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Annora Wang

What was the shape of your career before pursuing your MBA? I worked in finance, on Wall Street. I enjoyed analysis, but wasn’t always interested in the types of business I got involved in. As an undergraduate at the University of... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

around the world could improve responses to the next global financial catastrophe. Work done recently by dozens of Harvard Business School students under Alberto Cavallo, the Edgerley Family Associate Professor of View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Jun 2002
News

Dinner Celebrates Professorships

Roy D Shapiro, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration (at right), shares a laugh with Philip Caldwell (MBA '42), former chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company. Photo: Thomas J. Fitzsimmons Linda A. Hill, the Wallace... View Details

Keywords: donors; professorships; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Charles L. Brown

Brown guided AT&T through one of the largest corporate reorganizations in United States history by settling the government’s antitrust case in 1982. He successfully divested of AT&T’s local phone View Details

Keywords: Communications

Carl H. Lindner, Jr.

Lindner parlayed his small interest in a family dairy business into one of the largest and most successful financial conglomerates in the United States. Beginning with the purchase of one insurance company... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Jun 2013
News

EnTRIPreneurs

by the students, it's more like a rolling summer job, with an entrepreneurial focus and a dash of pro bono consulting, built around visits to several high-potential small businesses in the American heartland. "Globalization puts a... View Details

Keywords: Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

projects that it will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by the end of 2014. But as the Great Wall exemplifies the great feats of Chinese unity, so too does it reflect a tradition of environmental subjugation for... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

February 1999 (Revised November 1999)
Case

Securicor Wireless Networks: February 1996

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Bill Wasik

Securicor Wireless (SWN) sold software products to wireless telephone carriers. The company was incorporated in January of 1995 as a 40%-owned subsidiary of Securicor Telesciences (STI), itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of British security giant Securicor PLC. Just... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Subsidiaries; Nationality; Business Conglomerates; Applications and Software; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Culture; Business Startups; Business and Shareholder Relations; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; United States

Citation

Educators

Purchase

01 Mar 2009
News

Damon Silvers

policymaker in Europe last week, and he confirmed the Japanese auto industry’s belief that its supply chain in the United States would be disrupted should the three automakers fail. That’s because key suppliers are dependent on having a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation

14 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

If Mad Men advertising hotshot Don Draper was operating on Madison Avenue today, he would find competition coming from more than just other ad firms. A recent study by Harvard Business School professor emeritus Alvin J. Silk and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

02 Dec 2017
News

A Leveraged Investment

time between the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, and the United States, both stress that attending OPM improved their businesses as well as their personal lives. “HBS enriched... View Details

09 Aug 2011
News

A Toast to Macchu Pisco

Business Plan Contest, I did a marketing independent study on how to launch a premium pisco brand in the United States. We entered a plan in the contest and were semi-finalists. The alumni I contacted during... View Details

Keywords: Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2023
News

Fostering a Supportive Community

After graduating from Cornell University, where he majored in policy analysis, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) spent seven years working in education and for a nonprofit that advances equity and economic mobility in the southern United States.... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

01 Dec 2006
News

Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge

roles of Europe and the United States in promoting the flow of capital across national borders. Investor Protection: The Czech Experience When TV Nova launched as the first privately owned TV channel in post-Communist Czechoslovakia, few... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Nikki Skovran

In her varied career to date, Nikki Skovran has applied her talents to processes and product lines at Proctor & Gamble – and to the pursuit of violent gang members in the United States’ toughest inner cities. To account for the... View Details

13 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

When Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria first moved from India to the United States more than 30 years ago, he was impressed with how well the highways and airports hummed along in this country. Yet... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

07 Mar 2019
News

Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands

David Benitez (OPM 46, 2014) is founder and president of Intelligent Mexican Marketing (IMM Latino), a company that provides a brand-building platform in the United States' Hispanic market by being the largest connectors of Latino... View Details

11 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

of America’s shareholders from voicing their concerns. When a shareholder has a beef with a company’s business practices, they can submit a formal proposal to suggest a policy change. The company can respond to the proposal in one of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

January 2008 (Revised December 2008)
Case

Codman Academy: Beyond the Start-up Phase

By: Stacey Childress and Tiffany K. Cheng

As it entered its seventh academic year, Codman Academy, an expeditionary learning charter school located in Dorchester, Massachusetts, was reflecting on its successes and challenges. The school had succeeded in placing every member of its most recent graduating class... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Leadership; Performance Improvement; Partners and Partnerships; Education Industry; Boston

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Educators

Purchase

October 2024 (Revised January 2025)
Case

MDH Partners: Evolving a Family Legacy

By: Christina R. Wing and Sarah Mehta

This case is about succession planning for MDH Partners, an Atlanta-based industrial real estate investment firm founded in 2005. When Jeffrey Small, Jr. cofounded MDH Partners, he named the company in honor of his grandfather, Mark Durward (MD) Hodges, an early... View Details