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Edgar S. Woolard, Jr.
Upon becoming CEO of duPont, Woolard oversaw a massive downsizing and focused the company on its core products. In addition to drastically cutting costs, Woolard restructured duPont into twenty semi-autonomous units and expanded duPont... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
Michel C. Bergerac
Bergerac devoted his energies to increasing the distribution of the company’s core cosmetics lines, which were suffering at the hands of fierce competition. Marketing and advertising schemes became more elaborate but paid off for Revlon,... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
William T. Kerr
Kerr expanded Meredith Corporation by focusing on its core business and directly managing its financial performance. Over the last few years, the company compounded its earnings per share at 33% per year and... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Herbert A. Sklenar
Sklenar’s knowledge of fiscal matters helped the company survive a slow down in the construction business and a rapidly changing chemicals marketplace. To cope with the change, Sklenar invested in research and development of new products, but also put money into... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
Henry B. Spencer
After serving as vice president of the Southern Railway System until 1917, Spencer formed the Fruit Growers Express to transport perishable goods and provide ventilated and refrigerated car services. With Fruit Growers owning its own cars and repair shops, the company... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
The business of business education produced another year of strong results for HBS during fiscal 2008, which ended last June. Applications for the core MBA Program reached a five-year high of 8,661, and the percentage of admitted students... View Details
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Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
Founder and CEO, Year Up Download Gerald Chertavian profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Lowell, Massachusetts 1987 Earns BA, Economics, Bowdoin College 1987 Joins Chemical Bank 1992 View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Ade' Lawal
I hope to accomplish great things. Family is the core means by which I can influence human existence in this world, therefore I'll start by being a great husband and father. I want my wife to feel that she could not have found a better... View Details
- 30 Jan 2021
- News
Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
management skills and new technologies to double its revenue and expand the business beyond the basics of shirts and suits, according to a Washington Post story by Thomas Heath. About three-quarters of Parkway’s business comes from 3,000 View Details
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Program Policies - HBS Online
respectfully in team activities and discussions. Credential of Readiness (CORe) Students who complete and pass all three courses—Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial Accounting—will earn the Credential of Readiness.... View Details
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
this is not because there is not a strong and emerging business there, but that the newspapers failed to see it given their emphasis on their core markets. Last year, Monster.com cleared over $100 million in net income! There is real... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1942 Born, Boston, Massachusetts 1964 Earns BS, Electrical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University 1966 Earns MBA 1966 Joins Salomon Brothers 1981... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
P&G recently reported the strongest earnings in its long history, and its stock price has doubled since 2000. Key ingredients in the company's resurgence include innovation, micromarketing, and an emphasis on nurturing talent. Notes... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1934 Born, Burnaby, Canada 1957 Earns BCom, Forestry, University of British Columbia 1959 Earns MBA 1962 Joins HBS faculty 1963 View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
Strugatz also have made sustainability a core principle. They realized, for example, that they were shipping 15,000 sample swatches each month, only to have them discarded once customers picked colors. So instead, Magagnini assembled... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
and the company showcased before a national audience. As “John,” I swept streets, took tickets, waited tables, window-washed gigantic fish tanks, and even cocaptained an amphibious vehicle. From those different vantage points, I wanted to see if we were true to our... View Details
- 16 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 16, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707022 Earnings Management Exercise Harvard Business School Exercise 207-034 Purchase this exercise: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207034 EFJ,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
institutions in which ongoing crises of legitimacy demonstrate the need for a renewal of embedded liberalism and a revitalization of global governance. They are as follows: the activities of transnational corporations, particularly with regard to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
the difference for me,” says Owusu-Kesse, who earned a degree in economics at Harvard College and spent three years at Morgan Stanley before starting his graduate work at Harvard. “HCZ’s core focus on... View Details