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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
failed in the face of an economic downturn in the United States and an onslaught of competitors. After a period of consolidation, the company is now looking for more opportunities abroad and has recently opened stores in China, Thailand, and South Korea. By the turn of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
director of operations and planning for the Walt Disney Company's publishing division. Oubré's numerous community activities have included involvement in the California African-American Museum, the Pasadena Symphony Association, and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
were providing better health-care coverage for Americans. By the early 1990s, the industry had undergone an almost complete transformation to for-profit health care. I took my own HMO public in 1993. But by the mid-1990s, health plans... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
calling on women executives in order to plan the new program, Women Leading Business: An Executive Forum. "We knew we didn't want it to be a 'glass-ceiling' course," Hart explained in an interview last November following the program's... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
produce an infinite variety of possible SmartPak combinations in a cost-effective way and get orders out the door in a timely manner. Our economic model had some great features — customized products, continuity sales, limited working capital — and we were growing fast.... View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
interesting challenge, because you have a limited amount of time to build the brand. Then it disappears. We had to develop a marketing plan that was all-encompassing, but that still got the right information to the people who needed it."... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
assessing needs and identifying financially viable opportunities in this market, we defined an acquisition and property control strategy, secured public/private funding partnerships, and structured responses to competitive pressures. The development View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
that offer them. Hall's research is focused on the optimal design and incentive effects of compensation plans built around equity-based pay and especially stock options, the instruments most responsible for the huge numbers associated... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
direction in the early planning stages required a fuller understanding of its financing. “I also wanted to bring better management skills to the nonprofit sector,” she adds. “I thought business school was going to be like taking medicine... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
people in their 30s. It alternates on-campus modules with return-to-work periods that incorporate distance learning and team exercise components. Plans also are under way for a March research symposium in India coinciding with the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Perfection’s Price
for the first year are projected to top $1 million. Kaplan is already planning to open two more stores in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut area, and he is optimistic about the prospect of Fashion To Figure becoming a national... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
Hugo Moreno, attended one of the School's executive social enterprise programs, and the more Grossman learned of the company and its plans the more he was impressed. "Salud Digna was expanding rapidly in Mexico, and what was interesting... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
Immelt had spent his second year at HBS reflecting on his career path, and he decided that he was more interested in being an operator than an investor, accepting a position with a lower salary at GE. Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) His initial View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
they see the need for it, but we have to go and develop it ourselves outside of the founding arena, is going and having that long-term plan, but being open to the opportunistic. That makes it even more critical for us to be good at being able to shift gears, being able... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
in the planning room one day when a US Navy SEAL walked in the door, and asked me if I've heard of Operation Red Wings. So we talked for a little bit, we opened up a map, and he pointed to a place in Northeastern Afghanistan called the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
Donatella Versace. It is so much fun planning for Burning Man, organizing, thinking, scouring thrift shops. That's all part of the Burning Man experience. This idea of radical self-reliance means you don't buy a costume in a costume shop.... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
announced plans to roll out the program commercially in 2016 and signed an agreement with Sri Lanka to put all of that country online. The NextGen Angels are all under 45, and most are entrepreneurs themselves. That’s the angel group’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Turning Point: In Good Company
sleep, and my family didn’t have the medical vocabulary then to understand why I was convinced that meeting future global CEOs at HBS would help me change the world—just one amongst many other grandiose plans that characterize mania. My... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
continuing to focus on our category," Stemberg reports. His strategic response? "More of the same," he says, noting that he plans on opening one thousand more stores worldwide in the next five years. Yet inside the company, Stemberg's... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
You just can't see that far," says John D. Pratt (MBA '71), associate director and chief financial administrator of the Whitehead Institute. "Yet, if you're financing a new research facility, for example, sound planning generally requires... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs