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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
account base salary, an evenly divided partner's share of the profits, and another share based solely on seniority. Candidates who pass muster find themselves part of a diverse and far-reaching organization that functions, in Zehnder's words, as "one firm worldwide."... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Marquis Jet Takes Off
partners took to NetJets was a new concept — membership cards giving customers 25 hours of flight time for $109,000 and up. Functioning primarily as a sales and marketing organization, Marquis Jet needed to ink a partnership with NetJets... View Details
- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
Director, SCF Partners, introduced the second chat, featuring Halliburton CEO Jeff Miller, who talked about oilfield service with moderator Deviyani Misra-Godwin (MBA 2018), Director, SCF Partners. Lourdes Long (MBA 2014), Commercial View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Jan 2020
- News
Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
and taught for many years the MBA elective curriculum offering, Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, which uses a general manager's lens to evaluate theories about strategy, innovation, and management to predict which tools,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
young woman about to make a splash is, of course, beautiful, very much alive, and inconvenienced by the cement block wired to her leg). By the time he died in 1986, MacDonald had published nearly 500 short stories and 78 books, with sales... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
to HBS came with the caveat that he add another year of work experience to the two already listed on his résumé and complete some of the quantitative courses his transcript lacked. He spent the year in Omaha, working as a project manager... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
January 2022, Tilden stepped into an increasingly popular party. The rise of non-alcoholic (NA) beverages has been one of the big headlines in the industry, where sales of beer grew almost 70 percent from 2016 to 2021, according to... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
imperative that we engage immediately with each of these challenges—individually and collectively. The decisions we make about how to manage our investments, our business operations, our supply chains, our people, and our corporate... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
unanimous: All-day breakfast. In the end, all-day breakfast rolled out nationwide in October 2015, less than a year after Cunningham arrived. In this episode of Skydeck, I talked to Cunningham about how she managed rapid organizational... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
business. After graduating from UC-Berkeley and HBS and a short stint at Price Waterhouse, Bullard cut his teeth as an E.D. Bullard sales manager in Detroit, "trying to sell products during a horrible... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
on shaping and influencing the way tomorrow's leaders will change the world. The need for management faculty has never been greater; in recent years, a wave of faculty retirements, combined with a shortage of graduates with advanced... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
management in colleges and universities. What the Customer Wants You to Know: How Everybody Needs to Think Differently about Sales by Ram Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) (Penguin Group) To upgrade the productivity... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
made significant investments in research, technology, and a consultative sales force — all geared toward focusing Sealed Air on higher-margin, specialty solutions. He believes his most significant... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Banking on Success
success: “It’s all about having the best systems, the best people, the best products, and the best risk controls,” he told Fortune (April 3, 2006). Since arriving at JPMorgan, Dimon has driven down costs, consolidated systems, and promoted a more aggressive View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
has been the inability for folks to be able to manage their personal family lives with kids studying at home. Not everybody has a setup where partners are able to split the work. But outside of that, there’s the benefits of lower stress... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
LI AND BERNOFF: Executives can’t afford to turn their backs on social networking. Nothing gives CEOs and marketers instant heartburn more than seeing their hard-won brand equity hijacked by forces beyond their control — too often by... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- News
How Joe Shoen Got U-Haul Back on Track
apologizes. He directs her to the location finder on uhaul.com, where she can look up climate-controlled self-storage locations. Later he calls Mike Kinealy, vice president of sales and customer service, and tells him to follow up. Using... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
through a day on the job to find out: Mardie Oakes, an HBS Service Leadership Fellow at Boston Community Capital, a community development financial institution, and Paul Sternhell, an entry-level manager at Samsung Electronics. Cookies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
restaurants, stores, gyms, and airplanes. For kids, this looks very different. By the time they graduate from high school, they will have spent 15,600 hours inside a school. (Incidentally, as Harvard professor Jack Spengler likes to point out, schools are one of two... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
Parker Imagine having a conversation with the head of HR that goes something like this: Over the past several years with the company, I’ve helped turn around an ailing division. Now I’d like to try my hand at managing a growth business.... View Details