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Rob Gierkink
billion and is now the backbone of the Oracle Data Cloud. Prior to founding Datalogix Rob co-founded and was CEO of Loyalty Management Group, the company that established and runs the Nectar program, the United Kingdom's largest loyalty... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Brooks Brothers, Marks & Spencer, and Nordstrom. What isn't known to consumers is the name behind all these labels-a family-owned textile and apparel manufacturer headquartered in Hong Kong called The Esquel Group. With seventeen plants or offices in nine countries,... View Details
John W. Brown
Brown took the helm of Stryker upon the death of its CEO (the founder’s son). In a short period of time, Stryker built the small company into a medical products powerhouse. Taking the company public in 1977, Brown oversaw phenomenal growth. View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
retailer Wayfair. “They want to know, ‘Do I feel like I can add value and make a difference?’” Gulliver manages a 300-person team at Wayfair dedicated to helping the growing e-commerce company recruit and retain talent. Her role is... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
European Computer Driving License, a basic requirement for any IT job in Europe, which otherwise can cost as much as $500 per course.) English language, computer skills, and business management curricula are especially popular. Explains... View Details
Sigfried Weis
Weis was instrumental in managing the growth of Weis Markets, often noted as the most profitable supermarket chain in the United States. Weis took the company public in 1965 and went on to produce over 25 consecutive years of successful... View Details
Keywords: Retail
Charles B. Wang
and business managers to achieve sound products and a culture of management that fosters brutal honesty and integrity. CA earned revenues of over $5 billion and net income of... View Details
Keywords: Services
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Entrepreneurial Finance (Q2) - Course Catalog
receivables financing. Course Content and Educational Objectives The goal of Entrepreneurial Finance is to help managers make better investment and financing decisions in entrepreneurial settings. The course covers all stages of the... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
the world are trying to reinvent themselves for digital success. Indeed, few strategic problems are as hard as those confronting newspapers—declining print revenues, even greater declines in advertising revenue (mostly due to the loss of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
in the country. QE Solar totaled almost $1 million in revenue in 2014—double what it made the previous year—and projects $2 million in revenue in 2015. The company has taken no money from outside investors.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
WSA Conference Set for January
many of the world's top businesswomen. C200 members own businesses with annual revenues over $10 million or manage corporate divisions with more than $50 million in annual revenues. Members include vice... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
another repatriation tax holiday. Coupling these policies provides a carrot and stick for managers to begin to repatriate cash and use it productively at home. The combined revenue effects is likely to be... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
with a suboptimal start--which could be reduced by additional upfront provider counseling. Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Identify Value Improvement Opportunitues in Healthcare JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
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 general View Details
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
percent of its revenues came from rating structured finance products, versus the 32 percent of revenues generated from its traditional business of rating corporate bonds. A simulation is "still a model... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
telegraph, the radio, and so forth) that had been every bit as radical in their time as the Internet had become in ours. I argued that all of these technologies had gone through cycles of commercial expansion and political response and... View Details
- 09 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)
your MBA skillset prepared you to be successful in this role? The HBS MBA program has given me essential tools to tackle complex and broad problems. It taught me how to deconstruct large problems into manageable components and how to... View Details
Lawrence A. Bossidy
Through a number of sweeping initiatives including the introduction of a total quality management program, Six Sigma, and the reduction of the workforce by 20%, Bossidy turned AlliedSignal around. When Bossidy took over AlliedSignal, the... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
John Stuart
Having started in the cereal business as a sweeper at Quaker Oats, Stuart always paid attention to details and to the efficiency with which his father managed the company. His first major task at Quaker Oats was to create a more effective... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
Incentives, and Explicit Incentives Authors:Romana L. Autrey, Shane S. Dikolli, and D. Paul Newman Publication:Journal of Management Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We examine a setting in which View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace