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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
ventured into Kansas City and Chicago. But that meant marketing under a different name — another of Rogers’ many war stories. A year after Rogers and Cronk bought Dreyer’s, a lawyer from Kraft Foods, owner at the time of nationally... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance, but ever since his undergraduate days of studying public and international affairs at Princeton, Offensend planned that, one... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
wat. Although built around a temple and housing a contingent of monks, each wat also serves as a social and community center and frequently hosts market days and carnivals. It’s hard to convey the pervasive role of monks in Thai society.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
with encouragement from faculty mentors, pursued his growing interests in markets and investment. During his tenure at the School he has served as chair of the Finance unit and taken on a number of key administrative roles, including... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
decide, for example, when to disclose plans for the merger, what restrictions to place on insider use of information, what counts as fair and proper accounting and taxation, and how to treat employees who may lose their jobs. "In M&As;... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
that plane who boarded on time," she says. "But then there is this person who really cannot read. And she is a customer. And we want her on our plane. But how do we teach her how to fly?" The first-time flyer market in Brazil has risen... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
creating a good narrative in selling effectively. Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future by Leonard A. Schlesinger (DBA 1979) and Charles F. Kiefer, with Paul B. Brown (Harvard Business Review Press) In an environment where change is constant... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
group partner,” she says. “Moving from consumer products to venture capital was a pretty hard pivot. I was 30 years old and pursuing a not-so-easy industry to break into,” she admits. “However, HBS gave me an incredible opportunity to craft what I wanted to do, and a... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
Fenn, Jr., Edward L. Anthony (MBA '52), and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (51st PMD). Volume I, number 1 of the Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin appeared on January 3, 1925, after a three-year trial as a special section of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. The tentative... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
technology’s primary customers are the manufacturers of e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle (the market leader, at least for the moment), Sony’s Reader, and the others sure to follow. (Hearst, Plastic Logic, and new companies in China and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
talking about? Africa, for example, is littered with good intentions and strategic plans for what needs to happen. But there aren’t a lot of people on the ground who have the knowledge to follow through with implementation. A huge lesson... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
manufacturing job. “The operations of a manufacturing business are very different from a capital business,” he adds. “Frankly, I’m still learning a lot every day.” And he’s putting that new knowledge into action. Last November, the company rolled out a product... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
could keep in touch with each other. Eventually, there was enough communication that they could help plan fundraising events for orchestra members who were suddenly left without a paycheck. One of the first events was a concert in October... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
profitability. He notes that Xerox Corporation, for example, is currently implementing a plan to reclaim its equipment, refurbish it, and resell it - without having any waste leave the plant in the process. "They not only hope to achieve... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
hallmark of sweeping, technology-driven change, HBS alumni, faculty, and invited guests representing nearly thirty countries considered today's newest frontier: the world of information technology. "Nobody on the organizing committee had any idea, when the View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
comprehensive, regional planning and as only one element in a complex mix of interrelated socioeconomic factors. "A lot of businesses that are concerned about the problem have concluded that the best way they can help is by supporting the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
some truly Olympian details to take care of, including planning for 2 million spectators (joined by 3 billion television viewers, or 60 percent of the human race); 15,000 athletes and officials from 197 participating countries; 30... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
Slayton (MBA 1990) discussing the situation he faced in 1997 when he took over as president and CEO of a small company called MySoftware. The firm was a struggling Silicon Valley business that developed and sold software for a variety of small-business needs such as... View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
We work with two gyms currently, and we’re planning to partner with some after-school programs to bring instructors to them.” What are your short- and long-term goals for PowerUP? MGA: “We currently serve 100 kids, and we are aiming to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
can be extremely lonely.” That began to change in 1997, when Endeavor was founded to spur economic growth in emerging and developing markets, initially in Latin America. It now has offices in India, South Africa, and Turkey, with plans to... View Details