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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
when single mom Roxanne Quimby met Burt Shavitz, a bearded beekeeper living in a renovated turkey coop in rural Maine. The pair teamed up to sell beeswax candles at craft fairs before branching out into a few personal care products, including its (still) best-selling...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Early Adopters
Omar Restom (HBS ’12, seated) and Douglas Melchior (MBA ’11) didn’t wait for the Harvard Innovation Lab’s official opening in November to relocate their base for developing Vaiad, a start-up self-serve platform that allows websites to...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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John Doerr, MBA 1976
Menlo Park, where the firm relocated in 1992. Reflecting on the early days, he recalls with a smile, “Back then they would sit around a small table and make decisions to invest $200,000 to start Genentech or $500,000 to start Tandem...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
partnerships such as with dance studios to jump-start her user base in the new markets. Second, she may want to recruit full- or part-time individuals with relevant networks in the new markets to support the expansions. Third, she could have one of her team members (or...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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John Read
first nine months of his tenure commuting from Minneapolis to Outward Bound’s Garrison, New York, headquarters, Read and his wife finally relocated to that scenic community in January. He now spends about half of his time fundraising,...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Cultural Revolution at GE
hiring outsiders for its top management ranks and stopped the merry-go-round of promotions and relocations for top managers. Immelt now wants managers to stay put and become experts in their industries, not just experts in management. The...
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- 03 Apr 2019
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Finding Common Ground
then joined Answerthink, a West Coast consulting firm, where he continued as EVP and managing director while he earned his MBA as a Baker Scholar at HBS. Answerthink wanted Shumway to relocate to New York when he finished his MBA, but...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
entrepreneur Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) concerning her qualitative research on the American electorate. In late September, the HBS Association of Boston hosted a fireside chat with General Electric’s Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) and HBS professor emeritus Ben Shapiro. Immelt,...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
trickiest aspects of the project, allowed workers to relocate the stacks underground. This move made it possible to open up the main floor, add a new entrance, and increase capacity by about 41,000 square feet for office and gathering...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
dual-career families face when one spouse relocates and the other also has to find a new job.” Temporary work visa programs, with relatively low barriers to entry—in countries ranging from Estonia to Indonesia to Portugal, for example—are...
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- 04 May 2017
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Going the Distance
more value to Utah businesses and attract other CEOs to relocate to the state. Twelve of the last 14 people I hired were former CEOs. We turned key state programs—like incentives—into a P&L, meaning that if they added jobs and tax revenue...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home
Not surprisingly, affordable housing has also become a growing problem in the suburbs. Often devoting little thought to housing availability in outlying communities, companies have relocated due to generous tax breaks and other...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
divorce and relocation to Provo, Utah, he met and married a fellow BYU graduate, Elaine, and launched his own high-tech marketing consulting firm. Business, however, was slow, so in 1996 Smith decided the best financial move he could make...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
"Tobin tax" on financial transactions? Claire Martin (AMP 175, 2008), VP, Renault, France I'm skeptical for three reasons. First, empirical evidence indicates such taxes have raised little revenue and have simply relocated trading rather...
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- 18 May 2011
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U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
going to scale back in the U.S. to keep their options open by continuing to operate a plant in America,” he noted. But the damage done by offshoring high-tech manufacturing may be irreversible, he warned. Once factories relocate abroad,...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
students, relocated persons, immigrants, or refugees—will find useful advice for landing a job in the United States this book. Readers will learn the different stages of the search process and how to prepare for each one, as well as...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Screen Saver
need to maximize moviegoing to Hollywood blockbusters and also source smaller movies that appeal to our diverse audiences throughout the year," says Frank, who cites Lopez's "incredible positive energy and vision" as the key reason for her family's View Details
- 28 May 2019
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Tech for the People
disasters. Floods the previous February had displaced 14,000 city residents and caused $100 million in damages. Because his own family’s home in Texas had been damaged during Hurricane Harvey, Tsai understood firsthand the importance of quickly View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2017
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Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
be part of GE just as it’s relocating its headquarters to Boston.” Graham Fairbairn (MBA 2018) Hometown: Sydney, Australia Destination: General Mills, Minneapolis “I come from a consumer packaged goods background and have had the...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
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Ready for Takeoff
whole portfolio, relocated one of the company's major factories, and reviewed every element of the cost structure. Whirlpool offered a front-row seat for the dramatic changes under way in Brazil's economy. "When the middle class really...
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