a tiny treated-lumber business in Abbeville, Alabama, that was hovering near bankruptcy. Its owners, Rane's in-laws, had died suddenly in a car accident. Over... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
effort, he mobilized Rakuten’s merchants in the south to help disaster victims in the north. The Rakuten Eagles, whose crimson uniforms symbolize the role that Harvard has played in Mikitani’s life, are based in the region hit hard by the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
venues and functions often enough to stay energized, to stay passionate," says Jim Stern about the twenty years he spent at Lehman Brothers - in posts ranging from corporate finance specialist to managing director and head of the firm's View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
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
- News
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
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
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
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
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
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
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
- 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 marketplace... View Details