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Patrick E. Haggerty
Haggerty led Texas Instruments into the manufacture of transistors - the first to make them cheaply enough to be commercially viable. During Haggerty’s tenure, the company expanded its overseas market (47 manufacturing plants in 19... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Start-Up with Giddyup
spots." "Cowboy boots go way back to my West Texas roots," Ford explains, so when the entrepreneurial bug bit, she knew exactly what she wanted to do. Here's the story behind RRB: Lightbulb moment "Consumers like made-in-USA products,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- News
More Work to Do
to small business owners. In a free-ranging interview with Texas Monthly, Gerald talks about the role that college athletics and early mentors played in his life, including “the old women” who helped hone Gerald’s speaking ability, used... View Details
- 17 Jun 2016
- News
Minding God’s Money
large loans and leases or navigating complicated tax regulations, I’m building a business foundation that supports our good works in the community.” Thomas currently works for Bishop T. D. Jakes, a nationally acclaimed religious leader who heads the 30,000-member... View Details
Francisco A. Lorenzo
Lorenzo took over the fledgling Texas International Airways in 1972 and through major acquisitions including Continental Airlines, he built it into one of the country’s largest airline carriers. Lorenzo was skillful at managing government... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
Harvard Business School Case 214-091 Texas Teachers and the New Texas Way In 2011 Britt Harris, the chief investment officer for the $107.4 billion Teachers Retirement System of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Lone Star Star
Paul Wylie Texas may seem an unlikely point of origin for an ice skater, but the Lone Star State recently welcomed home native son Paul Wylie (MBA '00), winner of the silver medal in men's figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics.... View Details
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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Graduate School of Education Aida Hurtado , University of California, Santa Barbara Panel: Dialogue Valerie Purdie-Vaughns , Columbia University Taylor Phillips , Stanford University Graduate School of Business Meredith Clark , University of North View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
(Washington Post, December 13, 2011) “He told me that there weren’t as many tanks as the mortgages showed. That sure was the understatement of the year.” —Oscar Griffin (OPM 6, 1982), from his obituary. As a reporter for the Pecos Independent and Enterprise, Griffin... View Details
Arjun Chopra
Highest Honors (summa cum laude) with a BS in Computer Sciences from The University of Texas at Austin, where he was an Endowed Presidential scholar and a recipient of the Vice President of Research Fellowship. As an HBS student, he was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
Most Powerful Women in Business.” Based on her experience in retailing and her current service on the boards of global giants Nike and McDonald’s, Jackson says, “Whether you’re in Texas or in China, you must focus business practices and... View Details
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The Spread and Adoption of Option Pricing Models - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
for the practical implementation of the Black-Scholes model. Within six months of the original publication of the Black-Scholes formula, it had become so widely used by traders at the CBOE that Texas Instruments produced a handheld... View Details
- 03 May 2019
- Blog Post
Instagram Takeover - Taylor Stockton (MBA 2020)
In this @hbsadmissions Instagram takeover, Taylor Stockton (MBA 2020) takes us through a day in the life of an HBS student with a special focus on life outside of the classroom! He is originally from El Paso, Texas and attended undergrad... View Details
- February 1982 (Revised September 1987)
- Case
El Paso Natural Gas Co. and the FPC
Vietor, Richard H.K. "El Paso Natural Gas Co. and the FPC." Harvard Business School Case 382-038, February 1982. (Revised September 1987.)
- March 2022 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Moksha Data: Delivering Insights for Public Service
By: Ashish Nanda and Zack Kurtovich
Moksha Data, a boutique consulting firm specializing in public sector work, started in January 2017 with a handshake between friends and a shared commitment to the principles of egalitarianism, ownership, and collaboration. The Houston-based firm had built momentum... View Details
Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Professional Service Firm; Strategy Formulation; Data; Data As A Service; Government Contracting; Consulting; Consulting Firms; Consulting Services; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development; Strategy; Consulting Industry; Texas
Nanda, Ashish, and Zack Kurtovich. "Moksha Data: Delivering Insights for Public Service." Harvard Business School Case 722-397, March 2022. (Revised January 2024.)
- October 2019
- Case
GRIT Fitness
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Olivia Hull
In December 2018, GRIT Fitness was a growing chain of boutique fitness studios offering a variety of workout classes, including weightlifting, high intensity interval training, and cardio dance. With 400 members and three Dallas studios, CEO Brittani Rettig believed... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Plan; Trends; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Health; Selection and Staffing; Leadership Style; Leadership Development; Management Style; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Motivation and Incentives; Sports; Competition; Diversification; Expansion; Value Creation; Health Industry; Sports Industry; Texas
Applegate, Lynda M., and Olivia Hull. "GRIT Fitness." Harvard Business School Case 820-016, October 2019.
- March 2016
- Case
Tenet Healthcare and Conifer Health Solutions
By: Robert F. Higgins and Jeet Guram
This case explores the relationship between Tenet Healthcare, the third largest for-profit hospital chain, and its subsidiary Conifer Health Solutions, a health services company. Conifer's IT programs help healthcare providers with revenue cycle management and... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Health Solutions; Business Subsidiaries; Growth Management; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Texas
Higgins, Robert F., and Jeet Guram. "Tenet Healthcare and Conifer Health Solutions." Harvard Business School Case 816-075, March 2016.
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Scott P. Mason Remembered
published widely on the subject of finance, including, with several HBS coauthors, Cases in Financial Engineering. In 1986, he took a year's leave of absence from the School to work with the Bass Companies in Texas in the area of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
presentations, exams, and hours of daily homework. Taught by volunteers from the Texas business community, PEP graduates boast a 93 percent employment rate and a recidivism rate of less than 5 percent. Says Rohr, who made a PEP... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
added. "There are more uninsured people in Texas than the population of Massachusetts. How are we going to care for them?" MinuteClinic is obviously only part of the solution: "No one is going to get an appendectomy in the greeting card... View Details