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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
President and CEO of Banana Republic since 1995, Jeanne Jackson (MBA '78) has been credited with transforming the faltering safari clothing brand into one of the nation's leaders in - and definers of - casual attire. In 1998, Business Week named Jackson one of the top... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
job." Jon and George Pellegrin were grappling with issues common to any company: managerial differences, power clashes, succession questions. But ratcheting up the intensity of their struggle was the fact that they were not just talking View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
in the hearts of consumers more quickly than camcorders, personal computers, or cell phones. In the Palm, Dubinsky and her colleagues created a sleek, portable tool that can be “synced” with a desktop computer to store information such as... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena The great majority of McDonald’s U.S. restaurants are run by external owner/operators. Paulo Pena (MBA 2004) is responsible for the rest. As vice president and managing director of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
the image of women as victims in conflict zones and reshaping development programs targeted at poor countries. As a deputy director at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, she is uniquely positioned to see her ideas through. Bailey, View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
shui should be seen as an additional, low-cost management tool. but an unconventional managment tool. Feng shui is not magic, it's not superstition, and it's not a religion. It's a science, more than 3,500... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
temporarily took the lead over Watson in the game’s closing rounds. Visiting HBS at the invitation of Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih, who has written and teaches a case on Watson, the IBM team, prior to the Jeopardy!... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
manage them properly. This frenetic activity was more than a game of corporate musical chairs. More fundamentally, it was a story of a search for identity by an industry whose borders were still unclear. It was also a search for the right... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
spoken publicly before business school, I learned how to articulate a point of view in front of peers—and convince them of the case I was making,” he recalls. After graduating from HBS, McMinn landed in Silicon Valley at Intel, serving as product View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
company's bevy of billion-dollar brands like Crest, Pampers, and Tide. He has also given considerable emphasis to nurturing talent, instituting leadership programs aimed at everyone from P&G's top 100 managers worldwide to the company's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
says. While in high school, he and his father invested in an apartment building that Peter managed while attending Ohio State University. After briefly exploring a career in medicine, he decided to return to his entrepreneurial roots and... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
Nigerians. It could lay out its management plan as part of its election campaign, and voters would take that into account in making their decision. Why would locals vote for a foreigner? If they felt it was their only option to get out of... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
plant seeds that ultimately blossomed into his now rapidly growing young company. At a business event in Washington, D.C., a Microsoft marketing manager buttonholed Hall about the electronic ID card. Microsoft had tried offering free... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
Mumbai, Pune, Goa, and Bangalore. When the pandemic hit, White Owl went from monthly revenues of over 50 million INR to zero overnight as bars and stores shut down. In the first week, Murad estimates he spoke to 30 or 40 investors,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
The cases deal with universal entrepreneurial consumer product questions: Should the product be sold at big-box stores or through upscale specialty boutiques? (In the beginning, Nanda stuck with small museum shops and specialty catalogs,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa
On the final day of Africa Rising, a course about business in Africa taught by Professor Caroline Elkins, Hakeem Belo-Osagie’s (MBA 1980) emotions were running high. “I had that sense of accomplishment when you know you’ve managed to say... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
climbing on Mt. Erie, not far from the Whidbey Island base. While storing their gear after a successful climb, Feagler lost his footing and plunged one hundred feet down the mountain. The fall broke his back and a dozen ribs, leaving him... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
President and CEO, Starbucks Coffee Company Smith has led Starbucks through more than ten years of tremendous growth, both domestically and internationally. Today, the company operates nearly 6,000 stores in 29 countries. Marjorie M.T.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her... View Details
Keywords: Elena N. Berg