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- 26 Mar 2015
- News
Improving the environment through green spaces and commercial buildings
Daniel M. Gilbane (MBA 2005), senior vice president of Gilbane Building Co., a family-owned commercial construction company, is helping Houston become a greener city. “We in the commercial construction View Details
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Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog
E-mail: mtolsdorf@hbs.edu Career Focus This course is designed for students who are pursuing a career in businesses that are family owned - i.e. the majority shareholders are family, investment roles in family offices, or students that...
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- 03 Feb 2016
HBS Peek Weekend Preview Webinar
Open to current college sophomores, juniors and seniors who either attend a women’s college, are majoring in a STEM discipline or who come from a family-owned business background, Peek Weekend 2016 will be...
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Max De Pree
De Pree grew the small family-owned business into the second largest furniture maker in the world. Under De Pree’s leadership, Herman Miller had the unique distinction of being named to three Fortune Top 10...
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Fabricated Goods
- 17 Nov 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?
Editor's note: This is part of a series of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. Optimism and pessimism are strong, stable traits that reflect our coping strategies. We live in an...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Professor Barnes Remembered
Professor emeritus Louis (“By”) Barnes (MBA ’52, DBA ’58), an expert in organizational behavior and a pioneer in the teaching and study of family-owned business issues, died in August. He was 81. For more...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
EnTRIPreneurs
sold in seven Southeast states. (Fans recommend the Cold Mountain Winter Ale and award-winning Black Mocha Stout.) "Highland is well-known for its support of the Asheville community," notes Baker. "This is an especially interesting View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
heck out of it,” recalls Holley, a former consultant and finance executive. “The question was whether it could be profitable. I was pleasantly surprised to find that both were true.” Last summer, Holley wrapped up his acquisition of Eddyline Kayaks, a View Details
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Ryan Jones
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Promoting a Deeper Understanding
“Once you understand the environment each of us is coming from, it makes it a lot easier to communicate, which is what business is all about. Communication is key to solving problems,” says Bullard, chairman of E.D. Bullard Co., a View Details
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Rob Casper
says. "The more boring it is, the more excited I become." Rob is not alone in his pursuit of what others might regard as dull. With support from the HBS network, he has set up a vehicle that will allow him to seek out and purchase a small View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
which he, and, for the last eight years, his son, had grown the business into a thriving magazine, book, and commercial publishing company. "Jonathan, this is not how I wanted things to work out," he said slowly. "I respect your...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
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Ryu Kawano
As a Japanese citizen who grew up in Indonesia, Ryu Kawano is certainly no stranger to multicultural diversity. But when it was time to get a college education, he came to the United States to experience even greater variety, despite a View Details
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Ceena Beall
to Houston, TX to create a better life for his family and became an entrepreneur owning and operating car washes with only a 6th grade education. Due to life circumstances, there was no family-owned View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
With U.S. economic recovery limping along and unemployment hovering above 9 percent, the Washington debate over regulatory and tax policies needed to spur economic revival has shifted into high gear. Outside the Washington Beltway, among View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
field trips. “Department stores were the arbiters of fashion,” says Rajiv Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at HBS, whose current research looks at the uncertain future of today’s department stores. Then, you were likely to find MBAs in traditional...
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Kurt White
whom he had met while he was a cadet at West Point and she a cadet at the Air Force Academy. The other was to trade three years of Inactive Ready Reserve for eighteen months in the National Guard. Last summer, Kurt assumed a business role...
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Andreas Jaegle
In Eichstätt, the small Bavarian town where Andreas Jaegle grew up, the Jäegle family managed a fleet of more than 180 buses, a family-owned business they had run for more than 100 years. “But I wasn’t under...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Research Grows from Asian Financial Crisis
success of several major corporations in the region. In the past decade or earlier, he notes, a number of large "corporate groups" gained prominence, many family-owned and some run by HBS graduates. Yoshino sought to understand why these...
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Anne Kavanagh
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Richard Lou
Like many children who grow up with family-owned businesses, Richard Lou was expected to make his contribution at an early age. With three restaurants in Staten Island and Manhattan, Richard paid his dues, "back of house" with...
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- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
Southeast states. (Fans recommend the Cold Mountain Winter Ale and award-winning Black Mocha Stout.) "Highland is well-known for its support of the Asheville community," notes Baker. "It's an especially interesting business because it's a...
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