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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Saving the Steel Industry
Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) played a key role in helping to save the U.S. steel industry in the 1990s, writes the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (March 4, 2007). Bloom spent five years at Lazard Freres before starting a firm that advised unions about buyouts and employee... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
funds." A few years later, he adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
acquisition by WorldCom, Keen joined Level 3, a startup competitor—but was fired when his strategic recommendations for expansion didn't align with upper management's. At that point, Keen made good on his HBS application essay and joined... View Details
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
tech, but I have a pencil and cross it off.” Along the way, Joyner has collected objects from 1945 to the present. The American artists who comprise her earliest acquisitions were “all mightily overlooked,” she notes. “They were pioneers... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
carmakers use INRIX data now, and the acquisition of OpenCar enables us to provide a much better user experience—an end-to-end ecosystem for in-car applications. Today, if you want to play Pandora in the car or get advice from Trip... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
has overseen a succession of campus development projects including new construction, restorations, and acquisitions since 1997. She notes that Dean Wallace B. Donham, who participated in the selection of the original 1925 McKim, Mead &... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
rapidly covering Weston’s remaining open space, he initiated a land acquisition plan with another planning board colleague that raised some $5 million and preserved some 10 percent of the town’s acreage as conservation land. With George... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
leadership skills were apparent. After the collapse of the tech stock market, Trilogy bought pcOrder back as a subsidiary, and Jones led the acquisition integration team. Now 34 and single, Jones’s next start-up may hit home with many in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
snacks are the company’s most recent innovations.) By mid-1994, Dreyer’s fulfilled its dream of becoming the leading premium ice-cream brand in the United States — a mixed blessing. “As we approached a billion dollars in sales, it was clear that we were a plump target... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
incredible turnaround in rebuilding the leadership team, making strategic acquisitions and divestitures, and most recently, guiding the spinoff of the North American Food Group from the international global snacking business, Mondelez.... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- News
How Separate Should a Corporate Spin-Off Be?
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
short time frames," "the role of business as society begins to seek more balance between material acquisition and spiritually oriented directions." Both alumni groups, especially younger grads, saw business schools as having only the same... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
online streaming field with Otter Media, a joint venture with the Chernin Group. And industry observers agree that more acquisitions and partnerships in the years ahead will only accelerate the pace of change in a tech-heavy business that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
consideration, making it difficult to see the sort of 5X returns that make venture capitalists smile. Exit by acquisition doesn’t always work, either, if the acquirer is a big-ag behemoth with competing interests. With all these factors... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
you to be your most confident self. And how that manifests itself in our teaching philosophy, in the content that we've been building with our accent coaches, the method that they use is one of accent acquisition rather than accent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
used every single fundraising round for a very specific purpose. Lazarow: It was to expand to another city or it was to do a small acquisition or something like that. That they really took this long-term approach. I asked Mike, I said,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
needles in a haystack, but that’s where crowdsourcing comes in—defining a challenge and offering an incentive, whether in status or money, can get people to self-select as resources to you. You may even want to hire some of them. So this strategy can play into talent... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
race to win new customers and e-reader converts. It will make the company a truly global entity, bringing it closer to its customers in Asia. And the acquisition will simplify the supply chain, driving down costs (the Kindle DX,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
environments," Sahlman says. "It is an integrative course in which managers can learn to use the financial perspective to inform resource acquisition and allocation decisions." Today the Entrepreneurial Management unit includes five full... View Details