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Thaddeus Mosley Illusory Progression 2020 | About
of Sculptors and a board member of the August Wilson African American Cultural Center. Mosley’s work has been exhibited and acquired by major museums and can be found in many public collections, including the Mattress Factory museum,...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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Data-Driven Diligence
Illustration by QuickHoney On the surface, there is seemingly nothing sexy about a startup that sells foam mattresses online. But in January 2014, David Coats (MBA 1992) and Trevor Kienzle (MBA 1991) made a significant seed-round...
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Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2017
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Case Study: Moment in the Sun
“connected wellness,” with the lamp as the starting point and shown as a sleep aid rather than smart lighting. Ario can assess co-branding the device with players that have established a value proposition around sleep or wellness (e.g., View Details
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Dan Morrell
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10 Reasons Why HBS Peek Weekend was worth the trip across the pond - a british perspective - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 01 Jul 2019
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The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
off offering just a room—somebody who had a vacant room with an air mattress who would provide some hospitality, maybe a hot meal in the morning. That was it. Over time, the company started saying, “Well, you can rent just the room, but...
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- 10 May 2017
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Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
Nanda cites Airbnb. “You might think it was not going to work to put money into a firm that rents out mattress space on the floor. But then it turns out it actually does, and Airbnb becomes a super-valuable company,” he says. “Airbnb...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
he was teaching in first-year Finance in the early 1980s. People, opportunity, context, and deal, changing iteratively over time. Sahlman cites a contemporary example: the Casper “bed-in-a-box” foam mattress company that launched in 2014....
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns
months later, Amazon pledged $2 billion to the climate crisis. You had Wayfair employees refusing to work because they didn't want their company to sell mattresses to the government, who was planning on using them at their detention...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
significant 20 percent, 30 percent, over time.Biederman: There's also an underlying shift in what companies are actually doing. They're focusing, I think if you look at a company like Casper, Casper sells millions of mattresses. They’ve never created a View Details
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Casper Sleep, a DTC mattress company, that sought to evolve over time from a single mattress offering to the “Nike of Sleep.” Patch attempted to make a marketplace for carbon credits, and sought to expand...
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