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- 01 Jun 1998
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Franchise Organizations by Jeffrey L. Bradach (Harvard Business School Press) How much impact do chains such as Pizza Hut and McDonald's have on today's economy? Here are some telling numbers: a new franchise opens in the United States every eight minutes; by the View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
Donald K. Clifford Jr. wrote the book on how high-performance, midsize companies beat their competition, but growth in the world of nature has always been closest to his heart. “The natural world was always my great interest,” says Clifford (MBA 1956), a former...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
the President a line-item veto to rein in spending, and most recently, to allow controversial electronic surveillance of U.S. citizens to combat terrorism. On the other hand, he voted to override the President’s veto of stem-cell...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Ready for Departure
included a graph of passenger volume over the years that charted a steady, skyward incline, dotted by a few fleeting blips along the way: the Asian financial crisis of 1997, the SARS outbreak of 2003, the 2008 View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an economy transformed by View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1998
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A Zest to Invest
markets, Kingdon oversees a $3-billion company that invests in a global array of stocks, bonds, currencies, and options. So he isn't exactly the type to overreact to wide swings in the market. Besides, as any hedge-fund manager knows,...
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Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 11 Dec 2014
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Fashion's Retail Revolution
making entrepreneurship in fashion retail more possible and more attractive: globalization and the digital disruption of the shopping experience,” says Khaire, who studies entrepreneurship in creative industries. In the United States last...
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- 23 Feb 2011
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A Capitalist in China
published his first novel in January, China Fortunes: A Tale of Business in the New World, (www.johndkuhns.com) about a young American lured to China in the 1980s as the country embarked on economic reforms that transformed it into a View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a...
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- 05 Jan 2022
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Untapped Potential
hardware and software solutions. Ferguson has been in the water sector for more than a decade, including five years as the vice president of programming at Imagine H2O, an accelerator for water startups. In that role, he saw a growing...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Inside MBA Admissions
must have several years of work experience before applying. Outside the United States, MBA Admissions hosted recruiting events in forty cities in 32 countries. The School’s recruitment efforts have led to “a richer mix of students” on...
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- 01 Aug 1998
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A Roaring Success in the Windy City
the second?" Johnson shared this and other tales of "active patience" with an audience of some six hundred HBS alumni at the 1998 HBS Global Alumni Conference held in Chicago June 16-19. A lifelong entrepreneur and philanthropist, the...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Far as the Eye Can See: A History of Seeing by Susan M. Denham (MBA 1993) The History Press From the mastery of fire a million years ago, humans have repeatedly invented new ways to see their...
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- 01 Jan 2011
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Peter Harf, MBA 1974
privately held Joh. A. Benckiser SE, which owns Coty, Labelux, and stakes in Reckitt Benckiser and Burger King. He serves as chairman of Coty, the global beauty company and leader in fragrance. He began his career at The Boston Consulting...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way
Each day the global economy becomes more and more like an African weaving - dozens of different, colorful, and previously isolated threads woven together, gradually becoming more tightly intertwined. Africa, newly rising from View Details
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
This entrepreneurial energy is following a decidedly terrestrial opportunity. The nonprofit advocacy group Space Foundation estimated that the global size of the industry reached $330 billion in 2014, with an annual growth rate of 9...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2017
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The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
professional esports players and amateur gamers streaming video game play. By year’s end, market analyst Newzoo forecasts, the online global esports audience will reach 385 million people with revenues of nearly $700 million. But if all...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
“Pretty straightforward. Pretty frightening.” That’s how Jim Sharpe (MBA 1976), chairman and CEO of Extrusion Technology, Inc. (ET), describes an out-of-the-blue situation his company faced two years ago, when its largest customer...
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- 14 Oct 2020
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Sewn with Love
In the midst of a global pandemic and widespread protests against racial injustice, the fashion industry can seem pretty frivolous. Fashion-industry leader Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), CEO of VPL, a women’s underwear and athleisure company,...
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Maureen Harmon
- 07 Sep 2021
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Building New Connections
DAS’S DEEP IMPACT Outgoing Senior Associate Dean for External Relations Das Narayandas leaves a legacy of notable accomplishments after five years in the role. Narayandas, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and...
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