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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
prod corporations to put some of their remarkable cash hoards to productive use. Estimates of the cash held by U.S. public corporations easily exceed $1 trillion; several technology companies alone are sitting on cash balances in excess... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
grown the concern into one of Brazil’s largest nonfood discount retailers with some 500 stores and a powerful Internet presence: Today, half of Lojas’s sales take place online. In 1993, Sicupira, Jorge Paulo Lemann, and Marcel Telles, longtime business partners View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
vertically integrated, local market. In technology, capital flows to the location where products can be produced most quickly and cheaply for the moment; our model focuses on the long-term sustainability that comes View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
streamline production processes, lower costs, produce better quality products, gain a first-mover advantage, and enhance their global competitiveness. Properly designed government regulation, Porter... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
"A new push for college athletes to (finally) be paid will gain strength; the NBA will win the broadcasting rights lottery, securing new deals with at least two networks; and the only time A-Rod wears a Yankee uniform next year will be if... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
passions. I received a concurrent MBA/MPA from HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School and was interested in working at the intersection of multiple sectors to address societal challenges and realize our society’s potential. I also had... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
Founding Cochair, Partners HealthCare 1995 Retires from HBS 1995 Named Senior Advisor to the President of The World Bank 1997 John and Natty McArthur University Professorship established at Harvard 1999 McArthur Hall dedicated at HBS 2002... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
of hard work, fidelity, and building the alliances necessary to achieve enduring success. John Andrew, a retired Boeing executive, offers a unique insider look at the profound changes the company experienced in the 1960s as the product... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
should examine the issue of product architecture. Careful attention to modularity and intermodule coupling can dramatically lower the cost of change. Chinese Corporate Culture As China moves from a planned... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
being a CEO of a multinational corporation. She even dressed the part, going to school in a pantsuit. But the path to the corner office is often an expensive one. Thompson-Woode learned this as a high schooler in Brooklyn when she wanted... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
this type of manager, the School has introduced a comprehensive, six-week Executive Education program called The General Manager (TGM). The course enables participants to step back from their day-to-day responsibilities to View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
lucky people who was able to rise up. Xerox was so open in bringing up talent themselves. And so you pick that up and do it for your own teams, to bring talent in and work with people who need help, etc. etc. etc. JH: I asked Barron what insights she View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
managers are able to e-mail a digital picture of any questionable item to Hong Kong for an instant assessment. But it is Li & Fung’s StudioDirect service that has investors buzzing. For a long time, the company has built a solid reputation among big View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
World War II saw a massive invasion of America's own shores, with wave upon wave of returning veterans - along with their civilian countrymen - eagerly anticipating the fruits of peace and the comforts of "the good life," including consumer View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
and there’s no question that multinationals play at the edge of what is appropriate, and that should be corrected. But I would hesitate to have those kinds of financial dealings thought of as equivalent to the problems of drug money, or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
form of mindfulness that strategy has installed in the corporate brain above all others, it’s an ever-edgy awareness that other guys or gals are out there, trying to take your business, probably gaining on you, and that new miscreants are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
rate. Another was classic HBS: His venerable product was much more than just a magazine. As his classmates and professors assured him, The Nation was a “brand.” “We’re now a $10 million operation that’s been profitable the last two... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
Illustration by VectorStock As a doctoral student at HBS, Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury identified a little-studied phenomenon in innovation: Managers from emerging markets who migrated to the United States for jobs at View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
Professors Williams, Lodge, Goldberg, and Salmon, we gain a behind-the-scenes look at the School during its crucial middle decades and further benefit from their accumulated wisdom as to future directions... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna