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- 31 Mar 2011
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Building an Online Swap Shop
Reinhart: Deriving success in derivative markets. thredUP, a children’s clothing swap Web site cofounded by HBS classmates James Reinhart and Chris Homer (MBA ’09), expanded into toys last fall, just in time for the holidays. Shoppers had... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Swap ’Em If You Got ’Em
Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Blake Hall (MBA ’10) grew up in a military family, became an Army Ranger, and was a platoon leader in Iraq for fifteen months. A conversation with a fellow veteran about the difficulty of buying and selling... View Details
- 26 Sep 2021
- News
Kominers’s Conundrums: Weight Weight… Don’t Tell Me!
- 27 Jan 2011
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How to keep audit committees in the know
- 19 Jan 2012
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A choice of models: Theme and variations
- 08 Jul 2019
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When the World Matches the Apocalypse in Your Novel
- 19 Nov 2013
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Q&A With Harvard’s Top Entrepreneurship Professor
- 30 Jul 2009
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Chatter about a new global currency is overblown
- 04 Aug 2010
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A Lonely Crusader
2002, Ackman shorted MBIA’s stock and bought credit default swaps betting that the firm would tank. Then he went public with his bets and a 66-page research report detailing his case. What happened next would have broken a man possessing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Dick Franyo: From Banker to Barkeeper
light, and pegs on the walls to hang foul weather gear.” Perhaps most of all, the Franyos wanted the Boatyard to fit in with the relaxed nature of the Eastport maritime community, to be a place where “the guy who owns a Hinckley can swap... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
want to invest!” Social Enterprise Track Business: EGG-Tech, a for-profit enterprise that will provide a battery charging and swapping subscription service to households in Tanzania, where 35 million people live without electricity. Team:... View Details
- 26 Jun 2017
- News
Behind the Scenes at an HBS Short Program
being at HBS is the networking opportunity. It would be crazy not to meet every single person – and I think I managed to do it too – even shaking hands and swapping cards with a guy when we were checking out. He has a great idea that he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)
Video Embed How “the human fly” saved Newman from a cold call. I wasn’t unique as a kid. In small-town Georgia, all the guys did sound effects. We’d swap them like baseball cards: Show me how to do a finger whistle, and I’ll show you how... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Baker Bell Dedication Rings in HBS Centennial
Baker Library on August 15, and the monastery bell was sent on its way back home. The remaining replacement bells will arrive at Lowell House next spring after Harvard Commencement, and the originals will be returned to Russia. The mid-August bell View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
food.” Traeger’s 1.7 million social media followers, a mainstay of brand loyalty in uncertain times, continue to reinforce the company-customer bond, participating in live, online cooking classes that average 144,000 weekly views, View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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Ideas: Books
global alliances and networks, and internationalization. Deep Smarts by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap (Harvard Business School Press) Each time an employee leaves a firm, an asset most valuable to its future is lost: the know-how that... View Details
- 24 Aug 2021
- News
Having a Moment
Aisha Chottani (MBA 2015) Aisha Chottani (MBA 2015) As an engagement manager at McKinsey, Aisha Chottani (MBA 2015) often found herself in need of an afternoon energy boost. But caffeinated, sugary drinks left her feeling even more depleted, so she View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Batteries Included
long? What if ships could be propelled without fossil fuels now? That’s an idea at the heart of Fleetzero. The concept has an elegant simplicity: Build batteries into shipping containers that can be unloaded with cranes like any other cargo and View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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New Releases
than as an economic function or a set of personal characteristics," write the editors in the introduction. The Entrepreneurial Venture will be useful to both practicing and would-be entrepreneurs. When Sparks Fly: Igniting Creativity in Groups by Dorothy Leonard and... View Details