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- 01 Sep 2003
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The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case
can experience adventures and activities in the mythical land of Neopia. Neopets was launched in 1999 and quickly became popular after enthusiastic users spread news of it by View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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One by one, connecting veterans to opportunities
Faw. Through social media and word of mouth, the service he provides has made Faw a go-to guy for veterans seeking career advice. At HBS, he fields up to 10 emails and five phone calls a week from veterans...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Oscar Winners
2007) and they have just one word for you: insurance. The trio are cofounders of Oscar Health Insurance (hioscar.com), their brand-new online company—competing with more than a...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Ron Shaich’s Café Society
advertising last year, and yet we received Brandweek’s Marketer of the Year award. I’m proud of that. We put our efforts into fueling word of...
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- 24 Oct 2013
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Searching for a Better Society
Olivier Dumon by Robert S. Benchley "I believe in an evidence-based, data-driven, iterative product-development process." How many of us can reduce the central truths we've learned in business to a single sentence? Olivier Dumon (MBA...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Empowering Japan through e-commerce
he developed a web-based shopping mall—Rakuten, which roughly means “optimism”—often called the Amazon.com of Japan. “We created an online marketplace where customers can interact with shop owners, and we...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?
In a year like no other, it makes sense that a handful of new words would pop up—and familiar terms would find a different spin and resonance. We asked HBS alumni and faculty to give their take on a few that...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
From left: Scott Duke Kominers and Charles C.Y. Wang (Image by John Ritter) Cryptocurrencies have been edging their way out of the periphery for the last decade and proliferating as they go: About 18,000 digital currencies currently exist and hit a total market cap of...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story
25-person company with a reputation for creating high-quality products that appealed to both parents and children. Their prices were higher than other toys, but word of mouth —...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Vivek Ranadivé
a $15 billion market cap and a $300 million revenue run rate per year, TIBCO is one of the fastest-growing software companies ever. Like any corporate executive, Ranadivé is concerned with the dollars-and-cents valuation View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
Quick. What does the word “philanthropy” conjure up? Large foundations? Well-heeled patrons? Reams of direct mail? How about nimble start-ups, passionate entrepreneurs, and powerful technology? That’s the...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming
Photo courtesy of Barbara Bry The words connection and communication define Barbara Bry's career, from her student days to her current position as vice president for business development at Proflowers.com,...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Farzad Those were the searing words of my editor, as I handed him the HBS recommendation form and a stamped envelope. This was my mentor, mind you — the mensch who launched me into feature writing after...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Case Study: Inside Story
partners who demonstrate that they can move quickly and help Saga learn, while also experimenting with digital D2C marketing that can be rapidly iterated. —Chad Laurans (MBA 2006), CEO and cofounder of SimpliSafe Yes and Yes View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Using storytelling to transform the retail experience
Stories make sales. That’s the philosophy of Jennifer Lee Koss (AB 2001, MBA 2008), cofounder of BRIKA, an online shop for modern and elevated craft. BRIKA (from fabricá, the...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Ideas
universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the “fundamental implications of those decisions were getting the start-ups into trouble down the road.” More Case Study: Good as Our View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
plus parks, a museum, even a beer garden. "We are tackling one of our nation's biggest challenges, fixing health care," said President and CEO Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997), and creating a dedicatedspace where workers can be "creative,...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
search results. “If you only care about providing your service or marketing your product in the United States, you might decide to filter out other countries,” Master says. “With that said, any name that appears online is intrinsically...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
different. The urgency, though, wasn’t due solely to the cultural imperative. “We teach, we give lessons to people of all ages,” says Reeks. “We do so many other things that affect the economy of the city.”...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7
odd to them, and the notion of writing a check at the corner store to get money in a pinch suggests a scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. It is only a matter of time, online...
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Susan Young