Terry Starbucker

MAY 29, 2014

It wasn’t hard to like Sarah Young as soon as we walked into her downtown store back in 2010, when we first moved to Portland. The lighting was great, and the music was cool, but not loud. You can do it without outside financing. We financed it with personal loans – just a little credit and a little faith.

Succession 396

Succession Merchandising Finance Learning-by-Doing 396

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. A surge in exports of Chinese panels depressed world prices by 75%.

Bond 8

Bond Price Industry Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

In 2010 it was $900 million — seventh place. W]e seek to find undervalued companies in the Graham & Dodd tradition, a methodology for valuing stocks that primarily looks for deeply depressed prices.” He just argues that the CEOs and boards are for various reasons unwilling to take basic, obvious steps to raise share prices.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Economic growth has been stuck in low gear for almost a decade now, averaging around 2% a year since 2010 while productivity growth, the key to increasing living standards, has been languishing near historic lows since the financial crisis. in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5% percentage points.

Crisis 8

Crisis Retail Long-term Banking 8