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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
day they arrive for overnight delivery. Mixon has also turned Invacare's talents and resources into other activities that help its customers. For years the company has lobbied for the passage of legislation like the Americans with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
In One Hundred Years of Solitude, his epic allegory of Latin American history and sensibility, novelist Gabriel García Márquez describes how a revolutionary technology from the outside world is brought to the sleepy, archetypal hamlet of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
illustration by Jon Krause In 2006, Palo Alto native Charles Baron (MBA 2013) decided to join a future brother-in-law on his central Nebraska farm for the duration of the year’s corn harvest. It was what farmers would call a mixed... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
respect and humility. If you make mistakes, admit them and fix them at every level. Allan W.B. Gray (MBA ’65) Chairman, Orbis Investment Management, Ltd. Gray Read complete profile. Following HBS and eight years at Fidelity, Allan Gray returned to his View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
someone else has run away with the whole market." Venkatesan points to Apple, which waited for better distribution systems in India before it established its presence. "But Samsung didn't wait, and has the whole market now." The book, he says, is a "wake-up call to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
that was formed in 1993 - issued a final report that calls for a new regulatory framework to give businesses more flexibility in preventing pollution, long-range steps to stabilize the U.S. population, and American leadership in heading... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
Tom (MBA 1969) and Patricia Barry It was a given in Tom Barry’s family that, having done well in math and science in high school, he would pursue a degree in a related field as a student at Yale. But during his junior year, the Ohio View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Jim Knott's Aquamesh lobster traps set a new standard for durability, quickly supplanting the wooden traps used by generations of lobstermen. Chinese knockoffs failed to match Aquamesh's patented process. Will business leaders reconnect with their communities and do... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
(unlike most of Antares's for-profit partners) that operates in five Latin American countries. It combines microfinance with a primary health platform targeted toward low-income women. The Pro Mujer partnership demonstrates how Antares... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
professor Rohit Deshpandé has discovered that, in order to make themselves globally competitive, successful companies strive to achieve certain characteristics, even if those desired traits are not necessarily found in, or are contrary to, the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
serial entrepreneur, the New Mexico native ran his first business as an undergrad at George Washington University in Washington, DC, in the early 1990s. Selling medical lab tools from his dorm room and making deals using an old-school,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
honor as many of them as we can," says the gracious Jenrette, who also owns the five other historic homes described in his new book -- The George F. Baker House in Manhattan, Edgewater in upstate New York (pictured at left), Cane Garden on the island of St. Croix, Ayr... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Press) This novel tells the story of the residents of a small New England valley. The settlers and Native Americans trade with each other and live in peace until a love affair blossoms between a young... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
dentist,” he recalls thinking, “but the process is not working.” Singh, who spent his formative years in Canada and his adulthood in the United States, had recently moved back to his native India so that his children could be raised among... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
(MBA 1967), and Herb Kaplan (MBA 1965) hope that energized reaction from the business community will turn into active engagement in fixing a decidedly broken electoral system. “Our political dysfunction is harming American... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
song with the Vietnam War heavy on his mind, and spent much of his life as a social justice advocate who fought for prison reform, Native American rights, and for opportunities for children born into... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
Schrier. Interviews with potential advisees helped the cofounders create a viable business model. The Equity Network would be a mentor marketplace to give the next generation of Black, Latinx, and Native View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
those classes,” she says. A return to consulting, for marketing firm Mavens & Moguls—run by her sister-in-law, Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)—led Ruhr to join the volunteer board of the American Refugee Committee (ARC). Eventually she became... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
A native of rural Chehalis, Washington, Orin C. Smith (MBA '67) was an EVP for Danzas, an international freight shipping company, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz approached him in 1990 to join the fledgling company. Schultz, Smith... View Details