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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
the School, I think I might have failed at Kohl's. I learned how to devise and implement a strategy and, most important, about the importance of working well with people. What was your strategy in running Kohl's?... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
With a background in government service, truck-parts manufacturing, and private equity, John C. Read (MBA ’71) might seem an unlikely person to run the world’s largest adventure-based educational organization. But about a decade ago, Read... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
overall, we’ll continue to do a good job for our clients and grow the business. What does “accountability” mean in the context of running a financial firm? Tell the truth, serve people, have integrity. Have the ability, guts, and courage... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Second Acts
signed on as chairman of former Lt. Gov. William Scranton’s campaign to win the Republican nomination for governor in this year’s race against incumbent Ed Rendell. Drawing on his business background, Meakem advocates policies that will lower taxes and spur economic... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
of the fraud, few people at Enron ever admitted to knowing about it. This episode tells the story of the company’s rise and fall and of one Enron employee brave enough to take her concerns straight to the top. “The Run Coal Memos,” the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
best-selling software package, while watching his wife do their finances by hand twenty years ago. "Computers — especially the ones we were working with in 1982 — are crummy at a lot of things, but they happen to be very good at calculation and data manipulation, which... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Ready for Takeoff: Web Portal Enters Second Phase
information that will help them throughout their careers, whether they're mulling over the idea of starting a small business or already running a multimillion dollar corporation. "Working Knowledge makes the work done at HBS accessible... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
to become Brazil's largest investment bank. Today the Baker Scholar runs JGP, one of Brazil's leading independent asset management firms. JGP has delivered positive returns every year since its 1998 inception. Thomas A. James, MBA 1966... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
industry) will ultimately be successful. Those associated with growth and so-called synergies - such as the Time Warner acquisition of Turner - will ultimately be viewed as unwise. Today's activity, he notes, is more like the "disastrous" merger wave of the 1960s,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
highly regarded people to lead this prominent joint venture. But just three years later, it was declared a colossal failure. One thing is clear in hindsight: Although the people picked by those companies to run the project were highly... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Senior Lecturer José Alvarez visited wheat fields at a farm owned and run by the Duhau Group in Argentina’s Pampa region. The company was the subject of a case Alvarez wrote, which he taught in the Agribusiness Seminar in 2019. (photo by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
funding last March and is ready to scale. “We’ve gone from having a couple of robots in the field to showcase their autonomy to having a fleet of them running miles every day,” Andersen says. And it’s just the beginning of Burro’s... View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- News
The Beauty Guide
Courtesy Michelle Freyre When Michelle Freyre (MBA 1997) was a brand manager at Neutrogena, Michael McNamara, global president of the beauty brand at the time, asked what she wanted to do with her career. She answered, “I want to be you. I want to View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Class of 2004 Gives Fellowship
graduate of Princeton, Shariff is committed to international development. Prior to HBS, she worked with CARE International in Rwanda, primarily on HIV prevention and microfinance targeted at households run by children. “Because of the... View Details
- 20 Jun 2008
- News
Risk and Reward
stud fees for an additional several million in winnings? More wins could mean higher stud fees. But the sad demise of Barbaro and Eight Belles have got to give you pause. Then there’s the sport itself to consider. The number of racing fans is shrinking, and if the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Squeeze Play
electronic components assembly line and recast as an expensive, high-end beauty product. That Tweezerman success has allowed LaMagna to bankroll other passions. He’s run for office (unsuccessfully) and dabbled in politics over the years... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
Leading the Way
Everything that GE did, I had a chance to be a part of. “I tend to be a pretty optimistic person. For example, I left GE not getting the top job. But I understand how these things work. So my effort starting the next day was focused on, ‘Hey, what company am I going to... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
advisor, and a stint as managing director of Sotheby’s in Japan, Shibayama runs the consultancy AG Holdings, which plans and manages corporate art collections and art support programs in his native Japan. The best known of these is the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Peak Earth?
“If we maintain our desperate focus on growth, we will run out of everything and crash.” Yet Grantham also held out hope, noting, “With foresight and thoughtful planning, this suffering is completely avoidable.” View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Seventy Years Out: Class of 1932 Celebrates Reunions
up running at the age of 65 and a decade later set the U.S. record for the 5K event in his age group. “You've got to remember,” noted the 93-year-old, who no longer runs due to a detached retina, “the... View Details