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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity by Karen G. Mills (MBA 1977) Palgrave Macmillan Small businesses are the biggest job creators and offer a path to the American Dream. But for many, it is difficult to get the capital... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
capitalization. “The Valley of Death” The many faces of Andy Grove, from left: hobnobbing in black tie with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at a celebration of Time magazine’s 75th anniversary (1998); on the really big board in Times Square... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
free that makes the job so appealing to Eyler -- it's also the chance to put to the sternest test yet his 25 years of management experience with retailers such as Federated Department Stores, Hartmarx, and the May Company. When Eyler took... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Former Professor and Associate Dean Vernon Alden Passes Away
Vernon Alden (MBA 1950), has passed away at age 97. A former associate dean and faculty member at HBS, Alden would go on to become the president of Ohio University at age 38. He would later help support President Lyndon Johnson develop the View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
often visiting company parking lots; businesses have been one of Yoshi’s best customers, paying the service’s monthly subscription fee as a job perk for their employees. Yoshi’s eliminate-the-gas-station model has also attracted the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
office, which looks out on the park, Nichols pauses to reflect on her career. Thanks to scholarship assistance, Nichols was able to attend both Cornell and, later, Harvard Business School. "In a way, the HBS experience foreshadowed my theme park View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
turn, means putting the "mom-and-pop" operations cherished in American lore out of business. Indeed, the creation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882, which put small companies out of business and bureaucratized economic relations, was a... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
poverty." As the founder of One Earth Farms, Canada's largest farm, he partnered with First Nations in western Canada. When he created the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority (SIGA), it was First Nations that benefitted with jobs at a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
the Creation of Time Magazine, by Isaiah Wilner Ann Moore took the lowest-paying job she was offered after receiving her MBA-because she loved magazines. She has remained with Time Inc., one of the world's... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. "Out of nowhere, Nancy came up to me and said, 'I hear you're looking for a job - why haven't you called me?' " A few weeks later, Lazarus was ensconced as senior staff assistant to the chair at... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
it, by establishing accounting methodologies for the valuation of impacts that a company has on society—e.g., carbon emissions generated, water withdrawal from water-scarce locations, employee wages, job View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
organization while keeping his day job as a vice president at Honeywell Corporation. He and the leadership team, which included Peterson and fellow former Olympic committee member Phil Bardos, put together a board of directors and started... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
with start-ups such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, Netscape, Excite, and Sun Microsystems. Through the years, Doerr and his partners have invested more than $1.3 billion in 250 technology ventures in the United States, creating companies that have generated more than... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
advancement of African Americans in the business world. "Being the first Fitzhugh professor is a particular honor," Thomas noted during a recent interview. "He spent much of his life trying to facilitate the creation of a more diverse and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
44, has been charged by a bull elephant in the Congo, swum with penguins in the Galapagos, mingled with bison in the American West, and camped out among grizzly bears in Alaska. It’s all part of his job as head of a multinational... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
tools and on-demand video, it’s possible.” Job perk: “Selfishly, I like to geek out. Being a hedge-fund analyst was pretty intellectual work, but it was still so much fun to talk with my cousins about kinematics and photosynthesis. Video... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
it made us understand what you have to do and the persistence that you have to find inside yourself to really be successful. My first job at Fidelity was the summer after I got out of high school in a place called the Wire Room, where you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come... View Details
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
times in 10 years,” she recalls. In 2001, Herlaut joined Pechiney in Paris, which was acquired by Alcan, then Arcelor (which became Arcelor Mittal) in Luxembourg. Those jobs made her realize how much money companies were investing in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
largely because I thought I could help the economy by creating jobs and value.” Cohen has more than just a passing knowledge of the economic conditions he is battling. Born in Cairo in 1945, the older son of a businessman whose family... View Details