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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
that a collaborative management style in the real world would be equally effective and essential.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS “There is no substitute for good, old-fashioned planning and analysis. You can’t rationalize excessive use of ‘gut feel’ and instincts.” CURRENT... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Action Plan: Tapping into a Legacy
it’s not right.” The company’s approach to growth is no different. “One of the benefits of a family business is that you’re able to plan for the long term,” Kearsey says of the brewery founded in 1777 by Dorset farmer Charles Hall. “It’s... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading a battle against corruption, a force that slows economic development
efforts are having a real impact, with fewer allegations of corruption appearing in the media. Companies with low anti-corruption efforts, while enjoying faster sales growth in corrupt markets, have lower View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
modern life." As computer technology emerged in the 1950s, initial reactions in the Bulletin were mixed. "One of the most dramatic developments in the business world is the growth of automatic data processing," wrote a faculty member in... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
locations in the US, and counts consumer experience, increased sales, and sustainable profits among his charges. We asked him about the pros of corporate ownership, the data that drives his strategy, and—naturally—his regular order.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
uses. A slowdown in semiconductor demand post-2001 made it possible for the solar industry to take off by using excess polysilicon and silicon wafers. How to Win. In a downturn, getting to the breakeven point for a new venture and then to View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
entrenched player: Amazon vs. Barnes & Noble, Uber vs. the taxi industry, and so on. “Our cases were necessarily snapshots,” he emphasizes, “but we knew we really needed to be in the moving-picture business.... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
requires a significant initial capital investment, and she raised just over $10 million in seed and series A funding to get it up and running in 2011. Since then, Lin’s had plenty of opportunities to raise more capital. But the company’s View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
anger, and shifting ideologies. Then, in 1982, the bull market in stocks began. It changed the way companies were managed. CEOs focused on getting the stock price up. There was a takeover movement, then junk bonds, and then leveraged buyouts, which emphasized... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
age by adapting a current business model to the new marketplace. The book offers critical insights into responding to disruptive shock with three value propositions: repositioning today’s business to maximize resilience; creating a new View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
beliefs,” Greenwood says, chalking it up to an abundance of optimism. Before the crisis, for instance, the “Armageddon scenario” for housing price growth in 2006 was a 5 percent drop. During the lowest point of the crisis, housing prices... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy
domestic flights and added service to seventy international destinations in the last fifteen months. Whitehurst said that the company’s future growth will center on Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. “It’s easy to move the metal around... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
growth proceeds will go to the lenders, leaving the owners with more stress, work, [and] risk—and probably no more income. Worst case, the launch fails and takes the company with it. —Peter Warner (MBA 1988) The best option would be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
hoped to leverage in a less-than-encouraging job market. Both are also well aware of their good fortune to have found specialized positions that fit their backgrounds yet offer great potential for personal and professional growth at a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Breakthrough Marketing Plans: How to Stop Wasting Time and Start Driving Growth by Tim Calkins (MBA ’91) (Palgrave Macmillan) Most marketing plans are a waste of time — too long, complicated, and dense — and end up unread and unrealized.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
Beyond Hong Kong's towering skyline and ship-filled harbor, the Kowloon Peninsula gives way to the verdant hills and peaks of the Chinese mainland. The bustling international business center is a natural gateway to an area that has experienced phenomenal postwar View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
Support System
Target, the company has channeled 15 percent of the company’s profits back to the families of the shea-nut pickers with the intent that it be used for the education of their children, or—for women without children or with children who... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
of internal and external factors have an impact on their pay, and that, in fact, today's CEO compensation packages are tied very closely to company performance.Lorsch began his study by looking at the proxy statements of 72 companies representing four categories:... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
Kiddles founder and CEO Andrea Kimmel (MBA 2003) presents this case study query to HBS alumni and faculty: “The team has an aggressive growth timeline, but financing that growth is a challenge. (Center one,... View Details