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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
told him that his chances of walking again were slim. The prediction, however, did little to discourage his determination. After spending two weeks in a Seattle trauma center, Feagler was airlifted to Denver, where he spent the next... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
NFLers Tackle HBS
assist players in preparing for life after football. The players cracked cases on a variety of business topics and took workshops on entrepreneurial opportunities and business management. Also from the NFL and now in the MBA Class of 2011 is Isaiah Kacyvenski, a former... View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
says Feickert of the Seattle Seahawks quarterback. “But most people don’t know his older brother, Harrison, was also a standout Division I football player who has had a very successful career as an entrepreneur and in the pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Harvard Business School Campaign: Regional Events
Washington, DC Cleveland Mexico City Dubai Houston London São Paulo Seattle Istanbul Toronto To learn more about upcoming events and see photos from past events, please visit alumni.hbs.edu/CampaignEvents View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
neighbors. That approach attracted Karen and Mickey Taylor, owners of Seattle Slew. The only undefeated Triple Crown winner in history also enjoyed great success in the breeding shed, siring over 100 Stakes winners with combined earnings... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
of PowerInbox, says it’s too soon to call it quits on email—far from it, in fact. PowerInbox, which manages targeted ads within subscriber-based newsletters for publishers like Crain Communications and the Seattle Times, has enjoyed 7,500... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Jun 2008
- News
Risk and Reward
That’s $10 million a year, a sum that could go up (or down) depending on the success of his progeny (the first Smarty foals hit the racetrack next year). Many assume that Big Brown’s bloodlines will merit a higher fee than $100,000. Undefeated Triple Crown champion... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Campaign Passes Goal, Continues
really important.” Upcoming Regional Events Chicago* Wednesday, March 16, 2005; 11:00 a.m. registration begins University Club of Chicago HBS professor Rakesh Khurana will discuss “Irrational Succession: Discussion of CEO Succession in Large Corporations.” View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
William M. Allen, Boeing’s chief executive at the time, was asked to meet with us because Vertol, a helicopter company acquired by Boeing, was far behind schedule with the vitally needed Chinook helicopter. Allen reassigned his best manufacturing executive from View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
ACOG who are Vietnam vets liken it to the experience of being on patrol in the jungle one day and stepping off a plane in Seattle or San Francisco the next evening. After years of being totally consumed by my job, I'm now trying to focus... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
wife, Heather, a sixth-grade teacher. The pair live in Seattle with their infant son, Collin. “But before that, I want to work at many different nonprofits — to sample what it's like and to see how well they apply resources to their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
company’s product throughout its Seattle headquarters. Other customers include NASA, the Ritz-Carlton, Starbucks, Whole Foods, Amazon, Disney’s Epcot theme park, and Google. IceStone has come a long way since Magagnini’s dark day, and not... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
in 2000, when Schultz positioned himself as the company's chief global strategist. Revenues for 2000 reached $2.2 billion, while quarterly reports for fiscal 2001 are already exceeding last year's record performance. Smith spoke to the Bulletin last summer at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
data from Seattle restaurants, Luca found that a one-star increase in a Yelp rating increased an independent restaurant’s revenue by 5 to 9 percent. (Chain restaurants didn’t see the same effect.) Yelp uses the arithmetic mean of reviewer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
which he and a partner bought in 1971 and built into the largest independent contract laboratory in the world. Retiring early, he spent eight years serving on the Seattle school board, where he helped initiate bold reforms that attracted... View Details
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
recently wrapped up workshops in Seattle and Indianapolis. Other cities on the tour include Toronto, Salt Lake City, Charlotte, Houston, and St. Louis. Northern California Alumni Consider the High Cost of Complexity Etienne Deffarges at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
Harvard Business School in 1997, Bezos has invested in a handful of local companies—and bought others, sometimes pulling their leaders out to Seattle to work with him directly. He has overseen the growth of local Amazon offices, which now... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Seventy Years Out: Class of 1932 Celebrates Reunions
Reconstruction Finance Corporation. “I turned down a $19-a-week job with Macy's because I needed $21,” he recalled. A Seattle native, Sweet's philosophy about success involves luck, being in the right place at the right time, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
kind of successful marketing has led to some outsized returns for clubs and the cities that house them, with the Seattle Mariners reporting that the presence of longtime star Ichiro Suzuki—"the Ichiro effect"—was worth more than $55... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
to get inside the system.” Nielsen decided to run for the Seattle school board and was elected in 1993. For the next eight years, he and other reformers on the board pushed through some remarkable changes, making View Details