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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
that board members of the best-performing companies frequently owned substantial amounts of stock in the firms they oversaw. In 1995, he chaired the Blue Ribbon Commission of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), whose recommendations dramatically... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
the company," Graham said. And two years later, when Meyer transferred ownership of the paper, his son-in-law received two-thirds and his daughter one-third of the shares. "My father believed that no man should ever have to work for his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
Celera completed its "rough draft" of the genome first. Whatever the outcome of the genome's public-private ownership squabble, managing an organization in this fast-paced, highly specialized environment presents several unusual... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 10 Jul 2014
- News
Harpoon Brewery CEO Steps Aside, Turns Stake over to Employees
- 25 Mar 2019
- News
Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club
milestone, CEO Jennifer Hyman (MBA 2009), told Forbes that the company “has created a new consumer behavior of dynamic ownership and clothing rental has become an essential utility in our members’ lives.” Hyman goes on to say that RTR is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)
Above: “Mainstream media is read by less than half of the people in the United States and Western Europe,” Edelman (MBA 1978) says. “The opportunity is to build your own communities, create your own content, and go direct to the end user.” (photo by Chris Sorensen) My... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
business plans before a panel of leading venture capitalists. Taking top prize was Wind & Rain R&D, a social enterprise entry that aims to foster urban development by facilitating home ownership among low-income renters. After a black-tie... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
Standing in a swirl of tourists that includes a gaggle of teenage girls, clusters of road-weary families, and a nun in full habit, Ted Hustead (OPM 30, 2001) appraises a mechanized Tyrannosaurus rex as it raises its enormous head, roars, and blows clouds of smoke from... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Water, Water Everywhere
both domestically and in emerging markets, looks favorable. "This is a business that has been primarily government-controlled without significant economies of scale," Mark said. "The ownership and operation of assets to improve operating... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Porter's Paradox
in this country and abroad. With the proximity that clusters provide, companies can do things together without formal ownership or legal relationships. And this kind of flexibility opens up more possibilities for change and dynamism,... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
director of product, where she oversaw the launch of Xbox Kinect incubation. “Many days I would say, ‘This isn’t work.’ There was a lot of ownership of the project. People would refer to it as ‘my business’—that was super-cool,” she... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
outcome for the child. "SynapDx is doing very well and completing a large clinical study thanks to a $15 million investment from Google Ventures," says Anquetil, who retains an ownership stake in the company but is no longer involved in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Thinking and Acting Like an Owner by Robert Steven Kaplan (Harvard Business Review Press) Professor Kaplan explains that leadership is accessible to all of us, and it starts with an ownership mind-set. Acting like a leader is a function... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- News
Two On-Track Investments
business of creating and managing “equine portfolios,” making Thoroughbred ownership a reality for anyone with the will (and the wallet) to get in the game. “I’m probably the only owner that bought his first horse on credit cards,” Finley... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
issue of media conglomerates, Tumulty says, "I don't worry too much about corporate ownership creating biased reporting or editorial pressure, but I do have concerns about the drive for bottom-line profitability. That's caused the closing... View Details
- 23 Jul 2016
- News
The Art of Persuasion
When Radhika Piramal (MBA 2006) returned to India in 2009, she noted two developing trends with direct implications for VIP Industries, her family’s luggage and bag business. First, air traffic was increasing rapidly with the introduction of new airlines and a growing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
A self-described SOB — son of the boss — Bill Dunaway grew up working in his father’s pharmacy in Marietta, Georgia, a town of 61,000 outside Atlanta. After expanding the business to a chain of 18 drug stores, Dunaway sold the operation in 1989 and opened the 1848... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
undercapitalized to meet its new demands and why public ownership was an important solution. When our public offering went through, many other firms followed suit.” In 1973, a call from Henry Kissinger, who was about to become Secretary... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
programs that any government could have, which was the drive to make India open-defecation-free. India went from having about 40 percent ownership of toilets, as in only 40 percent of the households own toilets, to what the government now... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
closely held businesses. And they want to grow them right where they are. The firm was founded by a group of 12 family business owners who were interested in creating a local ownership vehicle for retiring business owners. Generally,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon