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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
taking a less transparent route by selling less product in the same package and perhaps hoping the consumer doesn’t notice. Here, HBS faculty members John Gourville and Alex MacKay discuss the ups and downs of the practice of...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
life-threatening situations, he had reached the top of Mt. Everest, the earth's highest point. By doing so, he became only the 24th person in history to "summit" the tallest mountain on each of the seven continents. Wendel was the first...
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- 20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits
David Chang. “Athletic’s play was to say, ‘You should be proud to be drinking this because you’re not compromising your personal or athletic performance.’ That was really different for the category,” Wilson observes. Athletic went from...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy
HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and...
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April White
- 01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
retail stores sell their products online. Rather than rely on outside investors, Mikitani funded Rakuten with his own money, taking a significant personal risk, and recruited his wife, Haruko (an IBJ...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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My First Job
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first...
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- 01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
most powerful person in Boston-head of a privately held, billion-dollar company he built practically from scratch; friend and advisor to politicians of both parties, from Boston's Democratic Mayor Tom Menino to the Bay State's Republican...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
the job done. Shaich offers clear-headed lessons for the entire life cycle of an enterprise, from bootstrapping a startup to going public to managing large companies to selling a business. And the relevance of his message doesn’t end in...
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- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of...
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- 26 Jun 2013
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How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
that led to a $3 million profit venture in eight months"—he proposed a trivia game about television's shows, history, and personalities to the publisher of TV Guide magazine. TV Guide liked Reiss's idea, and with the magazine providing...
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- 05 May 2023
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Fail Better
Chairman, CEO, and Cofounder Steve Schwarzman (MBA 1972). In 1989, a few years after Blackstone's start, Schwarzman made the unfortunate decision to purchase steel company Edgcomb and was called on the carpet by one of the fund's major investors. The experience was...
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- 12 Jan 2023
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‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
Seke Ballard (MBA 2010) says he owes the inspiration for BetaBank, his small business-focused digital-banking venture, to his father—and not just as a person, but also as an archetype for every minority entrepreneur who has struggled to find capital in a banking system...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a series of significant acquisitions, purchasing a small cable television station. During the next few decades, Landmark's TeleCable division bought dozens of cable stations around the country before selling them to Tele-Communications...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave
a textile mill, and issues of whether or not to keep or sell the mill, protect the employees and community, and maintain or forfeit personal integrity. In these, and in his thrillers, MacDonald clearly...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
management for individuals. Startups that reward the entrepreneur's ability to "hustle," such as those involving business-to-business selling, are also better bets. "If you want to sell a mass-market product, you won't be able to View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes
Middle East, running a huge sovereign wealth fund, took it over. He was a royal family member. And I had never met him before, so I was going to be the first person who managed money for this giant institution. To meet him, it was going...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Swap ’Em If You Got ’Em
Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Blake Hall (MBA ’10) grew up in a military family, became an Army Ranger, and was a platoon leader in Iraq for fifteen months. A conversation with a fellow veteran about the difficulty of buying and View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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King of his castle
wedding chapel. About 71,000 guests attended the 17-day festival last year. Since selling his wireless accessories manufacturing and distribution company, Personal Communications Devices, Appling has been...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Fast Casual
Privately owned, with 1,350 locations in 37 states and $1.4 billion in annual sales, PRG is in the “fast casual” sector of the restaurant business — that’s shorthand for not selling hamburgers — and is best known for its Panda Express...
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- 27 Sep 2021
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Sewn with Love
began raising funds to support small businesses within the fashion and garment industries that pivoted their manufacturing to create personal protective equipment and partnered with The RealReal, an e-commerce site for pre-owned luxury...
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