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- 01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim
rented, leased, or borrowed cars). Because other agencies aren’t chasing these young people, Surround enjoys a low cost of customer acquisition for a customer that has “the highest lifetime value View Details
- 19 Apr 2023
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. Even so, they were... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
and Kurt Vonnegut said, “To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen.” To which MacDonald... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Pet Project
Spies says. The team has spent years optimizing the business for best-in-class DTC subscription metrics. The company enjoys retention rates of 95 percent or more, where competitors sit at the 50 to 60... View Details
- 09 Feb 2021
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Investing in Entrepreneurship
become great oaks. The companies that are spawned provide employment, pay taxes, and advance the standard of living—all actions that are great for America.” Missy Crisp, a Vassar graduate who earned an MBA... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1997
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J. Hughes Norton III
There will be endless meetings with tournament promoters and sponsors from around the world, with representatives from the companies whose products his clients endorse, and with Tiger and his other... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
than one-third of them American—who among them speak 89 languages in 83 offices in 45 countries. As client companies became more sophisticated and demanding, another change... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- News
Don’t Scare the Bankers
Twenty five years ago, Ji Heng (MBA ’39), a Chinese national, made a special visit to Soldiers Field. A senior official at the Bank of China (BOC), Mr. Ji had returned to the School to renew old ties, as China was opening up and reaching... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
didn't have the courage to be there in the same room with her, but it was my son and I, we were holding her, intertwined. We didn't know where one body began and the other one ended. We were just View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control
professor recounted how a colleague's career was completely derailed when the rocket carrying his experimental instrument exploded at launch. Platzer decided to put his dream on hold and pivoted to a career in technology consulting. He... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
recalls. “I worked hard — with the help of excellent training officers — to catch up. Earning your colleagues’ respect here is a little more salient than in most workplaces — they’re depending on you with... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
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Soldier On
superintendent, the teachers. I think about four or five days later, I had my first decision as mayor. The head of the school board called—and in Virginia and in a lot of other... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
on the line, Checchi had to somehow revive the company amid an industry-wide slump that saw six other airlines go bankrupt. Under his leadership, Northwest eventually did roar back to strength and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 24 May 2017
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David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
Counsel while earning a law degree at Georgetown, “so I was comfortable with research.” As he pitched his services to companies in need of legal advice, he refined and expanded his business plan to focus on... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
get its case history, diagnose its problems, and only then solve them. Invented by the scholars who launched Harvard Business School, this medical model will still cure companies today. During the last 30 years, business schools embraced... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Jun 2006
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CEO Compensation Troubles
long-term trend has been for CEO pay to rise along with the pay for other senior executives, and it is now twice as much as that of CEOs in major European countries, according to Towers Perrin, a global... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
society that somehow valued this specific ability I had.” [music] At the Seoul offices of MBK Partners, Kim contemplates shelves of Lucite trophies commemorating some View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
the job done. Shaich offers clear-headed lessons for the entire life cycle of an enterprise, from bootstrapping a startup to going public to managing large companies to selling a business. And the relevance... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
of technology, order, and modernity, not ancient disciplines involving hand-to-hand combat. At the time, Sityodtong was setting up the Asian office of Izara Capital Management,... View Details