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- 21 Jan 2020
- News
The Convergence of Digital and Commercial Transformations
- 21 Oct 2016
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The barbarian establishment
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details
- 30 Apr 2020
- News
Leading Your Team Past the Peak of a Crisis
- 23 May 2016
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The Biggest Challenges of Data-Driven Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead
can be its own source of value.” Citing a family outing to Crate & Barrel, De Freitas describes the care a sales associate showed in packaging their purchases and loading them into the car. It could have ended with the painful process of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details
- 14 Dec 2021
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How Japan’s Recruit Holdings Regained Trust after a Scandal
- 01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
stories of his great-grandmother Georgia Joyner, a sales agent for Madam C.J. Walker, the Black entrepreneur considered to be the first female self-made millionaire in the United States, and his great-great-great grandfather William... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
algorithms, photographed automatically, and offered for sale on its online marketplace. ThredUp is a tech company in the thrift-store business. Processing 100,000 unique items a day takes careful automation and creates a ton of useful... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 Jul 2023
- News
The Network Effect
between the two companies. In March 2021, Model was a part of the Agios team that finalized the sale of the biotech’s oncology portfolio to international pharmaceutical company Servier. For Agios, the sale... View Details
- 12 May 2023
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Alabama's Yella Fella
facilities in 12 states. That cleared the path to major customers like Home Depot and launched a phase of record growth. Sales have more than doubled since 2016, thanks to the remodel and renovation booms set in motion by the pandemic.... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Shamrock factory on Lake Erie. I also worked with her on Bonnie Bell, which is a cosmetics company, and a marketing plan for this new startup called Leggs, which did pantyhose. Then I worked for International Harvester doing tractor sales... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success
sales and earnings. Some of these businesses will have very interesting futures; as for others - I'm not so sure. What is the best business advice you've ever received? Before I started working as a runner on Wall Street, my dad told me... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Oct 1997
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W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
years of 35 percent compounded increases in sales and earnings. Now on the New York Stock Exchange, with revenues of $1.2 billion, profits of $62 million, and a return on equity of 43 percent, the diversified company is the world's... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
James Dimon, MBA 1982
strong reputation for social and corporate responsibility. Dimon came to JPMorgan from Bank One, where, as chairman and CEO, he turned a $511 million loss in 2000 into record earnings of $3.5 billion by 2003, when he engineered its sale... View Details