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- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
Tom Volpe Prior to earning degrees from Harvard College and the London School of Economics, Tom Volpe had worked as a furniture mover and paperboy, among other occupations. "I never had to wear a jacket and tie," says the gregarious... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
to bulletin@hbs.edu Case Study Update: GAIA Design When they launched Gaia Design in 2014, Philippe Cahuzac (MBA 2014) and his cofounders set their sights on building an iconic modern furniture brand for Mexico’s young urbanites. But by... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
Bulletin. In her working paper, "Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams," Edmondson presents field research she conducted at Office Design Incorporated (ODI), a midwestern manufacturer of office systems and furniture... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
Melcher. She served as president and handled the business side of the growing school, from learning to write a budget to scouring used furniture stores for inexpensive desk chairs and finding ever-larger classroom spaces (the school moved... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
column was a way to explore the link between a business leader’s workspace and the culture of his or her organization. Along the way, Raje—former chief executive of BP Ergo, her family’s office furniture business—featured the hotel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
1968. "Owned" is perhaps the wrong word, for Jenrette seems to be more curator than owner as he moves from room to room, pointing out the Rembrandt Peale portrait of George Washington above a fireplace, the suite of silk-upholstered Duncan Phyfe View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
outsource. Initially they outsourced customary household tasks, but now they are outsourcing unconventional tasks, like event help for birthdays, IKEA furniture assembly, city-to-city deliveries, and others. “As clients embrace the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
to children's furniture and toys. Upon leaving the Commission six years later, Franklin joined the Wharton faculty. However, her public service continued. She served four terms as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
the job to be done, you have to organize in a very different way than if you're just selling furniture. And hence, a company that is selling sub-par furniture to the low end of humanity, people we call college students. Nobody can copy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
Gold Illustration by David Cowles Leslie Goldbloom (MBA ’85), aka Leslie Gold, the RadioChick, first established herself in the male-dominated world of talk radio as cohost of Two Chicks Dishing on Boston’s WRKO in the mid-1990s. She later moved to New York’s WNEW,... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
with people. People had long lists going all the way back to Vince Foster and Whitewater and fast forwarding to the Clintons taking furniture out of the White House, and the Benghazi and the emails, and the Clinton Foundation, and Donna... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
offices and factories in the fifty countries where we operate," says the 68-year-old executive, whose company produces well-known household products such as Future floor cleaner, Pledge furniture polish, Glade air freshener, and Raid... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
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Groundwork
“If you want to do one-to-one negotiations for the first part of the day, then meet in bigger groups, or maybe jump to a case room to debrief, the layout and furniture will let you make those transitions seamlessly. The hive is a design... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat
mother, Terry, with office furniture consisting of a few card tables, folding chairs, and Princess telephones. “I found business so much harder than I’d anticipated,” says Bradley, who started the venture while still a law student. “So... View Details