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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
most innovative, successful biotech firm ever, Amgen led its industry in revenue and sales growth in 2007. Binder, the firm’s CEO during 1988–2000, describes Amgen’s climb to success, revealing the highs and lows in the race to develop... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
detergent part of Benckiser public. Subsequently, in 1999, this company merged with Reckitt & Colman, forming Reckitt Benckiser. The new firm thrived, reaching a total shareholder return of 16.5 percent per... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
After its war of liberation from England, America was bankrupt, disjointed, and devoid of experience in governance. "The new country could have broken apart because of its financial problems," HBS professor emeritus Thomas McCraw writes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
edge and attract new devotees without losing its core following? “We can still accommodate the traditional customer because our styling is classic,” says Matthew McEvoy (MBA 1989), strategic planning director at Burberry. Founded in 1856,... View Details
- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
Home underway, Bob Ryan realized a shiny new building would not solve the business’s other challenges. He tracked cash flow, collaborated with an employment law firm to iron out personnel issues, and helped... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
office." Further evidence of Twitter mania in Japan: The country holds the world record for tweets per second—33,388—recorded on New Year's Day 2013. But it's not just Japan at the cutting edge: As the world shifts from PC to mobile, Asia... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
some tales, and then ask for tips,” Bines says. The experience taught him that the better you understand your customer, the richer the tips. He has worked in customer-facing businesses ever since, including his current role as managing director at the global consulting... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
female. The percentage of new director seats filled by women last year was 39 percent, down from 44 percent the prior year. Equilar warns that, at that rate, boards won’t hit gender parity until 2032—that’s two years later than what the... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
was stunning. It was all new to her—she’d never known anyone who’d had an eating disorder, and hadn’t thought much about it before. It just wasn’t on her radar. But as she’d discover, eating disorders are a pervasive form of mental... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations. Even those View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
another network has expressed interest.” TV limits at home? No firm hours. “My kids work so bloody hard in school that we’re pretty good about letting them decompress the way they need to—what bothers me more is that they watch reality... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
more—possibly just a little bit at first—and firms might decide to expand production as well, and back and forth, driving a recovery in output and employment. In this way, the downward spiral of contracting consumption and business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
involving fifteen federal agencies. In the private sector, Treadwell is chairman and CEO of Venture Ad Astra, which invests in and develops new geospatial and imaging technologies. “From 2007 to 2009, we are marking the International... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
difficult,” he says. In its new incarnation, EyeView provides advertisers, agencies, and video networks a platform to create personalized online, broadcast-quality video ads tailored to the viewer by location, time of day, real-time... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
joined Bridgespan as temporary externs, permanent staff, and board members. Of the current staff of 170, spread over offices in Boston, New York, and San Francisco, 22 arrived from Bain. Bridgespan also maintains close ties to HBS.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
after stints at the World Bank and at his family's industrial distribution business. "Then you have to consider the outputs: Did they use this new technology and training? Did it produce more bananas or mangoes or pineapples? Did they... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
In recent years, trends toward economic growth, decreased financial regulation, and broad political change have led to more democratic societies, creating conditions for what some have called an African renaissance. READ MORE Mandela in Triumph at Harvard View Details
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- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
Their answers suggest that clean power will take off over the next decade or so, but hydrocarbon fuels will remain dominant. The E & E Club teamed up with the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) to host the receptions—one in New... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
Rothrock’s cell phone rings. Rothrock (MBA 1988) is the CEO of the cybersecurity firm Red Seal, and a higher-up at Sony was looking for his help. After the breach, he told Rothrock, the company essentially hit factory reset on their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Lorsch and coauthors Martin Lipton and Theodore Mirvis — partners of the New York law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz — characterized Schumer’s bill as a misguided attempt at reform and blamed... View Details