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01 Mar 2010
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You Have to Save to Win

Playing off the popularity of lottery games, HBS professor Peter Tufano has designed a savings program called “Save to Win,” now being tested at eight credit unions in Michigan. To participate, individuals open a one-year certificate of deposit, View Details

Keywords: Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

Frank G. Hickey

Hickey embarked on a major restructuring program for General Instruments by investing in new communications technologies and pursuing selective strategic acquisitions. Through his efforts, he was able to increase revenues from $500 million to over $1.3 billion. In... View Details

Keywords: Communications

Herbert A. Sklenar

as crushed stone for concrete, where Vulcan is the nation’s largest and most profitable producer. Coupled with this investment and expansion, Sklenar also instituted an array of cost cutting measures, all of which allowed the firm to continually report positive View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

John R. Kimberly

During this time, Kimberly-Clark became a leading developer of such products as disposable clothing, bedding and cleaning products. By the end of Kimberly’s tenure, the firm had over 80 plants in 28 different countries, and earned... View Details

Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry

Wayne Hicklin

Hicklin played a critical role in the international expansion of Avon and its diversification into new product lines, most notably apparel for men and women. Capping off his 43-year career, Hicklin doubled Avon’s sales and earnings... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

November 1999 (Revised June 2001)
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Seitel, Inc.

By: David F. Hawkins

The company's accounting for its seismic data library is questioned. Teaching Purpose: Inventory accounting. View Details

Keywords: Stock Shares; Financial Statements; Business Earnings; Financial Reporting; Stock Options; Mathematical Methods; Accounting Industry

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23 May 2019
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Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1946 Born, Los Angeles, California 1968 Earns BS, Systems Engineering, US Naval Academy 1985 Earns MS, Operations Research, US Naval Postgraduate School... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 1999
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Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

options; as a result, about 20 percent of his work force became millionaires when the company went public. "We shared the profits with everyone and gave those staying on an excellent opportunity," Hawes proudly noted. Hawes, who grew up in Marsing, Idaho, View Details

13 Nov 2020
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Realizing a Dream

Ted Ferrara (MBA 1990) “I give back to express my gratitude,” says Ted Ferrara (MBA 1990). “The School is in the business of changing lives and it certainly changed mine.” Before coming to HBS, Ferrara had never lived outside of Minneapolis. He went to trade school... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

entrepreneurial management and strategy. Anette Mikes came to HBS in 2007 as a postdoctoral fellow after earning her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. She’s now an assistant professor in the Accounting & Management unit with a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Mary W. Lawrence

Lawrence built one of the fastest growing advertising agencies in the 20th century, earning billings of over $100 million in less than five years. She broke the conventional mold of television advertising by using dramatic/theatrical... View Details

Keywords: Services

Wallace R. Persons

During his twenty year tenure, Persons took Emerson from a small fan and motor maker with sales of $50 million to a large diversified industrial manufacturer with sales of over $900 million. Noted for continuously cutting costs and conservatively acquiring only smaller... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Thomas C. du Pont

duPont consolidated the military powder production industry to the point where the duPont Corporation was producing 90% of all explosives in the U.S. In a matter of four years, duPont acquired the stocks of more than 100 of his competitors, eliminating 64 of them. In... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

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Mira Mehta

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Harvard was a place where I felt I like I could fit in while embracing the things about my background and my goals that made me different. I still remember sitting in the waiting room... View Details

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Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements - Course Catalog

through two main topics: Reporting strategy analysis: assessing a firm's value proposition and identifying its key value drivers and risks; evaluating the degree to which accounting policies and standards capture underlying economics; assessing View Details

25 Aug 2014
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999

Download Sheila Marcelo profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1970 Born, Manila, Philippines 1993 Earns BA, Economics, Mount Holyoke College 1999 Earns JD/MBA 1999 Joins HBS as... View Details