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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
1929–1945 Amos Hostetter, Jr. Continental Cablevision, 1963–1996 Amory Houghton, Jr. Corning Glass Company, 1964–1982 Alanson B. Houghton Corning Glass Company, 1910–1930 Amory Houghton Corning Glass Company, 1930–1960 Ivan J. Houston... View Details
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Recent Alumni Regional Events - Alumni
Club of Houston Find the full HBS in Houston Library here HBS in SF: MBA Classes 2014-2023 Wednesday, February 7, 2024 | San Francisco, CA Co-hosted with the HBS Club of Northern California HBS in NYC: MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
began to move forward, though, doubts still lingered. Would this effort take away from his ability to find his son the best medical care? Would he still be able to pursue his investment career? This ambivalence ended with a third, violent incident. Rodakis had met a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
charges brought against him. Skilling held fast to a similar position. On September 14, 2007, Skilling submitted a 60,000-word appellant brief demanding that his conviction be reversed and that his case be either dismissed or retried outside View Details
- 12 May 2023
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Alabama's Yella Fella
while Rane could have relocated the business to Atlanta or Houston for a gentler tax bill, he maintained Great Southern's headquarters in his hometown of Abbeville—population 2,000. The company did acquire several plants throughout the... View Details
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Doug Marsan
thing about Houston is definitely the food. Houston is an incredibly diverse city, and this shows up in the cuisine. Within a 15-minute drive, you can get mouth-watering barbecue, delicious pho, and... View Details
- 24 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience
Madeleine Diagne is an International Business student at the University of Houston – Downtown, and a Summer Venture in Management (SVMP) 2022 alum. Graduating high school during the height of the pandemic was yet another obstacle... View Details
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Alumnae Circles - Alumni
applications during the annual enrollment cycle in the following regions*: Austin Boston Chicago Houston London Los Angeles Paris Philadelphia New York City Raleigh San Francisco Seattle Washington, D.C. * Most regions encompass the city... View Details
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Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
space for their outpatient activities. They integrated their care through their robust IPU structure and was able to perform more complex procedures at the main center and permit patients to undergo less intense evaluation and treatment closer to home in the expansive... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
1955 and became the owner and president of Pan-Atlantic, which he renamed SeaLand Industries. The maiden voyage for McLean's converted oil tanker, the Ideal X, carried fifty-eight new box trailers or containers from Port Newark, New Jersey, to View Details
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Partners - Case Method Project
Postlethwaite Cinco Ranch High School Katy, TX Subjects: AP US History TX 30 of 36 James Quillin The Post Oak High School Houston, TX Subjects: Grade 11/12 Global Politics in Historical Context TX 31 of 36 Penny Rosas Northland Christian School Houston, TX TX 32 of 36... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History
pieces, including the blueprint, the Constitution, to another country you don’t get a working democracy.” Eleanor Cannon’s sunny, spacious classroom at St. John’s School in Houston is well appointed, with bright white dry-erase boards... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Apr 2024
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Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
(MA) Clinton, MA MA Matthew Rutledge Miss Hall's School Pittsfield, MA Subjects: U.S. History MA William Ruzzo Boston Latin School Boston, MA TX Glenn Ryan Sam Houston Math, Science, and Technology Center High School Houston, TX Subjects:... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
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L.E. Simmons
HBS, Simmons, who also attended the University of Utah and the London School of Economics, spent two years at First Chicago establishing a corporate finance department that focused on the offshore oil and gas industry. He subsequently moved to View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
IBM Watson at MD Anderson Cancer Center
By: Shane Greenstein, Mel Martin and Sarkis Agaian
After discovering that their cancer diagnostic tool, designed to leverage the cloud computing power of IBM Watson, needed greater integration into the clinical processes at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, the development team had difficult choices to make. The Oncology... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Operations; Failure; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Care and Treatment; Product Development; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Houston; Texas
Greenstein, Shane, Mel Martin, and Sarkis Agaian. "IBM Watson at MD Anderson Cancer Center." Harvard Business School Case 621-022, December 2020. (Revised April 2021.)
- February 2003 (Revised June 2003)
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Interface's Evergreen Services Agreement
In an attempt to reduce its ecological footprint, Interface Americas, a leading manufacturer of commercial carpet tile, has launched the Evergreen Services Agreement (ESA)--a lease agreement that provides would-be carpet purchasers with comprehensive floor-covering... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Product; Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention; Leasing; Consumer Products Industry; Houston
Oliva, Rogelio, and James Quinn. "Interface's Evergreen Services Agreement." Harvard Business School Case 603-112, February 2003. (Revised June 2003.)
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- Mar 26 2019
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Getting to Why
- 03 Apr 2015
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Texas Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
HBS Campaign Vice Chair Laurence E. Simmons (MBA 1972) delivered remarks at The HBS Campaign Houston Regional Event, March 31, 2015. Alumni and friends of Harvard Business School from across Texas gathered on March 30 and 31, 2015 to... View Details