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- 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
layoffs and lost revenues, for example - weak companies are artificially supported," he explains. "Other firms won't or can't restructure themselves or exit unprofitable businesses because they are too set in their ways, lack sound... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
and basically starve the other businesses of resources and ultimately exit them. So that was the first five years of my administration, and it worked out extraordinarily successfully. So within five years, we had gone from about 100... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
and we want to find resources to help you continue to serve your communities in even stronger ways. We felt like it was flipping the script of the traditional, sad scene in so many newsrooms over the last couple of decades, in which the new owners show up with pink... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
Professor of Management Practice—explain how the world of private equity works, from start to finish, how it creates value, and where it may destroy value. They discuss raising funds; considering, structuring, and overseeing transactions; and View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Goes Back To School
exit the facility and we disinfect and clean the area for the next person who comes in at the top of the hour,” says LaRose. She details more of the changes that Shad has instituted to keep the community safe in this Q&A. AUGUST 27 The... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
package it in a way that’s consumable?” One easy way to do this: Measure the flashy stuff. A program called Statcast calculates hitters’ launch angles and exit velocities on batted balls, while capturing spin rates for pitchers. Those... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
Applegate said. Steve Collens, CEO of MATTER, a health care startup incubator, and Kevin Willer, a partner at Chicago Ventures, agreed that entrepreneurial activity in Chicago really started to take off in 2010 and 2011, when a critical mass of companies that had made... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
help grow the brand. “The trade-off was that the investment resulted in their having a majority stake in the company and ultimately taking control of it,” Philp says. “For me it was a positive experience in the sense that we launched a brand and found an View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
$18.9 billion in 2003, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. From Boston to Silicon Valley, top firms are competing for deals again. And the initial public offering market — the favored exit for venture-capital investors — rallied last... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
couple of experiments should not be that much of a bandwidth killer. —Jacob Navon (MBA 1984) It’s critical to choose one and “own” it. Which one to choose is largely a function of the exit strategy. Owning one specific market will... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
and that's very important to me." Looking to the future, Shafir muses that when he turns fifty in a few years, it may be time to try something totally different, but for now he is content. "People have asked me about my exit strategy, and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
Illustration by ROBERTO PARADA On the day after the White House asked Thomas T. Riley (MBA ’75) to be the next ambassador to Morocco, a dozen suicide bombers struck in Casablanca, killing and injuring more than 100 people. As Riley watched CNN, he thought, “I hope the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
years the growth rate of the vaccine industry will be between 15 and 20 percent, making it a very attractive industry. The margins are, again, not as high as in patented, branded products, but they still are quite attractive. Also, one of the reasons why big pharma... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
defining what measures of social return it is looking for. In some instances social and economic returns could be correlated, but in many cases they won’t. If you are looking for a social and not an economic return, then loyalty to the program rather than an View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
proceeds into the new deal, the only investors asked to do so. After considering the time we already had been in it, and that it would be a cross-fund investment (touting to one fund what a great exit it was while telling another that it... View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- News
New Charter School CEO Debuts Colorful Changes
announce a new easing of dress code regulations. Jones started in the role late last year after the previous CEO exited abruptly after investigations found that he had engaged in a “pattern of inappropriate behavior”, leading Jones and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
script: Biscuiterie Jeannette 1850. In September 2015, a little less than 18 months after touring Jeannette’s original factory in Caen, Viana watched as the first madeleines exited a high-tech Italian oven in its brand-new Démouville... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
on prescription drugs and heroin, it won’t take much to see significant ROI. Langford is driving again. The Camry has 96,000 miles on the odometer; despite his success in building and leading tech companies, Langford will admit that he did not time his investment View Details
- 22 Aug 2016
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The Future of GE
General Electric, now 124 years old, is looking to the future, CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) recently told Vanity Fair. When Immelt took the helm of GE in 2001, it was a diverse conglomerate. Now, Immelt said, “we’ve exited almost all of... View Details