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- 01 Jan 2007
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Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he became chief executive of WPP,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan
refractive plastic lenses, received the prize because of its ability to achieve high profitability while stressing customization. The award is named for Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard and a... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard
his 23 years at GE, where he began his career as a sales manager in the plastics division. When all is said and done, Immelt declared, “This degree you have, this thing called an MBA, is a little bit about the subject matter. But it’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Digging Deep
Above: Pieper, shovel-ready in Moab, Utah (photo by Vance Jacobs) On a wintry day three years ago, Susan Pieper (MBA 1992) watched her son, a devoted snowboarder, build jumps in the backyard of their Jackson, Wyoming, home, trashing a series of View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
No Rain Delay for Graduation 2008
Class Day 2008 was, in a word, wet. Umbrellas and clear plastic ponchos kept students, families, and friends assembled June 4 on Baker Lawn tolerably dry. Even drier were the 300 or so onlookers who opted to watch the proceedings live on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
three kids. Mindful of his relative ignorance of the niche business, Holley immersed himself. He learned all about the thermoforming process (which uses heat-formed plastic instead of fiberglass) that Eddyline pioneered, and he... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
plastic body armor. Two years later, the new “Doron” body armor passed a stress test designed to quell officers’ nerves—a live demonstration that featured the firing of live rounds at an officer wearing a flak jacket filled with Doron... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
possibly could.” That was the proverbial “two-by-four whack upside the head” that made me realize we were dealing with a disease. Amy started treatment; soon after, on December 26, she died of an overdose at the facility. Going through the View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
have their stacks of bottles burst as a SodaStream user hits the machines' carbonation button. The message: making your own soda saves the world from the scourge of plastic bottles. The ad was rejected by CBS but went viral, ultimately... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
Plastic bottles are sorted for recycling at Cedar Environmental on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon. Professor Nien-hê Hsieh tries to bring his students to the “gray area”—that uncomfortable and all-too-common space where leaders face... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
treatment centers for each type of cancer. For example, a breast cancer patient at MD Anderson's Breast Center will have diagnostic imaging and pathology; see specialized surgical, medical, and radiological oncologists; and consult with a View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
to locomotives. “No matter what the product, for over 130 years GE has been about imagination at work,” says Immelt. “It’s always been a combination of the dreaming and the doing.” Immelt came to GE straight out of HBS, holding various positions in the company’s View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
sequestration, grasslands, and the food and agricultural sector. Audience members also contributed climate-smart investment advice, ranging from the role of bicycles in cities to alternatives to plastic and “single-use stuff.” More... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
sequestered in subzero conditions. Next to the freezer sits a vacuum seal machine used to rid books and documents of bug infestations. The airless environment inside a sealed plastic bag asphyxiates the paper-munching invaders without... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
store personnel.” Vicente Co (OPM 26) President, Philippine Plastic Industry Association “We converted our plastics plant into a manufacturing facility for Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and partnered... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
pay for that speed, Kelleher says. The Question: Gold Rush Vinyl could reduce that time even further—to two weeks—if it solves supply chain bottlenecks in sourcing the record jackets and the plastic resin used in production. As a new... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
program started in Haiti two years ago to fight water-borne disease. Partnering with a local recycling center, Goodwin and his team helped create 26 centers, each one run by Haitian entrepreneur. The program, which washes and grinds View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
technology’s primary customers are the manufacturers of e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle (the market leader, at least for the moment), Sony’s Reader, and the others sure to follow. (Hearst, Plastic Logic, and new companies in China and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
the disk’s metal clip and yanked open the tough plastic outer casing, Enriquez now removes from its inner sanctum a flimsy black vinyl circle. “This is the part that matters,” he declares, waving it triumphantly before the youngsters, who... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
made to contain the risk that such outside organic matter could introduce. Visitors are asked to dip the soles of their shoes into a shallow plastic water bath, so as to limit contamination by pathogens and insects. Entry into one of the... View Details