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Arthur J. Decio
Decio transformed his family’s company from a small coach firm in a garage in Indiana into one of the three largest builders of manufactured homes in the United States. Under his leadership, Skyline grew to 25 View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
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The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
social progress. Learn how evolving concepts of ownership - from real estate to AI, genetic data to media - are reshaping capitalism and creating new challenges and opportunities for business leaders.... View Details
Bruce E. Karatz
Karatz has led KB Home during a period of immense growth. When he took over the CEO position, the company was selling and delivering 4,000 prefabricated homes a year. By 2003, the company was producing and... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
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Student Clubs | MBA
Student Organization Latter-day Saint Student Association M Management Consulting Club Marketing Club Middle East & North Africa Club Midwest Student Association O Outdoors Club P Partners' Club Pickleball Club Polo & Equestrian Club PRIDE Public-Speaking Club R View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Burunda Prince (MBA 1987)
My parents were both public school teachers, but they also owned a repair shop called Satellite TV. After school and on Saturdays we’d all go over to the family business. That was my first insight into the hard work of entrepreneurship.... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
A Pioneer of Affordable Housing
Ross Freeman (PMD 30, 1975) launched Pioneer Group in 1997 to turn historic buildings into affordable housing and office space in the American Midwest. “I had never really thought about being a real estate... View Details
Lewis H. Brown
Under Brown’s leadership, Johns-Manville became the world’s largest producer of asbestos building materials, insulation, and allied products. Brown instituted both collective bargaining and the eight-hour day/forty hour week for management. Brown also began the... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
Donald V. Fites
During his tenure as CEO, Fites grew Caterpillar, the world’s #1 producer of earth-moving machinery, from a $10 billion company to a $20 billion plus company. Fites successfully implemented a $1.8 billion modernization program to cut... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
development and climate,” she tells us. (01:36)Investments in education and training programs are needed to equip individuals with the skills required for these overlooked roles. Dylan Small: Exploring green cement to decarbonize real... View Details
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Malory Mclemore
public schools in the Birmingham area. Later, he started a small real estate business “flipping” houses, and recently became a top real View Details
George A. Schaefer
production. Though Schaefer’s plans didn’t return Caterpillar to the extremely profitable position it had previously enjoyed, his hard work at reorganization helped the company turn a profit of $486 million in 1986, its first in four... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
Herbert A. Sklenar
Sklenar’s knowledge of fiscal matters helped the company survive a slow down in the construction business and a rapidly changing chemicals marketplace. To cope with the change, Sklenar invested in research and development of new products,... View Details
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Goff Smith
Spending over 35 years with Amsted, Smith led the company through a period of phenomenal growth continuing a 40-year tradition of uninterrupted dividends. During his 6 years as CEO, he doubled revenues from $450 million to $915 million... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
Photographed by Susan Young; edited by Julia Hanna See full profiles and more photographs here. Marla Beck (MBA/MPA 1998) CEO and Cofounder, Bluemercury Inc. First job: Accounting work in her dad’s real View Details
Charles D. Wiman
As the great-grandson of the company founder, Wiman was principally responsible for expanding and modernizing Deere’s operations, putting it on a path to become the largest and most successful supplier of large-scale agricultural... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 07 Mar 2005
- What Do You Think?
Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?
management. Meg Garland makes this case when she writes, "Of course it (business management) should be regarded as a profession, but certified and registered? Probably not. Such paper shuffling and submission certainly hasn't elevated every attorney, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
Industries, a real estate investment firm he started in 1968. C.D. Spangler Construction company was founded by Spangler's father, C.D. Spangler, Sr. – a self-made man who had... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
Alibaba is about to make history with the first genuine mega-IPO of a Chinese entrepreneur-founded company in the United States. The numbers are historic as well—an anticipated market capitalization of some $200 billion. It comes to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Bringing Out the Best
need to be able to bring out the best in them.” As an example, Curry cites working with millennials in her role as president of National Office Services for Colliers International, the world’s third-largest publicly traded real View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
she worked in real estate investment banking at Goldman Sachs and then pivoted to the Walt Disney Company and AwesomenessTV, a digital studio that produces original programming... View Details