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April 1979 (Revised November 1985)
Case

Kalamazoo Plant: Parts Division, Acme Motors

By: Wickham Skinner and Frank S. Leonard

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Industrial Products Industry; Michigan

01 Dec 1998
News

New HBS Alumni Board Members

Mortgage & Realty and Michigan Heritage Bancorp. He has led several community organizations, such as the Lansing Symphony, Capital Area United Fund, and the Voluntary Action Center in Lansing. Born in New York City and raised in Wilmette,... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum

fundraise the vision into reality. Six years later, the American Writers Museum will open in late spring at 180 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, with Hammer serving as treasurer. “I had been chair of Washington Performing Arts but knew... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney

fits with the public side of his SLOC work. "It's not unlike the clamor of a political campaign," notes Romney, who ran unsuccessfully for Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy's seat in 1994 and whose father, George, was a Presidential candidate and three-time View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia

that." Protecting Workers Peter Yu, an assistant professor of law at Michigan State University, argued that while it's true that labor is cheaper in other countries because workers are not protected, the cost of living is lower as... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2008
News

America the Difficult

Fritz Foley, University of Michigan professor James R. Hines Jr., and I have shown that distorted environments are precisely where multinational firms have an advantage relative to local firms. In countries with weak capital markets and... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; foreign investors; Finance

01 Oct 1998
News

Value Added

Now in the midst of his second three-year term as managing director of McKinsey & Company, Rajat Gupta sits in a corner office on the 29th floor of a Chicago skyscraper, overlooking Lake Michigan and the Windy City's financial district.... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

15 Apr 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Kelly Ogiesoba

and staff in the Michigan College of Engineering program. Also, I attended an HBS 2+2 presentation on campus and thought it was a good fit after listening to the HBS representatives speak. It sounded like a low-risk argument with a very... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

accounting from the University of Chicago. He’ll tap his interests in corporate accountability and disclosure to help him teach the first-year required course Financial Reporting and Control. Assistant Professor Thales Teixeira, a member of the Marketing unit, received... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

the Venture Capital Inclusion Lab at Brown University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and earned her PhD in Psychology at the University of Michigan and BA in... View Details

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Class Notes - Alumni

HBS Magazine HBS Magazine Class Notes Current Issue: December 2024 Edward and Jane Nassim in Dorset. See the MBA 1976G notes. Larry Fish and Jeff Mundy at Michigan Stadium. See the MBA 1968A notes. John Dexheimer and Jeff Hwang in their... View Details

December 2005 (Revised April 2011)
Case

C.W. Post

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson

In 1906, C.W. Post had to move his latest breakfast product--corn flakes--from store shelves into cereal bowls nationwide. Post genuinely believed his corn flakes and other breakfast foods would make people well. Through sampling and other innovative sales and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Sales; Food and Beverage Industry; Battle Creek

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11 Feb 2021
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ali Evans (MBA 2019)

What was your undergraduate university and major? How long did you defer your 2+2 admission? I’m originally from Southfield, Michigan and attended Harvard College for undergraduate and studied Economics. I deferred admission for 4 years.... View Details

February 1998 (Revised February 1999)
Case

Amway Japan Limited

In April 1997, the president of Amway Japan (AJL, Tokyo, Japan), pondered how to reverse the first performance decline the company has experienced since entering the Japanese direct selling market in 1979. Established as the tenth overseas subsidiary of Amway Corp. of... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Planning; Motivation and Incentives; Business Subsidiaries; Distribution Channels; Customer Satisfaction; Consumer Products Industry; Michigan; Tokyo

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24 Jun 2014
News

The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)

start a business that's not technology based." What do you think will happen first—a Breakwater Chicago concert on Lake Michigan featuring Chicago's own Smashing Pumpkins or a Cubs World Series win? "As somebody who hates taking... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Leadership and Change. She is also a Visiting Scholar with the Harvard Business School Leadership Initiative, researching the influence of African American business leaders at HBS and beyond. Laura is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Positive Organizations at the... View Details

30 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI

obstacles tilt the playing field between local firms and multinational firms. In a series of papers, [HBS associate professor] C. Fritz Foley, [University of Michigan professor] James R. Hines Jr., and I have shown that distorted... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

29 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Being a Mom and a Founder at HBS

Lindsay McCurren (MBA '19) grew up in Grand Rapids, MI and attended Michigan State. Prior to HBS, Lindsay spent over 6 years working in Corporate Finance at General Mills. Lindsay came to HBS with her family and is the chair of the moMBA... View Details

30 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

suggestions, including starting early (Kcorey: “How about connecting with youth at an earlier age who are interested in business?”), emulating efforts to bring women into management education (Roslyn Payne: “In the 1980’s when University of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

13 Jul 2016
News

From Money to Ministry

business class at the University of Texas. That post led him to become an adjunct professor. “I found out I loved teaching, and even got to use some HBS cases in my business ethics class,” he says. Once ordained, Quainton served in a handful of Southern churches before... View Details