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- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
year, but no one is encouraging their work.” Having been a trader and investment adviser, and the head of a major auction house, he knew that business could provide the solution. “I thought I should create an art market rather than...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
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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- 03 Oct 2017
- News
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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Retail Trade
- 01 Sep 2014
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Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
who won an auction for about $19 million in government-seized bitcoins in July. “Bitcoin frees people from trying to operate in a modern market economy with weak currencies,” Draper noted in a statement. Most governments want to control...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
other alumni, and raise money for charity,” said Kristy Dooley (MBA ’99), chair of the 2003 Gala Committee. “It takes a lot of work to pull this off, but it’s definitely worth it,” she added. More than 150 alumni and their guests enjoyed the festive evening, which...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Books
The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen Searching for a Corporate Savior by Rakesh Khurana Making Markets: How Firms Can Design and Profit from Online Auctions and Exchanges by Ajit Kambil and Eric Van Heck Leading Terms:...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
diagnose the problem and treat it. The rescue bill calls for the government to auction banks’ distressed mortgage assets to “try to restore the price discovery process so we can figure out what these things are actually worth.” Light...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Think Locally, Act Globally
In 1992, after reforms by India’s government improved the country’s business climate, he formed a consortium that included SFR-France, Emtel-Mauritius, and MSI-UK and bid successfully for one of four mobile-phone network licenses View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
student, Paul Milgrom, who wrote a superb dissertation on auctions. We came up with a proposal for the FCC to sell spectrum licenses simultaneously, rather than one by one. Professional auctioneers were adamant it would be an enormous...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
firms that are American household names—Disney, Stride Rite, Procter & Gamble— and then applied her multifaceted talents to a fledgling start-up auction site. During her ten years at the helm, eBay grew from a small operation where...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
economy work better, thanks to technology. At least, that’s how the story of the modern economy is usually told. But the authors show that the revolution is bigger than technology: it is really a story about the transformation of markets. From the View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
choice is horse racing, not baseball, and the heroes are mostly of the four-footed variety. Just across the road is Keeneland, a sprawling auction and racing complex where Robert Clay (OPM 4, 1980) recently sold a horse from his nearby...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade
outlook, investors will again turn to Mexico." DeRemate.com, an Internet auction house founded in 1999 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, has operations in eight Latin countries and the United States. Its cofounders, CEO Alejandro C....
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- 25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
(added, I think, by Ly Tran). Marc Pascarella was also possibly the only student to employ a massaging seat cover during class. We did an auction fundraiser for cancer research in the second term in honor of a sectionmate’s mother, and...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
monetary loosening since August 2007 — the steep cuts in the federal funds and discount rates, the various auction and lending “facilities,” the underwriting of JPMorgan’s acquisition of Bear Stearns, and, most recently, the shift to...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects
services of a fleet of vehicles to aid the recovery effort.Creativity and business savvy were apparent in the responses of many HBS graduates. eBay CEO Meg Whitman (MBA '79), for example, launched an effort to raise $100 million in one hundred days called View Details
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 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 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
the transformation of markets. From the auction theories powering Google’s ad algorithms to the models that online retailers use to prevent internet fraud, even the most high-tech modern businesses are empowered by theory first envisioned...
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- 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