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- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Seventy Years Out: Class of 1932 Celebrates Reunions
John Brink (left) attended his last five reunions and came back for his 70th to “keep the record going and to see the old gang.” Brink said that times were tough when he was at HBS and that half the class didn't have jobs upon graduation:... View Details
- 21 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management
Turner MIINT, Bridges Fund Management also participates in the Impact Investing Trek. Organized by student clubs, treks provide HBS students an opportunity to visit companies around the world as they explore industries and functional... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
that one of the most important things we've done is to popularize high-quality coffee and persuade the customer to pay a higher-than-average price for it. This enables us to pay two to three times what traditional coffee View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
Makihara (AMP 75, 1977) view full profile Currently a senior corporate advisor at Mitsubishi Corporation, Makihara had been with the company for 36 years, including a stint as head of U.S. operations, when he was named president and CEO... View Details
- 20 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care
DaVita’s program is not only an attractive benefit to potential recruits, but a powerful way for the company to instill its values throughout its leadership team. These reciprocal benefits should drive leadership development programs... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Feedback
traditional, fossil fuel–thirsty techniques. Africa can leapfrog Western agricultural methods directly into sustainable, organic farming, which is more suitable for smallholders. —Tre Baker (MBA 2008) via alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin Frank Fan Re: Frank Blethen (PMD 35,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
Twaalfhoven—brimming with energy—looks the part of a worldly and accomplished business leader. And well he should. He has founded and headed a wide assortment of small companies during a career of more than forty years, recently stepping... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
can bring important impartiality to the process. Codify reusable learning. McGrath teaches that any time a company innovates, two good things can happen. Successfully commercializing an idea is clearly a... View Details
- May 1992 (Revised November 1992)
- Case
Fabtek (A)
By: Rowland T. Moriarty Jr., Benson P. Shapiro and Craig E. Cline
Concerns the selection and scheduling of orders by a small industrial titanium fabricator that in recent months has been plagued by poor deliveries and a lack of capacity. Four orders are offered, from which the student must select one. Each order represents different... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Business or Company Management; Time Management; Performance Capacity
Moriarty, Rowland T., Jr., Benson P. Shapiro, and Craig E. Cline. "Fabtek (A)." Harvard Business School Case 592-095, May 1992. (Revised November 1992.)
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
Harvard Business School in 1997, Bezos has invested in a handful of local companies—and bought others, sometimes pulling their leaders out to Seattle to work with him directly. He has overseen the growth of local Amazon offices, which now... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 20 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
“Business as Usual, In a Different Way” – Creating an Impactful Remote Internship at Actis
any way they chose so there was great variety between fireside chats, Q&As, videos, and “multimedia extravaganzas.” Face time with senior leaders in locations around the globe was significantly increased with the addition of these... View Details
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Jenny Tison
and fell in love with it,” Jenny says. “In my second and third years, I collected as much ice time as I could.” The hard work paid off: By the end of her senior season, she was the assistant captain of the Washington Little Capitals... View Details
- 13 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Gorton's Seafoods
never been a better time to be in seafood. Based in Gloucester, MA, we pride ourselves in having the combination of an entrepreneurial environment that is typically found in smaller companies, along with the resources of a global... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
Prashanth Chandrasekar (MBA 2008) (pictured above right), but the company already had a strong remote-work ethos, with 40 percent of its employees working remotely and a globally distributed workforce with offices in New York, Austin,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
million in US investor capital, Perkowski launched ASIMCO in 1994, quickly cobbling together a network of far-flung joint-venture factories, each number one or number two in its product category. And in each case, he managed to wrest majority control, unheard of at the... View Details
- 04 Oct 2019
- News
Changing of the Guard at Tesco
Photo via Tesco Photo via Tesco In July, the British retailer Tesco marked its 100th birthday with a 30-hour dance session in Wembley Stadium. Historic milestones aside, the company could also celebrate its recovery from an accounting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
many firms have not instituted a process for managing the development of potential leaders. Many have not even thought about the process of selecting a leader when the time comes for change. And as a result, they are as confused about who... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
Image by John Ritter In 2020, the number of women running Fortune 500 companies hit an all-time high: 37, or just 7.4 percent. Of those CEOs, only three (less than 1 percent) were women of color. In their new book, Glass Half Broken:... View Details
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital
which they invested their own personal capital into startups, small business, and real estate. “After two years, we pivoted the syndicate to be venture-only and focused purely on diversity because most of our companies were diverse,”... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
As CEO of Indonesia’s Sintesa Group, Shinta Widjaja Kamdani (OPM 31, 2002) is the third generation of her family to lead the highly diversified holding company that began as a rubber plantation in 1919. Kamdani had been at the View Details