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- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
Braterman: The man to call when it comes to selling phones. Photo courtesy Russell Braterman When it comes to selling mobile phones to a youthful market, Phones 4u’s marketing director Russell Braterman (MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Baker’s Man of Steel
A day at the office is a little different for Bobby Delaney. As crane operator for the Baker Library construction project, he uses a combination of levers and foot pedals to swing tons of steel through the air, placing the load in just... View Details
- 24 Jan 2014
- News
U.S. Vets Exposed to Cadaver Parts From Contaminated Lab
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
What you can learn from Rupert Murdoch's mistakes
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
pretty regularly from folks saying, you know, I'm thinking about taking a job at a startup and, or I'm leaving my company. And do you think I should exercise these options? I Literally would spend an hour and a half on the phone with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
for the pickleball but stay for everything else. It takes a staff of 30 to provide this level of service, and they’re just six months into operations by this point in November. Like every startup, the team has been busily evaluating what... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
J. Hughes Norton III
Norton is seated in Congressional's main dining room, his cell phone close at hand. As senior vice president in charge of golf operations at Cleveland-based International Management Group (IMG), the world's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In Full Flower
“Flowers are a very emotive product category, but it didn’t seem that anyone had built a brand that people loved and trusted,” Gelbard recalls. “So often we just turned to a Google search. And the technology for mobile phone orders wasn’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
Diamond began attending genealogy conferences and became a regular at his local library, which had a vast collection of telephone books. His paternal grandparents’ names were relatively unique, so he called everyone he found who shared their surnames. “My View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
looks like. READ MORE April White: I want to start this conversation at what I imagine was a particularly challenging moment for your community and for you. This is early January. It's a few days before you're inaugurated as mayor of Newport News, and you get what I'm... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
telling him. Ryan Tseng had already started two successful companies, and where Brandon saw a business opportunity in building AI software to operate unmanned systems for the military, Ryan saw a behemoth defense industry with high... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
front, you had us building satellites. The entrance was a garage door that couldn't really close. The car that was standing there was like the single most beat-up Toyota Corolla, in white, that you can imagine, which was our phone... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Home for External Relations
south of the Soldiers Field location near the intersection of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue. External Relations (ER), which includes many functions familiar to most HBS graduates, is one of several administrative operating units... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
time, when it comes to day-to-day activities, her hands-on approach sets the stage. Before SHI expands into any new market, Lee runs the new operation to ensure that it gets off on the right track. She frequently meets with customers to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
operations is a big part of what YALP hopes to impart. “Typically, the public-sector lexicon can be mystifying to private-sector folks,” says Stacy Richardson, Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke’s chief of staff. “When I attended YALP in 2016,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
work. I also learned that spending an hour talking to your girlfriend on the company phone when the boss is trying to call in is a quick way to get seriously reprimanded. Kwinters customers had two options: a ready-made steamed dog or a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
generated an operational loss. "My feedback was, 'You're in trouble,'" recalls Kahn. By the spring, Kahn was in Mumbai, part of a team tasked with turning Agrovet around—the first foreigner the Godrej Group had ever hired in a leadership... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
part of what’s driving consolidation across the country,” Hansen Shapiro observes. The National Trust used a leveraged buyout to acquire the titles, which will continue with their mission under a new public benefit corporation that is owned and View Details