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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
comic books. In a career that spans more than thirty years, Cuneo has completed seven successful turnarounds at consumer-product companies such as Clairol, Black & Decker, and Remington. He joined Marvel in 1999, just after it emerged...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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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...
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- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
Jacobs (MBA 1979), chairman, Anchor Audio “Thirteen years ago, I felt like I had already experienced a lifetime of learning from successes and even more from failures. After HBS, I had held a variety of roles—in View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Brooke. “We wanted to get involved in something more entrepreneurial,” he explains. “We saw the restaurant business as a service industry that would be successful based on the organization's productivity, focus, and sense of purpose,...
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)
all the elements that are necessary to be successful in the digital media world.” Back to her roots: “The early part of my career was doing quantitative work, but I had always had a personal passion for media and creative businesses. I...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2008
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Innovation as P&G’s Key
CHARAN: Drawing on his global consulting experience. LAFLEY: Customers are “the boss.” Photo courtesy Proctor & Gamble What does it take to delight low-income Mexican buyers of sanitary pads? The answer is not a punch line to a poor joke; instead it’s a View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
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Playing to Win
I think CEOs should not stay too long at any company." Louis-Dreyfus believes that successful global enterprises must be decentralized. While Adidas's corporate headquarters maintains authority over the company's mission, vision, and...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
after he graduated from HBS, when Loews bought Bulova in 1979. “Although Bulova had a strong brand name,” he explains, “we soon realized it was losing out to its Japanese competitors in technology, styling, quality, marketing, and...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
that of Kentucky’s established breeding farms, some of which managed over forty stallions. Clay adopted a boutique approach to guarantee personal service for both the owners and their horses, and serve as a point of differentiation to ensure View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
about, say, the allocation of roles and decision making, and applying them to his life. For Wasserman, the meeting was revelatory. Anyone—founders or not—could gain all these profound life lessons from the counterintuitive ways that View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
world," he says. "It shows that our strategies are working, that we're leveraging our core strengths, and that our leadership is focused." According to Lafley, this triangle of success at P&G—strategy, core capability, and leadership—is...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
the concrete ceiling in corporate America." The nation's business community, he said, "continues to reserve the real positions of power for white males." Graves told his audience that their HBS education assured them of success but noted...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
Thoren believes there doesn’t need to be a divide between for-profit and nonprofit missions. In December 2020, she joined outdoor-clothing brand Patagonia as director of Environmental Action and Initiatives, EMEA, a position that unites...
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April White
- 21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
recruits the guest CEOs and serves as moderator for an evening of unscripted, entertaining dialogue about building and championing successful brands. “Our goal each year is to deliver the unexpected, and we do,“ says Gulko, co-host of the...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
consumers in each market . The incorporation of local ideals concerning skin lightness into global brands provides one example of challenges arising from incorporating local identities into brands. In India, Hindustan Lever’s Fair &...
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- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
In this episode of Skydeck, Lewin speaks with contributor April White about the impetus behind the pledge, what success might look like, and why she remains optimistic that real change is possible. Lisa Lewin (MBA 2003) READ MORE April...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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A Class Act
Bulletin), perhaps it is time to proclaim the success of Dean Wallace B. Donham's "experiment" in keeping alumni in contact with each other and with HBS. Donham would have been pleased to know that the School's "barest start in...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
Ravi Venkatesan If anyone could write the recipe for business success in emerging markets, it would be Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992). After all, he's led not one, but two, major multinational companies—Cummins and Microsoft—in India and...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Launch Codes
but a lot of them,’” says Gernon. After earlier posts in health care tech and brand marketing, Gernon worked with a number of successful startups—including MotherNature.com, which had a $50 million IPO. More...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2017
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Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
US elections. David Perpich (MBA 2007) oversaw the development of that groundbreaking paywall and has led the company in the development of successful new digital products such as NYT Cooking. Now we ask Perpich—named president and...
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