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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
franchises remains fierce. RELATED PROFILES Touching All the Bases: Stephen A. Greyser Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96) Down on the Farm: Frank Burke (MBA '87) A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98) RELATED PROFILES... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Finding Her Place
president of global franchises and innovation at ConvaTec, helping to prepare the $1.8 billion, London-based company to go public. After its successful IPO, Hudson took some time off to travel with her husband but fully expected to return... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Next Big Swing
disappointing 71–91 season, it’s imperative for the franchise to stay at the cutting edge of the data wars. For Tippett, that means continuing to add to his arsenal: a massive database of baseball metrics and minutiae that he and the team... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel
Creating Brand Value, Ofek and his co-authors look at the company’s evolution from toy manufacturer to IP franchise manager and the reinvigoration of the famous and famously fraught brand. It wasn’t just the considerable hype around the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
picked up steam after a nationwide franchise program launched in 2009. Revenues for that year were $2 million; in 2011, they’re projected to hit $10 million. The company charges employers a percentage of a worker’s hourly rate or salary;... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
operated by franchisees. Based on her Santa Cruz experience, McCann makes a point of telling her franchise owners that they need to live within a half-hour of the bakery. “In that first year, running a small business is like having a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
extends beyond the business world and onto the soccer field. In 1994 he invested in the new Washington, D.C., Major League Soccer franchise — D.C. United. While the team did extremely well on the field, it suffered financially. Tierney,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Offices have opened in Boston and San Francisco, and now the company is raising additional capital to further expand its operations. Amadio wants to franchise the NeuroLaunch model worldwide, and he’s already in talks with groups in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
one’s employees. That’s pretty good!” That classmate, David Karam, who operates 135 Wendy’s restaurant franchises in five states, says of Navasky, “Vic really ventured into the lion’s den at OPM — we were a pretty conservative bunch. But... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
design and development for the Girls Division of Mattel, Ross set out in 2001 to create a new hit toy for preteen girls. The project took on heightened importance as the company watched its lucrative Barbie franchise plateau in revenue.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
teams; the worst-performing franchises have the first picks in the league's annual draft of college players; and salary caps help ensure that wealthier teams can't just buy up all the best players. A congressional partial exemption from... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- News
How Disney’s Alan Horn Manages the Movies
franchises (foregoing the combining of the Harry Potter books to limit the number of films). And while Horn had the good fortune of running already-successful companies under the Disney umbrella, colleagues note that his management has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
largest Planet Fitness franchise in the country and had learned about commercial construction along the way. Price offered to put Kaphar in touch with a trusted contractor who would look at the building. That conversation turned into many... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
secured and the league is fully capitalized, and with additional revenues derived from television contracts and ticket sales, the NSA, Rottenberg believes, will be on sound financial footing from the outset, unlike most fledgling leagues. The NSA's eight View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
as they build new skills? That's what I love about a franchise in that I really can see the evolution of someone's career and help support the evolution of someone's career over the course of a minimum of 12 years, which is really a long... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Western Front
tech industry. “I’m not saying that Silicon Valley owns the franchise on smart folks and innovative folks,” says Hendrickson. “But you’ve just got to start somewhere.” So how does the buttoned-up Pentagon introduce itself to the Bay... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
1948. After selling the Browns in 1951 (the franchise eventually became the Baltimore Orioles), Bill DeWitt worked for the New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers before the Cincinnati Reds hired him as general manager in 1961. His success... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
First Film: Open Invitation, half–hour dark comedy Previous Job: managed brand franchises for Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati and Toronto AT P&G: spearheaded relationship with UNICEF to donate tuberculosis vaccines Copresident: HBS... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
conceived, no one knew there was a “microprocessor war.” Intel’s top brass understood that Motorola was attacking an important Intel franchise and that they had to fight back. No one dreamt, however, that this contract would be a defining... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
lets people report on the nature, number, pattern, types, location, frequency, and values of bribes and then uses that data to lobby the government. He initially wanted to franchise the site for use in the Philippines, but during a summer... View Details