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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Downhill Re-Boot
HANSON: For boomers who still dare to schuss, a new way to keep them from getting cold feet. Former ski racer Denny Hanson (OPM 2, 1977) saw a lot of his contemporaries giving up skiing because they were tired of being cold and dealing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
an executive at several food companies, Silk had revived other century-old brands such as Jell-O, Lea & Perrins, Hebrew National, and Armour. Based on those successes, New York–based hedge fund York Capital Management asked Silk to become... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
Last June, Johnson was named by the White House to head SelectUSA, a new US government–wide initiative to encourage, facilitate, and accelerate business investment in America by both domestic and foreign firms. As the organization’s... View Details
- 10 Nov 2022
- News
Peloton Founder Starts His Next Trek
better for sound and comfort — really elevating their space. We want to make that experience accessible for regular people." In an interview with Forbes regarding the launch of Ernesta, Foley said he understood that his new venture could... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Giving Back
lives, careers, and volunteer activities embody the finest examples of public service and the Jeffersonian ideal of citizen involvement. Among this year’s other recipients was New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA ’66). Before... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
In Brief
New Alumni Board President; Chandler Jr. Remembered; Spring Reunions; Am Ex’s Chenault; Where Are They Now?; of Note; Alumni Bookshelf; The Scene Ideas Faculty Q&A with D. Quinn Mills; Faculty Books; Faculty Research Online; Caseworks:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Baker’s Man of Steel
learned the trade as a Navy Seabee. “He looks like Robert Redford, doesn’t he?” razzes one worker passing by with a meatball sub. (It’s 9 a.m., but the shift began some two hours ago.) “If I had his money I wouldn’t be here,” Delaney... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a subsidiary of Swiss commodity... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Climate Change starts in the same place Jobs’s discussion with Claure did—fear of risk. In Apple’s case, customers can trade in their used devices for credit toward a new one, the way you can View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
Illustration by Robert Neubecker Sports injuries are a business concern for Clara Wu Tsai (MBA 1993). She and her husband, Joe Tsai, are owners of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets; the WNBA’s New York Liberty; and the men’s lacrosse team, the San... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Toy Story
In 2005, a year after the venerable toy retailer FAO Schwartz emerged from bankruptcy, Ed Schmults (MBA ’89) became its CEO. “The company was relying on its glorious past but was without a clear brand direction,” Schmults explained to the View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1955 Born, Queens, New York 1973 Launches clothing manufacturing business in Ecuador 1978 Earns BS, Finance, New York University 1980 Earns MBA, Baker... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Jan 2012
- News
Shopping Around
the concept of designer shopping outlets—a relatively new phenomenon in Europe—has been a priority that has required both patience and diligence. “In Europe,” she explained, “the nature of planning, zoning, and design is very political,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
edge and attract new devotees without losing its core following? “We can still accommodate the traditional customer because our styling is classic,” says Matthew McEvoy (MBA 1989), strategic planning director at Burberry. Founded in 1856,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
After I heard what had happened, I ran up to my room and tore down the signs. As it happens, I had voted for Kennedy. It was a tragic, terrible thing. I thought I would stay in the retail drug business for the rest of my life. My advice to View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
moved in 2002. “I dug in, doing what I love to do, which is a start-up general business. And Mark concentrated on the creative end, the design and the making of fine-wood furniture.” By the time daughter Jane was born in 2003, Lackley had found a whole View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
his classmates’ FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) projects. But in retrospect, he says, conducting field research in Mexico and developing and presenting innovative product ideas to senior executives at Colgate’s Consumer Innovation Center “was a learning experience I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
communicate with and motivate its citizens to make them agents of change to a market-driven economy? —Jaime Fortuño (MBA 1988) MORE Brunell offers an inside look at Myanmar’s historic transition on our new Skydeck podcast MORE Brunell... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
with little overt guidance from the hierarchy. Anteby suggests that this model, which tolerates moral complexity, may be one of the few that can adapt and endure. Faculty Research HBS Working Knowledge offers a first look at new thinking... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
say $3 — in return for a share of the revenues, typically 50 percent. This allowed the retailers to break even with just one or two rentals. Monitoring and technology, however, are key to implementation of the plan, and the new system... View Details