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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
Barron continued to rise through the ranks of the Xerox Corporation, earning kudos in 1993 as a Business Week "Executive to Watch." Three years ago, she was named president of Xerox engineering systems. But a string of personal events... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
Dartmouth, Hubert moved up the ranks at Merck and was working as a customer segment manager in employer marketing when she decided to apply to HBS. The most crucial lesson she has learned at HBS is the importance of knowing how to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
Germany, despite having the highest labor costs in the world, also enjoys the world’s largest export surplus, at 7 percent of GDP. The United States, by contrast, ranks lowest among the world’s largest manufacturing nations in “export... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
states in terms of agriculture as a percentage of state GDP—all six of their senators voted for the bill, a much higher figure than the 68 percent of senators in favor as a body. Significantly, four of the six senators were Republicans, breaking View Details
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
substituting for Alexa after she lost her voice, and Tide, which offered multiple spots featuring actor David Harbour seemingly appearing in other ads, then pointing to clean clothes and calling it “a Tide ad.” PepsiCo, Wendy’s, and Avocados from Mexico also View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
With a 98 percent graduation rate and test scores that lead the district, ACS ranks in the top 5 percent of schools in Queens. In all our endeavors, excellence is the standard, not the goal. We believe that performing at the very highest... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
the strong belief that I could succeed in any business environment." Baxter's latest challenge has been managing the successful acquisition and integration of Norse Dairy Systems, a leading manufacturer of ice-cream cones and other novelty supplies that will swell... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
talked about how the GDP of a nation correlates directly to the health, education, and productivity of women." Seegull, who lives in Santa Monica, California, and is a ranked beach volleyball player, recently returned to HBS for an... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
career came to an end when he lost 44 pounds in six weeks, collapsed at work, and was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. He was given a medical discharge and, through a former commanding officer, accepted a management position at Cobham, where he worked his way up the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
anyone.” The conference, which was cochaired by HBS professors Rohit Deshpandé and John A. Quelch, kicked off with a dinner keynote speech by Sir Martin Sorrell (MBA 1968), chief executive of WPP Group. Ranking Levitt’s article “among the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
includes Time Inc.'s high-circulation weeklies-Time, Sports Illustrated, People, and Entertainment Weekly-along with other well-known publications such as Fortune, Golf Magazine, and Southern Living. Moore began her career as a financial analyst at Time and quickly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
mission of making a difference in the world. To all of you, we extend our sincere appreciation. And to the graduates of the Class of 2001 who join our ranks this month, welcome to the extended HBS community! Edmund A. Hajim (MBA 1964)... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
single-handedly helped lessen the severity of a national recession. Soon after his appointment as P&G's CEO in June 2000, A.G. Lafley publicly acknowledged that the company had forced too many changes too quickly, thus signaling to the View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
whose 2010 team ranked only ninth in MLB payroll, makes a distinction between price and performance. “There’s no straight-line equation from money to winning,” he offers. “If there were, the same two or three teams would win the Series... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Management Update Launched
Walter Kiechel (MBA/JD '77), a prominent business journalist, was named Harvard Business Review's new publisher in January. For almost two decades, Kiechel was on the masthead of Fortune as he rose up the ranks from reporter/researcher in... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
in the ranks of investors. She also knew that some firms were seeking to diversify their partnerships without addressing underlying structural problems. “Partner” did not always mean check-writing abilities or a voice on the investment... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
MBAs in retail, starting in the bargain basement of Bloomingdale’s. He worked his way up through the ranks of the department store to chairman and CEO, establishing the old, family-owned store as a national luxury brand and the flagship... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
crash coincided with a decline in WDC profits, and its board was consistently ranked as one of the worst in corporate America. In December 2003, nearly twenty years after lobbying to hire Eisner, Gold and Disney resigned from the board in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
spending a large amount of time and resources on activities that do not create any value for stakeholders or customers.” The World Bank’s annual report on global business regulation, Doing Business 2010, ranks India 133 out of 183 nations... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
petroleum geologist at Amoco. Later, she joined the Canadian company Alcan, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming CEO of its Primary Metal Group, a position she held until taking over at Anglo. Carroll and her husband, David,... View Details