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- 16 Dec 2016
- News
Search for a Youth Medicine Never Grows Old
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ilana D. Weinstein (MBA 1995)
Weinstein: Standing tall and seeing all of the strategic possibilities in a highly competitive industry. I grew up in New York City and worked in every store along our 10-block radius. I learned how to sell and negotiate at a young age.... View Details
- 18 Jun 2013
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Why Girls Get Better Discounts On Car Repairs
- 20 Dec 2017
- News
To Free Your Mind, Empty Your Shopping Cart
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
themselves about Commons, how do they do that? SP: You can go to the App Store on iOS or to the Play Store on Android and Search Commons to download the app. It's free to use,... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
was the best in the country: Radcliffe. “I was a feminist early on,” says Lang, whose life’s work includes building a picture-framing store and a photo business, blazing a trail as a high-tech leader, raising three children, and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
been a great friend. It makes me feel so good to know that my advisor is interested in my career and my well-being." Raman and Ton have been studying retail operation, focusing on an operational execution issue - namely, misplaced products at retail View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Editor’s Letter
In 1984, I took my babysitting money to the Sam Goody store at the Short Hills Mall and purchased a copy of Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A., on LP. It was the best-selling album of the year and, for a kid growing up in New Jersey,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her new community, Kwiker began... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
strong economic potential. But when it came time to search for an entrepreneurial opportunity in earnest, Thornton realized she didn't have to travel much farther than her own closet to find her niche. "As someone who wears a size 11 1/2... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Revolutionizing digital medical records
millions of Americans each year, kill several hundred thousand, and cost hundreds of billions of dollars annually. The records are secure—encrypted, password-protected, HIPAA-compliant, and not stored on a server. With the click of a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
codes readable by smartphone cameras. The information encoded in the graphic will take your smartphone browser to a designated Web address. To access the bar-code information, first download free QR scanner software from your smartphone provider’s app View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
President and CEO, Starbucks Coffee Company Smith has led Starbucks through more than ten years of tremendous growth, both domestically and internationally. Today, the company operates nearly 6,000 stores in 29 countries. Marjorie M.T.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
a path to success in many schools. What business could survive if it didn’t have the resources to buy supplies and attract and retain quality employees? What retail store could motivate customers in a dingy, outmoded building where even... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
to be better way.’ But you’ve got to buy into the whole philosophy, and most people don’t buy that way.” Still, the nimble little company with big ideas began to attract suitors searching for growing niches in the crowded outdoor market.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her new community, Kwiker began... View Details
Keywords: Elena N. Berg
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
rate than the 300 percent annual growth it saw from 2002 to 2007. (Redbox lets would-be renters search locations and reserve titles online.) With a background in high-growth start-ups, Kaplan is already involved in a number of new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
falter? What sets successful founders apart from those whose new ventures fail? Starting in 2008, I set out to interview hundreds of highly successful entrepreneurs in depth, hoping to reverse engineer what had led to their outsized outcomes. As a writer, I also View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
ventures they began, from the 1950s through the 1970s. Of those, take one area for closer inspection in search of the HBS imprint - broadcast and cable television. In the mid-1950s, Thomas S. Murphy (MBA '49) found himself managing an... View Details