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...based ice cream franchise that opened to much fanfare last summer across the street from Boylston Gate.According to Stanett, J.P. Licks now accounts for a third of the ice cream business in the Square. Stanett praised the quality of his competitor’s goods, adding that J.P. Licks founder Vince Petryk was a friend. But he also noted that J.P. Licks boasted an advantage in location compared to Herrell’s from its Mass. Ave. vantage.J.P. Licks currently holds a lease in a building owned by Harvard Real Estate Services and was invited to be a tenant, Petryk...
Described by co-founder Madison O. Klein ’11 as “a club for the ridiculously good looking and extraordinarily intelligent, and for those who are of lion-hearted courageousness—and modest,” The Board Riders at Harvard (BRAH) is intent on bringing some West coast surfing culture all the way to Boston. Klein and co-founder Benjamin B. Massenburg ’11, who are from southern California and Hawaii, respectively, decided to found BRAH this year in order to bring their passion for surfing to the Harvard student body...
...arriving at the end of a fashion cycle. There has been nothing very new for a long time, and a general tiredness has been established.' ?Jean Bousquet, founder and managing director of Cacharel...
...needs for inspiration. She started her company in 1984 with a creative solution for stressed-out working women: a wardrobe system, Seven Easy Pieces. Now she's broadening her vision with the Urban Zen initiative, looking for alternative-therapy solutions for patient care. Luxury comes in all shapes: Spanx founder Sara Blakely's brand was born of her personal quest for a sleeker silhouette. Thirty-five-year-old business whiz Wen Zhou craved luxury but couldn't afford it, so she teamed up with designer Phillip Lim to build an accessible brand. As Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry, points...
Could the trouble with money be that it's...too fast? Sure, you may think, it leaves your pocket too fast. But Woody Tasch, a longtime investment professional and founder of the Slow Money Alliance, is talking not about anyone's spending habits but money as a system: as money increasingly functions as electronic blips shuttling from screen to screen in speculative transfers, it becomes divorced from its effects in the real world and less reflective of actual wealth. The result, he says, has been bad for our economy, the planet and the individual investor. The antidote, according to Tasch...