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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
Jackson, Sr.; John H. Johnson of Johnson Publishing; Robert Johnson, CEO of Black Entertainment Television; and Stuart Alden Taylor (MBA '87), senior managing director at Bear Stearns. Interactive sessions explored private equity deal... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 18 May 2011
- News
Man with a Plan
ad campaign has been a game-changer for the Abbeville, Alabama–based wood company. Rane was a practicing attorney in Birmingham in 1970 when he acquired Great Southern following the deaths of its founders, his wife’s parents, in an auto... View Details
Donald V. Fites
During his tenure as CEO, Fites grew Caterpillar, the world’s #1 producer of earth-moving machinery, from a $10 billion company to a $20 billion plus company. Fites successfully implemented a $1.8 billion modernization program to cut costs and raise profits. Fites’... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 25 May 2016
- News
Education Is the Key
nonprofit business and economics institution in Brazil. The Insper Institute of Education and Research, he says, aims to address the shortage of prepared leaders. “Many of our problems [in Brazil] stem from microeconomics,” he says. “We need better leadership and View Details
- 22 Jul 2024
- News
Viral Marketing’s Early Muse
Illustration by John Weber In 2008, Canadian musician Dave Carroll saw United Airlines employees manhandling his $3,500 Taylor guitar on the tarmac in Chicago. When he arrived at his destination, the guitar was in pieces. Carroll contacted United customer service... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Recognizing Volunteers and Donors
those who regularly support the Dean's Fund is Oliver Evans, who has made a gift every year since he graduated. Evans, a managing partner with the fund management firm Dorsal Capital in Redwood City,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
It's been a busy autumn at HBS. In September, the School successfully launched its first-ever capital campaign (see coverage). A few weeks later, the fall reunions were very well attended. The Alumni Board then held a productive meeting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
Issue Focus: The Global Manager Mittal Issue Focus: The Global Manager Around the World They Call Him Mr. China Bringing Global Back Home In 1976, in India’s Punjab region, 18-year-old Sunil Bharti Mittal... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
School's first program with a major e-learning component and to train one-on-one coaches to support a more individualized approach to learning. In my own research and writing, I am currently working on two topics: what it takes to lead and View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- News
Cahill to Lead HBS External Relations
Janet Cahill (AMP 189, 2015, and a graduate of Princeton University), who was previously managing director of HBS External Relations and The Harvard Business School Campaign, has been named the new executive director of External... View Details
Alfred N. Steele
Arriving at Pepsi after defecting from an alienating position at Coca-Cola, Steele immediately began a highly involved rehabilitation process at the battered soft drink maker. Steele installed a more autonomous management structure,... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
the $1.5-million student activities budget as vice president of student affairs during his senior year. Signing on as a fundraising campaign manager for the United Way of Toronto at the tender age of 23, he... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Fellowships Have Impact
San Francisco Frist (MBA 1997, MBA 2001) Family Financial Aid Fund “I received a small grant from a planned gift, and I’ve often thought how inspired it was so many years ago that somebody thought to encourage more management skills in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
away many of the influences that corrupt sound decision-making. However, neither Bradley nor McCain, the candidates who were running on campaign reform in 2000, was able to sell it to the American people. We haven’t talked very much yet... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
campaign managers generally choose one of two strategies. One is to prod radio stations to run a hit single from an album as many times a day as possible - what's known as creating "push" in the marketplace.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
fact-based, nonpartisan effort to understand what makes the US economy competitive. In 2016, with US economic performance lackluster and the public discourse in this critical presidential campaign muddled, the Project’s lead faculty... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
experts in the health care field, to provide their views on various facets of one of this country's most important and complex problems. Bill George Professor of Management Practice, former chair and CEO of Medtronic, and author of 7... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
volunteer as poll workers. Facilitate political engagement. Look to online platforms that have simplified small contributions to political campaigns and increased the diversity of donors, as well as efforts to encourage employees and... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
Education, a project is under way to examine the portfolio of offerings to foster what Light calls “a reconception” of thinking about business education for managers at different points in their careers. One new offering still in the... View Details