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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Larry Murphy
a $1.5 billion operation — as chief strategic officer. Responsible for strategy, acquisitions, business development, and the Disney brand on a global basis, Murphy helped grow the firm to a $60 billion enterprise by the time he and the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
(1979) and a DBA (1992), both from HBS. Stuart C. Gilson has been a member of the HBS faculty since 1991. His research focuses on how companies can create value by restructuring their assets, operations, and financial obligations in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
he cited the restructuring of WPP in 1991 and 1992 as a difficult time. Sahlman then noted that Zobel had guided his firm through volatile markets in the Philippines. “It’s easy to discount bad times,” Zobel observed. “Make the assumption... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
Survive — Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Cost cutting and restructuring are just the first steps in coping with the current global financial crisis and defining how business will be... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Staying Afloat
shipyard's new director, Kryzstof Piotrowski, a former worker at the yard who had been dismissed six years earlier for political reasons and had gone on to get a doctorate in maritime engineering. Piotrowski performed wonders, View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
Tom Coburn (R-OK), writing on health-care reform (Huffington Post, April 27, 2009). “True reform will require both moving toward universal insurance coverage and restructuring the care delivery system. These two components are profoundly... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the purpose of generating income... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
thirties, restructuring the marketing organization for a large regional bank, and my husband, Ray Benvenuti (MBA 1986), and I had two children under seven. At that time, I had no inkling of what would be required to juggle the needs of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
2001 she came on board full-time to help run Hearon’s company, Nice Ventures. “It was going to be a short-term change,” she recalls. “I thought I’d bring in some new financing, we’d restructure, and I’d go back to working in Silicon Valley.” By September 2003, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and acquisitions are back - with a vengeance - in the 1990s. Across the global business landscape, some $1 trillion in M&A; deals were completed last year. That figure includes one hundred transactions of $1 billion or more in the United... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
School’s US Competitiveness Project from business leader Katherine Gehl and University Professor Michael Porter. Gehl and Porter use the lens of industry competition to analyze the US political system and propose a strategy for reform and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
quarterly earnings reports, reflecting the complexity of corporate restructurings and other long-term growth strategies. There are important implications of these differences for public company boards, even though they operate with a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
customers. To me, it seemed like a very interesting challenge. How do you view your mandate as commissioner? There is one overriding mandate emerging from the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998: we've got to rewin the confidence of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
Senior Corporate Advisor, Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mitsubishi Corporation Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Harvard College, 1969 A.B., Government LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "By bringing together executives from... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
went from leading portal to overextended venture incubator in just one year. The founder and owner was removed, and Yu, 36, was left to pick up the pieces. As chairman and CEO, he is now restructuring and refocusing the company to be a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
luncheon talk on international business opportunities for African Americans. Afternoon panels followed on African Americans in sports management, business possibilities in Africa, and issues for... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
harassed and humiliated by IRS employees. Congress responded by passing the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act, which called for both regaining taxpayers' confidence and collecting taxes more efficiently by overhauling the agency's... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
Leading Change by John P. Kotter (Harvard Business School Press) Total quality management, reengineering, rightsizing, and restructuring -- innovations intended to make companies more competitive --... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
marketing specialist with an engineering background, DiCamillo immediately set about restructuring Polaroid, filling key positions with new people, "refreshing the brand," as he puts it, and instituting cost-cutting measures to stem a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
just focus on that. Jennifer Wilson-Buttigieg, OPM Class 33. Retirement—nowhere near it. And if you really love what you do and you have a passion with a capital p, there's no need to retire. My mom, our founder, our chairman, our CEO, never had a college education,... View Details