Family Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Oct 2011
News

Tea’s Time

Rawdon relates by phone. “But we were united by our vision of what the company could be.” The two spent the following months pulling together a business plan and fund-raising pitch. “My one-year anniversary at Siebel was the same day we... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2023
News

Action Plan: Casting Call

planned for 2023, when he will celebrate his 100th birthday. He’s quick to characterize the 64-year marriage he shared with his wife, Joan, until she died of cancer in 2012. “Where else could I find a woman who would hike across the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Career Coach

Jessica Mbaeliachi

to the Board of Directors, and key Enterprise Level strategic initiatives. She previously served as the company’s Head of Strategy and Operations for Intercontinental Markets, driving commercial strategy, brand planning and business... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Health Care

01 Jan 2013
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Thomas A. James, MBA 1966

Baker Scholar, James accepted a position as controller at his father's firm, by then a 75-person financial planning company that was called, as a result of a merger, Raymond James Financial (RJF). At the same time, he enrolled in law... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2000
News

Q&A: Andrew Kendall

Growing up in Sharon, Massachusetts, Andrew W. Kendall (MBA 1988) developed a natural affinity for the outdoors from family trips to the beach and from hiking, snowshoeing, and camping in New England's mountains and forests. It wasn't... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

March 2000 (Revised May 2000)
Case

U.S. Gas Transportation, Inc.

By: John A. Davis, Myra M. Hart and Sharon Peyus

Presents a career dilemma for a husband/wife owner-manager team. Nanci and Len Mackenzie have received an offer for their highly successful entrepreneurial business, U.S. Gas Transportation, Inc. The Mackenzies are concerned about what the sale might do to their... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Family Ownership; Family Business; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Culture; Employees; Business Exit or Shutdown; Planning; Transportation Industry

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February 2005 (Revised June 2006)
Case

JCDecaux

By: John R. Wells and Vincent Dessain

Describes how JCDecaux, the second largest global outdoor advertising company, became the world leader in street furniture advertising in a fast consolidating business environment. Also explains why, in the late 1990s, JCDecaux diversified its activities into... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Global Strategy; Leadership Style; Family Ownership; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Advertising Industry

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01 Mar 2007
News

Mom Corps

O'KELLY AND KIDS: An idea grows up. As a new mom doing freelance CPA work, Allison Karl O’Kelly (MBA ’99) had an idea for a start-up. The result is Mom Corps, which connects companies looking for top-tier, experienced talent with professionals seeking flexibility. It’s... View Details

Keywords: parenthood; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Career Coach

Layla A. Ramirez

college graduate and first-generation business school graduate, and is the first in her family to start her career in Corporate America. Layla is fluent in Spanish and holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Smith College and an M.B.A.... View Details

Keywords: Education; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services (All); Social Enterprise; Technology

01 Jun 1998
News

Generation Next

families bring to company situations," says HBS professor Louis B. ("By") Barnes, who, with Davis and Howard H. Stevenson, taught the program. "We try to help family members develop specific action View Details

04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

culminating with the Tony Awards in June. ‘Clean slate’ September (or just say no to overbooking) Rather than wait until January, my family makes it a point to clear out the “clutter” in our schedules at the end of each summer and start a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

Career Coach

Phil Wong

operational foundation for running healthcare practices. Prior to pivoting into healthcare, Phil was a portfolio manager at a fund of hedge funds managing $1Bn+ on behalf of pension plans and insurance companies. His investing role... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Corporate Finance; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship

17 Oct 2014
News

Committed to helping others

Eryn Schultz (MBA 2015) is concerned about access to healthy food and critical services for low-income families and plans to dedicate herself to helping those less fortunate. (Published October 2014) View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

Minding Families' Business

A twelfth-generation scion of one of the oldest merchant families in Quebec, Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (MBA '54) acquired a family business the old-fashioned way-he built it. Today he dedicates himself to... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

Samuel C. Johnson II

Taking the helm of the family business in 1966, Johnson began a diversification plan to lessen the company’s exposure to the introduction of “no-wax” floors. He aggressively moved the company into the... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

Portrait Project

Thomas Nassim

the musicians packed up, the lights turned down. I plan to walk to the end of the battered wooden pier and sit for a while. As the day fades, molten gold streaks the leaden waters. A chill November evening on the bay. On the shore behind,... View Details

Profile

Alika Phipps

As a child in Haiti, Alika Phipps watched her family manage its business interests, in margarine production and property insurance, and became “fascinated with markets and finance.” While attending MIT, she took a summer internship at JP... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

On the National Stage

lot of music out of her ears,” Heinz told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (June 17, 2004). “John Kerry brought that back.” On leave from Jacobson Partners, a New York private equity firm, Heinz has seen his own future become the subject of much Kennedyesque speculation. “I... View Details

Keywords: John Heinz (MBA 1963); Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

08 Dec 2015
News

Living the Legacy

HBX CORe, a three-course online program that teaches the fundamentals of business, he knew his children would benefit from the content and the high quality of instruction that had set the foundation for his own career success. Ray recommended HBX CORe to his children,... View Details

Career Coach

Pamela Harder

Pam (HBS / HKS ‘13, Stanford ‘08 Economics) has spent the last 12 years working at the nexus of business and government. Currently, she runs Virginia's state-wide economic development talent investment strategy. As a Managing Director within state government's economic... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Education; Emerging Markets; Government; Social Enterprise; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Energy; Consumer Finance; Financial Services (All); Impact Investing; Financial Services (All)

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