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- 18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit
are today a lawyer, a corporate executive, and two CPAs, he notes proudly.) Six weeks after Freeman bought the company, the shop foreman and the head of marketing left, taking many staff and clients with them to set up their own competing...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
“it was extremely difficult to make a profit on early-stage investments,” says Cohen. In 1989, he opted for a “balanced” strategy, adding corporate buyouts to the firm’s early-stage investments. It’s a strategy that distinguishes Apax...
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- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
help with these problems. Somehow this bridge has to be built,” says Goodwin, who until earlier this month was CEO of Executives Without Borders (ExecWB), a sort of facilitator for corporate social responsibility. (Goodwin just announced...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2002
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View from the Top
Art by Digital Vision Corporate leadership is a much-discussed topic these days. With financial scandals making headlines daily, the CEO hero worship that was common during the late 1990s is out and increased skepticism is in. “The...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Making a World of Difference
in the midtown Manhattan headquarters of Halcyon/Alan B. Slifka Management Company. In discussing the success of his investment firm, he points out that his traders are not only innovative and individualistic but also cooperative. When...
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- 15 Feb 2023
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Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
wait. Meghan Kenny (MBA 2019) and Jonas Lee (MBA 1993) READ MORE In this episode we're headed to the company's headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles, where the Hobbes prototype was built. And to Southwest Wyoming where the company is...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
Wruck cites one case she followed in which the initial match looked great. The target and bidder had operations in the same industry, creating a potential for synergies. But integration of the target into the acquiring firm and its subsequent oversight by View Details
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground
When he took some skeptical conservationists to a meeting at agribusiness giant Monsanto’s headquarters not long ago, Richard Crespin (TGMP 4, 1999) says it seemed the only thing missing was ominous John Williams theme music playing in...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
headquarters in Washington. You chose to become head of one of America's least popular institutions. Why? A number of factors had coalesced -- public discontent, mounting congressional criticism, technological advances, to name a few....
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1998
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A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
juvenile law, however, O'Neill decided that his efforts would be better spent working with kids before they got into trouble. He accepted a position in a corporate law firm in Connecticut in 1984 and began doing pro bono juvenile legal...
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Deborah Blagg
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
mechanical, electrical, and acoustics engineers, including one known simply as “The Golden Ear.” Their no-holds-barred creativity is supported by a corporate culture steeped in youth and rebellion, as expressed in the company’s motto,...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
low-income youth and companies needing skilled labor. His yearlong training program offers 18 through 24-year-olds the technical, professional, and communications skills needed to transition into careers and college. The award-winning nonprofit has partnered with 250...
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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
team, and using that to build the marketing plan,” says Flatley. It helps that they are neighbors at the company’s corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, about 10 miles west of Chicago. “We yell over the...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Inside the Partnership
Weinberg this was an opportunity to go the other way and reach out to be helpful to the president, and he took it. In 1933 the president had him organizing the Business Advisory and Planning Council, through which corporate executives...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just completed its eleventh contract and is...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons
only on their financial returns, but also on their social and environmental leadership,” says the down-to-earth Rhode Island native. Prior to HBS, Gertsacov, a former Fulbright scholar in Chile, founded a nonprofit business association in Brazil that promotes View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
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High Honors
mother breaking up squabbles between her four sons by telling them, “I don’t worry. One of these days you are going to be best friends and partners.” “Sure enough, she was right,” says Tisch, seated in his office at the Loews Corporation...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
the number of temporary housing units an organization has created in post-earthquake Haiti. But how does one measure the effectiveness of a training program in boosting farmer incomes in Ghana? This was the question facing the Millennium Challenge View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
space—a loft, shared with a home-and-clothing shop—is the headquarters of Charley's Fund, a nonprofit that Tracy Seckler and her husband, Benjy, founded in 2004 after their son, then three years old, was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella
the test as he methodically refashioned the two old-line chemical companies with disparate corporate cultures into a single entity focused on health care and powered by an innovative approach to R&D. Today, Novartis is one of the world’s...
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