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- 28 May 2019
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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 Jun 2002
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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 Sep 2015
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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
- 15 Apr 2016
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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 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
- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Schwarzman on Blackstone and the Value of an MBA
mistake of newly minted MBAs: “They accept too many things. And then they can’t finish them on time and they disappoint the people who asked them to work on those things.” Read more. View Details
- 16 Sep 2010
- News
Idea Takes Root
Web site, Eccles hailed the IIRC’s formation. The Financial Times covered the story in its August 3 edition. But the American press all but ignored the event. A database search of major newspapers and magazines turns up a single mention —... View Details
- 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
- 04 Oct 2019
- News
Changing of the Guard at Tesco
Photo via Tesco Photo via Tesco In July, the British retailer Tesco marked its 100th birthday with a 30-hour dance session in Wembley Stadium. Historic milestones aside, the company could also celebrate its recovery from an accounting... 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
- 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 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
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
because of—the challenge: “It was basically a small manufacturing company but with an output of one product each time, because every unit we process is unique,” he says. “With each garment, there are 20 opportunities for us to screw... View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
environment to the work environment. Trey introduces these athletes to others in similar situations through Trey Academy, an interactive curriculum that focuses on the particular challenges that high school and college stars face, from public speaking and social-media... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. So now a patient can go into a telemedicine visit without a previously established relationship with a provider, who can bill for that time in a way that more closely reflects what they... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- News
How Joe Shoen Got U-Haul Back on Track
out to the employee to discuss her actions. All told, Forbes notes that Shoen averages about three calls a day, but can field dozens in the span of a few hours. Amerco is a family company—started by Shoen’s father—and the piece details the family infighting that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Inciting Wonder
history. As the New York Times reported (December 14, 2008), “Ms. Rogers, an Obama fundraiser and an executive at Allstate Financial, will oversee every White House social event from Easter egg hunts to lavish state dinners (along with... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- News
Don’t Scare the Bankers
York. Their work is representative of a broad faculty response to the financial crisis. Mr. Ji, if you can hear me, times have changed: Someone needs to scare the bankers and scare them straight. View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
the Haitian Ministry of Commerce and Trade. “We’ve given a team of 30 farmers a crash course in strategy based on the HBS case method, and we’ve accompanied them on trips to meet potential customers—from coffee dealers in Seattle to mango... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
drag on for weeks. Greentech’s solution? Stuntz plans to acquire a small finish-work construction company to guarantee timely completion of future projects. After an initial rush of orders, Greentech’s... View Details