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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
technologically innovative company away from specialty glass, television tubes, and fiberglass production into newer, faster-growing profit-making areas. At the time, the economy is plagued by recession, worker morale is flagging, and the... 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
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
communication technology that works with the same cellular spectrums that telecommunications companies use. Since that first experiment four years ago, Project Loon has improved balloon steerability, connectivity, and stamina—the balloons... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
facilities to support research and case-writing on cutting-edge topics - such as e-commerce and hypergrowth companies - that are of great interest to so many of our students and alumni. Our faculty must stay close to best practice in this... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
about the recent slump but also about the fascinating workings of the star-maker machinery behind the music that moves America. Strauss Zelnick, president and CEO of BMG Entertainment North America, a division of Germany's Bertelsmann AG and one of the most influential... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
Whitman explains Quibi’s great gambit: by doing for short-form mobile media what HBO did for premium television, the company (whose name is shorthand for “quick bites”) will revolutionize the way we watch video on our phones. The idea was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Finale’s original lead investors acquired a majority ownership in the business, folding it into a Rhode Island–based holding company where Conforti now serves as managing partner of the restaurant group. “When I started Finale, I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
States, complete with fast-food chains and high-end malls. It’s a long way from our stay in the Zapotec villages. The companies we visit — Sealed Air, Femsa (Mexico’s largest beverage company), and ALFA — demonstrate the diversity and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
Worldwide. Moore described the lengths to which Time Inc. goes to probe for insights into the ever-changing mindset of consumers. The company conducts more than 1,000 research projects a year. But insights can come from unexpected places.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
Mühlemann revitalized CSFB with new management and restored its institutional competitiveness on Wall Street. John Hess runs Amerada Hess, a Fortune 150 multinational oil and natural-gas company in the... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Chairman, CEO, and Cofounder Steve Schwarzman (MBA 1972). In 1989, a few years after Blackstone's start, Schwarzman made the unfortunate decision to purchase steel company Edgcomb and was called on the carpet by one of the fund's major... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
which develops and markets pharmaceutical products. Starting at age 10, Bertarelli accompanied his father on business trips. By 17, he was helping to craft the company's annual budgets. He was 29 when he became CEO, just when Fabio... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
protected economic climate that managed business by issuing a limited number of permits in each industry and dictated production quantities. “When I started in business in the 1960s, many of our companies didn’t have a profit plan;... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
for-profit, or “investor-owned,” entities, with the remaining 85 percent operated by municipalities themselves, the Environmental Protection Agency says that the U.S. water industry needs $500 billion of infrastructure investment over the next twenty years. All this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Jurvetson; Jeffrey C. Walker (MBA 1981), managing general partner, JPMorgan Partners; Stephen A. Schwarzman (MBA 1972), founding partner, president, & CEO, The Blackstone Group Fewer but better biotech companies are being funded with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
for example — we are working to influence the environmental choices global companies make in the large-scale production of commodities such as palm oil, pulp, livestock, and soy.” The Power of Serendipity What’s your next career move when... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
constantly changing environment, companies must deploy talent in new ways to remain competitive. The authors provide leaders with a new playbook for acquiring, managing, and deploying talent for today’s agile, digital, analytical,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
personal interest in students sometimes led to lifelong friendships. Michael Berolzheimer (MBA ’63), cofounder of the Duraflame firelog company, remembers hashing out some of the early principles of the company in an informal session at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
emerging markets where local stock exchange listings have grown, liquidity in many Latin American exchanges has diminished in recent years. The purchase of local, family-owned companies and state-owned enterprises by outside View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
Sponsorships allow advertisers to offer content that is related to their products or services and valued by the target audience. For example, a pharmaceutical company might sponsor a bulletin board for... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
going to take care of themselves, meaning prescriber limits are coming down, the way that doctors are prescribing is changing, CDC have got guidelines, lawsuits against these pharmaceutical companies and the... View Details