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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
paging capability," predicts the genial Hostetter, who will remain Continental's chairman and CEO. "I look forward to the challenge." « Back Healthy Returns In 1957, when Lloyd E. Cotsen (MBA '57) joined Los Angelesbased Natone, his... View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
nascent industry. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2294928 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 413-030 Chorus and Telecom: Building the Boards In 2011, Sarah Naudé and Matt Stanley sat down with the View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
between 300,000 to one million ready-to-eat FOOD bars per day, and we need as much help as possible.” FEBRUARY 17 Kamil Yazici (GMP 23, 2017), board member and vice chairman of Turkey’s Anadolu Group, detailed his organization’s sweeping... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
just after a successful dive in the South Sandwich Trench. He had the experience. Since 2002, he has been a managing partner at Insight Equity, a private equity firm he cofounded, and currently serves as chairman of four companies. This... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Tower” lingers, though it has been covered in green terra-cotta since the end of World War II. The cost to construct the building in 1928 was $10 million, $135 million in today’s dollars. Last June Cummings and his partners—including former NYC Housing Authority View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
817-068 Swagbucks In early 2016, Chuck Davis, chairman and CEO of Prodege LLC, parent company of the brand promotion business Swagbucks, and Josef Gorowitz, Prodege’s founder and president, must decide whether to acquire MyPoints, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
and Enel, the largest electric utilities in Germany and Italy, respectively. In March 2007, Acciona's executive chairman Jose Manuel Entrecanales is considering three strategic alternatives: tendering its shares-and realizing a capital... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
Chairman Wang Jianzhou was exploring ways to expand its customer base. Nearly saturated in the cities, China Mobile needed to broaden its base of subscribers. Wang believed that further investment in China's rural villages was a key... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
follow, observe the authors, since more than a few failed companies have run straight into the tiger's jaws while believing that all they had to do was outrun their competition. Ghoshal and Moran, both of the London Business School, and Bartlett, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
especially affected. In the wake of the attack, there are two central questions: What should be done with the site where the twin towers once stood? How will those decisions be made? Empowered to address those questions is John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/ '47), named View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
changing world, if your business is built on the assumption that diversity and inclusion is a ‘nice to have,’ it’s an unstable territory,” Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995), executive chairman and CIO of London-based Tristan Capital Partners,... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
professor Robert S. Kaplan and Acorn Systems founder and chairman Steven R. Anderson (HBS MBA '95) introduce a system that calculates product, customer, and regional or branch P&Ls quickly and inexpensively. The work marries the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
Chizen) and out (a former supervisor from her days at Hewlett-Packard). And Chizen himself taps Intuit chairman Bill Campbell for advice and support.2 All along the ladder of experience, people can coach those who are less experienced. So... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
general manager was granted autonomy, capital, and freedom to recruit star engineers from other divisions. D'Arbeloff presided as chairman of Aurora's board of directors, believing that, "with things customers aren't asking for, in... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
from the chairman of the company saying, these don't add up to 100, and kind of, like, what's wrong with you? And I didn't think that was relevant. And I just, like, what is this? They were so darned precise. So after a year of that, I... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809012 Groupe Eurotunnel S.A. (A) Harvard Business School Case 209-062 In the summer of 2006, the chairman and CEO of Eurotunnel Group is faced with the decision whether to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
Charles Dickens’s Bleak House can cost as little as $0.99, depending on the edition). HBS senior lecturer Peter Olson sees huge potential in digital readers. “I think this is a great opportunity to make reading more attractive to a generation that we might lose... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23
714-510 Health City Cayman Islands Narayana Health (NH) had been successfully delivering affordable high quality tertiary care to the masses in India through its chain of hospitals for over a decade. To encourage the adoption of the NH affordable care delivery model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
910-418 The world's leading Thai agribusiness corporation and largest agribusiness investor in China, CP Group, is facing another crossroads in China as the country starts to undergo rural reform. The issues at hand for Chairman Dhanin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm... View Details