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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)
just signed on to do with Fox. To become a truly competitive global company, you need to have a broad portfolio. Hello Kitty is great, but we need to have other properties to grow even further. We also want to expand our business model into entertainment. Yes, we are... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
radically transformed them. Jesse Philips (MBA '39), for example, bought a small manufacturing firm in 1957 and parlayed it into a diversified billion-dollar corporation. Similarly, Robert Cizik (MBA '58) developed Cooper Industries, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
much a reader-centric company. Will bookstores survive in this changing industry? MA: Yes. Our goal is to maintain the most diversified marketplace possible and to strengthen the physical bookstore channel of distribution. Now, you can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
shows you how to set yourself up for investment success by creating an optimal nest-egg withdrawal strategy to ensure you never run out of money; maximizing returns through tactics like reducing your tax bill and making full use of View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
from friends such as feminist Gloria Steinem and investor Warren Buffett (a major Post shareholder), Graham gradually gained the personal confidence and management skills that enabled her to build the Washington Post Company into a highly View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
trajectory,” Frei says. “The threat is to any company in the industry: If someone else is improving at a faster rate than me, even if I’m better than them today, I won’t be better than them tomorrow.” But as Frei knows firsthand—she has worked with Uber and Riot Games... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
and Al Gordon (MBA 1985), president and CEO of the Delectable Dining Group, as the board members. Kashyap opened the presentation, stating the team is recommending licensing the Aladdin operating system to government clients and institutional investors as a “good... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
office products, building products, and paper, had expanded production capacity to meet the strong demand for paper in the late 1980s but bore the brunt when demand began to taper off in 1990. The company — which started up in 1957, rapidly View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
regulatory bodies that are taken for granted in the West but are not available in emerging markets. "Companies can create value by developing these systems for themselves," notes Palepu. For example, large diversified companies doing... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
mobile market in the world, with the lowest tariffs globally, a model that has been adopted elsewhere internationally, Mittal notes. Looking ahead, by diversifying into emerging business areas in India’s booming economy, Bharti’s goal is... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
certification. Chapman plans to add nursing and entrepreneurship options next. Hudson is also exploring innovations on the fundraising side, such as allowing donors to donate stock or cryptocurrency. “The more we can diversify our options... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
resurgence of interest in promoting value-chain development as a way to add value, lower transaction costs, diversify rural economies, and help increase rural household incomes. Using real examples, mostly from African countries, this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
Carroll Illustration by Dennis Balogh Founded as a gold mining company in 1917 in South Africa by Ernest Oppenheimer (with help from Herbert Hoover and J. P. Morgan), Anglo American plc is the world’s fourth-largest diversified mining... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
substantially lower costs, so we’re having a much greater impact, at a much lower cost.” Ferrari has also spearheaded Heifer’s efforts to diversify its revenue sources beyond the livestock gift catalog, through partnerships with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
diversified technology company. For Hamilton, this marked the electronics-testing industry’s transition to mature market status — an unwelcome development. “I was bored,” he says. “It was time for a change.” “I said to myself, ‘I’m done... View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
of roughly 1,400 applicants, LEDA accepts 100 of the most promising students, with a broader goal of improving and diversifying the national pipeline for the next generation of leaders. “LEDA is very intentional about its selection... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
Harvard College. Instead, he opted for HBS and then a job in Mumbai with his father at Mahindra Ugine Steel (MUSCO). Soon after he arrived, the young Harvard MBA was called on to restructure and diversify MUSCO. That was the preparation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
A Canadian Hero
list of the most successful business leaders this country has ever produced," according to the Toronto Globe and Mail, is president and CEO of ONEX, a thriving public company he founded sixteen years ago. A diversified global firm... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
professionals from lawsuits filed by clients and customers (typically related to medical malpractice or errors in provided services). Diversifying its offerings will give At-Bay access to a larger market while further endearing it to the... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
that point,” he emphasizes. The switch to skills-based hiring has helped diversify Ovia’s workforce. The leadership team is 60 percent non-white and 80 percent women, as is the staff, which Wallace describes as mission-critical. He... View Details