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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
sector of the Philippine economy. For Sir Martin Sorrell (MBA ’68), it was “bringing up three boys who we couldn’t figure out how to turn into girls.” As group chief executive of WPP Group plc, one of the world’s largest advertising and View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
markets are," he laughs, "when you are out there practicing martial arts against a guy who is twenty years younger and is aiming for your head, you tend not to worry about your stocks. " Back in the office,... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
many ways determines my ability to be a successful entrepreneur. And then the third piece: talent, community, your business model. I'm going to bring a novel combination to market and I'm going to disrupt an economic flow. That defines my... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
the marketing visionary who helped Amazon.com expand its horizons beyond books, Risher is now putting his imagination to work on finding better ways to bring books to children worldwide. As cofounder of the nonprofit Worldreader, the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
can cause pneumonia; it had previously only been recommended for children. (The recommendation was later softened when it became clear that vaccinating children naturally led to fewer cases in older adults.) But few believed that the underlying fundamentals of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
initial project is completed. What are your current projects? We have three formal projects in Rwanda, India, and Honduras. In Rwanda, we’re helping Mission Schools International, founded by Brendan Kennealey (MBA ’06), establish a network of View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
chocolate-covered cacao nibs feature artwork submitted by art schools and community organizations; sweetriot’s customers vote to select the winner, with new designs appearing about twice a year. And the name? Drawing on her Yahoo!... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Alumni Books Live the Art by Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) (Rizzoli) A chronicle of Deitch’s career as an art dealer and producer of memorable installations and art happenings that... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
prices leading to an economic collapse? —Bruce Johnstone (MBA 1966) KIRBY: Unlikely. Prices have fallen considerably in secondary and tertiary cities but are firm in the first tier. Property is, of course, a speculative investment in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
20th century, I decided on an industrial marketer and a consumer marketer who epitomized the "American Century." Each in his own way was a pioneer in the art of salesmanship:... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
heavily in employees and the other focuses mainly on shareholders or customers," Paine says. A secondary category of ethical issues, she notes, involves questions arising from the actual M&A; transaction. "Some really vexing issues... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
to arms. Innovation Through Fusion: Combining Innovative Ideas to Create High Impact Solutions by CJ Meadows (DBA 1996) De Gruyter Just as nuclear fusion produces massive energy by combining two nuclei, a fusion in business, technology, and the View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
promotions, oversees much of the marketing end of the 1996 Olympic Arts Festival. "We market the festival as a once-in-a-lifetime experience to go along with the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
marketplace. Using BCG's proprietary market segmentation of the two nations, the authors dissect the markets based on wealth, education, attitude, geography, age, and gender and tell how to reach these... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
centers across India, creating more than 3,000 entrepreneurs and 12,000 jobs. The first program, Change the Mindset (CMS), works with students in secondary schools and colleges, introducing them to entrepreneurial skills and opening their... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media by Catherine J. Turco (MBA 2003) (Columbia University Press) A fast-growing social media marketing company, TechCo encourages all of its employees to speak up. By... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
program at the Nestlé Group in Germany, where he showed a particular talent for marketing and product management. His skills attracted the attention of the management at Pfizer-Germany, who hired him in 1966 as senior brand manager. A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
contexts while staying grounded in one's own natural style. Molinsky advises how to overcome the emotional and psychological impediments to doing so. Leadership and the Art of Struggle: How Great Leaders Grow through Challenge and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Turning Point: Sparking Change
Loyola University Chicago. I arrived early and sat in the empty classroom, reflecting on the fact that this was my chance to introduce the students to my passion—to get them excited about marketing as an art... View Details