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- 01 Jan 2010
- News
James Dimon, MBA 1982
strong reputation for social and corporate responsibility. Dimon came to JPMorgan from Bank One, where, as chairman and CEO, he turned a $511 million loss in 2000 into record earnings of $3.5 billion by 2003, when he engineered its sale... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
forces (Navy) during the Vietnam War before attendingbusiness school. We were probably one of the last classes to have a high percentage of veterans. What is the most important thing you've learned about business since leaving HBS? It's... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
expected to grow. Those combined forces present an existential challenge—and a megalopolis-sized opportunity—for entrepreneurs. “As population growth and weather-related pressures increase, the necessity of using our existing resources... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Homeplus; and the 2019 acquisition of Godiva Chocolate’s Asia-Pacific operations. Earlier, while at Carlyle, he oversaw the purchase of KorAm Bank in 2000 and its sale four years later to Citigroup, in a deal that more than doubled... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
a fintech unicorn that spans multiple verticals. After another sales record during the 2016 Global Shopping Festival with Alibaba, Ant Financial’s chief strategy officer contemplates the various opportunities and challenges associated... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
things were getting better—and I remember having this conversation with you where you felt that you were turning a corner and things were looking good. And suddenly the bottom falls out of your business. Describe to everybody what the bottom falling out of a business... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
account base salary, an evenly divided partner's share of the profits, and another share based solely on seniority. Candidates who pass muster find themselves part of a diverse and far-reaching organization that functions, in Zehnder's words, as "one firm worldwide."... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
Chacko says, is the iTunes of fonts. And as with Apple, Monotype’s decision to embrace this model is changing the way users discover, prototype, and manage fonts. Monotype is expanding globally, adding to its range of typefaces and to its View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
for claw-backs when investments go sour, and give executives significant equity stakes in their companies. “Two firms with compensation plans like I just described, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, both failed. So having the right View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
everything else.” That culture, critics maintain, spawned executive compensation plans with incentives that encouraged the excessive risk-taking that led to the financial crisis. And while the intricate details of pay plans don’t evoke... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
passionate about the notion that business could be a force for good. Within a few decades, many of the success stories were acquired by large corporations (L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, Colgate-Palmolive, and Amazon, in the case of the companies... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
affairs. Enron’s approach to compensation and incentives included many perverse features, such as encouraging growth over profitability and rewarding employees for closing commodity deals and power-generation projects without concrete... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
“I realized that it’s not about the idea; it’s about the team,” Medina recalls of those early days. It was a revelation that would serve him well. Medina soon joined forces with product designer Andrew Kinzer and enrolled in the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
conversation. What are the major market forces that are transforming the health-care system? First and foremost, it's consumers. They have already revolutionized the retailing and information industries because they are so busy working... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind
expenses associated with everyday activities such as management meetings, conferences, phone conversations, sales calls, reports, and memos. Hagel and Singer maintain that by dramatically reducing interaction costs, the Internet and other... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
buying bioplastics, and more and more airlines are doing the same with Sustainable Aviation Fuel. New regulations and financial reporting rules are being drafted to force companies to disclose climate risks they face. The investment... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
January 2022, Tilden stepped into an increasingly popular party. The rise of non-alcoholic (NA) beverages has been one of the big headlines in the industry, where sales of beer grew almost 70 percent from 2016 to 2021, according to... View Details
- 08 May 2014
- News
The Sky's the Limit
to how sheltered I was," Eaton says. After completing the PMD program, Eaton returned to the business world as international program manager for the Blackhawk helicopter at Sikorsky Aircraft, then as commercial sales manager. She also... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
made significant investments in research, technology, and a consultative sales force — all geared toward focusing Sealed Air on higher-margin, specialty solutions. He believes his most significant... View Details