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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
was an engineer with John Deere and her mother a busy volunteer and housewife. In high school, in addition to music, dance, and swimming, she explored international issues in debate club and participated in Model UN, an interest she... View Details
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Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog
a family business and work within any of these structures. Course focuses on interpersonal dynamics of employees - both family and non-family professionals. All three Family organizations, the Family, the Operating Company, and the Family... View Details
Brandon Farwell
Gusto, Patreon, Boom Supersonic, Andela, Bustle, Customer.io, VRChat, and others. This portfolio was awarded #1 in VR /AR and frontier technology by Goldman Sachs, CB Insights, and Pitchbook. Brandon spent time in sales operations and... View Details
Keywords: Business Products and Services (B2B)
- Profile
Luis Cervantes
International in Mexico City and Sao Paulo, the largest private-equity firm in Latin America and one of the largest in the world. Although the positions gave Luis “a broad operational view” and hands-on... View Details
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IT Strategy: Protecting HBS Information and Data Assets | Information Technology
sustainable process for remediations and risk reduction, allowing HBS to stay ahead of vulnerabilities now and into the future. While all the initial program objectives in the Strategic Plan were achieved, the team continues additional View Details
Edward G. Gardner
Gardner began mixing hair and beauty products for blacks out of his basement during the 1940s. Around 1960, he began working for another beauty supply business and when it went bankrupt, Gardner took its customers and began producing his own line of Soft Sheen... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Catch Up and Win by Steven J. Spear (DBA ’99) (McGraw-Hill) Spear finds that the internal operations of such market leaders as Toyota, Alcoa, and top-tier teaching hospitals have one thing in common: the... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
German Family to Give $11M After Learning Extent of Nazi Past
After an internal investigation revealed his company’s historic ties to Nazi Germany, JAB Holdings’ managing partner Peter Harf (MBA 1974) announced that the company intends to donate 10 million euros to a yet-to-be-determined charity.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
but from Mexico, South Korea, and elsewhere — was coming in at a lower price point than our unionized operations could match,” Chirchirillo recalls. “And many of my OPM classmates were from outside the United States, so I was getting a... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
first president of Academic Decathlon and subsequently helped guide its transformation from a small local event to the international competition it is today. After Patton left the Olympic committee, he became the president of the Academic... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
Ewing M. Kauffman
Using his middle name as his company’s name, Kauffman built a fledging pharmaceutical business initially housed in his basement into a $1 billion operation by the time he sold Marion Labs to Merrell Dow. Kauffman built his business by... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- Career Coach
Wendi Zhang
designing the evolution of their career and life. Wendi works full-time in Silicon Valley at Egon Zehnder, which she joined in January 2024. Immediately before her current role, she served as the VP of Business Development and Operations... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Hail to the Chief
Not along ago, consultant Alison Sander (MBA ’86/JD ’87) was invited to evaluate the potential for sustainable investment opportunities in Ecuador’s rain forests, where petroleum reserves were being parceled out to international energy... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
It was hardly the first industrial conglomerate to spin off major divisions; Tyco International PLC, ITT Corporation, Illinois Tool Works, Johnson Controls, and Ingersoll-Rand PLC had made similar moves in recent memory. However, its... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch
strong retail practice, which now accounts for half of the firm's consumer business. Like most senior McKinsey partners, Karch has served on numerous internal committees, and she is particularly proud of her work in forming (and then... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
chains and people analytics to artificial intelligence-based models and automated biotechnology research, organizations further along the digital curve are responding differently than those still wondering how to evolve. The digital technology embedded throughout their... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 24 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Journey to my Summer Internship
marketing, operations or sales. As luck would have it, I interviewed with Danaher, a global science and technology company with operating companies in many different industries and locations. They had a... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 2004
- Other Unpublished Work
Just Jobs? China and the Geopolitics of Virtuous Production
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan
Inc. and the Eye Care Company of Hoya Corporation placed first in the multibusiness company business-unit category. Established by the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Hitotsubashi University and sponsored by the... View Details
Keywords: awards
- Career Coach
Philippe Taieb
positions for The Nature Conservancy, the world's largest environmental nonprofit, and was also the Director of International Operations at City Year, a youth service organization. Outside HBS, Philippe is a... View Details