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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Staying Afloat
With revenues of $600 million in 1998, the Szczecin shipyard in Poland is one of that country's most notable post-Cold War economic successes, according to an article in USA Today (November 8, 1999). The yard's turnaround is all the more... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
John C. Sawhill Remembered
for bringing about an academic and financial turnaround in the country's largest private university. Contributions in Sawhill's memory can be made to The Nature Conservancy, c/o the President's Office, 4245 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Blue No Longer
In March, Louis Gerstner (MBA '65), IBM's CEO since 1993, stepped down after achieving a remarkable turnaround at Big Blue. Gerstner, who lacked any previous experience in the computer industry, frequently defied conventional management... View Details
- 13 Jun 2013
- News
Learning Curve
Marshall Tuck with kids Photo courtesy of Marshall Tuck Marshall Tuck's exciting new job had a rough start. Selected in late 2006 to head a turnaround of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Tuck (MBA 2000) saw his position evaporate... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
transactions—the metrics Karavites tracks most closely—are up at all his locations. Formulating a turnaround strategy required Kempczinski and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of what exactly had happened to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Make or Break
BLOOM: Build it and good things will come. Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) has been an investment banker, a special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers, and cochairman of President Obama’s task force over-seeing the Chrysler and GM bailouts. Now he’s gotten an... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 07 Feb 2017
- News
Checking in with One Championship
Singapore. Then his fortunes changed, a dramatic turnaround documented in this Bulletin profile. After founding and selling a startup with two HBS classmates, Sityodtong headed to Wall Street, working for several large investment funds... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
possible turnaround of this huge institution, one that affects everybody in the country. I saw it as an opportunity to bring about fundamental change at an agency that really needed it, to have an impact on a key function of government,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
multicultural, turnaround artist and shake-things-up executive, born in Brazil, raised in Lebanon, educated in France, and revered in Japan (One poll there had Japanese women selecting the happily married Ghosn as their top choice for an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
Associate Professor Anita Elberse (Strategic Marketing in Creative Industries), Professor Frances Frei (TOM), Senior Lecturer Stephen Kaufman (TOM), Professor Deepak Malhotra (Negotiation), and Professor Paul Marshall (Entrepreneurial Management in a View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Growing and Competing at the Local Level
helps small businesses in his state contribute to America’s competitiveness and economic health. “In running manufacturing facilities, I’ve been an operations turnaround person for my entire career—except for the last five years. I would... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Sharon Patrick
categories.” Patrick has done just that since earning her MBA. After thirteen years at McKinsey followed by, as president, a turnaround of Cablevision’s Rainbow Programming, in 1993 Patrick founded her own company to create and own... View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
- News
On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)
particularly admire? One is an HBS grad, AG Lafley (MBA 1977), who led such a big turnaround at Procter & Gamble. Pankaj Bhalla and Austin Lally also at P&G, are two others. I loved how much emphasis they put on talent development and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
photo by Clara Molden / Camera Press / Redux Corporate turnarounds aren’t known for being a walk in the park. “Anybody who does what I do has to be incredibly resolute, to the point of bloody-minded, about the need to fracture an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) In the face of economic challenges, hospitals in the English National Health Service have turned to a strategy that has proven effective for small private and public organizations: hiring... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Touching All the Bases: Stephen A. Greyser
In his MBA elective, The Business of Sports, Professor Stephen A. Greyser brings an insider's knowledge to topics such as league development, sports and the media, corporate sponsorship of sports, marketing for teams in turnaround... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
business through a successful restructuring and financial turnaround that has transformed it into Lucent's second-largest global operation. Asked about her strategy for personal success, Russo replies, "I like opportunities that are new... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
Can U.S. manufacturing ever regain its once robust and thriving condition? The current issue of the Bulletin, which focuses on U.S. manufacturing and competitiveness, finds some optimistic signs amid intensified competition. But it’s clear there’s still a long way to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
Internal Revenue Service. Senior advisor, The Carlyle Group. He upgraded technology and information systems and stressed customer service in a dramatic turnaround of the IRS. Daniel L. Vasella, M.D. (PMD 57, 1989), chairman and CEO of... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
says. Over the next decade he proved that he was up to the task, so much so that in 1993, when the firm hit hard times, Bain CEO Mitt Romney (MBA 1974/JD 1975) asked Tierney to head the company. “The rational response would have been to decline,” observes Tierney, who... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young