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- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
$1.5 billion in assets and approximately $450 million in annual revenue, Dairyland Power employs more than 550 people and owns more than 3,000 miles of transmission lines. It’s an opportunity Nick didn’t want to pass up, as she’d just... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
learning." Adds Kosnik, "Sharing the learning process with these students reminds me there's no work I'd rather do more." Real Property Asset Management William Poorvu, the School's MBA Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
the quintessential entrepreneur." When Schultz purchased the Starbucks name and assets in 1987 for $3.8 million, the company, founded in 1971, had six retail stores that sold whole bean coffee, tea, and spices. Three years later, there... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
devastating assets of individual stockholders when these accounting deceptions surfaced. Mills initially explores how the mechanisms that should have protected investors failed. He lays the lion’s share of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
numerous ministries and eleven affiliated corporations, its 350-person staff, and its total assets of more than $92 million. After three years of commuting to Virginia Union University for Friday and Saturday classes, Reed received a... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
together a team—a very capable team, like you would if you were launching a new product—who will be focused on designing a plan and a strategy around how are you going to make these improvements and how you're going to do it at scale. And then you’ve got to hold that... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
classmate Hampus Hillerstrom (MBA 2007) conducted a field study at HBS on the pharmaceutical market potential of preclinical assets like his mother’s virus, Solomon had a revelation: His low-key mother, an accomplished scientist whose... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
(in that order), so my first jobs were below the MBA level: market research at Carnation, then media at BBDO. When we moved to New York City, I was offered a position as an account executive at BBDO, but I heard that the previous woman in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
intense pricing wars by electronics chains and discount department stores destabilized account bases." Some record executives have admitted to losing touch with their audiences and to alienating consumers by relentlessly pursuing and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
that today accounts for more than 70 percent of Riverdale’s sales. When Knott launched Riverdale in 1980, virtually all US and foreign lobster traps were made from wood. Today, nearly 90 percent are Aquamesh traps, which are far more... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
who don't know, it's a kind of speaker phone and he had me on speaker phone with John Georges. And Joe was an accountant by training, so he had one of those little ad subtract, multiply, and divide, calculators. This was long before HP... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
confidence that we can draw on all our past strengths and look forward to a remarkable future. I grew up in Bombay, as it was called then, Mumbai in India, came to the United States after having done my undergraduate degree in India and my chartered View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Commercializing Science and included members with medical, science, public health, and business backgrounds from HBS, MIT, and across Harvard University. The realization that DFA’s product had the power to impact the health of millions rallied the team, recalls Jon Puz... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
featuring fascinating historical detail about each route, Seven Climbs is a compelling account of Sherwood’s efforts to answer a much-debated question: Which are the world’s greatest climbs? Faculty Books Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
authority and stature inside the company, who's putting together a real plan with real goals that are going to be held accountable based on compensation, just like you would be doing anything else in business. And then would be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
jailed again, this time for armed robbery. After five years, the child was taken back by a member of her biological family. Two years later, as the meth crisis raged on, Langford had a phone call from Lee Shaw, formerly of Shaw... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
shelter–these were the everyday realities of a boyhood spent in the outskirts of London during the early 1940s. In this personal and meticulously detailed account of growing up under the stresses, daily dangers, and constant movement of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
be willing to spend $69.99 for five blocks. A few retailers agreed to carry Music Blocks, including FAO Schwarz, the now bankrupt specialty store that liquidated its assets in January. Music Blocks became one of the surprise hits of the... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
government officials are transparent. “Public officials have got to be accountable to taxpayers when it comes to budget decisions, contracts,” Cognetti continued. “Officials must be able to show their work. That’s what we all learned in... View Details