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  • 20 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

Leadership In Challenging Times: Thierry Ibri (MBA 1997)

rescue, transportation – as ‘feeding the line’ because it’s meeting acute hunger needs across our 59-county region in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. We also work to ‘shorten the line’ (prevent need for emergency hunger services) through... View Details

    Vincent R. Shiely

    Shiely continued Briggs & Stratton’s (world’ largest manufacturer of small gasoline engines) three decade long top financial performance – even during the energy crisis of the 1970’s. For 30 years, Briggs and Stratton has been a top 50 company in terms of return on... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods

      John M. Regan, Jr.

      Regan helped build Marsh & McLennan into the largest U.S. insurance broker and the first US company to buy its way into the world’s only major insurance underwriting exchange, Lloyd’s of London. Regan has played an instrumental role in creating a global presence... View Details
      Keywords: Finance

        Donald E. Petersen

        Though he was part of the teams that launched the Ford Thunderbird and Mustang, Petersen's real fame is rooted in his revival of the Ford dynasty in the 1980s. Under Petersen's leadership, Ford grew out of the shadow of GM, redesigning the Thunderbird, and launching... View Details
        Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

          Robert G. Mondavi

          Founding his winery in 1966, Mondavi is credited with putting California wineries on par with the “best in the world.” Prior to Mondavi, U. S. wines were considered “cheap imitations” at best. He was a tireless promoter of the Napa Valley and developed a reputation for... View Details
          Keywords: Food & Tobacco

            Louis W. Hill

            Hill continued his father’s mission as a railroad builder. While an officer for the company, he expanded the railroad’s mileage from 6,489 to 8,387 miles and made many improvements in operations. View Details
            Keywords: Transportation

              Jean Paul Getty

              After accumulating a one-third interest in Getty Oil Company, Getty negotiated for a controlling interest in the company after the death of his father. Getty went on to merge Tidewater Oil Company, Skelly Oil Company, and the Missouri Oil Company into Getty Oil, which... View Details
              Keywords: Utilities & Energy

                Roger A. Enrico

                Enrico helped to transform PepsiCo through a number of major initiatives including the spin-off of its fast food restaurant chains (Tricon), the acquisition of Tropicana, and the initial public offering of its bottling business. Through these efforts, Enrico... View Details
                Keywords: Food & Tobacco

                  Wilton D. Cole

                  Cole radically transformed the publishing company by selling the struggling magazine division in 1956, which, at the time, represented over 50% of the firm’s revenues. Through a series of targeted acquisitions and internal investment, Cole more than doubled the... View Details
                  Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

                    Irving S. Shapiro

                    Initially making a name for himself in politics, Shapiro joined duPont in 1951 as a lawyer, handling some of its most important acquisitions and antitrust cases. His negotiating skills, coupled with his extensive political connections, later earned him the title of... View Details
                    Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

                      Richard M. Schulze

                      Schulze transformed his small Sound of Music electronic store into an electronics retailing giant – Best Buy. Schulze introduced mass-merchandising techniques to the electronics marketplace and helped to transform the shopping process into a personal experience,... View Details
                      Keywords: Retail

                        Herbert P. Buetow

                        Through selective acquisitions, significant investments in research and development, and international expansion, Buetow continued 3M’s growth path. Under his leadership, 3M’s sales increased from $220 million to $690 million and earnings grew from $18 million to $84... View Details
                        Keywords: Fabricated Goods

                          DeWitt Wallace

                          After his idea for a magazine with condensed articles for time starved readers was rejected by several New York publishers, Wallace borrowed money from his family and launched Reader’s Digest from his basement apartment in 1921. Reader’s Digest was eventually published... View Details
                          Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

                            Richard W. Sears

                            After having much success selling a small order of watches he had come across while working as a telegrapher, Sears entered the merchandising business full time and devoted his business to rural, relatively poor farmers. Though Sears was known for his lack of... View Details
                            Keywords: Retail

                              Cedric H. Rieman

                              Rieman posted ten consecutive years of top level financial performance as head of Gardner-Denver. Under his leadership, Gardner-Denver expanded its base of industrial machinery customers and doubled both revenues and earnings. While it took the company 58 years to... View Details
                              Keywords: Fabricated Goods

                                Jeno F. Paulucci

                                Paulucci founded Jeno’s Frozen Pizza to capitalize on the growing acceptance of frozen foods as alternatives for dinner. While there were many regional frozen pizza offerings, there was no national brand. Through low cost production processes and national advertising,... View Details
                                Keywords: Food & Tobacco

                                  Erwin Kelm

                                  Over the years, Kelm built Cargill, Incorporated into a $10 billion grain company handling more than 25% of America’s grain exports. He operated 600 plants in 38 countries, employed more than 24,000 people, and had grain elevators with storage capacity of 300 million... View Details
                                  Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
                                  • 01 Dec 2018
                                  • News

                                  HBS Fellowship Furthers Entrepreneurial Dreams

                                  would afford me the opportunity to make an impact on a global scale,” says Okeke. The biology major entered college with the intent of becoming a doctor, and stints working at the University of Minnesota Medical School and Johns Hopkins... View Details
                                  • Portrait Project

                                  Nick Rosenbaum

                                  I sit at my father’s bedroom window watching showers of fluffy cottonwood seeds. Every May, they blanket the Minnesota ground like late spring snow. Life pours down. Inside, my father is dying in bed, kidneys ravaged by cancer. Together,... View Details
                                  • 07 Sep 2019
                                  • Op-Ed

                                  Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

                                  it will move its capital to Borneo from the current Jakarta because of advanced sea rise and concurrent ground subsidence. On the other side of the spectrum, communities like Duluth, Minnesota and Rochester, New York are touting their... View Details
                                  Keywords: by John Macomber