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01 Oct 1997
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L.E. Simmons

who has achieved lofty financial success in his professional career while remaining firmly grounded in solid business wisdom. The second oldest of four brothers who grew up in rural Kaysville, Utah - all of whom went on to earn MBAs at... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

October 2002 (Revised March 2013)
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Intermountain Health Care

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman

Intermountain Health Care (IHC), an integrated delivery system based in Utah, has adopted a new strategy for managing health care delivery. The approach focuses management attention not only on the facilities where care takes place but also on physician decision making... View Details

Keywords: Ethnicity; Innovation Strategy; Cost Management; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Technology Adoption; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Adoption; Change Management; Cost vs Benefits; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Utah

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27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

deepened during the early 1990s, after he moved his family to New York from Provo, Utah for a big job with Morgan Stanley. One day he found himself sitting on a bench, immobilized: he worried whether he could aptly advise the CEO, whether... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

example, the Geneva Steel Company in Utah or Tennessee Coal and Iron in Alabama. 28 Information on the back of each print usually identified the photographer, PR staff ordering the print, and the subject of the photograph. Captions... View Details

Dee Ward Hock

In 1970, Hock created a reverse holding company tying together thousands of independent banks to create the Visa Network. His aggressive marketing and sharp negotiation skills enabled Visa to quickly capture 20% of the charge card business in the U.S. – outpacing the... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Raymond J. Noorda

Upon his arrival at Novell, Noorda realized that the future of computer networking lay in the software and not the hardware. Novell’s product, Netware, dominated the network operating system market in the early 1990s by making it possible for individual users on all... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Milton J. Petrie

Location, location, location. Petrie had a keen sense for “hot real estate” which he used to create a new form of retailing – the women’s specialty store. By focusing on the teen market and insisting on quick inventory turns, he created a new retail industry – one that... View Details

Keywords: Retail

John W. Marriott

Marriott built the fastest growing, most diversified and most profitable lodging company in the United States. By 1964, it had approximately $85 million in annual sales with 122 units in 14 states. Its business lines included 73 restaurants and cafeterias, 14 fast-food... View Details

Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging

Simon Ramo

A brilliant scientist, Ramo held 25 patents by the age of 30. He was responsible for much of the development of the Air Force’s ballistic missile, airborne radar, computer, navigation and armament control systems. He started his own company in 1953, and it merged with... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

01 Dec 2016
News

Passion Projects

Understanding the Utah War William P. MacKinnon (MBA 1962) has been researching the often-overlooked Utah War of 1857–1858 for more than 50 years. “I wanted to get this story out,” he says. “It altered... View Details

Keywords: April White

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... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Bernard M. Baruch

Though Baruch was a very successful financier, he is best known for his four decades of service as an advisor to US Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt. He helped to finance some of the leading industrial firms of his time including Texas Gulf Sulphur,... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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Videos - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Involved Videos Books Videos VBHCD Videos Robert Kaplan: Working to Solve Health Care Cost Crisis HBS Professor Robert S. Kaplan speaks in a University of Utah Health Care video Michael Porter: The Future of Value-Based Health Care... View Details

07 Nov 2018
News

The Results Are (Mostly) In

election day.) US Senate Mitt Romney (MBA 1974), the former governor of Massachusetts and 2012 Republican presidential nominee, won the Utah seat previously held by retiring Senator Orrin Hatch. Businessman Mike Braun (MBA 1978) defeated... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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HBS Career Highlights

MBA Class of 1963 1992 Edits Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership 1993 Receives HBS Distinguished Service Award 2000 C. Roland Christensen Center established at the University of Utah 2004 C. Roland Christensen... View Details

Keywords: Roland Christensen; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

26 Aug 2020
News

Empowering Rural Communities

rural communities in the American West, in places not unlike the small coal town in Utah where Riley grew up. He knows that his business model to provide cheaper green energy will hurt the job prospects in communities like his hometown.... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Jun 1999
News

A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

committee's board of trustees was going to call: Bain Capital CEO W. Mitt Romney (MBA '74, JD '75). Although he is a Massachusetts resident, Romney's Utah roots run deep: his ancestors journeyed west with Brigham Young, his parents were... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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News Coverage - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

(August 2014) Utah Hospitals Try the Unthinkable: Get a Grip on Costs USA TODAY Julie Appleby (June 2014) Retooling Hospitals, One Data Point at a Time KAISER HEALTH NEWS Julie Appleby (June 2014) Fixing The Health Care System And Other... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

“Speed Trap” Can Snare Companies

The worst you might think you'll suffer from a speed trap is a hefty ticket, but research by HBS associate professor Leslie Perlow suggests that another kind of speed trap could run your whole business into the ground. Perlow's work with colleagues Gerardo Okhuysen of... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton

March 2003 (Revised March 2003)
Teaching Note

Intermountain Health Care (TN)

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Amy C. Edmondson

Teaching Note for (9-603-066). View Details

Keywords: Health Industry; Utah