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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
It hardly seems possible, but 25 years have passed since our class left Soldiers Field. At the time we were a bit dazed by the political and social upheaval around us, yet confident that our hard-earned MBA credential would stand us in good stead as we set forth in the... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
restructure and diversify the giant family firm and turn it into a global enterprise. How do you see the role of business now and in the future? Consumers are demanding a new template for corporations. They... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
thirties, restructuring the marketing organization for a large regional bank, and my husband, Ray Benvenuti (MBA 1986), and I had two children under seven. At that time, I had no inkling of what would be required to juggle the needs of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
2001 she came on board full-time to help run Hearon’s company, Nice Ventures. “It was going to be a short-term change,” she recalls. “I thought I’d bring in some new financing, we’d restructure, and I’d go back to working in Silicon Valley.” By September 2003, the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
positions that helped him understand the complexities of the company—from shift supervisor in a manufacturing plant, to new product development, to business development. Weeks, a quick study, has 26 patents pending despite a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
quarterly earnings reports, reflecting the complexity of corporate restructurings and other long-term growth strategies. There are important implications of these differences for public company boards, even though they operate with a... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
team, and through that experience had the opportunity to also share my own personal story at health care conferences and public settings, really advocating for the power of genetic information. I was there for nearly two years when they ended up going through a View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
customers. To me, it seemed like a very interesting challenge. How do you view your mandate as commissioner? There is one overriding mandate emerging from the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998: we've got to rewin the confidence of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
Senior Corporate Advisor, Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mitsubishi Corporation Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Harvard College, 1969 A.B., Government LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "By bringing together executives from... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
School’s US Competitiveness Project from business leader Katherine Gehl and University Professor Michael Porter. Gehl and Porter use the lens of industry competition to analyze the US political system and propose a strategy for reform and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
luncheon talk on international business opportunities for African Americans. Afternoon panels followed on African Americans in sports management, business possibilities in Africa, and issues for... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
socialist state, a land of overarching regulation rather than of opportunity. "As a result, there was no entrepreneurship, and businesses couldn't do a thing without government approval," recalls Rahul Bajaj, a member of one of India's... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
harassed and humiliated by IRS employees. Congress responded by passing the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act, which called for both regaining taxpayers' confidence and collecting taxes more efficiently by overhauling the agency's... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
Organization and the restructuring of Asian companies. That evening, guests were given a chance to talk with each other as well as with invited business and political leaders from Asia at a sold-out... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Enterprise examines the foundations of bold yet reasonable action. Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results By Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi (MBA 2016) Harper Business To make organizations more fair, many well-meaning... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
then his HBS colleague, was already working on a concept he called “predictable surprises,” the collaboration that led to their widely read book by the same title was launched. A distinguished expert on managerial decision-making, Bazerman is the Jesse Isidor Straus... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
developers that couldn’t play by the discounters’ strict rules had fewer sales channels. With all the fun that toys bring to kids, the business is characterized by copycats, empty piggy banks, and aggressive competition that might make a... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
just focus on that. Jennifer Wilson-Buttigieg, OPM Class 33. Retirement—nowhere near it. And if you really love what you do and you have a passion with a capital p, there's no need to retire. My mom, our founder, our chairman, our CEO, never had a college education,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
include whether high-performance Asian companies can provide a business model for success in the region, the role of accounting infrastructure in transitional economies, restructuring diversified View Details