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  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Moving Mountains

the business just after their father's death and following a foray into entrepreneurship. "A drawback to family business," Barco observes, "is that the founder is often a dominant personality, like my father was, so the children-you might... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience

realized that its activities had contributed to unnecessary death and destruction. I saw firsthand the role and power of business and the positive and negative impact it can have on people's lives." Ballou ultimately wants to work in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)

I was scared to death that everyone would be smarter than me. And they were. On the first day of class we were all anxious to talk and make a good first impression. I held my hand up until it had gangrene. Then Professor Ted Levitt ate me... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade
  • 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
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Bounce Back from a Blunder

Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong If mistakes are bound to happen—like death and perhaps taxes—then leaders need to let them be seen, says Victoria Montgomery Brown (MBA 2003), CEO and cofounder of... View Details
  • 25 Jun 2020
  • News

Covering All Corners

shores. The true danger of COVID-19 lies in its ability to spread aggressively while taking a heavy toll on a significant portion of those who contract it. Consequently, it places severe stress on hospitals, which only exacerbates the problem and ultimately leads to... View Details
  • 10 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

one reason: a death in the customer's family. A look at the number of waivers showed double-digit growth for the past three years. Either there was a death epidemic, or customers had figured out they could... View Details
  • 02 Jun 2019
  • News

A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

Christopher Poliquin (now assistant professor of Strategy at UCLA Anderson School of Management), were at first unsure about how they could have an effect on a dire statistic: Nearly 40,000 gun-related deaths occur annually, almost 15,000... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online

hrs Module 2 Elevate Define a performance death spiral, learn how to motivate service excellence by elevating your employees, and navigate between top-down prescriptions and bottom-up solicitations in leadership. Highlights The View Details
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

A Man of Influence

native would have relished every whistle-stop appearance of his book tour. Ambitious, inquisitive, and brimming with gusto for life’s adventures, it’s easy to imagine Valenti sitting down with Charlie Rose or holding forth at a book reading. Instead, his View Details
  • 06 May 2008
  • News

Small World? Read Nil about It

well-documented. They are the generation that will probably preside over and witness the death of newspapers in their lifetime. So here’s a question, especially for those Bulletin readers with international experience or business... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Information
  • 10 Jan 2013
  • News

From Wall Street to Visual Art

family's fine wine-and-spirits business," Bussel says. But in 2006, when a close friend died unexpectedly, Bussel had an epiphany. "His death made me realize that if I wanted to do something in life, this was the time to do it," she says.... View Details
Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 31 Oct 2018
  • News

Pitching In for Female Leaders

yet I was one of the few women who made it through the glass ceiling to the top of international football. Until one day, the rug was pulled off from underneath me, and I found myself out of a job. There was a horrible social media defamation campaign against me. I... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual

experience. Such experience has served him well as he has introduced numerous pieces of legislation that have, among other things, repealed inheritance taxes (the so-called death tax), banned taxes on Internet commerce, and limited... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Making a Difference

closely with actor Marlon Brando before his death in 2004 to create a development plan for Brando’s 1,500-acre Tahitian atoll. When the forty-unit project is completed in 2012, the resort will be virtually carbon neutral and a showcase... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta
  • 30 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

illiterate population in the world. Additionally, India has no nationally accepted means of verifying residents' identities. For example, even though registration of births and deaths became mandatory in 1969, only 55 percent of births... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

same subject. Using a detailed dataset to track civil war casualties across space and over time, several patterns are documented. Conflict-related deaths are significantly higher in poorer districts and in geographical locations that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"

become destinations for “medical tourists” from the West. Meanwhile, the country’s infant and maternal death rates are high, and diseases such as cholera, dysentery, and malaria are still far too prevalent. Chidambaram concluded by... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations

Shames and Peter Barton (MBA 1982) “This book is about a man on his deathbed (Barton) looking back at his life and appreciating the energy and enthusiasm with which he has lived it, and another man (Shames) comparing his own as he chronicles Barton’s life and View Details
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron

Barron continued to rise through the ranks of the Xerox Corporation, earning kudos in 1993 as a Business Week "Executive to Watch." Three years ago, she was named president of Xerox engineering systems. But a string of personal events occurring in the last few years -... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
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