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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
often visiting company parking lots; businesses have been one of Yoshi’s best customers, paying the service’s monthly subscription fee as a job perk for their employees. Yoshi’s eliminate-the-gas-station...
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- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
The leaders of Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, know the strength of the area in which they sit. They aren’t looking for portfolio businesses with a Manhattan financial...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
to providers seeing an increase in demand for high-speed broadband service and slowly but steadily declining numbers on the cable side of the equation (overall subscriptions dropped by 190,000 in the final quarter of last year). While the...
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Julia Hanna;
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Vimeo;
YouTube;
Telecommunications;
Information;
Arts, Entertainment
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
allows businesses to design and order industrial equipment online. Alumnus: Etienne Lacroix, MBA 2011 Region: Canada These teams will make their final pitches to a panel of judges on April 25 and a winner and crowd favorite will be picked...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Delivering Trust
out a comprehensive survey of their clinic experience in exchange for access to a complete database of anonymous reviews. (The information is verified by the patient, who submits a scan of a clinic document, and will also be available for a monthly View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
When Clinkscales received three thousand subscription cards back - an unheard of response rate in the magazine business - he knew he had found a niche that needed to be covered. By 1988, when Clinkscales...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
over and over. Additionally, because most women aren’t fashion design- ers, it reduces the overwhelming responsibility of designing some- thing from scratch. —Erica Keany Blob (MBA 2006) Change the business model, and morph into a...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
division. When Ralph Clark (MBA 1993) took over as CEO of ShotSpotter in 2010, he inherited a groundbreaking technology and a broken business model. The company uses sensors, strategically placed throughout an urban area, to instantly...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Taking Tailoring High Tech
Jamal Motlagh began research for his fashion business at HBS, with male classmates who were beginning to recognize the importance of being well dressed. They were part of a larger trend: According to the NPD Group, the menswear market in...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
is going away. It’s not like going from CD to MP3, where the user experience is essentially the same. Reading a newspaper in print is very different from reading it digitally, and from a revenue perspective, print subscription revenue for...
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- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
(initial cost $100, with a $75 annual subscription update fee), plugs it into a computer, and enters basic personal information. The patient then completes a form authorizing his doctors to send records to HRC, which converts them into...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Alumni Career Services Update
they're amazed at the breadth of the School's career services for graduates." In addition to a twice-monthly Jobs newsletter, available by subscription or free to alumni on the Web, these services include: Access to a list of more than...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
at Fidelity Investments to launch a venture aimed at providing analytical information to bond traders. He showed Sahlman his business plan for a company that he was calling Technical Data Corporation. Basically, Parker had figured out a...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
Fabienne Herlaut (MBA 1984) has strived for sustainability in the greater world and in her own life. The founder and managing partner of Ecomobilité Ventures, a 25 million multi-corporate venture fund based in France and committed to green transportation, Herlaut...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
rebrand as Gordon Gekko or Lumbergh from Office Space. No, mon frère, I wanted to emerge as a more Rolodexed, numbers-savvy, overall better business journalist. Plus, I’d be riding out a nasty media-sector slump. Three years after my...
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- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
relocating to Columbus, Ohio, where he had recently moved. Inspired by the difficulty he was having finding workers to renovate his house, he had a business idea that he wanted her to pursue. It was a referral agency for homeowners...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine The Business of Fashion, understands the pull of Amazon’s wildly popular Prime subscription service and the fact that it’s the go-to site for most products....
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
question, which is linked to the idea of lifelong learning, is one we candidly have had limited success addressing in the past. We've tried short Executive Education programs targeted solely at alumni, extended programming over reunion weekends, View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
organization, which was renamed the Advisory Board Company in 1983, hit its stride by pioneering a membership model that charged clients an annual subscription rate for reports on the latest research on best practices. In 1997 the...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
The commercial real estate business was in a shambles fifteen years ago, but just look at it now. After a complete rehab, the industry has become the darling of investors eager for alternatives to lackluster stocks and bonds. But will the...
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