Manufacturing, Petrochemicals, Diversified - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Aug 2014
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A Diversified Portfolio

Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) and Edith Pripas Dorsen (MBA/MPA 1985) (photo by Kathryn Elsesser) Don't let its name fool you: the Women's Venture Capital Fund is about profitability, and not social activism. Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) and Edith Pripas Dorsen (MBA/MPA 1985)... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

15 Jun 2021
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Diversifying HBS's Case Collection

dean for Culture and Community at HBS and Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing, are available for free. These materials and a free PDF of another written case, “Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States,” coauthored by... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

training program at the venerable Ayala Corporation—the largest and most widely diversified conglomerate in the Philippines—and attending HBS, he accepted a short-term position at Ayala and never left. Today, Zobel embraces his role as... View Details

05 Feb 2019
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The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

our growth strategy to diversify the business portfolio. One of my key responsibilities is to ensure that everything we do has a well-documented system and process. A day at work could involve any or all of the activities I mentioned... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

color, diversifying boards, and leveraging diversity in organizations, as well as one called Thrive, which is designed to encourage career advancement for underrepresented minorities with 5 to 7 years of experience (with an emphasis on... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo

Beyond the Boom Senior Lecturer John Macomber The oil boom has lowered the unemployment rate in Williston, North Dakota, to less than 1 percent. “With respect to the city, if you want to diversify the economy and make it attractive to... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

office products, building products, and paper, had expanded production capacity to meet the strong demand for paper in the late 1980s but bore the brunt when demand began to taper off in 1990. The company — which started up in 1957, rapidly View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

26 Jun 2025
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The Vinyl Revival

about that. Tell us about that landscape of manufacturing, and what that looked like when you started Gold Rush in 2018 and what you've seen since then. Caren Kelleher: Yeah. I started poking around in the vinyl industry to understand why... View Details

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