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- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
1981. Opened in 1992, Pho Hoa has been run with few formal processes in place and no regular income statement reporting, forecasting, or budgeting. Thanh, wanting to take a well-deserved retirement after 25 years of hard work, has named... View Details
- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
In what could be considered the first business how-to book, an Italian merchant from the 1400s advises leaders to be charitable, ethical, and treat people fairly; be modest; look for the right qualities in a wife; be selective in deals; and View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
allowed HBS to thrive at a time when many other schools were hunkering down. Racial Equity Plan ANNOUNCED In September 2020, HBS unveiled its action plan for racial equity, with ambitious goals for advancing... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend
words, "a glorious and amazing friendship." "Our class at Harvard was very special," emphasized Anderson, who retired in 1993 as chairman of the board of Custom Molders, Inc., of Durham, North Carolina. "At HBS we spent more time caring... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Dick Franyo: From Banker to Barkeeper
something that fit my personality and lifestyle,” explains the affable Franyo, who is now the proud proprietor of the Boatyard Bar & Grill, located in the Eastport section of Annapolis, Maryland. Prior to retiring in March 2002, Franyo... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
announced it had agreed to sell Tropicana to Pepsico, Inc. for over $3 billion. Asked by Pepsico to stay on, Marram had not yet made her plans public.) One of Business Week's "Top 25 Managers" of 1998, Marram graduated from Wellesley... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
discovering it had gone dormant following the retirement of its previous president. Shyam Ayengar (left) and Jon Weintraub are rebooting the HBS Club of Seattle “The club had no programming in 2018 and 2019, just before COVID,” recalls... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
buy or sell stock. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/07/what-good-are-shareholders/ar/1 Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival amid Political and Civil Violence Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Wesley Sine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Harvard Business School
joined American Express as a marketing vice president in the travel-related services division. Before his retirement in 1993, he was promoted to senior vice president for worldwide communications. Wilkinson was a trustee and national... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
among all the partners, regardless of when they joined the firm. In addition, he established a compensation plan that has nothing to do with the revenues of a particular office or the client billings of an individual partner. Instead,... View Details
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
Putting together the money for everything from a short-term emergency to retirement is hard enough, a challenge that low- and moderate-income families endure every day. Yet as HBS professor Peter Tufano describes, new and old products... View Details
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
to the two largest markets, the US and China. Family, Finance and Philanthropy Anne McClintock, Senior Director of Development, Planned Giving at HBS; Alasdair H. Halliday, Director, University Planned... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
by instituting freezes on hiring and wage increases, limiting employee rewards and recognition programs, and reducing the company match to employee 401k retirement accounts. In light of the cost reductions imposed throughout Honeywell,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
make climate-related disclosures. At MPower, we can also bring leading global players to Japan. Our most recent investment is in Jupiter Intelligence, a US-headquartered climate risk technology company, and Jupiter plans to expand their... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
Island, Golden Road Brewing, and Omission, also offer low or no-alcohol beers. But the company’s flagship is Bud Zero, which arrived on the scene in 2020, in a splashy partnership with the retired NBA player Dwayne Wade. “We saw that as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Mom Corps
have come, as retiring baby boomers deplete companies of skilled and experienced workers. And O’Kelly has found that there is no shortage of mothers looking for a kid-friendly route back to corporate America. Mom Corps, launched in 2005... View Details
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
emergency—a problem that is particularly acute for women and their ability to save for retirement. “In the United States, women’s pensions or retirement plans are typically 35 percent less than men’s even... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Web
Benefits & Compensation | Employment
country. Time Off See Harvard’s generous vacation, holiday, sick time, and family leave policies. Medical & Dental Quality and affordability are the hallmarks of Harvard’s medical and dental plans. Work/Life Balance Harvard offers an array of resources for working... View Details