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...inception in 1948. Its fierce devotion to its core business--serving tasty, nonfrozen, nonmicrowaved, made-to-order burgers and fries--has kept the company profitable and growing; remember that hundreds of fast-food-franchise concepts have flamed out since then. "Keep it real simple," Harry Snyder, a co-founder with his wife Esther of In-N-Out, would often say. "Do one thing, and do it the best you can." The company thrived on its stellar customer service and higher-than-average wages...
...surf, you’ve got Hollister. If you play polo you’ve got, well, Polo. And now, thanks to one enterprising Harvard Law School student, those who play lacrosse have Status Flow. When co-founder Kevin A. Valsi, a second-year student at HLS, launched Status Flow Clothing last year, he was hoping to capitalize on lacrosse’s growing popularity among high school and college students by catering to what he characterized as an under-served subculture. “I found it interesting and surprising that there weren’t any brands associated...
...iPod touch, set to be raffled off May 2 by the Harvard T stop. The site is an unorthodox venture for Unofficial Tours, which is known for running cheeky campus tours year-round and for competing with the official Crimson Key Society tours for tourist attention. President and founder Daniel Andrew ’07 cited the company’s success in driving up tourist foot traffic at Square businesses as reason to believe their foray into advertising will be successful. “Business owners are really hurting for business, locals aren’t shopping...
...enough people to stay in their homes, eventually someone is going to pay attention” said Nicholas Hartigan, a co-founder of No One Leaves...
Former Kennedy School Faculty member Kurt Campbell recently became the latest in a litany of Harvard affiliates to be tapped for a position in the Obama Administration. Campbell, the CEO and Co-Founder of the Center for a New American Security—a moderate national security think tank, has been nominated as the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. His nomination follows the appointments of seventeen members from the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, according to the Belfer Center’s spring newsletter. Prior to founding CNAS...