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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
model has evolved since its launch. "We used to charge a transaction fee, but moved away from that for strategic reasons," Cordero says. "Now it's simply about customer acquisition and building a community." (Still, GradSave is currently... View Details
- 31 Mar 2016
- News
Network Effects Aren’t Enough
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
READY TO MAKE AN IMPACT READ MORE STORIES Syrup works by integrating a retailer’s data—historical and real-time transactions and inventory, e-commerce patterns, and marketing and promotion plans, among other things—with weather, search,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
We're not providing a digital subscription, we're providing a subscription to an actual product, although it's invisible, in the real world and that means that the amount that people are willing to pay is much higher. We take a 19% fee on that View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
chairman of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. In recent years Blackstone has invested in about seventy corporate and real-estate transactions with a total value of more than $20 billion. Most important thing learned at HBS: “The integration of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
fund sector, today is undergoing substantial transformation, thanks to the Internet's growing reach. Unlike other areas of Internet commerce, such as online bookstores, where the cost of merchandise is roughly equivalent to in-store... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and acquisitions are back - with a vengeance - in the 1990s. Across the global business landscape, some $1 trillion in M&A; deals were completed last year. That figure includes one hundred transactions of $1 billion or more in the United... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
A classic business problem from the 1950s illustrates the tension between inventory costs and missed sales. A newspaper vendor must decide how many papers to buy each day based on typical demand. His profit is optimized, the solution... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
sort of technology with which to do that, even if they wanted to. We’re already seeing the current implementation of the Ethereum network have trouble managing the number of transactions people are making, such that View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
interest rates and all the transactional features of a checking account, in addition to a compelling impact story. “The opportunity for you is to put your money where it’s being utilized in a really productive way from an ecological,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
a missed opportunity. “Blockchain platforms are mini-economies written in code,” she explains. These digital systems are intended to help people carry out transactions and create value. And who better to help guide the implementation of a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
over speed in the fulfillment process. Walden aims to build a community of home cooks who are connected to local farms in a meaningful way, not simply a transactional purchase. The Question: With year-over-year growth at 75 to 100... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Inner-City Advantage
for business prospects outside of real estate, Lloyd M. Metz (MBA ’96) of ICV Capital Partners recommended investments based on intellect rather than physical capital, such as health care and software. Ventures that have low distribution View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
attach the word ‘bridal,’ it makes it cost 5 to 10 times more,” says Leslie Voorhees (MBA 2015), who founded Anomalie with her now husband, Calley Means (MBA 2015). “It’s offensive to a woman who understands how things are manufactured.”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
become effective activists and philanthropists through their everyday activities, at little or no cost to them," explains the friendly and low-key Scher, seated in an office whose walls are lined with posters and photos from scores of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
customer bases and a low cost of capital. In 2016, the landscape shifted even further when major platform players such as Amazon, PayPal, and Square entered the space. In spite of these disruptions, Mills says that one can’t discount the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
Kenyan coffee farm. The price of coffee beans on the global market is under $1 a pound, while the actual cost to produce that pound is between $1.62 and $2. The coffee farms are profitable only when they rely on free labor, typically from... View Details