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- 18 Jan 2024
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Match Game
and believe in the power of this team to take Tinder to its next phase of growth,” she added. Shares in Match Group rose on news of Iosotaluno’s appointment, as reported by TechCrunch. “Faye’s understanding of the dating View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Pet Project
simple-ingredient, raw-food diet. Spies couldn’t find such a thing in the pet aisle, so she started making it herself and quickly maxed out the freezer of her San Francisco kitchen with dog food. Within a month, George’s energy and health had rebounded. “He was like a...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Case Study: Testing the Waters
multiple functional categories, each category has to be big enough to warrant the cost of that education,” she explains. 2. Alternatively, Cure could expand its customer demographic by entering new...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated...
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- 20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits
Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her glass to take a sip and, with the flavors of the drink...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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A World of Difference
others will be making along the way. The number of places that don’t belong to any one of these three categories and that are not interested at all is, nowadays, very low. Frei: That final category has to be...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Derek Ferguson
within the next seven years. He sees growth potential in international sales, a new line for women, and licensing categories such as fragrance and footwear. Other ventures that fall under his purview include...
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- 11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart
into my mind that I wanted to actually learn new skills. And I think with that, I've always been very drawn to coffee as a category and a product. And, I was therefore thinking of Caribou Coffee, Peet's...
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- 01 Aug 2002
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Seventy Years Out: Class of 1932 Celebrates Reunions
career was with the Air Force, in and out of uniform. His active duty in World War II took him to New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan, and he later served in Korea. A statistics major, in 1960 he published Sampling in a Nutshell, a...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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From Das’s Desk
current situation and are now looking to pivot. This broad category also includes those who are returning to the workforce after a pause or in the midst of a career change. Looking at our alumni population using this framework will inform...
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Das Narayandas
- 10 Sep 2008
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Thanks for the Memories
is a real trip down memory lane, with hundreds of photos divided into two dozen categories and also accessible by year. The Timeline is a truly remarkable feat of interactive programming. Start with 1908, when the School was founded, and...
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- 16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
block-size markets.” Nancy Weinstein (MBA 2000) took the runner-up spot with Mindprint Learning, a service that provides educators with assessment tools and resources to harness individual learning styles. Sergio Rattner (MBA 2001), won in the region’s View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 06 Dec 2021
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Action Plan: Whole Sale
online platforms such as YouTube or, more recently, TikTok, to discover new products, but digital sales in the category were not on par with other consumer goods. The explanation: “Beauty is a fun purchase...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
of realistic, technology-agnostic best practices for supporting hypergrowth in nearly any environment. In this new edition, they add many new examples, plus case studies from many exceptionally demanding...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Extra! Extra! Newspapers Miss the Story
the study of some 250 American dailies found that newspapers are forgoing nearly $300 million annually by failing to use the Internet to serve new advertisers. “Despite an intense commitment from the industry, most online newspapers are...
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- 15 Aug 2021
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You’ve Never Heard of the Biggest Digital Media Company in America
The New York Times recently profiled Red Ventures, led by CEO and cofounder Ric Elias (MBA 1994), calling the company “perhaps the biggest digital publisher in America, a 4,500-employee juggernaut that says it has roughly $2 billion in...
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- 30 Oct 2020
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Billion-Dollar Valuations and Exits for Harvard-born Startups
2012. WHOOP, founded by Harvard College students at the i-lab in 2012, announced this week that it has raised a $100M Series E round at a valuation of more than $1 billion. "We will continue to make WHOOP the best product experience for measuring and improving health,"...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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The Ascent of Money
their support and concerns. Your Taxi Is Waiting Will a new category of “very light jets” shake up the business of flying? Three HBS entrepreneurs hope so. A look at the ups and downs of building the...
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- 01 Aug 2001
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Class Day and Commencement 2001
relocated from nearby Aldrich Lawn due to construction of the new Hawes Hall classroom building, tradition otherwise prevailed in the form of beautiful weather, wise and humorous speeches, and an enthusiastic crowd of MBA graduates (some...
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