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- 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
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Finding Her Place
Photo: Courtesy Chapman Partnership Symeria Hudson (MBA 1997) never expected to find herself leading a nonprofit. Hudson had spent the first 25 years of her career in the corporate world—the first 10 years in consumer goods and then 15 in the medical technology sector.... View Details
- 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 Apr 2002
- News
Just Super
sold and moved outside the region. Now, he and his son Jonathan Kraft (MBA '90), the Patriots' vice chairman, have established the Pats as a solid NFL franchise and likely contender for years to come. "When we bought this team eight years... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Down on the Farm: Frank Burke (MBA '87)
undisclosed sum in 1994 (at the time, Double-A teams were going for $3.5 to $4 million; last year, two new Double-A franchises were awarded for $4.5 million each). The Lookouts' revenues, divided roughly in thirds, stem from concessions... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
SHE builds confidence, promotes education, and creates jobs
countries, including Rwanda, where they miss up to 50 days of school or work per year because women lack access to these basic necessities. Through her work at SHE, Scharpf has created the enterprise’s first initiative, SHE 28, a 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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Necessity became the mother of invention for staffing-firm founder
and flexible full-time positions is good business (the company has franchises nationwide and saw revenues of $16.2 million in 2012). O’Kelly has declined venture capital funding to maintain more control over growth, believing that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Action Plan: Tapping into a Legacy
remodeled its franchise pub business. “It was around the time of the big recession, and our business partners were struggling to make ends meet,” he says. To help out, H&W dropped its rent and profit requirements, which Kearsey describes... 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 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
An innovative thinker who created BayBanks, one of the most successful retail banking franchises in the United States, William M. Crozier, Jr. (MBA '63) has a lot to say about the evolution of banking. As head of BayBanks for 21 years,... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 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
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
global franchises and innovation at ConvaTec, helping to prepare the $1.8 billion, London-based company to go public. After its successful IPO, in 2018, Hudson took some time off to travel with her husband but fully expected to return to... 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
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Kola Masha's innovative franchise model. It's a revolution that can't come soon enough for Nigeria. The country was once the breadbasket of West Africa until Royal Dutch Shell discovered vast oil reserves in 1958, and the agriculture... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
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A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
community. “Every night, 365 nights a year, he’s out there,” says Neel Ghose (MBA 2019), cofounder of the Robin Hood Army. “For him, it’s his own baby. It’s a platform for goodness.” This platform for goodness—which operates like a View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
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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