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01 Feb 2000
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The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum

will soon move from HTML programming language to XML. Ballmer stated that this shift would alter the current Internet balance of power in which consumers are in a reactive position as they relate to company (or "publisher's") Web sites. XML, Ballmer said, will change... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Returning to the Roots

It’s not a role he sought or expected. But when his brother died of a brain tumor late last year, Florent Latour (MBA 1999) became CEO of Maison Louis Latour, a winemaker established in 1797 in the Burgundy region of France. The 11th generation of his family to lead... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; wine; entrepreneurship; family business; innovation; climate change; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2007
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Security Chief

CEO, having first served six months as COO. Since 9/11, it’s hard to think of a business with more growth potential than security. Even before that fateful day in 2001, GE executives made the strategic decision to build from scratch a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

02 Jan 2014
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The Power to Change

Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School. Yet for all his big thinking, Wilcox doesn't necessarily view himself as a visionary. He says he's more the guy to help transform the View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Business and Environment Initiative; Scientific Research and Development Services

04 Feb 2014
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Reece Shearsmith; David Hockney prints; Blockbusters

16 Jun 2017
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Does Amazon’s Acquisition of Whole Foods Check Out?

25 Nov 2013
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Blockbluster

01 Sep 2020
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In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested

A seasoned media executive, Sarah Harden (MBA 1999) was serving as interim CEO of the media company Hello Sunshine when she was brought up short by an early conversation with company founder Reese Witherspoon. “Reese told me that before she did View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; women in business; COVID-19; film; media; television; Arts, Entertainment

13 Jan 2011
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Mentoring Program Turns Cameras on Its Young Clients

09 Jan 2014
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Give me another hit

01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella

years the growth rate of the vaccine industry will be between 15 and 20 percent, making it a very attractive industry. The margins are, again, not as high as in patented, branded products, but they still are quite attractive. Also, one of the reasons why View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; multinational pharmaceutical company; prescription drugs; vaccines; Medicare; generics business; Health, Social Assistance