family business - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2008
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James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

strengthened his belief that those who prosper in business are obligated to serve the greater good. His decadelong presidency of the World Bank provided the ultimate opportunity to pursue that mission on a global scale. Wolfensohn’s... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score

business is often considered just a branch of the entertainment industry, clearly it is much more than that. Sports are part of the fabric of society, with components of deep emotional attachment, civic pride, and View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2003
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A Casual Approach to Success

advantage at Lehman was that I knew I wouldn’t stay there. I was planning to go back to San Francisco and work for my dad,” he explains. Hellman seemed to have a natural ability — he calls it genetic, given the legacy of banking in his View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

to do some of the things that we want. A lot of people who are graduating from business school, they might dream about making an impact on the world through working for a nonprofit, like the social enterprise side of them, or that they... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

throughout the United States, in addition to running a number of movie theaters, ski areas, and theme parks. "The recreation industry is a great business to be in, partly because I get to spend time with my View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

10 Oct 2018
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Building Paths to Success

because traditional sources wanted a commercial return, and they all had different objectives,” says Traill, who now serves as chair of Goodstart Early Learning, as the acquiring syndicate was named. “We acquired the business for $95... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Feb 2000
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William Jones: Builder with a Mission

At an early age, William D. Jones (MBA '89) learned about the fragility of a stable urban community. From their home in the Skyline Hills section of San Diego, he and his family watched their neighborhood gradually decline as View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Dec 2014
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Book Review: My Lunch with Warren

appointment book—it was largely empty. Like Buffett, Spier’s investing approach is iconoclastic. He moved his family to Zurich to escape the Wall Street Sturm und Drang. His theories on economic behavior are pulled not from economists but... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2014
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Case Study: Declawing the Competition

excellent customer service. However, we know this is a race that others can compete in, too, and that—with enough investment—our differentiators are replicable. What fundamental changes can we make to this market dynamic and/or our View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Karen Gordon Mills

interest,” notes Mills. “We like to be the capital that comes in to grow the business to the next level — build the next plant, make an acquisition, or expand the brand.” What makes Solera unique, she adds, is its research-intensive focus... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean

Twenty years ago, when a broker called to tell Jon Simon (MBA 1980) about the possibility of acquiring Parkway Custom Drycleaning, the broker didn’t initially reveal what it was—a high-end dry-cleaning business founded in 1926. Convinced... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; career; life experiences; dry cleaning; leadership; music; Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services

02 Jun 2021
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On the Road Less Traveled

than anything else in the world. I was the only thing he had, but then when he left me it was cataclysmic. I mean, here's a man, really the only family I had, he was leaving me and he was leaving me with strangers. I mean, these were... View Details

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

their own academic goals. “I wrote my admission essay about my time at the Treasury, and the need for people who speak the languages of public service and finance,” she says. “I wanted to have credibility and background in both government and View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built

Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and HBS professor and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole at the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History at HBS. Professor Myles Mace, back from military service in the Pacific where he found GIs eager to start View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

15 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project

And at Burning Man, it has that same family feeling where you share with people what you have to offer. And they share with you. It's so incredible the lengths that people go to give gifts, some very elaborate jewelry that they've made,... View Details

20 Jun 2019
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Reframing Modern Art

show with this very well-known portrait by Benoist that came to them from the Louvre. There had been some recent scholarship that showed that the artist had in fact indicated in the household journals of her family that she had named two... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

first thing you need to know is that competitive video gaming has been around a lot longer than you think. On November 10, 1980, five teenage boys faced off at the Warner Communications headquarters in Rockefeller Center in the middle of New York City. They had... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

23 May 2019
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Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

Receives YPO’s Sustainability Award on Economic Justice/Community Impact 2014 Receives National Entrepreneurship Award from President of Mexico Cofounder and Managing Partner, IGNIA As a husband, father, friend, and business partner,... View Details