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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
A McDonald’s employee takes part in a March protest calling for unionization and higher minimum wages for fast-food workers. (© David Eulitt/TNS/ZUMA Wire) In May, thousands of McDonald’s employees swarmed the company’s Oak Brook,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
policy has largely played out is that companies have fought for something very narrow that they want out of government—one particular industry gets one specific tax consideration, for example. It’s unrealistic to suggest that companies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Saving the Steel Industry
Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) played a key role in helping to save the U.S. steel industry in the 1990s, writes the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (March 4, 2007). Bloom spent five years at Lazard Freres before starting a firm that advised View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
staff of Truth Be Told (Apple) at Disney. What made it so bizarrely poetic is that Disney was where this freshly minted Harvard MBA had begun his entertainment industry career. I’d long dreamt of living a creative life. I was always the... View Details
- 22 Oct 2019
- News
Mills and boom
- 05 Mar 2012
- News
It's Manufacturing's Turn for Special Treatment
- 02 Dec 2008
- News
In Defense Of American Cars
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
the real estate industry, and DSNY’s own union before finally hammering out an agreement to push the set-out time back to 8 p.m. beginning April 1 of this year. When she announced the change at a press conference last October, her opening... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
constant tension between employees and management. “We lived through a lot of strikes,” Stavros says. One of the changes the union was advocating for was profit sharing with hourly employees. “Can you believe I have no incentive to care... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
is devoted to his family. Brennan often says he’s the luckiest person in the world, but it’s clear that his success involves considerable amounts of intelligence, hard work, and ambition. A middle-class kid whose early jobs included serving as a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
at Eastman Dillon, Union Securities and Company, where he was drawn to the finer points of finance. "I think I was the only person in the office who enjoyed reading company prospectuses," he laughs. "At that point it became clear that... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
It’s a drab gray morning in April, and real estate developer Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo (MBA 2008) is standing at the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun Streets in Baltimore’s historic Union Square district. Behind her, a chain-link... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
world. Hoa's route to the head of Galaxy has been a circuitous one. After high school, she lived in the former Soviet Union while attending the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. "In college, I read 54 books by Lenin, 25... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
joining the family business, but had no idea that I'd be asked to assume responsibility for the overall business. When I went off to school, early on, the business was an industrial feeding business with lots of these trucks that went... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
freshman year at Harvard, where he worked part-time in a student dining hall and took an interest in the workers’ ongoing contract negotiations. When he started wearing a union button to work, “it just changed the relationship I had with... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
would go on to spend his career making those trips an attainable reality for millions of Americans, riding a wave of deregulation in the airline industry as both an advisor and an executive. He ultimately became CEO of Continental... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
union of the two banks with an eye to the horizon. "Some years ago, BayBanks might have been seen as big enough to represent the northeastern United States adequately," Crozier explains. "But then so many large mergers started coming... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
The US automotive industry collapse was one of the most important business stories to come out of the 2008 financial crisis—and like so many events of that time, it was big on headlines but short on nuance. To address that shortfall,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Now Hear This
(August 20, 1999), the voiceover industry currently boasts some eighty thousand union members alone. Reasons for getting into the business vary. David Keane (MBA '70), whose day job is consulting, took it up... View Details