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- July 2014
- Case
Thompson Asset Management
By: William Fruhan and John Banko
Thompson Asset Management (TAM) is a small investment advisory and asset management firm in Jacksonville, Florida, with about $100 million in assets under management in two different funds. Since starting the firm in 2009, the CEO and founder Allison Thompson has had a... View Details
Keywords: Small Business; Asset Management; Expansion; Investment Portfolio; Financial Services Industry; Florida
Fruhan, William, and John Banko. "Thompson Asset Management." Harvard Business School Brief Case 914-565, July 2014.
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an... View Details
- February 2013
- Article
Learning from Roger Fisher
Roger Fisher's career and writings not only offer lessons about negotiation but also about how an academic, especially in a professional school such as law or business, can make an important, positive difference in the world. By his relentless engagement in vexing... View Details
Sebenius, James K. "Learning from Roger Fisher." Harvard Law Review 126, no. 4 (February 2013): 893–898.
- Awards
James D. Thompson Award
Winner of the 2003 James D. Thompson Award presented by American Sociological Association for "The Pressure of the Past: Network Imprinting in Intercorporate Communities" (Administrative Science Quarterly, December 2003). View Details
- November 1988 (Revised November 1996)
- Case
Roy Rogers Restaurants
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
Roy Rogers Restaurants is a subsidiary of Marriott Corp. which sells franchises to own and operate standardized fast food restaurants. Many franchise owners operate more than one restaurant. One of these, presently operating 16 restaurants and committed to develop 30... View Details
Keywords: Franchise Ownership; Business Model; Cost Management; Quality; Transformation; Food and Beverage Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr. "Roy Rogers Restaurants." Harvard Business School Case 189-100, November 1988. (Revised November 1996.)
James W. Thompson
campaigns in such magazines as Godey’s Ladies Book and Peterson’s Magazine. By the time Thompson retired in 1916, he had represented such companies as Eastman Kodak and Prudential Insurance, and his company... View Details
Keywords: Services
John P. Thompson
Continuing the expansion begun by this father, John Thompson, aided by his brother Jere, grew 7-Eleven into the national business it is today. Despite a failed venture into the oil industry with the Citgo... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
anything. My mother only had a tenth-grade education, but she was a voracious reader who taught herself the jewelry and antiques business," he says. Inspired by his mother — "an eccentric entrepreneur" — and her perseverance, the... View Details
Roger Milliken
Deering, Milliken and Company was founded in 1865 and had primarily been a selling house for cloth producers in the south. When Roger Milliken inherited the business in 1947, he changed the focus of the company, buying numerous mills and... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- Profile
John Rogers
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? As a non-business person by prior education and work experience and as someone with a specific career interest, I wanted to join a program that would significantly stretch my understanding... View Details
- Profile
Ed Rogers
conception to execution, I was surprised by the extent to which we could apply concepts we touched on in various RC classes. For instance, in our Marketing and Strategy courses, we talked a lot about how you need to position your... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
funds, Pozen writes with authority and unusual clarity about complex issues in Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System (John Wiley & Sons). Roger Thompson: How does the government figure out which financial institutions... View Details
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
Jim Austin, picked by Dean John McArthur to lead the new initiative, saw the potential for research, curriculum, and career development around the challenges of social enterprises, including both nonprofit and for-profit organizations.... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 05 Oct 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Marquis Jet Takes Off
projected to top $240 million, Allard says that the business has far exceeded expectations. Success, he admits, now looks deceptively easy. Allard knows better: “It’s the hardest thing that I’ve ever done.” — ROGER View Details
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
Last spring HBS became the first top-ranked U.S. business school to offer a course in consumer finance. Jointly taught by HBS professor Peter Tufano and Harvard Law School professor Howell Jackson (HBS MBA '80), the elective course... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Thompson Dean, MBA 1984
by the program’s ambitious goal of preparing leaders to transform the nation’s public schools. The three-year, practice-based doctoral program, which is taught in partnership with HBS and Kennedy School faculty, is tuition-free. Its... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
all over the world can come and fully thrive," he added. "In my own personal experience," he continued, "that is what the School has been to me. So it troubles me deeply that this School is experienced by some as not... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The MBA at a Crossroads
with Datar and Garvin, I couldn’t help but wonder what lasting impact Rethinking the MBA might have. Judging from the deans’ reception, the budding reform process described in the book is only just beginning. Roger View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
months ahead as they and other HBS faculty travel to a number of cities to meet with alumni, as well as government, labor, and other business leaders, to disseminate ideas and catalyze local actions around competitiveness. "Our alumni bring enormous capacity and... View Details