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- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
requirements for equity ownership by directors, and bylaws should require them. The “play money” distributed in the form of stock options and gifts of restricted stock should not be included. Directors should have a meaningful percentage... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
Howard Stevenson (photo by Stuart Cahill) Howard Stevenson (photo by Stuart Cahill) [Editor's note: This article was updated November 25, 2019] As former dean of External Relations, longtime faculty member Howard Stevenson met individually with more than 1,000 alumni... View Details
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
look at how the music industry functions. After years of consolidation, the business is now dominated by a handful of major distribution companies (often referred to simply as "the majors") that are responsible for some 80 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
on the spot, then processed, packed, and distributed the honey and related products for sale in supermarket chains. To date, the company has helped more than 9,000 small-scale beekeepers (over 45 percent of them women) and its business... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
worked one week on, one week off, and in the case of our poultry farm, slept on the farm for days at a stretch to improve biosecurity. It took quite a bit of commitment to distribute food and products across the country, and so many went... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
operations in 2009, SHE, with a staff of 10 and aiming to reach 3,000 girls this year, has developed a franchise model to manufacture and distribute low-cost, eco-friendly menstrual pads by sourcing local, inexpensive raw materials (e.g.,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
director Nadir Godrej (MBA ’76), who oversees business divisions in the areas of chemicals, foods, and medical diagnostics. More such acquisitions will take place in the future, he believes, as Godrej expands its worldwide distribution... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
aside $10,000 to be matched with alumni donations, the club also distributed $20,000 to three local charities assisting families of WTC victims; in addition, it set up a speakers' program featuring individuals involved in the city's... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
involved with the business, but there was no obvious path that I could see.” At DreamWorks, Iyer works with the COO and head of distribution on a variety of special projects, which gives her the opportunity to gain a broad view of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
improve challenging last-mile distribution on rough terrain. Even before doing any marketing for the Mobius II, Yong reports that they have a couple hundred preorders and are building a sales and service network across the country to... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
since the beginning of the twentieth century, the number of consumer bankruptcies has been influenced much more by changes in the volume and distribution of credit than by any changes in the bankruptcy law." The researchers found that... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
benefactor and main trading partner, entering what is referred to as “the Special Period,” which would last until the mid-1990s. Gas shortages led to farming and distribution disruptions, which led to food shortages. The average Cuban... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
kitchen to a larger production facility in Vermont. Over the next few years, he and his family orchestrated the creation of an entire line of nationally distributed condiments and pasta sauces. In 1995, his natural foods company, Uncle... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
his childhood in Israel. "I said, 'Is that still around?'" The next day, Birnbaum joined Cohen for a look under the hood. It wasn't pretty: There was no distribution strategy, no real consumer approach, and no optimism among the staff.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
recall of 450,000 tires missing a key safety feature that a U.S. importer had purchased from a Chinese manufacturer and distributed to retail outlets. “I don’t think there is a strong culture of adherence to regulations in China right... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
to refine the concept, inviting friends over to test and retest the game. The two colaunched the game, Cranium, in 1998 and found an unlikely initial partner — Starbucks — to help market and distribute it. Two more unconventional game... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
notion of a single fintech capital—whether it be New York or London, Beijing or the Bay Area—may be misplaced. Instead, the future of fintech may resemble what Gibbins describes as a global network of distributed ecosystems, each with its... View Details
- 22 Mar 2022
- News
Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year
with other alumni clubs around the world and had some fantastic speakers. We’ll continue with some virtual programming, since Houston is a very spread-out city and sometimes our members can’t make some events. It’s nice to have an alternative View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
built his family’s New Jersey–based industrial distribution business over 15 years (to sell to a Fortune 50 company), and then as a consultant to family businesses and international investors. “We’ve witnessed countries mount concerted... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
core business of distributing financial information, Bloomberg has added print, broadcast, and other media, with 400 reporters in 70 bureaus writing 3,000 business and nonbusiness stories daily for outlets in 25 countries. This explosive... View Details