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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
Berry and the Everly Brothers in rock. The company certainly fit with my love of music and was an interesting business challenge." Gibson's new owners set out to revive the company with a complete makeover - new plant, management, sales... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
for Integrated Electronics), Grove started as director of operations before rising through the ranks to COO in 1979. For the next two years he presided over an all-out crusade with the fearsome name of Operation CRUSH. Powered by Intel’s View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
operation when Gibbons arrived. He has since led the agency through unprecedented growth to $296 million in sales in FY2000. “I push the organization in a lot of ways it hasn’t been pushed before,” says Gibbons, who also led the effort to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
combination offered by Ford Motor Company’s management training program. While he excelled at leading teams to solve engineering-based manufacturing problems, it was a stint in sales and marketing that changed his life. “I was on the job... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Over 50 and Job Hunting?
matter how secure you think you are in your job, you need to stay on top of trends and what it takes to stay competitive in your job market. I call it career currency, because it’s really all about staying current.” Even before a job... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
there’s so much talk around automation, but I would encourage people to pause and reconsider that. It’s actually much more about growing the business. I think of AI as, first and foremost, increasing productivity and driving revenue. For example, Glasswing Ventures has... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
aspirations, purpose, and values, so that they work together as an aligned team." Dan Vasella finds that the skills he called upon as a practicing physician are equally useful in running one of the world's largest pharmaceutical... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
sales manager, assistant manager for a large seafood distributor, eel exporter, seafood trader, and fish packer. He has also cast a wide net in an effort to keep up with his classmates as 1974's class secretary and Section F correspondent... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
Objectives in Unpredictable Times studiously avoids a discussion of what the authors call “the S-word” — strategy. Instead, the book offers “a no-excuses, in-the-trenches perspective” that lets managers take existing realities and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
who is invested in keeping it that way. The book presents a new vision of how health care could work if it were truly designed to meet consumer needs, creating a call to action on how to demand and help create such a system. A wake-up... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
legendary impresario Charlie Finley was having trouble finding a radio station to broadcast his struggling team’s games, the young entrepreneur made his pitch. “I called Mr. Finley ten days before Opening Day, and we negotiated at first... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
and a half years, two years in New York and then a couple years in Los Angeles. And it was a wonderful first place to work. Very tough place to work in terms of hours and things like that. And we had decided to live in suburban New Jersey, a place View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
First of all, he was just a warm, loving man. He and Robert Schlaifer and John Pratt at the Harvard Business School were trying to develop this field we call statistical decision theory. And I was really interested in that. I was trying... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
Vasella Illustration by Dennis Balogh Twenty years ago a young doctor with a hankering for business experience gave up his clinical practice in Bern, Switzerland, and moved to East Hanover, New Jersey, to try his hand at drug sales with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
call “bigger values,” where you might find high-ticket items like a rolling suitcase for $4.99. Explain how you’re able to offer name-brand products at such deep discounts. Maybe an item wasn’t as successful as a company would have liked,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
regularly helps to prepare. Between 2014 and 2021, Andrus’s handpicked workforce boosted sales from $100 million to nearly $800 million. In July 2021, he oversaw a successful IPO, in the midst of a cultural moment that favored... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
community culture that could produce an innovative, coherent brand image. One of the strongest ideas that emerged from the labs was a desire to focus VW’s existing sustainability initiatives into a marketing concept called “Think Blue,”... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
office in China to manage sales and marketing. Our revenues have increased by more than 44 percent in the past year. So operationally, the business has changed a lot in a short period of time. What are some of the challenges that come... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
the customer like about the brand? We found that they associated the brand with quality, a sense of adventure, and a pleasant store experience. Then we did some opportunity analyses on what people wished was out there. We found a gigantic hole, which was the stuff... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
lowering risk. Sean Rosen Is Not for Sale by Jeff Baron (MBA 1978) (Greenwillow Books) Killing Limbaugh by Landon Carter (MBA 1967) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) The Awakened Relationship: Transforming Upsets and Blame... View Details