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- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
Clubs News Clubs News Toronto Alumni Explore Shift in Talent Markets On February 9, the HBS Club of Toronto held an in-person fireside chat and Q&A with Ethan Bernstein, Edward W. Conrad Association Professor of Business Administration, to explore the post-pandemic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
groups in discussions focusing on how new competitive dynamics are playing out in retailing, health care, and several rapidly consolidating industries. Alumni who lead small, entrepreneurial companies will have a chance to discuss... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
Whitehead's genome research center. Renowned as a thoughtful, charismatic speaker on biotech issues, Lander memorably described the Human Genome Project as biology's version of the discovery and consolidation of the periodic table: "Not... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
consolidation as capital becomes even scarcer. Yet, he notes, thirteen new ventures have emerged during the same time period. “These e-philanthropy enterprises have irreversibly altered the landscape,” he says. “Ultimately, they have the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
two-year-old, name-your-price discount site gaining fame of late with humorous ads featuring pitchman William Shatner. Both companies have grown rapidly since entering the online market, and with consolidation already under way... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
of competition and the quality of management practices adopted in hospitals. LD: There’s also quite a lot of research demonstrating that hospital consolidation causally leads to higher prices without any evidence of quality... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
choices—align yourself with a big consolidator of wealth management firms or decide to go after the 17,000-plus independent RIA firms. If you go with the independent firms, you will need to have a robust sales and support capability; most... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
CEO of Borders Group, Inc. - which includes more than 250 Borders Books & Music superstores around the globe, 900 Waldenbooks stores throughout the United States, and Borders.com - DiRomualdo runs an organization that rang up $2.6 billion in View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
as much for the same seeds. That knowledge would help farmers haggle with dealers, but the real insight would come from analytics that go beyond consolidating seed prices to measuring a seed variety’s potential success. The most important... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
has always been lower than its consumer mind share,” remarks Yoffie. In addition to generally consolidating and restructuring Apple, Jobs halted production of the Newton, an early version of the personal digital assistant, and closed the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
older or retired to share my good fortune," says Rauner, managing principal of Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner, Inc. (GTCR), a Chicago-based private equity firm that specializes in acquiring and consolidating service businesses in highly... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
I admire other female colleagues like Sandy Moose of BCG and June Rokoff of Lotus. Best business advice My good friend and sectionmate Brigid Sullivan told me I should be involved with something that taps into my passion. Where the new economy is going We're in a major... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
consolidated all 26 separate banks under one charter. So all of a sudden 25 bank presidents, of which I was one, were out of a job. That turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because I never would have started the Grand Bank otherwise.... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
issue of media conglomerates, Tumulty says, "I don't worry too much about corporate ownership creating biased reporting or editorial pressure, but I do have concerns about the drive for bottom-line profitability. That's caused the closing of foreign bureaus, the View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
was managing pineapples in the Philippines, and traveling to the tax office in Hong Kong and sales office in Tokyo. It was an exciting time,” he says. Company consolidation led Sprinkles to return to the East Coast, where he worked... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
Apax has taken public more than fifty companies with a combined market capitalization of about 25 billion euros. Before stepping down, Cohen consolidated management of the firm’s far-flung offices, making London the headquarters and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
sandwiches on its own bread. We spent the next two years traveling the country attempting to understand the changes occurring in our industry and concluded that, like so many others, the food industry was undergoing a transition we called decommodification. It was a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
participated in the signing ceremony for an investment of $132 million by Fruit of the Loom, which is closing its plant in Ireland to consolidate operations here to serve the EU market. One of our most successful initiatives is a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
made in modern manufacturing facilities,” Scharfman says. SMALL-TOWN PRIDE: Scharfman plans to centralize cheese-making operations for his growing company in rural Reeseville. The company’s growth has led to plans to consolidate Specialty... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
PensionBee in 2014 to address this lack of continuity and introduce transparency to an industry that’s known to be convoluted and confusing. The company is able to track down a customer’s pension plans and consolidate them into one, which... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint