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- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
BANCEL Throughout 2009 and 2010, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) had received upward of 20 calls from biotech companies asking him to come aboard and lead the company. It made sense. He was a highly recruited CEO successfully running bioMérieux, a diagnostics company with... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
compensation dynamics, board evolution, entrepreneurial finance, and founder-CEO succession. He's also turning the spotlight on venture capital firms. "VC firms have an interesting organizational structure compared with other View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
operation when Gibbons arrived. He has since led the agency through unprecedented growth to $296 million in sales in FY2000. “I push the organization in a lot of ways it hasn’t been pushed before,” says... View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
ecologically friendly aquaculture and agriculture, and the sale of carbon offsets, among others. Profit to investors comes from realizing all of the value contained in the conserved land. Adams has already opened a conservation and... View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
was managing pineapples in the Philippines, and traveling to the tax office in Hong Kong and sales office in Tokyo. It was an exciting time,” he says. Company consolidation led Sprinkles to return to the East Coast, where he worked... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
Leadership in the Age of Climate Change that HBS has been organizing around the country in partnership with alumni clubs to understand how climate change is shaping the future of business,” says Jennifer Nash, Director of BEI, who... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
the nonprofits and social services organizations whose staffs had the skills to help, and plotted a different way to give back. “My thinking was, if I were to help people here in California,” she recalls, “that would pay it forward for... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
while also respecting humanistic values. They lay out the positivist, social constructionist, and postmodernist perspectives on the theory of educational organization to help readers develop new ways of thinking about organizational... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
CEO of Borders Group, Inc. - which includes more than 250 Borders Books & Music superstores around the globe, 900 Waldenbooks stores throughout the United States, and Borders.com - DiRomualdo runs an organization that rang up $2.6 billion... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
a private media company and Karisimbi client. The group worked with Tele-10 to identify ways to improve its advertising sales process for radio advertising and to help improve customer service for its satellite television business. “We... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
lemonade, ice cream, and organic foods. By 1997, Newman's Own had reached $62.6 million in gross annual sales, producing a before-tax surplus of $8.5 million. The company had contributed over $90 million to charities since its inception,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
commission-based, door-to-door sales organization while reinvesting profits to expand and provide employee benefits in Haiti. In addition to the judges’ picks, the “Audience Choice” award went to Essmart, a... View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
Brickson Diamond (MBA 1999) has never been one to, as he puts it, “just sit back and wait for progress to happen.” His role as cofounder and chair of the Blackhouse Foundation is a case in point. The organization took shape in 2006 after... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
authors of books on sales and marketing. As a field course, ESM pairs students with organizations for work that gives them hands-on skills and incorporates the use of analytical tools. “It’s project-driven,”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Takes One to Know One
Relations team in supporting and enabling our alumni and the School to continue making a difference in the world.” Cahill previously headed Alumni Marketing and Communications and Alumni Clubs and Associations within External Relations. She has worked with many... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
their health and education programs. Goodwin’s days as a global citizen began in the air force. In his early years as a second lieutenant, during the mid-1990s, he worked in foreign military sales in Saudi Arabia, then in Colombia setting... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
the P&G Relationship with Wal-Mart,” HBS professor Jim Sebenius and Research Associate Ellen Knebel show two very different organizations doing just that. The cases are part of a series that involve hard bargaining situations. “The... View Details
- 23 Jan 2020
- News
Bringing Education Back Home
a set of technical skills and, particularly, marketing leadership. We basically branded our story: Two Harvard grads coming back to our hometown, trying to build a better education system. That was our sales pitch. We took a business... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals
centerpiece event of the WSA, a fifteen-year-old organization whose mission is to foster a supportive environment for women at the Business School and to provide services that help them to succeed as students and in their careers. The... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey