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- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
devoted entirely to manufacturing (and featuring Kim Clark, Steve Wheelwright, Bob Hayes, and Roy Shapiro as youthful professors, along with older hands such as Wick Skinner). After its founding in 1908 (the same year Henry Ford... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
WeMaintain celebrating at Le Hub in Paris with judges, club officers, and guests after winning the Europe regional HBS New Venture Competition Alumni Track in March. 3 Roy Willis, Ted Lewis, and Lillian Lincoln Lambert (all MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
including venture-based approaches that consider the ROI necessary to attract investors. “Delivering philanthropic and investment dollars into the areas with the most potential for accelerating cures is our top priority,” Giusti says. “We... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
a company that still thrives today based on principles instilled more than 20 years ago. Taiwan Aborigine Missionary: R. Don McCall Sr., Family Letters compiled by Roy K. McCall (MBA 1984) China’s Greatest Statesman: Zhou Enlai’s... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
Optimize for people. Many variables will influence your career choices after HBS—geography, industry, function, company, manager, salary, equity, etc. Sometimes there are correlations between these variables, like high-growth companies tend to have stronger managers.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway, would no longer invest in newspapers "at any price." "Very smart people looked at Buffett's offer and wondered what he saw in the declining industry that others did not," notes Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- News
An Optimistic Publisher
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
constantly: POM and Service Management,” he states. “Ordering 500 Kindles, shipping them halfway around the world, getting them, intact, through customs and to schools way off the beaten track — that could be a Roy Shapiro case. And from... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
Education participants who took his courses. "Jai cared greatly about what students learned, and it showed every time he entered the classroom," commented HBS professor Roy Shapiro. "He set high standards. His students loved him." A... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
Paul A. Gompers, Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. A member of both the Finance and the... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
later volunteered teaching at a prison. A couple of years after leaving HBS, I became interested in the idea of the ROI of higher ed; that a college degree used to be the best investment someone could make, and was quickly becoming one of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
Blendtec hit on the idea of showing the industrial-strength power of the product by filming the blender munching everything from rake handles to an iPhone. The videos racked up 60 million hits on YouTube, and the company’s CEO was soon making an appearance on The... View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
else is the same” And a mission-based ROI can be a tough sell sometimes. “I wish I had a stock price, because then it would be easy to show everybody how well we’re doing, or for them to realize we’re not doing so well. Instead, I have to... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
the social ROI of their services. “We’re helping one of our new clients to quantify the benefit it produces for its stakeholders, which will help in both management and marketing,” Chussil says, noting that the current projects are... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
Matter’s largest financial supporter, meanwhile, is Pershing Square Foundation, started by Bill Ackman (MBA 1992). Pershing helped fund a 2014 ROI study by Columbia University professor Clive Belfield, who found that for every dollar... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
assisted living facility or or segmented senior housing. They want intergenerational housing. And so, these other countries have much more intergenerational components which I think will strengthen successful aging going forward. [music] View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
says, it will create a new asset class for socially minded investors, providing them with a reliable ROI that will advance the investing effort. He also believes that changing from a charity-based model of giving has a huge impact on the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
comic books at Marvel? They will always be very important. In a sense, comic books are our R&D function. What is unique is that we have a very profitable R&D effort with triple-digit ROI and net margins of 30 to 35 percent. We can take... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
In 1984, two board members of the Walt Disney Company (WDC) — Stanley Gold and Roy Disney — mounted a targeted campaign to convince major shareholders that Michael Eisner and Frank Wells were the right team to lead the faltering... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
for a better future. What is the role of research at HBS? Roy Zider (MBA 1970), Oakland, California NN: Research is the heart and soul of any great university. It is the way our faculty members develop a deep understanding of management... View Details