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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
of a sudden I became the credit manager in the worst economic times we'd had since the Depression. I'M THE ONLY PERSON in my family who didn't grow up in Seattle. I've always felt I can walk away anytime, even today. IT'S A MISCONCEPTION... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
employer and employee, Nomad manages the process, from background checks to malpractice insurance to payroll. It charges health care institutions a 15 percent commission for each hire—a transparency unheard of in a sector in which the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
attending Harvard Business School, Hoel Perkins landed a job on the ground floor of the venture capital firm TA Associates in Boston. There she impressed management with her computer skills—all self-taught—and her knack for finding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
long been a focus of my own research." The case outlines the events that led to Morton's consideration of Buffett's offer to buy 63 newspapers from his highly leveraged company, which had experienced a 31 percent decline in revenues over... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered
his home in Palm Beach, Florida. He was 80. While a partner at McKinsey, Pearson was recruited by PepsiCo to be its COO, and soon became its president as well, serving the company for fifteen years. During his tenure, PepsiCo’s revenues... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
Named the 45th Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1997, Charles O. Rossotti (MBA '64) heads the Internal Revenue Service, which has 102,000 employees, a $7.8 billion budget, and annual View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
President & Chief Executive Officer Starbucks Coffee Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Washington, 1965 B.A., Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Statistics Other Jobs Touche Ross & Co., 1969-77, 1980-85 State of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do!
rely on revenue from Executive Education, Publishing, and our endowment to supplement the cost of delivering the program. This revenue covers the basics, but in many cases, the work that ensures the School’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
revenue is an important component of our economic model, we are not as reliant on it for our operating budget as a number of other schools may be. Collectively, though, these actions have meaningful implications for the School. Even small... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
another arranges funding new schools. “Some volunteers get a taste for what is not necessarily monetarily rewarding, but quite rewarding nonetheless, and it changes their perception of life,” she says. After HBS, Huebner moved to California, first to build a risk View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
customers and, inherently, your revenues come. My name is Riccardo Concha the class of 2007. I believe the best business advice that I have received so far that has been most useful to me, being curious about things that you don't know... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Record Gift to HBS from India’s Tata Group
to me,” said Tata. “HBS is the preeminent place to learn about the world’s most innovative companies and to be exposed to the world’s best thinking on management and leadership. By supporting the Harvard Business School’s educational... View Details
Keywords: Tata Hall
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration, teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. According to HBSCB president Bing Sherrill (MBA 1962), about 45 alumni from HBS, Harvard College, and MIT attended the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
HBS invented management education. This is where great ideas emanate.” Ray and his wife, Kathryn, who holds an MBA from Northwestern, have four adult children with very different interests. It was important to the couple to pass their... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
profitable since 2016 and grew nearly 70 percent in 2018, with revenues of $100 million. As a result, she sees no reason to take on more funding. “We have a really sustainable business at this point,” Lin says. “We’re growing at a nice... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
definition means being comfortable with failing.” “Failure is not just the opposite of success,” says Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit who has founded or led eight tech startups over the past 20... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
because the government regulated everything. I'll never forget, I was flying on a competitor airline one day, and I saw the whole first class cabin fill up with smoke from a guy's cigar smoking. So when I went back after that and I went to our View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into one of the world's largest advertising and marketing services organizations. With revenues of around $12 billion, it comprises some of the most famous firms in advertising, marketing, and public relations. He is now positioning WPP... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
they took in this guy who didn’t know much about retail at all and were quite patient in showing me the ropes. I’ve been very fortunate in that sense. Your annual revenues for fiscal 2009 totaled $1.3 billion. It’s so interesting to think... View Details