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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
roles at Campbell increased to 25 percent from 21 percent. In manufacturing, the percentage of plant directors and managers who are women and women of color increased from 14 percent to 21 percent and from 1 percent to 3 percent, respectively. Through five years of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
fiftysomething flatlander with urban sensibilities, and his wife move to a ratty weekend cabin in the heart of the Ozark Mountains. It is crudely built and lacks running water and electricity. Another problem is the local land baron, who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
market-distorting bubble. The big difference between now and the late 1980s is supply. “Oversupply is kryptonite to the real estate market, and I don’t see an oversupply situation,” he notes. Nor do other market insiders, whose consensus assessment is that new... View Details
- 25 Mar 2018
- News
Modernizing Infrastructure Management
actually know and inventory what's in their town, but then to actually have the tools to be able to maintain them and track those maintenance so that when the fire hydrant recall comes out, they can run a list and say, oh, Mr.... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena The great majority of McDonald’s U.S. restaurants are run by external owner/operators. Paulo Pena (MBA 2004) is responsible for the rest. As vice president and managing director of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
Massachusetts, classroom. Explaining the decision that led him to this radical midcareer transition, Watson, an engaging veteran entrepreneur with a long and successful record of cofounding and running early-stage companies all over the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
sugarcoated: balancing the challenges of a demanding career with motherhood. "You've got three choices," Hunt tells her students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she runs the Women and Public Policy Program. "You can go... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
endeavor. And there seem to be plenty of rewards for those willing to take their chances in a business that is infamous for luring many to the craggy rocks of failure. "It's a fast-paced, exciting, competitive business," says Castaldo. "It's also fun, because everybody... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
develop a high-level blueprint of the IT systems, decide where to locate and how to lay out floor plans, set up relationships with suppliers, and design a management system and scorecard with which to run the new organization. Oui, La... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
matching the entire US division in revenues. “After that I was hit up by Motorola to run their GSM [Global System for Mobile communications] operation in Pakistan, which is where I discovered mobile—and the rest, as they say, is history.”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
someone to be responsible for the domestic market in Brazil," he said. "It's a really big opportunity. Are you interested?" That's the other big challenge that Sender—who was appointed CEO in May 2013 after less than two years running the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
for alumni approaching retirement: Cut back work hours gradually, develop outside interests, and consider serving in local or state government. “You can run for office, make a contribution, and not give up your retirement. MBAs have been... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Bailey, who managed several Tahitian resorts, would be kind enough to give him some advice. On the nearby island of Tetiaroa, which the actor owned, Brando had a modest inn and wanted to know how to run it better. Decades earlier, Brando... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Countdown To Remote Learning
aspects of running classes so that faculty could focus on the students and the case discussions. Sarah Descheneaux, an OLF who also works as a coordinator in the Finance Unit, explains, “We each partnered with a specific faculty member... View Details
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
you at Nilus? “There is no such thing as a typical day! What I love the most about Nilus is that sometimes I have to put on my suit and tie to meet senior executives at a large company, and in the same day I may also spend five hours visiting families in favelas to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
African continent and import taxes are exorbitant, prices can run sky-high—to the tune of US$80,000 for a 2011 Toyota Land Cruiser, for instance. To address these problems, Nairobi-based startup Mobius Motors has reimagined an affordable... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
to start and run a company, but I hadn’t had that aha moment. I decided to make the leap when I couldn’t stop thinking about a reusable water bottle. If I didn’t do it, someone else would do it first, and I would kick myself later on. I... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
huge global companies that are very well run and have been very financially successful. In the US beer business we have a little bit less than 2 percent market share. So, we have to keep the heart and passion of a small business.... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
mobile one. Uber and other apps have made the mobile device a remote control for life (think of how distressing it is when your battery runs out!). The pace of innovation here makes it incredibly exciting to be a part of this industry.”... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
of his departure to attend HBS, Weeks was called into the office of CEO Jamie Houghton (MBA 1962). As Weeks tells it, Houghton, whose storied family had run the company since 1851, asked him to return to Corning after HBS. “I shook his... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young