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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
short-term results with adherence to a long-term strategy and direction. At Cummins, we are driven by the concept of maximizing shareholder value -- but the question is, value over the next quarter or two,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
Cathy Barrera (PHDBE 2014), cofounder of the economic consulting firm Prysm Group, was looking for something new to do. She had just left a tenure-track position at Cornell, where her research focused on the intersection of economics and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
his talents in a smaller operation. He became president of Custom-Made Packaging, Inc., working out a financing deal that he gradually converted into a majority stake. Within seven years, he had turned the firm around and sold it to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
had made them stars during their long and distinguished business careers. HBS professor Bill George was, in effect, the referee for the September 29 Burden Hall event, which was sponsored by the HBS Leadership and Values Committee. George... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
"but that idea really crystallized when I went to Cummins and saw a Fortune 500 company that made values an integral part of its mission statement." Rogers' own values were tested shortly after a 1981 move... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
guidelines and encouraging employees to create value through long-term thinking - rather than by trying to follow the latest "flavor-of-the-month." "Predictability is not certainty," Stevenson emphasizes. "It isn't about having a lifeless... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
all. But Branson, whose career began in the late 1960s when he launched a student magazine and then a record company, told the audience that his enterprises all fit the company's brand. He defined the Virgin brand as representing service and View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
hours a day, has a development team instead of a staff, and has no checkout lines. Bricks-and-mortar firms such as Walgreens, on the other hand, must build physical stores and employ and train store staff. Customers have to show up in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
company Value Retail—and HBS alumni are the founders, chairmen, and CEOs of some of the sector’s hottest properties, from textile manufacturing leader Esquel Group to DIY makeup startup Mink. The business minds are suddenly as influential... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
financial services firm helps small and medium-sized enterprises raise capital and scale their businesses. In the past year NISK itself has grown, and now its team of eight works with 50 clients. Kyarisiima acknowledges the life-changing... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
learned how to go find value. I learned how to bring people with you as you're turning something around. Today I'm a founder. I've founded several companies. And those are the skills that never leave you. You know? I mean, the greatest way to create View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
companies, and later served as a director at the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr, LLP, before joining Genzyme in 1997. While at Hale and Dorr, she assumed leadership roles on the boards of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
firms to large capital-intensive enterprises, such as banking, telecommunications, mining, and transportation. By the late 1980s, many had developed a good deal of autonomy. Twenty-five years of economic reform have changed the structure... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
nonprofits a year,” either through direct engagement or in pro-bono brainstorming sessions. “It’s a wonderful way to give back,” says Club President Jan Gullet (MBA 1977). “We’ve done the research. Our members tell us what they value most... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
competitive edge. As one example of a winning strategy, Nolan cites Cisco Systems, a twelve-year-old company that makes routers for networks. In 1998, Cisco reached a market value exceeding $100 billion in record-breaking time. It did so,... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
it happen in practice. That’s on the private market side. On the public side, the question is how you can influence the behavior of a company to reflect your values, or protect the long-term value of your investment—or both—while only... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
FemHealth Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on women’s health. For the nonprofit/government sector, the winner is Emma McCarthy (MBA 2018), Lieutenant Commander and one of the first women to serve as a Submarine Officer in the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop Their Next Leaders by Allan Cohen (MBA 1961) and Pramodita Sharma (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Companies owned and run by families need to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills just like any other, but family... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
blame someone else.” On “Don’t ask, don’t tell”: “It struck me that I’m leading an institution whose main value is integrity—yet I’m asking men and women who are willing to die for their country to lie about who they are every single... View Details