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Brighton Mudzingwa

leaders." "Coming to HBS," Brighton explains, "would allow me to expand my leadership capabilities while exposing me to a range of views, realities, and different perspectives that make successful organizations."... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

Samuel M. Walton

Walton achieved great success at Wal-Mart, primarily by focusing on an often-ignored group of consumers: small-town residents. Walton’s formula for success entailed building super-stores that sold a wide... View Details

Keywords: Retail

Joseph M. Segel

A prolific entrepreneur, Segel has founded many successful companies including The Franklin Mint and National Software testing Laboratories. His biggest success was the formation of QVC, which stands for... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act

For want of a better idea, many companies often rely on a tried-and-true success formula. And why not? What worked before to pull their organization into profitability will surely work again, right? Not so, according to Donald Sull,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Stephanie Atiase

industries,” Stephanie says. “My real role as a leader is to help others find what they want to do with their AASU – and HBS – experience." Developing organizations for growth and success Stephanie embraces "the concept of... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Leadership in Practice

William F. Dawson Jr. (MBA 1991) After three decades working with executives in scores of private and public companies, Wellspring Capital Management CEO William F. Dawson Jr. (MBA 1991) is convinced that “the most successful business... View Details

Joseph M. Long

In 1938, Long, along with his brother Thomas, created one of the most successful self-service drugstores in the western United States. Self-service retailing was considered a radical concept when Long established his first operation in... View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Jun 2004
News

Books

specific recommendations for overcoming each of the hurdles that stand between a young start-up and a vibrant and successful large enterprise. Although aimed at women entrepreneurs, Clearing the Hurdles provides a thorough examination of... View Details

Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Frank N. Doubleday

Doubleday founded one of the most successful and enduring publishing companies in the United States. He acquired a series of specialty publishing companies including Garden City Publishing Company, Doran Book Shops, and the Crime Club.... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

Georges F. Doriot

Doriot founded the first and one of the most successful publicly traded venture capital corporations in the United States. While American R&D funded numerous business entities, Doriot’s big success came... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Walter E. Sachs

In addition to continuing Goldman, Sachs’ success in the underwriting business, Walter Sachs expanded the company’s other business areas, his most notable venture being the creation of the investment trust arm, the Goldman, Sachs Trading... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Elisabeth Claiborne

Founded in 1976, Liz Claiborne joined the Fortune 500 list of the largest industrial companies only a decade later, one of the youngest companies ever to achieve this mark. In 1987, Liz Claiborne had sales in excess of $1 billion. All this View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

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Brian T. Bedol

For Brian Bedol, the founder and CEO of Bedrocket Media Ventures, entrepreneurship was deeply engrained from his childhood in Cleveland. Bedol’s father founded a successful small housewares manufacturing and metal stamping business and... View Details

12 Apr 2016
News

How Disney’s Alan Horn Manages the Movies

The most recent issue of Variety features a cover story on Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn (MBA 1971). The piece paints Horn as a rare character in Hollywood, being “both successful and beloved,” and tracks his departure from... View Details

Charles W. Nash

Not wanting to compete with the "Big Three" auto makers in the 1920s, Nash carved out a unique niche for well-designed luxury automobiles at medium prices. This strategy was very successful for Nash Motors as it became one of... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Putting the Project Puzzle Together

own investments. Once you have agreed to look at it as a portfolio and have raised these issues to the surface, you have already solved half the problem. Q: What companies do you both see as success stories in terms of aligning their... View Details