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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
incompetence, and negligence by a corporate board. The board at Merrill Lynch was so disconnected from the company that when shareholders met in December 2008 to approve the company’s sale to Bank of America — after five straight... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
really good sales force to crack certain accounts,” such as large dealers of outdoor gear. The Timberland deal has given GoLite room and money to grow. “Both Timberland and we are committed to GoLite’s... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
I fell in love again. Three months later they called and invited me to come run sales in Latin America. I had never in sales. I needed to speak Spanish and Portuguese. I spoke in neither language, but we packed up our bags. My husband... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96) Down on the Farm: Frank Burke (MBA '87) A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98) As in any business, the sports industry's mounting costs are eventually passed on to the consumer - at the stadium, via television, or through the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
Maddy ultimately lost Adesemi in 2000, following a sale forced by a major investor. She wrote a book about the experience, Learning to Love Africa: My Journey from Africa to Harvard Business School and Back... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
As it happened, many of the young men and women returning home from war were in complete agreement with Slichter. By one measure - a series of Air Force outprocessing interviews conducted in 1945 - the number of veterans intending to join... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
Life Green Day Related Links What businesses can do to make a difference Takeaways: Preparing for the population boom Case study: Slum for sale Conference report: Investing in Cities of the 21st Century Making a Difference in the World -... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
coated with chemicals to make analog film. Sales of materials for flat panel displays were ¥140 billion in 2006 (approximately $1.2 billion), with the market expected to double in size by 2009. The company is also expanding into cosmetics... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
between "hand-made" and "machine-made." When Westmoreland finally closed down in the 1980s, it had outlasted all but one major hand-glassware company. Last year, that company finally fell victim to a market force it couldn't control: the... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
this work? Smith: “There are certainly the tangible skills that have proven to be helpful––how to calculate a cap table, how to design a ‘go-to-market’ plan, etc. But perhaps even more useful are the intangibles, like confidence. As much as I disliked it, being View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
generation. When you have an oil company saying that, by 2030, one-third of all car sales are going to be electric vehicles [EVs]—an oil company actually admitting that to themselves and to the public—then real change is afoot. “When we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
(CreateSpace) Working at Google, El Awar navigated a challenging journey filled with unexpected twists, triumphs, and even heartbreak as she created her own path at one of the world’s most mysterious sales organizations. Despite her... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
plants in Germany, Holland, and South Africa, "all with very little bank debt," according to Andresen. Its work force expanded from 70 to over 600, and the company enjoyed the highest productivity rate among machinery businesses in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
could well be a case study about an American manufacturer’s adaptation to the forces of globalization. Back in the 1990s, when the U.S. economy was in a high-tech, dot-com frenzy and China’s experiment with export-driven market economics... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
arrival. “We’ve accomplished more in the past 10 months with Paige on the board than we did in the past four years. Her heart is in it—her biggest concern is the safety and welfare of the students. Paige is a force and in a good way.”... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
the 1930s, for example, per-person movie ticket sales were seven times higher than at the end of the 1990s. Fox Photos/Getty Images In the sweep of U.S. history, consumption had been a force for great... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
management, still a novel concept in that era, a move that initially met resistance. But because TQM forced company-wide excellence in everything, not only in product quality, “It was one of the best things I ever did in a leadership... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
connected and on task throughout the day. Here, the agenda is less structured. Most villagers survive on sales of handmade rugs and subsistence farming. But there’s also a tension in the village between a communal way of life and external... View Details