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Field Course: Go to Market Sales Playbook Field Study - Course Catalog
https://getakko.com/ Insurance for personal items Acuity https://www.acuitysds.com/ CRM for account-based selling Mandela Yoga https://www.mandelayogaproject.org/ Yoga as a free health benefit Alyce...
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- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
rather than problems with women's capabilities and commitment. The following sections explore these widely held beliefs about women's investment in, commitment to, and capability to run substantial businesses of their own. Do Women Underinvest In Their Businesses?...
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- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
inherited collection before, with the proceeds largely redirected to her many philanthropic efforts. What she has not done before, and said she plans to do soon, is sell a large portion of the remaining works (many of them lesser-known or...
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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
Stevenson said the recent technology sector market crash should teach future entrepreneurs to build companies to last rather than to sell, and to think about more than simply selling a product. We're never going to go back to the slow and...
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by Carrie Levine
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
Bloomberg during an unparalleled career as an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and three-term mayor of New York City. “I’ve always believed a good deal is where both parties walk away thinking that they didn’t get everything they want, but they got a lot. and that means...
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Susan Young
- 18 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up
without retail experience? Julia encouraged them to get relevant summer experience, like her internship at New Balance. She jumped on an e-commerce project there, and did related independent work during her 2nd year that definitely helped her View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
convey? You have to stay close to your core consumer. Even though Skullcandy has grown over the years, and we now sell in mainstream places like Best Buy, Target, and Apple stores, the consumer at the center of our circle is still the...
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- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
overworked lifestyle, rather than a leisurely lifestyle, has become an aspirational status symbol. A series of studies shows that the positive inferences of status in response to busyness and lack of leisure are driven by the perceptions that a busy View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
Magwegwe, and now that he’s found personal success, he’s using a nonprofit organization, Inspire Belief, to lift others—especially young people in South Africa’s poorest communities—out of poverty and set them on the path to find their...
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Margie Kelley
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
lot of our business involves selling the data we gather to governments and corporations.” In fact, much of what INRIX has achieved is classic disruption, taking over the roadway data gathering and analysis that previously was done by...
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- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
Ziff-Davis and is now the ninth largest network on the Internet. The tales of these two firms (along with that of Donna Dubinsky, a member of the HBS Class of 1981 and CEO of Handspring, the maker of Visor personal organizers) are the...
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by Jim Aisner
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
ability to collect and share information, the thing that is going way up in value is your personal connectedness and network," said Latoff. "Your ability to create, sustain, and, in opportune moments, exploit your connectedness...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
When Donna Dubinsky joined Palm Computing in 1992, the eight-person start-up was one of several companies developing a personal digital assistant. Under her leadership, Palm introduced the first successful PDA, creating a multi-billion...
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- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
on average, firms' self-reported anticorruption efforts reflect real efforts to combat corruption and are not merely cheap talk. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2229039 When to Sell Your Idea: Theory and Evidence from the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
the relationship between the two boards and the key factors in determining that relationship. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407047 Sell Yourself! Harvard Business School Exercise...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Jenny Tison
summer internships. At J.P. Morgan, Jenny learned that, “banking was not for me.” An internship at the Pentagon, as a junior program analyst, confirmed her enthusiasm for math and measuring performance. An entrepreneurial venture – View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
Gehrke (MBA ’73) presides over this weekly happening or, as she describes it, this “mini-laboratory for budding entrepreneurs.” The businesses in question aren’t of a high-tech nature, however: GreenFlea is an indoor-outdoor market that is home to an eclectic mix of...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
within proper bounds. That said, the hawking of merchandise outside the venues was more than I personally would have liked. But a certain amount of that is just the way things are in America. At the Centennial Olympic Park, many people...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
utilizes the one asset that exists in abundance in even the poorest and most fragile social sectors - people's self-initiative. It increases the productivity of the person engaged in economic activity, thereby creating new wealth, rather...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
office equipped with the Newman family's pool furniture. An early stumbling block was Newman's reluctance to associate his well-known face with the product. When a colleague finally convinced him that he "would not be able to sell one...
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