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- 01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
1619 and 1628. Cumbo was one of the first African men to own land in the colonies. Kearns also discovered he is the great-great-great-great-great grandson of Johannes Schmierer, who immigrated from central Europe to North America in 1755,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
4 million people graduate into the insurance market every year and spend four to five years in this phase, in which they aren’t buying traditional assets. Surround aims to land these customers early by offering products that no one else... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Donald J. Chiofaro
"Usually I land on the other side of the canyon without a problem, but sometimes I've had to hang on by my fingertips." In making such entrepreneurial vaults, he draws on ample reserves of confidence, conviction, and foresight. Explains... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
15 years old, and his extended family quickly swooped in to seize his assets—a common move known locally as a land grab. Dlodlo’s mother, who was left to raise five children single-handed, fought off her in-laws as long as she could.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
his work. A paper he’d written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing the best stock exchange for the company to go public. After an View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
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A corporate leader’s legacy in India
in 2000, the Tata Group became the second-largest manufacturer and distributor of tea in the world. Other notable acquisitions include Jaguar Land Rover and Corus, the second-largest steel maker in Europe.... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
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Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
In the battle to land Amazon’s second American headquarters, Boston may have an historical advantage with CEO Jeff Bezos. A recent Boston Globe article details Bezos ties to the area, which began with a visit to HBS campus 20 years ago.... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
Corporation in California. Returning to his native land in 1977, he worked at the Swiss National Bank and later served as Undersecretary for Foreign Economic Affairs before accepting the Nestlé USA position in 1990. Corti, who became... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990)
As CEO of the London-based telecom Vodafone Group, Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990) has led a series of headline-grabbing acquisitions and divestitures, from the company’s $1.7 billion purchase of British multinational telecom Cable & Wireless... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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Case Study: Moment in the Sun
hospitality. Offices and health care facilities could both offer the company access to huge sectors of the $80 billion lighting market. The Question: Hoskins describes the competitive landscape as “a land grab.” He’d love to do some pilot... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
landowners, and local land trusts to prioritize these properties and come up with workable plans to protect them. Many people know our showcase properties — such as Crane Beach — that we own and operate. However, much of our View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Nirmalya Kumar, with Pradipta K. Mohapatra (AMP 113, 1993) and Suj Krishnaswamy (Harvard Business Press) When Tata Motors bought the Jaguar and Land Rover brands from Ford — complementing the Nano, its innovative $2,500 car — a new... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
moves, and moves fast. At Georgia’s Trust for Public Land (TPL), he led $45 million in land acquisition efforts from 2004 to 2007 for the Atlanta BeltLine—a series of multiuse... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
reach a lot of people that way.” The alternative might be less targeted initially but with bigger potential in the long term: pursuing partnerships or affiliate programs with larger entities that already sell to families, like the AARP. “Partnerships can be slow; it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Cairncross, it helped me see how the internet would create huge change and potential in those sectors.” At Vodafone: “Our acquisitions and big sale of Verizon are always mentioned, but creating a truly global, multinational telco that... View Details
- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
president and CFO of Medtronic, overseeing a number of acquisitions and sales at the medical device company and broadening its reach to include a more global investor base. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
Julianne White (MBA 2017) is vice president for food acquisition at the Greater Boston Food Bank. How did you become interested in the food industry? “I grew up with a lot of ties to agriculture. I was raised in a small community where... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
assessing needs and identifying financially viable opportunities in this market, we defined an acquisition and property control strategy, secured public/private funding partnerships, and structured responses to competitive pressures. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
Photographs by Christopher Brown/Redux Pro Not even a nighttime arrival in Mumbai, India’s bustling commercial capital of nearly 13 million people, can mask the collision of old and new that now grips the world’s largest democracy. Planes circle the airport, each... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna