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- 28 Sep 2018
- News
Pushing Progress at Panasonic
spent the next two and a half decades at HBS, BCG, Apple, and Microsoft, Panasonic fell into steep decline. Now Higuchi is back, leading the connected solutions business, and Panasonic is pursuing a new path: one that focuses on corporate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Weather Channel Forecast: Challenges Ahead
Channel each day. And its weather.com site draws one of the largest audiences on the Web. The network is so popular that it opted not to hang its corporate logo on its Atlanta headquarters for fear of being... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
jet engines, and for years made its home in leafy Connecticut will officially open its new corporate headquarters in downtown Boston, smack in the middle of the city’s burgeoning innovation district.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
Social and Environmental Stewardship, the report praised HBS as a leader in fostering social awareness, incorporating social concerns into coursework and projects, and supporting student activities and faculty research that influence both classroom materials and View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
should examine the issue of product architecture. Careful attention to modularity and intermodule coupling can dramatically lower the cost of change. Chinese Corporate Culture As China moves from a planned to a market-oriented economy,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online
your overall global strategy, says Professor Pankaj Ghemawat. One key: recognizing that regions don’t stop at national borders. An excerpt from the December 2005 Harvard Business Review. The Geography of Corporate Giving Where a company... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
executive roles at Kemin since joining the company in early 2006. Most recently, as corporate vice president, she managed marketing, sales, IT, operations, and HR. She honed in on personal care in 2010, as consumer demand for natural... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
Marty Cordova (MBA 1974), a Vietnam vet who has seen good days and bad, is dedicating himself to helping other vets get their lives back together. Cordova is finance director of Rehabilitation Services and Veterans Programs (RS&VP), a nonprofit View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
alumni and guests gathered at the HYP Club. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PPG (Pittsburgh Plate Glass) was founded in 1883 and is now the world’s largest manufacturer of paints, coatings and specialty materials, with $15 billion in sales.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
be living there. That’s very rewarding.” Since her arrival at Habitat’s Atlanta headquarters three years ago, Song has expanded the lending program she oversees from an $8 million annual fund supported by pro bono services and two... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
pegged Traeger as a lifestyle company: “When people say your grills changed their lives, show you their Traeger tattoos, and name their kids after your company, you’d better listen,” says Andrus, who has created a corporate culture around... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
Wruck cites one case she followed in which the initial match looked great. The target and bidder had operations in the same industry, creating a potential for synergies. But integration of the target into the acquiring firm and its subsequent oversight by View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
Equanimity has been the hallmark of Tosh Barron's life, one filled with precipitous moments and tests of character that might have overwhelmed a lesser person. From her quiet, comfortable office at Xerox Corporation View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
I think CEOs should not stay too long at any company." Louis-Dreyfus believes that successful global enterprises must be decentralized. While Adidas's corporate headquarters maintains authority over the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
Weinberg this was an opportunity to go the other way and reach out to be helpful to the president, and he took it. In 1933 the president had him organizing the Business Advisory and Planning Council, through which corporate executives... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Oreck’s guidance, New Orleans–based Oreck Corporation had steadily grown into a national brand known for its lightweight, powerful vacuums. As it prospered, the company acquired a manufacturing plant eighty miles east in coastal Long... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
mother breaking up squabbles between her four sons by telling them, “I don’t worry. One of these days you are going to be best friends and partners.” “Sure enough, she was right,” says Tisch, seated in his office at the Loews Corporation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
the number of temporary housing units an organization has created in post-earthquake Haiti. But how does one measure the effectiveness of a training program in boosting farmer incomes in Ghana? This was the question facing the Millennium Challenge View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
the test as he methodically refashioned the two old-line chemical companies with disparate corporate cultures into a single entity focused on health care and powered by an innovative approach to R&D. Today, Novartis is one of the world’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
juvenile law, however, O'Neill decided that his efforts would be better spent working with kids before they got into trouble. He accepted a position in a corporate law firm in Connecticut in 1984 and began doing pro bono juvenile legal... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg