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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
Stanley as a powerful presence in the world of global finance. After graduating from Princeton in 1957 at the age of 20, Fisher worked for a time in the university's admissions office and as a trainee at the Insurance Company of North America in Philadelphia. He then... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
our growth strategy to diversify the business portfolio. One of my key responsibilities is to ensure that everything we do has a well-documented system and process. A day at work could involve any or all of the activities I mentioned... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
with plans for at least three more in 2018. (The company also expanded its commitment to a physical retail presence with the purchase of Whole Foods Market in 2017.) For 20 years, physical bookstores have fretted about losing customers to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened by temporary road... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
layoffs. Even so, I remember someone pointing at me in a bar, and we hustled out of there. It certainly left a taste in my mouth of the power of strategy and thought, but I felt really bad about it.” The tension between straight-ahead... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Brookline with their five children, who range in age from one to nine. When asked about outside interests, Wasserman smiles and gives a one-word response: "Kids." Arriving on campus at 8 a.m. and returning home for dinner at 5:30, his View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
and bolts: exiting underperforming adjunct businesses (e.g., pickles and fresh poultry); shaking up the management team; improving the supply chain (thereby increasing plant productivity by 50 percent); and developing a sequenced regional View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Robert Buzzell Remembered
known as the Profit Impact of Marketing Strategies (PIMS), designed to identify and measure the determinants of profits in individual businesses. The author or coauthor of eleven books, Buzzell worked extensively on subjects such as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
strategy sessions and throughout the halls of academe. They have always sounded with particular resonance at HBS, where, at a two-day colloquium last May, some sixty academics and practitioners gathered to assess the status of... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
A Sustainable Success Story
a private equity firm focused on the North American energy sector with $15 billion in funds. “We’d walk in the woods and think how amazing it was that this kind of geography still exists in New York.” So amazing, in fact, that they resolved to do more than just... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Allston to Get Harvard Museum
A new Harvard art museum will join the University’s planned life-sciences complex on Western Avenue across from HBS — the first two structures in Harvard’s long-range expansion plan in Allston. University officials announced the selection... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
the quintessential entrepreneur." When Schultz purchased the Starbucks name and assets in 1987 for $3.8 million, the company, founded in 1971, had six retail stores that sold whole bean coffee, tea, and spices. Three years later, there... View Details
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
swipe of a credit card. “Automated retail sounds better,” suggests Gregg Kaplan (MBA 1997). Recruited by McDonald’s to help start new businesses within the fast-food giant, in 2002 Kaplan oversaw the installation of six kiosks in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
expansion of the service-based economy, rapid technological innovation, deregulation and privatization, and today's knowledge revolution as forces that are "driving companies to fundamentally rethink their business models and radically... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Ron Johnson’s Post-Penney’s Rebirth
The November issue of Fast Company has a profile of Ron Johnson (MBA 1984)—former Apple retail guru and JC Penney CEO. Johnson’s now at the helm of a consumer electronics startup, Enjoy, that focuses on personal service interactions with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Lincoln Electric Company, from the brink of financial ruin to record sales and profits. The book is full of out-of-the-box ideas, shrewd business wisdom, and unorthodox techniques. As Hastings stated, “I didn’t write this book to teach but to inspire.” Fewer, Bigger,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth
conducive to protecting the organization’s brand and reputation and coordinating overall strategy and operations. A high degree of control might be particularly desirable when the program being implemented is complex or relies heavily on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Bottom-Line Beauty
discussed the technology purchasing decisions she made when equipping her company, a "clicks-and-bricks" retailer of high-end, hard-to-find beauty products. The Washington, D.C.-based firm now has two boutiques in the nation's capital, as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
Image by Chuan Khoo / Getty Images Learning to Speak the Language of Business In March 2010, CEO Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) stood in front of his employees at online retail giant Rakuten’s Tokyo headquarters and made a stunning... View Details