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- 24 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)
their help and support." What's been the most enjoyable part of the process, what's been the most challenging? "The most challenging part of building the concept and business plan for Breakwater Chicago has been convincing people that... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
often-overlooked aspect of poverty. Feingold himself didn’t understand the need until 2010, when he and his wife were discussing how to celebrate their children’s second and fourth birthdays. At the time, Feingold was a portfolio manager at Fidelity, and his wife also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
one professor described with a raised eyebrow as “mighty highly priced”? How did Arthur Andersen's role at the company become so entangled with its own self-interest? What could Enron's board of directors have done differently? Did the widespread enthusiasm surrounding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
he's been influenced by Welch's “ability to soak up new ideas, to transform himself, and to create change within the company.” The two continue to enjoy a good relationship, Immelt said. A company's success is built on four components,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
undergo renovation. "For years, every measure of success in our industry was driven by quantity," Lopez observes. "How many buildings, how many screens, how many seats? We turned that equation around and began to focus on quality." AMC's... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
what they should be doing with their lives. Louis B. Cooper (MBA 1988) was among them. Until earlier in the year, he had been managing partner at Anvil Capital Management, a hedge fund he had launched a year prior following a successful... View Details
- 08 Dec 2017
- News
Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
expected to announce a bid for lieutenant governor in Georgia; and Mitt Romney (MBA 1974), who is anticipated to announce a run for the US Senate in Utah. “The interest really built on itself as people started to see that they could be View Details
Keywords: politics
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
his way up the job ladder at a garment factory, in due course becoming plant manager. By speculating in the stock market, he turned bonus money into enough cash to start his own clothes-making operation, which eventually became Giordano, a wildly View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
competitors in an industry often known for low wages and dismal environmental records. “We can be a catalyst of change,” says Yang, who is planning sustainability conferences and factory tours to share her company’s View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet
wrestled with these issues for the past 30 years, I have come to believe that achieving your aspirations lies not in "being a success" but in working to achieve your unique potential. This requires you to create your own definition of View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
better. To this end, they offer a set of management tools drawn from best practices in successful companies, the military, and government agencies. After showing why the federal personnel system needs reform, the book presents specific... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
can be extremely lonely.” That began to change in 1997, when Endeavor was founded to spur economic growth in emerging and developing markets, initially in Latin America. It now has offices in India, South Africa, and Turkey, with plans to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
into a much-needed windfall for a host of cash-strapped nonprofits. Since cofounding Working Assets in 1985, Laura Scher has helped the company channel nearly $20 million to organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam America, Amnesty International, View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Focused and pragmatic, she is deeply committed to across-the-board success at a school where 93 percent of students are African American, and 65 percent are from economic backgrounds that qualify them for free or reduced school lunches.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
year—far more than ever before—and schools are going to have to plan ahead in order to get students back up to speed. Once we’re on the other side of the pandemic, what do you think the biggest takeaways will be in terms of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
In Brief
Web Extras Experiment Fund President’s Challenge US–China trade relations exhibit at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center New Venture Winner an Undercover Success Angela Newnam (MBA 1996) did not set out to be an entrepreneur. But the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
Mickey Herbert parleyed a stint as an administrative assistant to a pediatric neurologist into a successful career as the founder and CEO of a Connecticut HMO. Not bad for someone who confesses he had “no clue” what he wanted to do after... View Details
- 24 Jun 2016
- News
Reinventing Pharma
and commercial operations before becoming the firm's head of operations and planning in 2014. In a recent interview, Donaldson told the industry website eyeforpharma.com that she credits Professor Clay Christensen and his work on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Given success of this magnitude, why aren’t for-profit managed charter schools like Sabis in high demand? The authors rebut the charge that for-profits running charter schools are in it for the money, not the kids, and they explore the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
Massachusetts, the problem is just the opposite. Once an ashram - or religious community - for 350 practitioners of a yoga-based spiritual lifestyle, Kripalu has plenty of soul. What it needs now is a business plan that will help it... View Details