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  • 03 Apr 2015
  • News

Texas Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

HBS Campaign Vice Chair Laurence E. Simmons (MBA 1972) delivered remarks at The HBS Campaign Houston Regional Event, March 31, 2015. Alumni and friends of Harvard Business School from across Texas gathered on March 30 and 31, 2015 to... View Details
  • 26 Mar 2015
  • News

Improving the environment through green spaces and commercial buildings

Daniel M. Gilbane (MBA 2005), senior vice president of Gilbane Building Co., a family-owned commercial construction company, is helping Houston become a greener city. “We in the commercial construction business have become much more aware... View Details
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Oral Histories | Baker Library

She served on the Federal Reserve Board of Dallas from 1999-2006, and as Chairman of The Round Table of the James A. Baker, IV, Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Judy Ley Allen was also appointed to the Cultural Arts Council of View Details
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

The Harvard Business School Campaign: Regional Events

Washington, DC Cleveland Mexico City Dubai Houston London São Paulo Seattle Istanbul Toronto To learn more about upcoming events and see photos from past events, please visit alumni.hbs.edu/CampaignEvents View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 22 Mar 2022
  • News

Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year

Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni celebrate 75 Years of Connection, Learning and Service The HBS Club of Houston marked its 75th anniversary on February 26 with a cocktail party at the River Oaks Country... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

A Man of Influence

RIGHT-HAND MAN: Valenti’s memoir richly describes his years in the White House, a time when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act and made key decisions about the Vietnam War. Estate of Jack Valenti If Jack Valenti (MBA 3/’48) had lived to see the publication of his memoir,... View Details
  • Alumni WDYDWYD

Margaret Regan

thinking "I can do that!" My goal was to lead a meaning-filled life. My HBS MBA led to a real estate opportunity in Houston which led to another opportunity which led to me starting my own successful company. I have married and... View Details
  • 08 Sep 2022
  • News

Learning Curve

1997, as an experiment, with just four students. Katie and three others would benefit from both individualized attention and interaction with other children. Jerome Rosner, an optometrist and University of Houston professor (who passed... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Deep in the Heart of Texas

Leave it up to HBS alumni clubs in Texas to plan events that leave big impressions on their members. Houston Club President Andrew L. Waite (MBA '93), now in the second year of his term, rattles off the high-caliber speakers his club... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Roll the Credits

After a 38-year run as Hollywood’s leading man in Washington, Jack Valenti (MBA ’3/48) announced in March that he will step down as president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Valenti, a Houston native, was a... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Campaign Regional Events

Once again this year, HBS will be hosting events throughout the country to showcase the School’s intellectual capital and highlight the impact of the campaign. Each event will includea presentation by an HBS faculty member. Watch for details. View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Your Fullest Self

Kickstarted by a $50,000 loan from classmate Kate Lazaroff-Puck, Winters has raised $2 million in venture capital to date and will open Upgrade’s first bricks-and-mortar store in Houston next month. “The journey of starting a business and... View Details
Keywords: venture capital; entrepreneurship; female founders
  • Profile

Layeeka Ismail

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? From a professional standpoint, I knew I wanted to return back to Bain Houston after finishing my MBA and it made sense to pursue an MBA after my first three years at Bain. From a... View Details
  • 09 Mar 2023
  • News

Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year

1978), and Van Sheets (MBA 1983). HBS Club of Houston Wraps Up 75th Year Houston alumni mingle at the club's 75th anniversary gathering The HBS Club of Houston celebrated its... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Desert Dust-Up

Simmons “raising a ruckus in the oil patch,” said Barron’s (November 29, 2004). Simmons is chairman of Simmons & Co. International, a Houston investment bank active in the energy sector. As part of a small group invited to Saudi Arabia in... View Details
Keywords: Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 07 Dec 2015
  • News

Easing the Costs of Adoption

Houston real estate investment firm Rowland Taylor. Pathway’s perpetual trust, set up by Taylor, has already funded more than 250 family loans. With the support of fellow OPM alumni and a few key HBS staff and faculty members, including... View Details
  • 26 Sep 2018
  • News

Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

called the Katy Prairie Conservancy, in collaboration with the Houston Flood Control District, local governments, and area developers on what he calls a sponge credit. The credit would allow, for instance, a town to mitigate the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 17 Nov 2016
  • News

Wired for Innovation

wind.” Greenways for Houston Although he emigrated from Ireland as a small child and grew up in Virginia, Skelly has embraced life in Houston, where he serves on the Houston Parks Board and View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • Portrait Project

Jayon Wang

freeze your drink. Teachers and friends all laughed knowingly, “Jayon is at it again!” For my first ‘real job’, I launched a grand plan to fix Big Oil from the inside. An Asian-American liberal kid showing up in Houston with East-Coast... View Details
  • October 1991 (Revised November 1996)
  • Case

Gordon Cain and the Sterling Group (A)

By: Michael C. Jensen
A Houston-based LBO firm makes two petrochemical acquisitions that benefit from improved industry conditions and improved organizational performance. The LBOs generate huge increases in value, creating problems for managers, who have large, undiversified equity... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Value Creation; Business Exit or Shutdown; Leveraged Buyouts; Chemical Industry; Houston
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Jensen, Michael C. "Gordon Cain and the Sterling Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 492-021, October 1991. (Revised November 1996.)
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