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Donald E. Petersen
Though he was part of the teams that launched the Ford Thunderbird and Mustang, Petersen's real fame is rooted in his revival of the Ford dynasty in the 1980s. Under Petersen's leadership, Ford grew out of the shadow of GM, redesigning...
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Automotive & Aerospace
Daniel Willard
After reviving the battered B&O railway line with $60 million in investment funds he personally solicited from Wall Street, Willard was required to turn over control of the company to the government during World War I. The extensive...
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Transportation
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
help the organization," he writes in his new book, Revival of the Fittest: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them. These actions or commitments behave as double-edged swords, Sull says. They have a lifecycle, he...
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Howard L. Clark
Clark took American Express from a struggling travel service to one of the most recognized credit corporations in the world. When he took the CEO position, American Express was on the verge of selling its fledgling two-year old credit card business. Clark View Details
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Finance
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Education Innovation
reviving a 19th-century pedagogy for students from Massachusetts to the Middle East. In Ireland, Mike Feerick's (MBA 1993) online learning programs offer free certification training for students in Europe and beyond. So what does the...
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Evan Kornbluh Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Ten years on, HBS students revive the push for an MBA Oath Evan Kornbluh 04 May 2018...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Ascent of Money
legislation to revive the ailing middle class as business groups dig in for a fight on Capitol Hill. Model Patient The Massachusetts approach to health-care reform, enacted under former governor Mitt Romney (MBA ’74), is often cited as a...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
WSA Launches Scholarship Fund
The HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA) has announced plans to establish a new scholarship fund and has revived its popular first-year exam review sessions, an idea first suggested by the newly formed Alumnae Advisory Board. The WSA...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
When being a good neighbor means economic development
Rescued in the early 1990s and revived by president and CEO Jonathan Larry Baer (MBA 1985), the San Francisco Giants are baseball champions, with World Series wins in 2010 and 2012. Now Baer is poised to spread the success with a $1.6...
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- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
RELATED LINKS Video: Dean Nohria introduces the Project U.S. Competitiveness home page HBS Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness The Path to Economic Revival Made in America — Making Their Way How Boeing Competes — James McNerney Jr....
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Innovation as P&G’s Key
many pages. But more recent triumphs are also instructive, such as how the tired Herbal Essences brand was revived in part by pouring it into a curvaceous, nestable bottle intended to appeal to Gen-Y women. The Game-Changer is rich with...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Stealth Mogul
purchased and revived Wired magazine before selling it at a sizable profit to CondŽ Nast. Last year, Providence led a consortium that bought the largest cable television company in Europe. A native of Providence and a graduate of Brown...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)
somehow revive the dormant business, stated a front-page article in the Wall Street Journal (March 13, 2001). Seeking a new source of supply, Shearer eventually settled on Trinidad and Tobago, better known as the calypso capital of the...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline
When Warren Buffett speaks at HBS, it's always standing room only in Burden Auditorium. The cavernous hall fills up early, reverberating with the mounting excitement of a revival meeting. When the 69-year-old investment sage finally takes...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
Revival of the Fittest by Donald N. Sull (Harvard Business School Press) Your company has been outperforming competitors for years, your charismatic CEO was just featured on the cover of a national business magazine, and your city boasts...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Filling a Vacuum
According to the headline in the Wall Street Journal (October 26, 1999), Gregory Slayton (MBA '90) is a "Silicon Valley Hybrid: A Boss Who Makes Others' Ideas Pay Off." Slayton, president and CEO of ClickAction, Inc., an Internet marketing-services company, is credited...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
C. Gregg Petersmeyer learned about giving back from his parents. He observed in them and their contemporaries a tremendous empathy for their fellow citizens going through the shared hard times of the Depression and World War II. “Today,” he says, “we must View Details
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In the News - Entrepreneurship
Globe Celtics Star Jaylen Brown Is Setting Out to Generate $5 Billion in Generational Wealth for Communities of Color 01 Aug 2024 Bloomberg Celtics’ Jaylen Brown Aims to Revive Black Wall Street in Boston 29 Jul 2024 The San Diego...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Where the Jobs Are
With U.S. economic recovery limping along and unemployment hovering above 9 percent, the Washington debate over regulatory and tax policies needed to spur economic revival has shifted into high gear. Outside the Washington Beltway, among...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
It’s the Economy
viewed government as the problem, not the solution. see article AFL-CIO associate general counsel Damon Silvers (MBA ’95) sees the future of the American middle class as closely linked to a controversial legislative agenda to revive the...
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