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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
than quantitative analysis. Cases and business are also about human beings, and I always keep that human element in mind." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "As you set out on your careers, take a long-term view and have a sense of direction as... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
tech company, while parenting two children (now 15 and 10). In 1989 Lee and her then husband purchased Software House, a small, unsuccessful software sales company. Within a year she had changed the name to SHI International, reflecting... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
economic connections that once existed between corn and indigenous people. At the same time, Keen and his students were brainstorming potential directions for what would become Sacred Seed. Initially they viewed the organization through a... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
BANCEL Throughout 2009 and 2010, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) had received upward of 20 calls from biotech companies asking him to come aboard and lead the company. It made sense. He was a highly recruited CEO successfully running bioMérieux, a diagnostics company with... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
business. After graduating from UC-Berkeley and HBS and a short stint at Price Waterhouse, Bullard cut his teeth as an E.D. Bullard sales manager in Detroit, "trying to sell products during a horrible recession," he recalls with a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
School's investment in its doctoral programs creates intellectual capital with widespread effects. After receiving their degrees, most graduates of the DBA and Ph.D. programs go on to influential faculty positions at HBS and other top business schools.What they have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
includes real-life case examples, Connecting the Dots gives managers the tools to make the most of their technology- and projectrelated investments as they optimize expenditures on the new business frontier. — Deborah Blagg Selling China by Yasheng Huang (Cambridge... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Be Our Guest: HBS Show 2002 Goes Off without a Hitch
the production's parodies of the many aspects of life at HBS included jokes, classroom references, and good-natured jibes at faculty. The daunting task of directing this year's production was given to Christina Aragon (MBA '02), who began... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
The facts of the ever-widening skills gap are increasingly difficult to ignore: As many as 9 million tech jobs sit vacant across the US, Europe, and China, says Przemyslaw Berendt (PLDA 18, 2014). And judging by the $1 trillion spent on IT services in 2018 and the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
on IT services in 2018, and the direction of global tech trends, the shortage isn’t going away quickly. Berendt cofounded Talent Alpha in 2018 to fill that gap. The Kraków-based startup is building a marketplace to link central and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
father’s that evolved into a hobby that turned into a business,” she says. “We not only wanted to be excellent stewards, we wanted to enhance its value.” As managing partner of Knudsen Vineyards, Knudsen Cowles now provides strategic View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 01 Apr 2000
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Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
that recent literature has discussed "various ways to steer customer interactions to sale opportunities," the authors assert that the topic of effective service delivery has almost entirely been overlooked. "Before being able to generate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
feel like everything I’ve done has been leading to this,” says Lackley, who manages business operations for Mark Lackley Furniture Maker (www.lackley.com), a high-end furniture company in Quechee, Vermont. Lackley began her “training” for the family business in 1988,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
we create a category?” How they answered the question: “It’s a question that’s still top of mind,” says Rose. The company has focused on defining its brand as one that provides “wonder, emotion, and meaning,” and communicating those values to consumers, primarily... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
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How Joe Shoen Got U-Haul Back on Track
apologizes. He directs her to the location finder on uhaul.com, where she can look up climate-controlled self-storage locations. Later he calls Mike Kinealy, vice president of sales and customer service, and... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
there’s an obvious cost to that arrangement. But what are the benefits that company ownership offers McDonald’s? In the US, the McDonald’s Operating Company, McOpCo as we call it, plays an important role for the McDonald’s system: providing View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
As a longtime authority on marketing communications, HBS professor John Deighton has analyzed the consumer-product relationship from every angle. But when he heard the best-selling author James Patterson address a meeting of the Direct... View Details