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- 25 Jul 2013
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An Engine of Education Innovation
fellow collectors of rare records and books with sellers. His solution, the early e-commerce site Exchange.com, was sold to Amazon.com for a reported $200 million in 1999. The second time Leschly sat down to assess his future, he again...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face
Gazette reports the news of his 42-inch, 40-pound striped bass, not his accomplishments as an Internet entrepreneur who sold his company, PlanetAll, to Amazon.com in 1998. Now Adams, his wife Megan Weeks Adams (MBA ’97), and their...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Learning to Speak the Language of Business
companies with a commanding presence in their home markets. But to call Mikitani’s company, Rakuten, the Amazon.com of Japan would overlook fundamental differences for customers and merchants alike. “We created a real online marketplace...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Notebook
Amazon.com of telecom, but we hadn’t raised enough money to build such a big brand. We decided instead to license our software applications — made to process digital-service transactions — to retailers like Best Buy, Circuit City, and...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming
Despite recent e-commerce volatility, Proflowers has experienced phenomenal growth, including a new partnership with Amazon.com and expansion into Japan. Proflowers is only the latest in a variety of endeavors that Bry has been involved...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
Amazon.com (zealously seeking government-issued patents for e-commerce innovations) and the trio of Netscape, Oracle, and Sun (bolstering the Justice Department's case against Microsoft). Historically, Spar observed, breakthrough...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
presentations. Kawasaki's wry observations of the current business scene were relayed with self-deprecating humor and great panache. His list of the "Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs" included: In year three, we're going to do $75 million ("No one ever believes that");...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call
former assistant principal at St. Mark the Evangelist School in Harlem, Leschly later founded Exchange.com, an online marketplace for rare and hard-to-find consumer products. When his company was purchased by Amazon.com in 1999, CEO...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Team MBA
slowdown, it would be HBS. SONIA SAHNEY, 26 West Bloomfield, Michigan BME, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan Organized the HBS Diwali Show and performed bhangra, a style of popular Indian dance. What’s next: Product manager, View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
business plan for Exchange.com, an online marketplace for rare and hard-to-find items he founded upon graduating and sold to Amazon.com for a reported $200 million in stock seven months later. Leschly counts himself among the new network...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message
requested product-related news, while sponsored e-mail is sent to consumers who are subscribers to a specific content-focused electronic publication. Affiliate programs use performance-based compensation for advertising. For example, any Web site can become an View Details
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Susan Young