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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
rental expenses to preserve jobs. Now, as India begins a massive vaccination program, Murad is glad to have made it through the worst of the pandemic with White Owl’s workforce of 120 employees largely intact. “It’s easy to abandon ship...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
moves about a dozen times before buying a home, and all too often the bookshelf purchased for one apartment isn’t needed in the next. As a result, about 10 million tons of furniture go to landfills every year, Ramírez says. He and Aditya Khilnani (MBA 2019) founded the...
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- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
Ready to roll: (from left) Singer, Gerald, Baker, and Alaoui. Photo Courtesy of MBAxAmerica On or about Independence Day, July 4, four HBS students will pile into their rented RV and set out to discover...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Books
challenges, from environmental sustainability to improving health-care delivery. Part IV explores how nonprofits and corporations can apply strategy principles to philanthropy. Part V examines the link between strategy and leadership. Revisiting View Details
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
was critical in getting the ball rolling for Relay Rides, a service allowing customers to rent neighborhood cars from private owners by the hour or by the day. (Clark also got some “Air Time” in the December...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
she continues — even a small bicycle shop in China could rent or loan bicycles to deliver medication. “My sense is that people are innately sympathetic. If you provide specific tools, it makes it easier for...
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- 25 Sep 2019
- News
Leading the Evolution of E-Commerce
Photo via the New York Observer Photo via the New York Observer When Jennifer Fleiss (MBA 2009) started Rent the Runway with HBS classmate Jenn Hyman, the pair were in their 20s—two scrappy entrepreneurs who built the concept of View Details
- 12 Dec 2015
- News
Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy
Earlier this year, HBS professors Benjamin Edelman and Michael Luca, working with doctoral student Dan Svirsky sent 6,400 rental requests to Airbnb hosts in five cities using distinctly white or distinctly...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pitch a room full of VCs, Draper included. Students also test their mettle by breaking boards with their bare hands, building boats, and competing in paintball. The residential program, which has included visits from entrepreneurs such as View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
and hand sanitizer to every household in the city of Chelsea. We’re staffing a hotel that the cities of Chelsea and Revere have rented for people who need to be quarantined, and we’re providing medical and nursing care there. We are doing...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune response to treat disease. But for...
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Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
bucks made renting out its ubiquitous terminals. Or how News Corp.’s film and TV numbers conveniently hide the rounding error that is the Wall Street Journal. One commentator even proposed that the nation’s...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh
Chris Yeh figures that in a more traditional era, he might have become a product design engineer or perhaps even a writer. But by the time he finished college, he says, "the Internet was just too hot" compared to anything the offline...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
years of training and placing job seekers. Why should she risk financial ruin on a big-ticket real estate purchase? The idea first surfaced when Russo’s accountant matter-of-factly suggested that she stop paying office rent — upwards of...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
simple advice for interested peers. With a little effort, he says, it was possible to extricate himself gradually from direct responsibility on projects at work. Simon explains that it's a matter of logistics — of planning ahead. "If you were suddenly sick for a few...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
he told the Boston Business Journal (January 114, 1999). Added Krasnow, "The [medical] system today doesn't really provide the resources people need. Patients are discharged from hospitals very quickly." CardioResponse customers rent...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
disabilities, and lower-wage workers, the cost to build simply cannot be covered by the rents they can pay—there has to be a subsidy of some kind. In regions like the Bay Area, middle-income rents can’t...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
shelters, Shumway talked to homeless residents about their circumstances. “These are good people,” he says. “They may have started to self-medicate with drugs or alcohol because they didn’t have access to the psychiatric View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Bertini (DBA 2006) and Oded Koenigsberg The MIT Press Would you rather pay for health care or for better health? For school or education? For groceries or nutrition? A car...
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Margie Kelley
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
Associate Professor Antonio Moreno and Senior Lecturer Jill Avery (image by John Ritter) While legacy companies like Sears are shuttering their doors, a growing number of online-first companies—from Amazon to Rent the Runway—are opening...
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