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- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
longer lives for the greatest number of people. With everything he does designed to improve the world, Bloomberg is an optimist who attributes much of his success to luck. He has not forgotten his modest beginnings—or the $150 studio he... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
"may be the Dragon, a common icon in Asia that combines the disparate and frequently beneficent attributes of lesser beings into one of extraordinary capability and power. In the best companies, the whole is truly the sum of several... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
accolades for her management and marketing savvy in overseeing some three thousand employees and familiar brands such as Kool-Aid, Jell-O, and Grape-Nuts. Fudge attributes her success to her ability to get the job done and her genuine... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
Stanford University in 1959. Beverly Hawes, a Boise native, earned her degree at Whitman College in Washington. The Haweses came to HBS with four young children (two more followed in 1973 and 1976), and Rod Hawes earned his MBA as a Baker Scholar. "I gave Beverly the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
bright blue feet,” he says. “It’s the one place on earth where you feel like you’ve travelled back one million years in a time machine.” Main Wilson attributes his energy and inspiration to his father, Dennis Main Wilson, a well-known... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
and improved' attributes won't be valuable to customers forever. They should therefore be aware of how the basis of competition in their industries might be changing and preempt the commoditization of their products by finding creative... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
Patton, who was definitely not an A student in his high school class in Normandy, Mo., a level of accomplishment he attributed to his focus on the golf team rather than schoolwork, would have loved such an opportunity. Within a year,... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
percent) were in management and another 37 percent were in professional positions such as accounting, law, medicine, engineering, and finance. The report attributed the shortage to emigration of highly skilled workers, immigration... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
down-to-earth mentality is also apparent in Hellman’s athletic endeavors. He grew up riding horses and later played varsity water polo at the University of California, Berkeley. Often attributing his athletic achievements to an ability to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies are often disruptive to established organizations because they have a different set of attributes that aren't valued in existing markets. Market potential can seldom be measured and profit margins are meager at best. Examples... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
thorough understanding of the problem and a surgical plan to address it. Your job is to execute that plan with as little variation as possible. The ‘same way, every time’ is the mantra of the surgeon. Once the operation begins, however, the unique View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
revenues were less than $750 million. In short order, he became CEO and chairman. When he retired at age 59 in 2001, the company employed 28,000 and revenues exceeded $6.7 billion. George attributes the company’s success to maintaining an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
to a major airline, and we saved them about 240 flight cancellations and 40 diversions. That alone is worth around $20 million.” Indeed, weather has an enormous impact on the economy. According to the National Weather Service, between 3 and 6 percent of variability in... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
underwriting public corporate offerings. Nor is this unique to the United States. Britain’s Financial Services Authority has an-nounced that it is increasing its scrutiny of private-equity firms. Among the problems or risks attributed to... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
who has raised $12 million for DZD, attributes the very existence of the company to the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem and is happy to share his experience with other founders. “When we started the company, we asked ourselves whether... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
Your personal accountability is laid on the line, and the anxiety level is likely to be quite high, as is the amount of social reinforcement for doing well. How much of imprinting can be attributed to the relationships that are formed... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
system as three independent but overlapping subsystems: business, ownership, and family. Any individual in a family business system falls in one of the seven sectors created by the three circles. It is tempting to attribute disagreements... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
entrepreneurs, now VC and CEO advisers) believe the four traits in the title (or HSGL) are critical for entrepreneurs. From their work with hundreds of business builders around the globe, they found that every one of their subjects possesses these View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
25-year-old company that sells fashion jewelry and home accessories to 450 retail accounts, discussed some of the challenges she has faced as a woman in business. Friedlander attributed her success to a "constant state of being creatively... View Details