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- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
Disenchanted with the corporate world, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of operations for Australia’s Cobham Aviation Services and made a bold career and lifestyle change, moving to rural South Australia... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
membership in exchange for the company's frank assessment of the service. More recently, Mueller added information about Russian and Chinese aviation in response to a request from a large aerospace manufacturer that, up to that point, had... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
and its $300,000 in cash — that proved of little interest to the bridge, given the situation. Then came the order to abandon ship. A destroyer had maneuvered alongside to evacuate our wounded first, and then our pilots. One of the senior View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
DiRomualdo spent four years in the Navy as an aviation reconnaissance officer during the Vietnam War before earning his MBA. He then worked for several firms, most notably Hickory Farms, the faltering specialty foods company that he... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 08 Jan 2025
- News
Mapping Pain Points at the IRS
Having spent a decade helping retailers optimize customer service, Fumi Tamaki (MBA 2014) could not pass up the opportunity in June 2024 to take on the challenge of improving the customer experience at the government organization that serves more Americans annually... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
to name just a few parts assembled at the company’s plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Unfortunately, the plane’s original engines failed to meet expectations, necessitating a redesign and switch to a new supplier. Plagued by delays and cash-flow problems, Eclipse View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
Jeff Immelt’s night table—Railway Age, Aviation Week, Broadcasting & Cable—represents just a few of the industries encompassed by General Electric, the company founded by Thomas Edison where Immelt is entering his ninth year as chairman... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
conditions and often with extraordinary and unheralded courage -- to fulfill the mission they have been given by the President and the American people as the nation's first line of defense. When the safety of the United States or its allies demands a military response,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ian Walsh
members of the Class of 1989 who spent part of their summers training to be officers - and eventually aviators - in the U.S. Marine Corps. Their choices, however, were quite in keeping with family tradition: their father had been an... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Courtesy Rick Sontag Courtesy Rick Sontag In 1994, Rick Sontag (MBA 1968) was the president of Unison Industries, an aviation component manufacturer he had grown from one Midwest factory into a 1,500-employee international business. He... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
Class of 1925 February 1940 The first known casualty among the alumni of the Business School during the present war was Lt. Claus von Bohlen und Halbach, son of the head of the Krupp works in Essen, Germany. He was an aviator in the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
to enroll at a local university. University was the bridge to who I am today. Frank Magwegwe (AMP 185, 2013) Segment Head, Momentum Retail A dream grounded I’ve been intrigued by aviation since childhood. After HBS I spent several years... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the UN Global Compact. None of this is news to Smith. A former US Navy aviator who worked at Bendix Aerospace and Booz Allen Hamilton before running (and eventually selling) an advertising... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100 years of war and dynamic social realignment. The main focus is... View Details