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- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
president and CFO of Medtronic, overseeing a number of acquisitions and sales at the medical device company and broadening its reach to include a more global investor base. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
« Back to the top of the page The Midas Touch — Tarrus L. Richardson by Betsy McNair In 1993, at the age of 23, Tarrus Richardson left Salomon Brothers' financial analyst program (where he worked in the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
became executive vice president of Bund Capital, a corporate acquisition firm started by her husband in 1985. "We raise private funds in blind pools and acquire middle-market companies primarily in the building materials and automotive... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 06 Dec 2017
- News
Puzzle Master
Photo via Black Enterprise Photo via Black Enterprise When kitchen goods and home furnishings retailer Williams-Sonoma announced its acquisition of Outward, Inc.—a leading 3-D imaging and augmented reality platform—the $112 million deal... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
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Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
the company since 1922. A piece in Fortune notes that the appointment “could trigger a series of acquisitions by the Swiss food giant to further its ambitions in nutrition and medical foods.” Schneider comes to the foodmaker from... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
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Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
industry is to reduce complexity and simplify ease of use. As communications capabilities and options expand, all of us who provide aspects of communications networks (including devices) must keep reduced complexity in mind. Can you describe some of the factors that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
model has evolved since its launch. "We used to charge a transaction fee, but moved away from that for strategic reasons," Cordero says. "Now it's simply about customer acquisition and building a community." (Still, GradSave is currently... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
electronics devices to Amazon’s online storefront. HBS would continue to play a role in Amazon’s development, with the article noting that two of Amazon’s earliest acquisitions included local companies founded by Warren Adams (MBA 1998)... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 29 Oct 2019
- News
Is This Disney’s Next CEO?
the company should focus on franchises. “After that, Mayer began working on acquisition candidates, including comic-book publisher Marvel and Lucasfilm, the home of ‘Star Wars’,” the article notes, also mentioning Iger’s previous $7.4... View Details
- 29 Mar 2017
- News
Randy Day Named Perdue Farms CEO
was seen by some in the agribusiness sector as a safe move for the innovative company, writes DelmarvaNow. But Day was quick to counter that perception, telling the news outlet that “he will be just as willing as Perdue has always been to bet on new technology,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Navigating rough waters
bank through the financial crisis of 2008, including its rescue of Bear Stearns and acquisition of Washington Mutual. "Our aim is to be the world's most trusted and respected financial services institution," says Dimon, whose management... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- News
A lifetime of quiet leadership
which operated in a way that had never been done on Wall Street: Whitehead’s team proactively sought business and also became involved in facilitating mergers and acquisitions and IPOs. This spirit of innovation also informed Whitehead’s... View Details
- 28 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion
capital supplied by maxed-out credit cards, Orbital Sciences Corporation launched in April 1982, the first corporate entrant at the prime contractor level in nearly three decades. According to Bloomberg, the acquisition is the largest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
These Walls Can Talk
before its acquisition by Google and then was part of the Google Glass team. Now, as the new head of business development for SmartThings, she’s joined the nearly $18 billion smart home industry. “This is a space that is exploding with... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A wild ride from adventure travel to social media marketing
which provides a SaaS platform for marketers to manage their presence on social networks, is a division of Google, and is among the largest acquisitions ever made by the Internet giant. Wildfire now has over 25,000 paying customers who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Making Finance Personal
organizing household finances, in 1983 Cook cofounded Intuit with the novel idea of producing—as it did with Quicken, its initial offering, and later with its acquisition of TurboTax—financial software as a consumer-oriented,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990)
As CEO of the London-based telecom Vodafone Group, Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990) has led a series of headline-grabbing acquisitions and divestitures, from the company’s $1.7 billion purchase of British multinational telecom Cable & Wireless... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Robert F. Greenhill, MBA 1962
and acquisitions department in 1972, the first of its kind on Wall Street. He then headed the investment banking division and eventually served as president before accepting the top spot at Smith Barney in 1993. In 1996, Greenhill set out... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
startup than an asset management firm. BlackRock, she said, was about “performance and collaboration in a real way.” Bill Gluck (MBA 1970), managing director of the Farmington Group, countered, saying BlackRock could use the acquisition... View Details