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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
described as a critical link to conserving the Crown of the Continent — a 10-million-acre natural region that encompasses Glacier National Park and provides refuge for some of the last grizzly bears, Canada lynx, and wolverines in the... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
name, and cast your vote to the right to predict the winner. asia-pacific HBS Club of Shanghai Sophia Shing, MBA 1997 Founder Little Teacher mobile language learning canada HBS Club of Toronto Jennifer Lee Koss, MBA 2008 Co-founder and... View Details
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Schwartz, MBA 1970, is the Founder and CEO of Onex Corporation. He has been appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada and inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame. Gerry Schwartz is a Chairman, Director or Governor of a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop
affordable in Africa through microfinance and mobile payments. Alumnus: Alexandre Skander Allegue, PLDA 18, 2015 Region: Africa Vention: A platform that allows businesses to design and order industrial equipment online. Alumnus: Etienne Lacroix, MBA 2011 Region: View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
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Sebastien D'Incau
Chances are (metaphorically speaking), Sebastien D'Incau has been in your home. As a marketing strategist and planner with Procter & Gamble, Sebastien worked on a number or products familiar to consumers worldwide, including the Herbal Essences and Aussie lines of... View Details
C. Peter McColough
Working at Xerox for over three decades, McColough was instrumental in leveraging the company’s unique technology and product line. His sales and marketing efforts helped to establish the company as a worldwide leader in office equipment. As CEO, he expanded the firm’s... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
William R. Kelly
Kelly was a pioneer in creating the temporary employment agency. During the post-war era, American industry was in great need for clerical workers and Kelly’s idea of temporary office help became extremely popular among women (accounting for 95% of his workers). By the... View Details
Keywords: Services
Melvin R. Goodes
Goodes grew Warner-Lambert’s market value from $9 billion in 1991 to almost $60 billion in 1999. He helped the pharmaceutical company become a major player in the prescription drug industry and is responsible for striking a deal with Pfizer in 1996 to sell the... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
Nathan Cummings
By 1966, Cummings had grown Consolidated Foods into the nation’s fastest growing food processor, with sales of $830 million. Cummings’ most significant acquisition was Sara Lee, which he purchased in 1956 and grew into the nation’s leading brand of frozen pastries.... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Paul R. Andrews
Starting as a college textbook salesman in 1935, Andrews rose through the ranks of Prentice-Hall to become its CEO in 1965. During his tenure, the company produced exceptional financial returns and its distribution operations were expanded to accommodate the shipment... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Hugh J. Chisholm
Chisholm was widely considered to be the most powerful man of his time in the American pulp and paper industry. He was the primary founder of International Paper Company that brought together 30 pulp and paper mills in various parts of the US and Canada. In addition to... View Details
Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Stephen Baine (MBA '74) Chicago, IL Harry J.F. Bloomfield (MBA '71) Montreal, Canada Robert S. Boyd (MBA '63) Chevy Chase, MD Edward D. Bullard (MBA '75) Cynthiana, KY John J. Burns, Jr. (MBA '55) New York, NY Rena F. Clark (MBA '90)... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- Profile
Payam Shodjai
Payam Shodjai has enjoyed a behind-the-scenes perspective of the information revolution that shapes contemporary life: first as an engineer at Microsoft, then as a product manager working on search at Google. "My team led the efforts for search... View Details
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Oliver Bladek
Early in his career as a consultant with McKinsey, Oliver Bladek recognized the hard impact of so-called "soft" skills. "I was working on a major, $10-billion oil project that included everything from drilling thousands of wells to transporting refined... View Details
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Marie Kyle
Late in her undergraduate career at Northwestern University, Marie Kyle experienced a dramatic shift in priorities. Her original enthusiasm for engineering and aerospace design had been tempered by her initial career inquiries. "Most of the available positions... View Details
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Ashiana Jivraj
The patient’s eyes darted around the makeshift dental practice in India, pleading for a discount to remove her last decayed tooth. She was only 35. I wanted to hand her the US$7 from my pocket but instead I sat there silently listening to the increasingly frantic... View Details
Joseph Boyer
Boyer helped William S. Burroughs develop the adding machine and was the inventor of the first successful pneumatic hammer. In 1900, Boyer moved the Burroughs Adding Machine Company to Detroit. By 1930, at the time of Boyer's death, Burroughs Adding Machine Company was... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
John G. Smale
Known for his patient managerial style, Smale worked at Procter & Gamble for 38 years. Under Smale's leadership as CEO, P&G's earnings and stock price doubled while the company expanded abroad and into higher margin products. Two years after retiring as... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
Elizabeth Arden
Through her salons and cosmetics line, Arden was a pioneer in the development of the personal care industry. By 1929, Arden owned 150 salons throughout the world, sold her 1,000 different products in 25 countries and generated over $4 million in sales. By 1965, the... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
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Hann Yew
One might think that an HBS student with a recent victory in the Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge would be eager to represent her life as a success story. Instead, Hann Yew, MBA 2015, sees it as a cautionary tale that began for her in the fourth grade. "I... View Details