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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
have been primary figures in Brazil’s economic development for more than thirty years. In 1971, Lemann founded Banco de Investimentos Garantia and soon recruited Sicupira and Telles to join what would become the most successful investment... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Get What You Pay Them Case: Lincoln Electric Company Written: 1975 Copies Sold: 284,826 With a tradition of innovation and technological leadership, the Lincoln Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio, was the world’s largest manufacturer of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large, first-of-a-kind projects. “Most of these... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motorola; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
talks to Dionisio Garza Sada (MBA ’08), program manager for autoparts manufacturer Nemak. Photographs by Selma Fernandez & Marcela Taboada There are no cold calls here. No laptops, or blackboards, or Sky Deck. Thousands of miles from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
petroleum geologist at Amoco. Later, she joined the Canadian company Alcan, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming CEO of its Primary Metal Group, a position she held until taking over at Anglo.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
he always remained open to a better idea if someone truly believed in it. I only had a few days before I would have to cancel my HBS trip. Knowing that Grove by reputation was, above all, a manufacturing maven, I called Professor Bob... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
landlord, the entrepreneur, or the worker contributed most to England's prosperity. Later, as HBS Dean, Gay's primary duty was to prepare his students for their role in the administrative organization that was emerging as the business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
director of Admissions at Kellogg.) By the time she graduated, the pair had two daughters, Akilah and Ariel. In 1989, Steven and Michele Rogers decided to pursue their entrepreneurial interests and purchased Fenchel Lampshade Company in Chicago, a 66-year-old View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
was obvious the first time he met Marietta. At the time, Falce, who had previously worked as a mine electrician, was doing shift work at a manufacturing plant several hours away. His wife, Megan, a teacher at Pine Mountain, pressed him... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
to form the Cleanliness Institute, whose primary function was cooperative sales promotion to teach the American public the importance of keeping clean. The use of the term “institute” emphasized the seriousness, indeed national... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He cites a confluence of factors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
contribution to this emerging tapestry. Globalization is increasingly tying the fortunes of national economies to one another,"observes South African manufacturing executive Ewald J.H. Wessels (MBA '71), one of the key organizers of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
operations, remotely disinfecting public buildings and hospitals. "The White Knight drones were in R&D for the last two years; we developed and manufactured them in the last two months in readiness to execute aerial delivery of emergency... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
have been written, and 99 Chinese students have received MBAs from HBS. Nearly one in six HBS faculty members lists China as a primary research interest. China’s research potential is almost limitless. The country’s development over the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
fluid along the surface at our site, which requires just a relatively small primary pump. SWAC is our only source of cooling — we have no conventional backup.” The SWAC system cost about $8 million, compared with a more conventional... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
trial attorney in corporate litigation, Shuster-Haynes has been the primary caregiver for their children. She maintains a disciplined writing schedule, as well, by carving out time while the children are in school and by working late at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
electric-power generation) require purified water that is treated to much higher standards than drinking water. He observes, “In North America and around the world, industrial customers are increasingly interested in how water quality affects the economics of their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
2004 at Outdoor Explorations, a nonprofit that brings together people with and without disabilities for inclusive outdoor adventures. She spent last summer doing marketing for Advanced Bionics, a Boston Scientific–owned manufacturer of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
review of his company's impressive sustainable development efforts over the past five years (which fill a twenty-page brochure) quickly reveals why Fortune magazine has dubbed Johnson "corporate America's leading environmentalist." Since 1990, S.C. Johnson & Son has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
become managing editor. He then moved to Harvard Business Publishing, where he became editorial director, with primary responsibility for Harvard Business Review. Also the author of Office Hours: A Guide to the Managerial Life, a... View Details