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- 23 May 2018
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John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
globally,” he says. “The infrastructure to source and sell was so massive that volume continued to grow despite rapidly deteriorating credit quality.” Seeing the absurdity of it, Paulson bet against the View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
Colgate's North American business and in 1997 was promoted to her current post as executive vice president for CP's North American and European business. She played a big role in Colgate's emergence last year as America's toothpaste leader, and some observers are View Details
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Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
assigned a product or service to turn into a business, and then the rest was up to them. That included raising money to start the business, creating a marketing plan, and developing some of the company’s operations, like banking, sales...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
is targeting seniors, when 90 percent of today's marketing spend is aimed at people under 50. And he's hedging his bets on something we all think seniors run from—namely, technology. It all came together in...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Vision: To Go-Go
For all their variety, restaurants have two things in common: a kitchen where food is prepared and a dining area where customers consume it. But what if you could use technology to ditch the dining area and just keep the kitchen, trimming the costs—and the...
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- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
very early-stage companies. It’s interesting to go and see. I would still, again, caution you to go there with friends, experts, place small bets to start, do it by passion. It’s still early. HBS alumnus: Hi, my name is Josh Spry, I’m...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
online food delivery business based in Denmark. This was our conclusion: “Just Eat seems to only work in Denmark, where business is profitable. Its other half-dozen markets are burning cash. It already has 10 percent of the Denmark...
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- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
"I'll take that bet." Despite having come off a solid win as chief marketing officer of the NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee, Amy Aronoff Blumkin (MBA 1988), isn't talking about football. She's recounting what she told her boss at AT&T...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the rest of the world looked to as a capital market that effectively allocated resources in...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
for her analytical skills and sound judgment, Erdoes is particularly sought out for her expertise in assessing complicated financial instruments, such as derivatives. The Chicago native and Georgetown University graduate says that during the current stock View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
One of the country's most renowned venture capital firms, for nearly four decades Greylock has emphasized building businesses rather than stocks, providing hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs, and helping companies contribute new products and jobs to the nation's...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Ron Shaich’s Café Society
Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) is cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Panera Bread, the fast-growing bakery-café chain with over six hundred locations in mostly suburban markets across the United States. Panera’s ability to deliver high-quality food...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
justify the lower returns. If the answer is yes, then buyers aren’t overpaying even at today’s record-setting prices. If the answer is no, the market may be in for a round of downward price adjustment. O’Connor places his View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
another 18 months for a product to get to market. There are parallels here between appliance production and auto production: You find an idea you like, you do a bunch of market research, and then you tool up massive production facilities,...
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- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
something like 800 cases—well, I was dying to do that. And it was a good bet because that was what led me to launch StopLift. Before HBS, I knew nothing about retail.” Almost 14 years later, the Cambridge, Massachusetts—based StopLift now...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
which raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital only to get wiped out in the dotcom bust. But entrepreneurs and venture capitalists were making expensive bets well before Silicon Valley existed, says Alex Lazarow. Alex...
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- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Illustration by Marcos Chin It’s market day in Barrio Curtidores, which means the main thoroughfare is packed with shoppers perusing makeshift stands that offer everything from jeans and blenders to vegetables and tacos. Moto-taxis...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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New Releases
institutional bets on them. He was an investor in other people's ideas, and the support he gave was often indispensable." Thus, they have dubbed him an "intellectual venture capitalist." The editors point out that it is no coincidence...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
everything from R&D and manufacturing to marketing (the company also owns a small plant in South Hadley, Massachusetts). That vision, which Wilcox attributes to MIT professor Joe Jacobson, was nothing less than the ability to hold all of...
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- 18 Jan 2018
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The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
had not voted on marketing this nationally, but we had to order equipment. So we were kind of getting ahead of ourselves. But I think as this demonstrated to us, we actually had the ability to take on a bit more risk in order to be fast....
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