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- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
He recalls this moment in his new book, Around the Corner to Around the World: A Dozen Lessons I Learned Running Dunkin’ Donuts. “Up until that point,” he writes, “the only thing I had managed were a couple of donut shops—replacing...
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brands;
leadership;
management;
strategy;
operations;
career;
Food and Beverage Stores;
Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
Illustration by PJ Loughron Illustration by PJ Loughron How has your experience as Dean of the School differed from your experience as a member of the faculty? Being on campus and engaging with faculty, staff, and students is something I have done for many years, and...
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
business. An eight-year veteran with the prominent New York venture capital firm of J.H. Whitney & Company, he launched his own shop backed by $8 million from the Bass brothers. Seven Honeywell engineers in Boston had come up with a...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
then sent back to be run through again? Of course the personnel in this building would know nothing of what transpired in the neighboring building. It would be a closed circuit, endlessly efficient. Or, on...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
to bring it back to India," says classmate Farah Nathani-Menzies, who now works as a consultant for Godrej Consumer Products. "There was no doubt that she was going back to India, and that she was going...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
Walking around the Cynthiana, Kentucky, manufacturing plant of E.D. Bullard Company, the firm's chairman, Jed Bullard, is in his element. "This is Sandy, she's been here a hundred years," he jokes with a woman affixing decals to hard hats. "I want you to meet Kenny, he...
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
briefcase nearby is a reminder of his prodigious capacity for work. "I'm currently dealing with five projects simultaneously," he explains. "I carry a part of each one in my bag, so that I can go back and forth between them." Porter's...
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James E. Aisner
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
biggest barrier, quite honestly, was operations. Which is actually one of McDonnell strengths, but running two day parts at the same time through our kitchens was a good challenge-- just the real estate challenge on our grills and being...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
security. But by the end of 2021, TuSimple had completed an 80-mile run from Tucson to Phoenix without a human driver in the truck’s cab. Routes are currently focused on the “middle miles” in the southern United States, with plans to...
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Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by;
energy;
environment;
sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transportation;
Water, Sewage and Supply Systems;
Utilities;
Construction of Buildings;
Construction;
Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Simi Nwogugu (MBA 2004)
problem solving, and innovative thinking—I would have known much earlier that business was what I loved. During a business trip to England, I hopped on a plane to Lagos to see about bringing JA to Nigeria. I hadn’t been back since high...
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Julia Hanna
- 07 Nov 2019
- News
Scranton Elects First Female Mayor
the city’s school board, where she ferreted out fiscal mismanagement in an attempt to bring the district back from the brink of financial insolvency. Before running for mayor, Cognetti also served as special...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Redefining Work Life
several corporate boards, and traveled, WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell (MBA ’68) came calling, tempting Fudge with an offer to run Young & Rubicam, the struggling communications concern he’d acquired in 2000. Fudge, intrigued, was ready to take...
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Corporate Services
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Man with a Mission
Force Academy, a running back on the team that defeated Ohio State in the 199o Liberty Bowl, and an Academic All-American. A Rhodes scholar, he earned a doctorate in politics at Oxford. Then he and his wife,...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
recalls Fung, who had planned, like most of his classmates, to work in the United States. So it was with some reluctance in July 1972, with the ink barely dry on his diploma, that Fung answered a call from his mother to return to Hong Kong and help his father View Details
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Alejandro Reyes
- 07 Sep 2016
- News
Appreciating the Big Role of Small Business
the conventional path promoted by many business schools—leading students to aspire to join large-scale corporations or to pursue the fast track of the startup world, versus following the less glamorous or seemingly less lucrative work of handling the daily fundamentals...
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- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
help them expand or make critical improvements. Launched in 2009, Edify has assisted 1,100 private schools by loaning each a minimum $5,000. The schools, which are run largely by locals who grew up in these disadvantaged communities, are...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
A classic business problem from the 1950s illustrates the tension between inventory costs and missed sales. A newspaper vendor must decide how many papers to buy each day based on typical demand. His profit is optimized, the solution says, when he buys just enough to...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Alumni Board Goes Global to Pick New President
he has perfected a technique for shaking off the lethargy of 22-hour flights to Boston — a six-mile run shortly after touching down at Logan Airport. He’ll be clocking a lot more after-flight miles over the next two years as he steps into...
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- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
years at HBS and a few years running a charter school fund he had founded in Newark, Leschly wanted to get back to managing—holding staff meetings, building a team, and doing applied work. So he returned to...
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- 07 Nov 2018
- News
The Results Are (Mostly) In
District. Taylor and Moulton were also two of 17 veterans who won Congressional seats with the backing of With Honor, a nonpartisan organization supporting veterans who run for public office. CEO Rye Barcott...
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