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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
CarterCovington Entrepreneurial Spirits: Through the Seventeen Principles of Napoleon Hill by Polycarp Emenike (OPM 38, 2009) The Napoleon Hill Foundation The Missing Something Club by Bill Haylon (MBA 1988) Terwilliger Press The Spice Whisperer: My Memoirs in View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
Do the rules of business change when a company’s product holds the power of life or death over its customers? That’s a question students must consider when discussing “Cipla,” a case about a $325 million Indian pharmaceutical company that View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Oreck’s guidance, New Orleans–based Oreck Corporation had steadily grown into a national brand known for its lightweight, powerful vacuums. As it prospered, the company acquired a manufacturing plant eighty miles east in coastal Long... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Long remembers eating lots of pumpkin — the only food readily available. The early engines of growth were holdovers from the Maoist era: township and village enterprises (TVEs) rooted in China’s vast rural regions, and state-owned... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
’59), and was moderated by PBS’s Charlie Rose. Whitman, former CEO of eBay, noted that most Americans are “deeply afraid” as they watch energy and food costs rise and their retirement accounts shrink. More must be done, she said, to... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
says. “And that was overly optimistic; it worked only when everything clicked.” The subsequent national conversation about minimizing risk through reshoring—that is, bringing American manufacturing facilities back to the United... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
favor, and manufacturing dried up. At a certain point, jobs in local government and services became the gold standard for security, benefits, and compensation—which is when the pendulum swung toward corruption. “Patronage, taking care of... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
enjoyed cricket more than books, and after graduating from Panjab University at the age of 19, he and a friend set up a small bicycle-parts manufacturing business. Gradually he expanded the operations, moving from bicycle parts to wool... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
traffic congestion, which is public enemy number one on passenger car fuel efficiency. The second thing we could do is address our agricultural food distribution system. If we went back to localized farming, it’s amazing how we could... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
soon developed a chain of restaurants based on a novel concept. Built with authentic interiors and fixtures imported from Japan, the restaurants featured a working chef at every table, flamboyantly preparing and grilling familiar American View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Breakthrough Marketing Plans: How to Stop Wasting Time and Start Driving Growth by Tim Calkins (MBA ’91) (Palgrave Macmillan) Most marketing plans are a waste of time — too long, complicated, and dense — and end up unread and unrealized. This book provides simple,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
Photography by Robert Schoen If I take one overall impression away from HBS, it's that everyone here has a powerful story to tell,” says Martin Gonzalez, a lanky Chilean whose own life story took a dramatic turn during his first year at Soldiers Field. A former... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
talks to Dionisio Garza Sada (MBA ’08), program manager for autoparts manufacturer Nemak. Photographs by Selma Fernandez & Marcela Taboada There are no cold calls here. No laptops, or blackboards, or Sky Deck. Thousands of miles from... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
even more learners, and we’re running a number of experiments to try and get to non-linear growth. Editor's note: Dean Datar's response applies to both of the following questions: Along with another HBS sectionmate, Steve Sarver, I operate a View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
amazing what they were able to do with market-based economic experiments and progress on infrastructure and food security once they put the Cultural Revolution behind them. Postwar Japan had begun to rise in the 1960s. The four Asian... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
was obvious the first time he met Marietta. At the time, Falce, who had previously worked as a mine electrician, was doing shift work at a manufacturing plant several hours away. His wife, Megan, a teacher at Pine Mountain, pressed him... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety and diversity seemingly matched only by the real-world challenges they must... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
On October 19, the School conferred its highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, on seven distinguished individuals. Since 1968, the School has selected outstanding men and women for the award, recognizing their accomplishments in the public and the private... View Details
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Burlington, Massachusetts-based, Rochester Shoe Tree Company, the country's leading manufacturer of private-label shoe care products, where he directed all new business ventures and substantially increased the firm's base business. Last... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
few natural resources, a small, destroyed manufacturing base, and income per capita less than a quarter of Britain’s to one of the most prosperous nations on Earth. By 2015 its GDP per capita was over 40% higher than Britain’s. How did... View Details