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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
snacks are the company’s most recent innovations.) By mid-1994, Dreyer’s fulfilled its dream of becoming the leading premium ice-cream brand in the United States — a mixed blessing. “As we approached a billion dollars in sales, it was clear that we were a plump target... View Details
- 10 Jan 2014
- News
Year of the Business Remix
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
startup than an asset management firm. BlackRock, she said, was about “performance and collaboration in a real way.” Bill Gluck (MBA 1970), managing director of the Farmington Group, countered, saying BlackRock could use the acquisition... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
proceeded when faced with multiple options. Those options — from mergers and acquisitions to leveraged buyouts and asset divestitures to "vulture" investing and tracking stock — are also explored. Gilson reminds readers that the devil is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
entrepreneur into a successful business leader. In this book, Jan Simon, Managing Partner of Vonzeo Capital and Academic Director of the International Search Fund Center at IESE Business School, presents a best-practices-based roadmap for searchers, View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
and approach to business that stresses employee satisfaction, creativity, irreverence, and fun. In implementing that philosophy, Branson has been named England's best business leader for the last two years by his business peers. Branson noted that he shuns View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
you to be your most confident self. And how that manifests itself in our teaching philosophy, in the content that we've been building with our accent coaches, the method that they use is one of accent acquisition rather than accent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
used every single fundraising round for a very specific purpose. Lazarow: It was to expand to another city or it was to do a small acquisition or something like that. That they really took this long-term approach. I asked Mike, I said,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
students to fill the remaining six floors. In relatively no time, Russo had turned a high-risk acquisition into a high-profile success. Her name now personified the company, and her determination propelled it to new heights. Even then,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
heck out of it,” recalls Holley, a former consultant and finance executive. “The question was whether it could be profitable. I was pleasantly surprised to find that both were true.” Last summer, Holley wrapped up his acquisition of... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 21 Apr 2015
- News
Teva Makes Takeover Bid for Mylan
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
and services. “Eighty percent of our success over the past decade has been based on bright ideas that came not from me or my management team but from very young people in the organization,” he says. The case ends as Zensar charts an ambitious View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
influence the present.” Looking ahead, Baker Library Collections director Laura Linard says the library is concentrating on acquiring collections that document contemporary global business during the post–World War II era. With each View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
needles in a haystack, but that’s where crowdsourcing comes in—defining a challenge and offering an incentive, whether in status or money, can get people to self-select as resources to you. You may even want to hire some of them. So this strategy can play into talent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
R&D lab, increased its mergers and acquisitions of companies that had synergies with the company’s businesses, and formed a small venture capital fund for exploratory investments. Komori also initiated a reorganization that created six... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
competitor analysis, trend research, and leadership programs. Since then, the team has helped Granite Equity research individual company profiles, whether it’s for an acquisition or a vendor or a potential partner. The service also has... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Fieldglass, CrowdTwist, Veracode, and Insurance.com. In 2000, StarVest was a lead investor in NetSuite, when the firm had just $100,000 in revenues; Farrington served on the company’s board from NetSuite’s IPO in 2007 leading up to its $9.4 billion View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
production. Most of that market, says Shen—who oversaw the acquisition of Swedish carmaker Volvo by the Chinese auto giant Geely—is dominated by low-speed vehicles that possess even more limited utility than American compliance cars.... View Details