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- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
Founder, Chairman and CEO, The Kraft Group Download Kraft profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1941 Born, Brookline, Massachusetts 1965 Joins Rand-Whitney 1972 Founds International Forest Products 1994 Buys New England Patriots 2002... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
better or simply adapt to the status quo. What’s more important, growth or excellence? Action or analysis? Being direct or saving face? Strategy drops hints, but it’s culture that has the definitive answers.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
facility. Now Mobius is about to embark on an ambitious growth plan by opening a new factory. With $20 million in investments and loans to date, the company designed, built, and sold their proof of concept, then developed the Mobius II... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
from People magazine to CNN, happened during downturns, as did the growth of cosmetic companies such as Estée Lauder and Revlon. How to Deliver. A common outcome of downturns is an abundance of underutilized resources that may be... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
of internal and external factors have an impact on their pay, and that, in fact, today's CEO compensation packages are tied very closely to company performance.Lorsch began his study by looking at the proxy statements of 72 companies representing four categories:... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
policymakers in a way that leads to improved choices and decisions. The more analysis informs this debate, the better, so that we can more easily understand and model the outcome. When we make changes to immigration policy, what is the impact on GDP View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
of approximately $4.52 billion (five times greater than that of its nearest competitor, Fisher Price), and the company has been hailed as a growth champion. Hear more from company cochairman Jørgen Vig Knudstorp on how Lego balances... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
common issues most Latin American countries are dealing with. It's a factor that constrains business strategy across the region." Latin America's equity markets are thin and capital is scarce, Ghemawat says, with the result that companies... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
strategy also included a financing and guarantee mechanism that would provide additional liquidity to companies, for payment of salaries and other fixed costs. Diagne was head of the guarantee committee that reviewed all financing... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
Pinto says Western business leaders have shown "extraordinary complacency in the face of upheavals." The numbers don't look good for the West. The United States, Great Britain, and France have each seen their average GDP growth hover... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
When the executive director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) stepped down in June 2020, Ilana Goldman (MBA/MPA 2002) stepped up. As chair of the board and a political and nonprofit consultant, she saw it as her duty to fill the role until a... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 10 Sep 2020
- News
The Business of Access
her business know-how—revenue generation and growth in the private sector—and apply it to nonprofits rooted in social services. She was brought aboard to assist San Mateo–based Shelter Network implement a merger with another homelessness... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Simi Nwogugu (MBA 2004)
Nwogugu with students at Aunty Ayo Girls Comprehensive School in Lagos (photo by Ruth McDowall/The Verbatim Agency) I volunteered at Junior Achievement (JA) in New York when I was working at Goldman Sachs after college. I realized that if I’d had access in Nigeria to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Focused Growth by Sanjay Khosla (AMP 155, 1998) and Mohanbir Sawhney (Portfolio) In the authors’ experience, too many companies expand too fast, taking on more products, markets, people, and acquisitions, and every quarter becomes a mad... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
take Lisle’s business know-how—she had led revenue generation and growth opportunities in the private sector at companies like Oracle, Zefer, and Wellbourne International—and apply it to nonprofits rooted in the social services. The... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world. Just don't tell that to Justin... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Americans, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Ivy League alums, high-school grads, and parents offers coping strategies to help ordinary people turn challenges into extraordinary opportunities for action. College Sports Traditions: Before,... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
1000 companies on digital strategy and transformation and has conducted research on a variety of organizations, including Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Amazon, Alibaba, and Google. Lakhani is the founder and co-director of the Laboratory for... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
to the program’s success, including learning how to think outside the box to solve complex problems, as well as developing strategies for marrying the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds. He cites Professor William Sahlman's principles... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken