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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
government, became his mentor and continued to support his studies through law school. Donham specialized in corporate restructuring as a vice president at Boston’s Old Colony Trust Company and won wide praise from both labor and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Nov 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
Helping midsize companies achieve success was Donald K. “Obie” Clifford’s (MBA 1956) business specialty, but his passion was helping people understand their connection to the natural world. Clifford passed away in August 2017. Clifford... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
To better understand the prospects for future entrepreneurial success in sustainable industries, Professor Geoffrey Jones looks to the past. In his chapter in the new book Green Capitalism?, for instance, Jones delves into the history of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
A Russian Giant Grows, Despite a Bad Rap THE BIG CHILL: Russia and Ukraine’s gas wars give Europe the shivers. In a virtual replay of events this past January, in 2006 Russia’s energy giant Gazprom cut off its supply of natural gas to Ukraine’s energy View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Chairman, President & Chief Executive, The Procter & Gamble Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Hamilton College, 1969 A.B., History LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "The case... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
While meeting with representatives of the Kenya Ports Authority at the Port of Mombasa, faculty members toured a bulk carrier ship off-loading grain commodities to Grain Bulk Handlers, one of the companies HBS faculty visited during the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
that mistaken conclusion. Ivashina says their research revealed a widespread misunderstanding of revolving credit and how to measure it in the big picture. Bank credit is very important for companies and for economic recovery, she says.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
companies that did business in black neighborhoods but refused to employ their residents. His involvement with the Alliance not only began his ongoing community activism but also served as his entree into academia, when a fellow volunteer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
business. “Being able to apply a variety of skills to a broad scope of challenges felt like a dam breaking open,” says Hammer, now president and CEO of Theralogix, a nutritional supplement company he cofounded in 2002. But Hammer’s love... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
U.S.-based companies. Whether looking for education levels, company tenure, industry affiliation, or key accomplishments of founders and CEOs, users of the database can quickly find what interests them. The database is the result of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Taylor Gibbs chronicles more than 200 years of her paternal family’s history and highlights their contributions to the civil rights movement in the United States. The Human Element: The... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
family glass, most of which I found was by Westmoreland, and the fortuitous closing of the company at about the same time, my seven-year investigation was launched. Then, when I found that Westmoreland had made much noteworthy, but... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
twenty years ago the company was unprepared for changes in the marketplace as competitors emerged that offered clients individual pieces of the technology package, such as a database program or storage device. This brought about increased... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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A Vibrant Brand
Back then, Rolling Stone was in a league of its own - with a 25-year history and a loyal readership of 1.2 million. "For me to even utter in a meeting that we were going to challenge Rolling Stone sounded crazy," reflects Clinkscales,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
than you are and learn from them. Remember that being a business leader is about giving-not taking-and that you can and must make a difference." Recently named by Fortune as one of the ten greatest CEOs of all time, Jim Burke recommitted Johnson & Johnson to a credo... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Connecting past to present
Tim Sullivan (MBA 1991) helps millions of people reconstruct their families’ past and connect it to their present. As president and CEO of Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family-history resource, Sullivan leads a company that has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz Supply-chain shortages put container shipping in the headlines during the pandemic, with images of vessels languishing in line at major ports worldwide. It made visible what Steven Henderson (MBA 2016), CEO and cofounder of Fleetzero,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
number of developments during the School's history that have helped create and stimulate a climate favorable to entrepreneurship at Soldiers Field. The Business School's first Dean, Edwin F. Gay, while a student of economic View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
that serves as a phone, a PDA, and an e-mail and Internet access device. Handspring quickly became the fastest-growing company in American history at the time. It went public in 2000, but after the dot-com... View Details