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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
open-minded about what I could do," says Fung. "He was a visionary." So William took on the challenge and went to work. Six months later, he presented a plan to professionalize Li & Fung's management by severing ties between the View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
and bolts: exiting underperforming adjunct businesses (e.g., pickles and fresh poultry); shaking up the management team; improving the supply chain (thereby increasing plant productivity by 50 percent); and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Green Stuff: Value, Risk, and Environmental Management Environmental issues increasingly influence companies in their approach to fundamental business concerns. How these matters play out in terms of corporate behavior is the subject of a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
home. A discussion of world events would follow. "We were very well informed as kids," remarks Wyss, who maintains an active interest in policy and geopolitical issues. That knowledge of the world came in handy in the early years of Wyss's career, when he worked as a... View Details
- 20 Aug 2016
- News
The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
seeing these doctors talk to us and him gradually getting better. That was what really planted the seed in me that I might want to go to medical school. This would be a great thing I could do for people, something that they did for my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
revolutionary orthopedic devices to market and changing the surgical approach to healing broken bones. After graduating from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1959, he worked for Chrysler Corporation, helping set up manufacturing View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
manufacturing plant in Rochester, New York. (His grandfather and a partner invented the plastic watch crystal in the early 1900s.) What he discovered: “I learned what ‘real work’ is and that there are many noble ways to earn a living. I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company required more time on-site in North Carolina, she’s View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
but his achievements over the past fourteen years speak volumes about his skills and vision as a leader. From the vantage point of his sparsely staffed Boston headquarters, for example, he sets the overarching strategy for each firm, while giving View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The MBA Turns 100
Six months before Harvard Business School officially opened in October 1908, the School had no classrooms, no faculty, and no curriculum. But its proponents had a Big Idea: Create a professional school designed to train managers for a... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
trailers pulled out of a Pfizer plant in Portage, Michigan, carrying the initial doses of a coronavirus vaccine—each preserved at -70 degrees Celsius —to 636 different locations across the country. “If supply chain folks do their job... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best private-sector and military... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
filled with leafy greens and fed by precisely tuned LED lights. An intricate digital system measures the room’s temperature and the CO2 levels inside the units every 30 seconds, adjusting as necessary; another delivers computer-calculated nutrients and water through... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff
Exxon oil refinery and designed chemical plants for Chevron. “I had practical experience in the energy field, but as an engineer, I focused entirely on the quantitative,” explains Wulff. His wife, Louise, suggested he take business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
stockpile destined to supply steel plants in China. “Space is hard. Launches are delayed and, in the worst case, things blow up.” “Space is hard. Launches are delayed and, in the worst case, things blow up.” Spectra AI is even smart... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Silver Lining
Energy International, a company formed to manage its physical assets, which, as it happens, are actively being sought after by private-equity groups from around the world. Said Bhatnagar, who has since founded THOT Capital Group, an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
has a triple bottom line philosophy, “people, planet, profits,” and is organized as a B Corporation, a new business structure that is legally required to consider social and environmental impacts. At the day-lit IceStone plant in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
For the Records
Kelleher in Gold Rush Vinyl’s listening room In the first days of 2025, when Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) went from owning one small business to two, she entered an alternating reality. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, she’s still the founder and CEO of Gold Rush Vinyl;... View Details