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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
bucks made renting out its ubiquitous terminals. Or how News Corp.’s film and TV numbers conveniently hide the rounding error that is the Wall Street Journal. One commentator even proposed that the nation’s wealthiest universities set...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
of them from Rwanda. A local Nigerian factory, Kaldi Africa, roasts the beans to produce a stronger brew than what Starbucks pours. Many of the other barriers to developing a coffeehouse culture that Dozie has encountered are simple retail challenges. Landlords require...
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- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
five months’ rent on an immigration attorney to navigate the bureaucracy. “This is a story told by millions of immigrant families every year,” observes Wang. As a child, he had accepted the significant financial and procedural obstacles...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
wrote his business plan, found a partner, and left Microsoft in 1997 in order to start VacationSpot, an online reservations network for consumers seeking to rent vacation properties. “We worked hard on it for three years,” states Murch....
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
someone else, you'd make room in your work to do that," he reasons. "It's the same with a trip like this. You have to organize your life to make it happen. By far the hardest part is making a commitment." With school and work taken care of, the family arranged to View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
coalition came out of McMinn’s community outreach efforts as owner of Vineyard 29, in St. Helena, where he moved in 2004 after buying the winery. “When we started the Vine Trail, I didn’t own a bicycle,” he recalls. “But our family enjoys View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
Amazon.com had to do, and this was in the United States! Partnership with established logistics companies is a choice, and renting warehouse space may be possible, but building a completely captive system and investing in it would destroy...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
there was empty land for 25 years. We rented the land and created a temporary arena and a coffee shop, a studio, and a car park. It was like a complex. And that changed the people’s mindset in Mito, because that empty land right in the...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
to see about renting kitchen facilities to do some entrepreneurial baking, she offered to sell him the business instead. (Fox also now owns the area's distribution operation for the Times and the Wall Street Journal.) From 1996 through...
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
the experience of businesses including Keurig, Peloton, and Rent the Runway to develop more effective strategies to engage and educate patients about precision medicine, the need for genetic testing, and the importance of sharing that...
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Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
including Dollar Shave Club, Rent the Runway, and “pay as you fly” insurance for drone flights. Finally, the authors outline the challenges in adopting these new models and offer guidance to overcome them. Spirituality After Harvard: My...
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Margie Kelley
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
longer lives for the greatest number of people. With everything he does designed to improve the world, Bloomberg is an optimist who attributes much of his success to luck. He has not forgotten his modest beginnings—or the $150 studio he View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
commitment from local employers whose staff would use our center. We would locate in the same building or very near a large employer to facilitate ease of use by their employees. The benefit to the employer was staff retention and recruiting. We would also solicit a...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the two set about the tasks of renting suitable manufacturing space, scrounging defunct factories for affordable machinery, developing recipes, and building a business from the ground up. It was a slow process, marked by sixteen-hour...
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Deborah Blagg
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
we’re offering.” A management team consisting of local Nepalese and a few expats from the States rented a rice paddy, where they set up a makeshift camp. Volunteers sign up online and pay their own travel expenses. Once they arrive, the...
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Paul Flannery
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
in the high single digits, so money started flowing in.” (By law, REITs must annually pay out 90 percent of their net revenues, generated largely by rents and leases that make them — in good times — cash conveyor belts for their...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
sleeping under his desk at the AKDN’s offices. (Thanks to a lack of rentable space, post-Taliban landlords could demand a full year of highly inflated rent up front.) At the time, much of AKDN’s work was focused on nonprofit agencies and...
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Julia Hanna
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
Associate Professor Antonio Moreno and Senior Lecturer Jill Avery (image by John Ritter) While legacy companies like Sears are shuttering their doors, a growing number of online-first companies—from Amazon to Rent the Runway—are opening...
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- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
Oddly, it was a TV show about politics that eventually gave Singer the “in” he needed for his lucky break. By 2002, he had gravitated to a sublet in Los Angeles—which he happened to rent from a woman who was dating Lew Wells, a producer...
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- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
know one of the things which we realized as we were looking at the shift from again on premise hardware and software that you buy to services in the cloud that you rent is that inherent in that transition is a massive market expansion. If...
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