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- 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams
development at John Keells Holdings, Sri Lanka’s largest conglomerate with 70 companies across the real estate, food and beverage, financial services, transportation, and leisure sectors. With the infrastructure pieces he’s worked on... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
just after a successful dive in the South Sandwich Trench. He had the experience. Since 2002, he has been a managing partner at Insight Equity, a private equity firm he cofounded, and currently serves as chairman of four companies. This... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
U.S. Army. He flew missions in Albania and Afghanistan before being called to Iraq in February 2003, where his assignment was more earthbound (but no less eventful) as headquarters company commander in charge of a 26-vehicle convoy and... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
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Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
company that I've started. We're six years into it and we're looking at partnering with someone to create another new company. I think about the new company, it'll take me out another 10 years till I'm 75. I think leadership has an awful... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
company were against it. Outside the company were cynical. So you had to fight through all that stuff. And so any initiative like that requires, you know, private innovation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
vertically integrated,” he notes. “Studios used to be stand-alone companies that were run like fiefdoms. Now they’re run like major corporations answering to shareholders.” Skyrocketing fees for star actors coupled with the high marketing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
could do more for communities when they close a plant or conduct a large layoff. “Many sectors, such as transportation, mining, chemicals, and heavy manufacturing, would do well to engage in community development,” he declares. “I believe if more View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
hotels. Set among pristine waters and beaches, backed by stunning volcanic mountain islands, the resorts boast romantic over-the-water bungalows, luxurious amenities, and the highest ratings from guests and travel industry experts. Bailey’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
Atlanta was awarded the 1996 Games. Like Los Angeles, the Olympics' host city in 1984, Atlanta is funding the Games almost exclusively with private money. One major difference, however, between the two cities' efforts is that because of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
hectic private lives. In the upper ranks, Mack notes that typical managers in other restaurants work seventy to eighty hours each week, inspiring the grim phrase “burn 'em and turn 'em.” By offering managers a forty-hour week at... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
business school? Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: I really believed that business is among the most powerful forces changing the world for the better. And also, for the worse, but I wanted to be part of the for the better part. And really, have a career that was about moving in... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
HBS Alumni podcast, ICV Partners cofounder Willie Woods (MBA 1993) discusses what companies can do to improve Black representation in their ranks. “The approach I'm talking about is a team,” Woods tells Skydeck contributing host Chitra... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
house Western companies happens in conditions that wouldn’t pass an OSHA inspection. Clean drinking water and indoor plumbing are a luxury, and slums line main roads. For many of the country’s 1.1 billion residents, life still exists... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
entrepreneur—would take him far away from Calhoun, he returned in 1997 to give his three daughters the opportunity to grow up in the close-knit community he remembered from his childhood. He continued his work across the private and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
and utility companies like Pacific Gas & Electric agreeing to accelerate deployment of charging stations along the routes. At some point, says Rich, “people will want to be in the business of creating charging stations and solutions, much... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
bridge and an express railway link to the central business district, represent a $20.1-billion investment. Two-thirds of the funds are coming from government, Lam noted, while the remainder is being sourced from the private sector. Philip... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
are able to achieve.” After lunch we return to our hotel for a presentation by Eugenio Madero (PMD 71, 1996), vice president and COO of San Luis Rassini, a leading Mexican manufacturer of small components for automobiles. It’s a company... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
promise held out by its foray into private equity, Grubman notes, "We're leveraging on Providence Equity's investment scale to invest in businesses we understand and where we can add value. For example, we have looked at investments in... View Details