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- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
and chips chain, figuring that if I could grow earnings of 50 percent compounded with a donut shop chain, just imagine what I could do with several other franchise businesses. Bad idea. It did not work and earnings stagnated. Stock price fell. And basically the View Details
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brands;
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strategy;
operations;
career;
Food and Beverage Stores;
Retail Trade
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
instituting processes that encourage creativity and new ideas. At 3M, for example, the "15 percent rule" allows professionals to spend up to 15 percent of their time on independent projects of their own choosing. As intrapreneurship...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
acquisitions, analyzed the impact of accounting information. The stock market, he found, reacts positively to an open disclosure of a merger, coupled with independent corporate governance. His current research concentrates on Internet...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
contrary to human nature to expect total objectivity from a CEO regarding his or her performance. One cannot expect a CEO in the role of chairman to prepare the board to evaluate lapses and failures on his or her part, or on the part of...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
them twenty years ago. If you look at the typical board of a major public company, you will find that only one or maybe two directors are members of management, and everybody else is “independent.” To argue against View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
The Fed’s structure The Federal Reserve System is overseen by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, an independent agency with seven members who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate....
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- 11 Mar 2019
- News
Enabling Big Thinking
appreciation for the skills and friendships he and his son acquired at the School. While pursuing his MBA, Peter met fellow UK native and sectionmate Philip Hulme, and after graduation, the pair cofounded Computacenter, one of Europe’s largest View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
he says. “It’s a growth industry. We’re going to need more of these places, and I have some ideas on how to make them better. Like me, people who come here don’t want to be burdens to their families, but they still want to remain View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
that showed a wide disparity in learning gains among CMOs in 23 states found that those organizations backed by Hall's fund had significantly higher learning gains than other CMOs or independent charter schools. "We are trying to build...
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- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
serves on Prize4Life’s board of scientific advisors. Professor Vicki Sato has also served on the Prize4Life board. When they were ready to set up Prize4Life, Kremer and his peers got advice from professors Alan Grossman and Robert Steven...
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Margie Kelley
- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
which are monthly group discussions dedicated to a specific industry or life stage. In addition to its longstanding roundtable for independent consultants, the club now hosts roundtables on the future of food, working mothers, women in...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
the HBS Electronic Network? Alumni subscribers to it received an AOL e-mail address and could access the alumni directory, career services, Bulletin articles, and class notes, etc. — a rudimentary version of the HBS Web site. But by April 1996 HBS had its own, View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
and employs 1,149 people. Political fallout from 9/11 has profoundly changed the operations of the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), the independent public agency that operates Boston’s Logan International Airport. After hijackers...
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- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Enhancing educational opportunities in the community
Courtney Miller Cavatoni (MBA 1999) works to further educational opportunities as board chair of an independent school in southwestern Virginia, where good schools are attracting families and businesses to...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1976) Independently published This book is for anyone earning a living, or students preparing to do so, in an increasingly chaotic world of work. It’s a world in which, for many, the uncertainty regarding a financially comfortable...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
entrepreneurial," says O'Donnell, "and the idea of being independent has always been important to me." The son of a policeman, O'Donnell attended Harvard College on a scholarship and started a successful student housing service while he...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
University Elections
Harvard Business School alumni are invited to participate in Harvard University’s elections for both the Board of Overseers and the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). The elections will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
change and would like to have these business leaders help us educate students, either in person or by Zooming into the classroom. HBS RACIAL EQUITY ADVISORY BOARD Harvard Business School formed the Racial Equity Advisory View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
“expectations of integrity and display of compassion really reflect Mercy Corps team members around the world and how they show up for work every day,” says Kordestani, cofounder of the tech startup Crowdpac and a former director at Google. She had served on the Mercy...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
skills, and the host country’s needs. Why is Morocco so important? Morocco straddles the West and the Arab world and is a longtime ally of America — it was the very first nation to recognize our fledgling, newly independent United States....
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