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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
Profiles & photographs by Susan Young Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989 CARROLL: Discussing safety awards in her London office. Photographs by Susan Young This year's recipients join a distinguished group. Video... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
director of Nedcor, South Africa's second-largest banking group. HBS professor Linda A. Hill's session, titled "Unbundling and Black Empowerment," featured an impressive panel of advocates for black economic progress. Vusi Khanyile, chairman of Thebe Investment... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
boards, including those of UAL (the parent company to United Airlines), Liz Claiborne, and St. John's College. Part of that transition includes his position as executive- in-residence at Columbia Business School, where he teaches... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
HBS alumni excursion was organized by Global Adrenaline, an adventure travel company based in the Chicago area. The overwhelming response to the trip allowed Nancy Collins (MBA ’99), our trip leader and Global Adrenaline’s founder and... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
CFO: Unefon, Grupo Salinas, and Grupo Elektra 2002 Named CEO, Farmacias Benavides 2003 Named CFO, Vitro 2005 Named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum 2007 Cofounds IGNIA 2007 Named Chairman of the Board, Accion International 2009... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
1990s, she recalls, “I had dozens of people walking through the door with business plans for InStyle.com or Time.com that were essentially trying to sell me my own content.” The situation, she reflects, reminded her of the era of consolidations in the late 1970s when... 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
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
General Electric 1997 Named President and CEO, GE Aircraft Engines 2000 Named Chairman and CEO, 3M 2005 Named Chairman, President, and CEO, Boeing 2015 Named CEO of the Year by Chief Executive magazine 2016 Retires from Boeing Retired Chairman, The Boeing View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
Bloomberg spent 15 years at Salomon Brothers, where he rose through the ranks from an entry-level job counting securities by hand to general partner. When he was 39, Salomon merged with another firm and Bloomberg was fired. The energetic entrepreneur quickly launched... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Richard Edelman
Whether it is dolphin-rights advocates and tuna producers, or insurance companies and victims of the 9/11 tragedy, Richard W. Edelman is interested in bringing different worlds together. He is comfortable with conflict, and his 25 years... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
of large corporate databases. A management information systems specialist, Professor James I. Cash, Jr., focuses on how companies use information technology to improve organizational effectiveness and how businesses are changing due to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
Karim Lakhani and Marco Iansiti (photos by Susan Young; Getty Images) Karim Lakhani and Marco Iansiti (photos by Susan Young; Getty Images) Artificial intelligence is driving the latest seismic shift in the way companies conduct business.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
Company, Consultant 1983 Named Partner, Bain & Company 1987 Named Managing Partner of San Francisco office, Bain & Company 1992 Named President, Bain & Company 1993 Named... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
to ‘Dr. Famous,’ who was booked for 17 weeks out, while brand-new doctors only had 30 percent of their schedules filled.” Inspired by the efficiency that companies like Travelocity brought to the airline industry, Gardner created Kyruus... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
is viewed as a "must have" but not a differentiator. Volvo is one of a few brands that have relentlessly emphasized safety in its marketing, being early into seat belts, side air bags and other features that appealed especially to middle class families... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
worked with nonprofits; and launched several entrepreneurial ventures, including AwesomeBox, the company he now runs that makes it easy for friends to collaborate on a box of personal cards to mark a special occasion. For her part, Jean... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. It’s one of the stories... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the microprocessor and the semiconductor; and third, the rise of entrepreneurial activity, which drew... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
customers to take their business elsewhere. With new Internet-only banks and brokerages popping up regularly, established firms must find innovative ways to hold onto their customers. "Traditionally, strategy was institutionally driven—insurance View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- December 2006 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
eClinicalWorks: The Paths to Growth
By: Robert F. Higgins and Mark Rennella
In January 2006, eClinicalWorks (eCW) had an acquisition opportunity that could fundamentally change the way they had done business since the inception of the company in 1999. eClinicalWorks was a privately run business in the healthcare information technology field... View Details
Keywords: Young Companies; Strategic Revelation; Strategy And Execution; Strategy Development; Strategy And Leadership; Financing Strategy; Financing Risk; Financing; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizational Culture; Financing and Loans; Customer Focus and Relationships; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts
Higgins, Robert F., and Mark Rennella. "eClinicalWorks: The Paths to Growth." Harvard Business School Case 807-025, December 2006. (Revised October 2016.)