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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
were largely gained in the trenches of a multiyear research project with Professor Tarun Khanna that explores the implications of conglomerate business structures in emerging markets. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, research showed... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- News
Behind GE's Vision For The Industrial Internet Of Things
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Liberal Smarts
May's Harvard Commencement was a special one for Anand Mahindra (MBA 1981), chairman and managing director of the Indian conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra, as the University used the occasion to recognize him and two others with the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
international divisions. “Goldman Sachs in New York is different from Goldman Sachs in Asia,” he observes, adding that the same is true for conglomerates operating in industries as different as pharmaceuticals and aircraft engines.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
devoted time and resources to protecting the world’s wide-open spaces. Two of this year’s winners cited family life. “Finding a balance is something I’m proud about,” remarked Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (MBA ’87), leader of the 173-year-old Ayala Corporation, a View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
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Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) wants to change just about everything at GE, from its image as a slow-moving corporate behemoth, to the focus of its core businesses, to the location of its corporate offices. In May, the company that made the first lightbulb, as well as... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Jeffrey Immelt: How I Remade GE
“For the past 16 years GE has been undergoing the most consequential makeover in its history,” departing CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) writes in Harvard Business Review. “We were a classic conglomerate. Now people are calling us a 125-year-old start-up—we’re a digital... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
so one of the advantages of being in a conglomerate is you can see trends earlier, right? So if you go back to 2004 and 2005, I could see, like, energy efficiency in our appliance business. I could see fuel efficiency in our jet engine... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
Music, WEA (Warner), and UMVD (Universal). Each conglomerate owns, in part or in full, various "labels" - fully staffed companies that sign and groom artists, guide the album production process, and market the final product. Labels such... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
savings and loans. I compare this disaster to a Greek epic, in which RCA is lured away from its core capabilities by "Sirens" consisting of the business press, the academy, and Wall Street, for whom conglomerates were then the business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
broader economy. Prysm was retained recently by a large conglomerate to help design a crypto token, in a highly regulated jurisdiction. “They came to us and said, we need a token economic model that does the things we want to achieve and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
development at John Keells Holdings, Sri Lanka’s largest conglomerate with 70 companies across the real estate, food and beverage, financial services, transportation, and leisure sectors. With the infrastructure pieces he’s worked on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
to package the maize. Masha's company warehouses the grain at the end of the process, commoditizes it, and sells it to food conglomerates like Nestlé, which uses it to make baby food and breakfast cereal sold in Nigeria and abroad. Babban... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
isolation. You have to look at the whole picture. What businesses should you be in? With the fallout from the conglomerate era fresh in people's minds, the prevailing wisdom is not to expand beyond your core business. People say, "Stick... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Khanna led a session titled "Entrepreneurship and the Asian Family Enterprise," which brought together three scions of top family corporations in Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Ronnie Chan, chairman of the successful Hong Kong property-based View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
Vasella Illustration by Dennis Balogh Twenty years ago a young doctor with a hankering for business experience gave up his clinical practice in Bern, Switzerland, and moved to East Hanover, New Jersey, to try his hand at drug sales with the Swiss View Details
- 04 May 2010
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