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- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
for their lives and careers. “It’s going to be a really fun evening,” Chen says. “We call this ‘friend-raising.’ Yes, we’re fundraising, but we want people to enjoy their time together . The silent auction has some great beach packages,...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2001
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Classic Lines
museums and auction houses. As the Woodstock generation increasingly limits its rockin' to the front-porch variety, Davidson notes that one big target market has become "baby boomers moving into prime antiquing age."
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- 20 Aug 2014
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With No Time to Lose
other than Kremer’s adopted Prize4Life for their charity auctions and students across Harvard University took up the cause. A game-changer Since then, Prize4Life has accomplished many of its goals. In 2011, it awarded its first $1M ALS...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
WHITMAN When Meg Whitman joined a fledgling online auction start-up in 1998, not many people outside of serious collectors of Beanie Babies had heard of eBay. After ten years under her leadership, the company now has 16,000 employees in...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
Ramnath’s ICICI Venture Funds) was an investment in Baazee, the Internet auction site founded by Avnish Bajaj and Suvir Sujan (both MBA ’98) that was sold to eBay in 2004 for $50 million. Recently, Sujan launched a venture- capital fund...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
FairMarket is an online auction house that allows companies with surplus computers and computer components to sell to the highest bidder. "We make the distribution chain more efficient by acting as a centralized market for such...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
service. As for customers, in addition to making purchases, they use Rakuten for online auctions and chats about the site's vendors. According to Business Week (July 7, 2000), Rakuten, founded in 1997, has 3,100 vendors, attracts some 70...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Meg's World
full-fledged powerhouse, with revenue on track to top $2 billion this year. With more than 28 million active users, eBay dominates the online auction marketplace. Whitman came straight to HBS after graduating from Princeton with a degree...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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The $4 Billion Question
has distinguished itself over the years through its industry knowledge, lending contacts, controlling ownership positions, and focus on proprietary deals that don’t involve bidding against other firms in a competitive auction process....
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- 21 May 2016
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The Age of Consignment
article highlights the efforts of online fashion resellers Material Wrld, founded by Rie Yano and Jie Zheng (both MBA 2010), and thredUP, founded by Christopher Homer and James Reinhart (both MBA 2009) as well as gadget collector Gazelle, cofounded by Israel Ganot (MBA...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Faculty Research Online
management was a licensed profession on a par with law or medicine, there might be fewer opportunities for corporate bad guys, argue HBS professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria and research associate Daniel Penrice. How to Harness View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
White knight in the rye
When Sotheby's recently auctioned off fourteen love letters that reclusive author J.D. Salinger had written 27 years ago to Joyce Maynard, his then college-age companion, many observers derided Maynard's decision to sell the letters,...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
online stock trading and online auctions are the few places in e-commerce that approximate "wow" today. Noting that 30 percent of all securities trading is done by individual investors online, Walker said that the Web has turned the...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
Few student exploits over the summer could match the power lunch enjoyed by Reginald Sanders (HBS '02), who broke bread and talked business with Jack Welch, the legendary force behind General Electric. Sanders earned the honor of dining with Welch by placing the...
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- 23 May 2018
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Winning Bid
bug bit me,” says Bright. “Working with entrepreneurs, writing their business plans and doing special projects, it was super exciting.” Despite the high-flying nature of some of eBay’s offerings (gold bullion, for example), Bright is most drawn to the organization’s...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Post-Grad Ponderings
diplomas. And of course, as all HBS alumni know, this is just the beginning of the story. Lauren Lockwood, MBA What got you through your degree? “Being involved in a lot of things.” HBS experience in one word: Motivating. Next stop: KeyLa, an View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2000
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Old Meets New: A Dinosaur Named Sue
would be auctioned at Sotheby's in 1997. "I started to think about what the dinosaur could mean for the Field, in terms of education, research, and visitorship," recalls McCarter, who took two of his top scientists to the Sotheby's...
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- 03 Oct 2017
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Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
that the company doesn’t like, or isn’t willing to rezone a chunk of land, Bezos would be able to say “the next 10,000 jobs could go into either of our headquarters locations. What are you willing to do for us now?” Wilcox predicts. “He’s going to be able to View Details
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
and spice market, and the former slave market. Here we saw the dungeon-like quarters where slaves were kept, chained together, for up to three weeks. Many of them died; those who lived proved their strength and were auctioned off. The...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
Sell Those Sports Cards: How I Auctioned Cards, Bats, Autographs and More By John Schwarz (MBA 1963) Independently Published As the sports memorabilia industry continues to make headlines with multi-million dollar View Details