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John P. Mackey

Through a series of acquisitions, Mackey transformed Whole Foods from a small, niche player in the grocery retail business into a major enterprise. In many ways, Mackey and Whole Foods have brought organic and natural foods into the mainstream of America through... View Details

Keywords: Retail

Eugene Holman

Holman’s greatest contribution to the company came soon after his election as chairman, when he began negotiating for 30% of the stock of the Arabian-American Oil Company, enjoying special concessions for crude oil, production, and refining in the Middle East. His... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

Mary Kay Ash

Ash created a successful cosmetics company by and for women by utilizing a direct sales force and creative motivational sales techniques. At the end of its first year, Mary Kay Cosmetics boasted $198,514 in sales and 318 salespeople. By 1977, the company had over... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

Michael Dell

In 1992, Dell, at 27 years of age, became the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Dell revolutionized the retail computer industry by instituting a direct sales approach, where the customer places their customized order via phone or the internet directly with Dell... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

John E. Jonsson

Jonsson built Texas Instruments as a leader in transistor technology. He acquired a license for using the Bell silicon transistor patent, employed qualified personnel and started extensive research in this field, which resulted in many... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

01 Mar 2006
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Student Real Estate Champs

A team of six MBA students from HBS won the fourth annual National Real Estate Challenge, held at the University of Texas in November. Teams from sixteen MBA programs spent two days evaluating a case involving an investment in a high-end... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Real Estate

01 Oct 2002
News

John R. Davis

records. “If a cow is calving, you are going to stay with her rather than go put numbers in the computer,” he notes. A native of Blue Ridge, Texas, Davis took a job at a major accounting firm after graduating from East Texas State... View Details

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HBS@SXSW 2016

Please join HBS@SXSW for a Backyard BBQ and Alumni New Venture Competition. View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform

hospital’s President’s Council in early May. Bundling isn’t new. It has been proven to work at a handful of hospitals across the country, including the Texas Heart Institute in Houston and Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City. Their... View Details

Keywords: bundling; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2003
News

South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs

and sales management, spoke on the subject “Specialties vs. Commodities: It’s Not All about the Price.” He is pictured with Philadelphia Club chairman V.J. Pappas (MBA ’76, at left) and Robert Bristol Collins (MBA ’91). Health Industry Alumni Present Life Sciences... View Details

Keywords: Alumni groups; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Innovation (ICCI) at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is a collaborative effort among physicians, nurses, patients, caregivers, and administrators that focuses on innovative approaches to improving the value of cancer... View Details

Profile

Mira Mehta

conversation with a man who worked for the Chancellor of Texas Tech University, a woman who worked for a small logistics company in Minnesota, and a man who worked at a Private Equity fund in New York. I didn't have that experience at any... View Details

Bernard M. Baruch

Though Baruch was a very successful financier, he is best known for his four decades of service as an advisor to US Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt. He helped to finance some of the leading industrial firms of his time including View Details

Keywords: Finance

07 Nov 2018
News

The Results Are (Mostly) In

Massachusetts Third Congressional District after winning a primary contest against a crowded field of nine other Democratic candidates. A former Marine and member of the Texas House of Representatives and State Senate, Van Taylor (MBA... View Details

Profile

Josh Solera

out of ideas. What I’ve learned applies whether your business is five guys in a basement or a leading corporation. Entrepreneurial ideas aren’t just transferrable – they’re essential for companies that need to grow, develop, and innovate.” Taking flight in View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Summing Up the New Students

Minneapolis. It was beautiful, and a great time to just think.” Jonathan Gary Dallas, Texas CV: Account associate, PIMCO, Newport Beach, California “I had to do some shopping once I got to Boston—a pair of L.L. Bean boots and a down... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

School Case 813-169 Excel Entertainment No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/813169-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-507 Texas Children's Hospital: Congenital Heart Disease Care In... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2005
News

Full Circle

cat, and conducted a cerebrospinal fluid analysis on a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog, among many other delicate surgical tasks. For Anderson, co–managing partner of South Texas Veterinary Specialists LLP (STVS) in San Antonio, this is all in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; veterinary; MBA applicable; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2001
News

Austin Club Provides Down-Home Hospitality

Jimmie Dale Gilmore. The event was sponsored by mTouring, Dell Computer, and the Texas Growth Fund. Pictured are Martin Payne (MBA 1999); Jimmie Dale Gilmore; Elyse Gilmore Yates, president of mTouring; Allegra Young (MBA 1995); and Chris... View Details

April 2013 (Revised October 2013)
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National Instruments

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Keri Pearlson and Natalie Kindred

This case explores the use of social media to support product design, customer support, marketing and HR activities at National Instruments (NI). Based in Austin, Texas, with over $1 billion in 2011 sales, NI designs, produces, and sells software and hardware platforms... View Details