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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
comic books. In a career that spans more than thirty years, Cuneo has completed seven successful turnarounds at consumer-product companies such as Clairol, Black & Decker, and Remington. He joined Marvel in 1999, just after it emerged... 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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A bold experiment in education
ensure under-resourced children have the opportunity to succeed in college and beyond. Four years ago, NOCP embarked upon a turnaround of Walter L. Cohen High School, once coined “America’s Most Dangerous High School” and the lowest... View Details
- 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 Oct 2002
- News
All Aboard
Railroad management used to be a hot topic at HBS, but that was a few decades before David Gunn (MBA '64) arrived at Soldiers Field. Too bad, because Gunn is a modern incarnation of the quintessential railroad man. These days, that usually means he has to be a 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
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Turning Troubled Schools into High-Achievers
of stories of success. If I think about one of our turnaround schools, before we intervened at that school, only about 12 or 13 percent of students were demonstrating grade-level proficiency in mathematics and in reading. We were asked to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Managing a Master
Luther King, Jr. The music is superb and the evening unforgettable. It is another in a series of triumphs for an artist who seems destined to become a legend. Edward C. Arrendell (MBA '80), a Boston-based consultant at the time, was in Seattle, Washington, working on... View Details
Keywords: Jeff Lazar
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
curveballs life throws.” After successfully leading turnarounds at Converse and Keds, Jacobson launched Strategic Grant Partners, a foundation and pro bono consulting firm that collaborates with social entrepreneurs to improve the lives... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
right set of experiences." One such item on Romney's résumé was his successful turnaround of the Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Company. Romney joined Bain in 1977, then left in 1984 to become CEO of its venture capital spin-off,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
discusses how Dunn helped lead a turnaround at Sesame Street in this episode of the Cold Call podcast. HEAR MORE Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses how Dunn helped lead a turnaround at Sesame Street in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
headlong charge that has industry-leader Nike looking over its shoulder. "I'm a gambler, and I like the challenges that turnarounds present," explains the tall, curly-haired Louis-Dreyfus. "And with a turnaround, you're only expected to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
irrelevance. The company's signature wild cherry–flavored product all but disappeared from retailers' shelves; by 2012, annual revenues had sunk to about $1 million. Enter Steve Silk (MBA 1978), turnaround maestro and patron saint of lost... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
successful turnaround management is to try to make the least bad decision based on imperfect and incomplete information,” Tisch says. “The case method helped prepare me to do that.” Tisch's leadership qualities were very much in evidence... 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
- 07 Oct 2024
- News
On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)
After nearly nine years in a series of marketing and strategy roles at Samsung—where he logged approximately 2.5 million air miles and earned status as a “permanent resident” of Korea—Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008) made the leap to Electrolux Group Chief Marketing... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
advantage." Speed has also characterized Juliber's ascent up the corporate ladder. After helping to double sales and triple profits for CP's Asian operations in only three years, she was named chief technological officer for worldwide operations. She was then asked to... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
enjoy team management for the teaching aspect. It’s personally very rewarding to see someone take my advice or general direction and produce useful results. I enjoy turnarounds because they are very difficult and no one expects the... View Details
- 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