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- 01 Jun 2005
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Marked Managers
conditions favor imprinting. Consider companies that have the following characteristics: distinctive corporate cultures, strategies, and structures, with large cohorts of young managers who are hired at roughly the same 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
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
phones, and focused the company on the critical launch of its next iteration of handsets, BlackBerry 10. The phones came in two versions: first launched was a touch-screen phone designed to attract mass-market consumers, followed by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
software start-up straight out of Yale. She was running the company by the time she left for HBS in 1992. After HBS, she helped launch Open Market, an Internet start-up that made e-commerce software, where... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Taking That Hill
Niekamp “Honestly I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about being a woman in a male industry,” Cynthia Niekamp (MBA 1983) told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 27, 2011). “It’s just my life; it’s been my life.” Niekamp, who as a... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
of PowerInbox, says it’s too soon to call it quits on email—far from it, in fact. PowerInbox, which manages targeted ads within subscriber-based newsletters for publishers like Crain Communications and the Seattle Times, has enjoyed 7,500... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Apr 2016
- News
First African American Woman to Receive Harvard MBA Talks Power of Persistence, Resilience, and Courage
(Image: Cathy Walsh) (Image: Cathy Walsh) The first African American woman to earn an MBA at Harvard Business School, Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA 1969) attended the School at a time when women weren’t allowed to live on campus. Instead,... 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
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
wife, Heather, a sixth-grade teacher. The pair live in Seattle with their infant son, Collin. “But before that, I want to work at many different nonprofits — to sample what it's like and to see how well they apply resources to their... View Details
- 01 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami
demonstration projects continue to build demand for this sustainable transportation solution. Cooling Innovation: Blue Frontier's Air Conditioning Revolution The event also featured the groundbreaking work of Daniel Betts, founder of Blue Frontier, who was in... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
How did you become interested in the impact of high-skill immigrant labor? In the 1990s I helped develop a wireless data technology for a Korean company. The inventor was a Korean scientist living in Silicon Valley, so I spent a lot of View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
printed out all the case studies," says David Jernigan, executive director of KIPP Metro Atlanta, a charter school network. "I decided to do all the work before I arrived so I could spend my time really digging in and networking." While... View Details
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Sid Shenai
about HBS is the opportunity to find learning experiences outside of the classroom," says Sid. He helped organize a winter break trek to Seattle where Sid and twenty colleagues met executives from Boeing, Microsoft, REI, Starbucks... 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
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
ourselves,” Coup says. “We aim to be about twenty times our present size in five years in terms of sales. In terms of personnel, we’ll probably be only two or three times our current size.” Keeping the View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
some board meetings at a time when the company was being approached by investors. I took a look at their P&L and balance sheet and told my wife’s family, “You’re rock solid. You don’t need any investors. And... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
Last Christmas, many of the headlines spelled out trouble in toyland. FAO Schwarz sunk deeper into bankruptcy, KB Toys was having a hard time making ends meet (and filed Chapter 11 in January), and Toys “R” Us, which closed its Kids “R”... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
everyone's relaxed, fun-loving inner self could flourish. That formula brought the organization unrivaled success. But times got tough in the 1990s. Club Med's original customer base was aging and its libidinous image grew passé. The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons