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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
governance regulates the interactions between a family-owned business and the family owning the business, as well as between the members of the owning family. When both are present and functioning well, the prospects of longevity for the...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
image of a hard-driving entrepreneur who is on call around the clock doesn’t mesh well with the nonstop demands of family life. But that didn’t stop Allison O’Kelly (MBA ’99) from leaving a fast-track management position at Toys “R” Us...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Photography by Jason Andrew Ibrahim Mustapha grows maize in Katsina Fulani, a village of mud-brick houses topped by rusted corrugated roofs in northern Nigeria. Like millions of farmers in his country, Mustapha is a "smallholder"; he and his View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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Case Study: Farming It Out
photo courtesy of Charlie Andersen Charlie Andersen (MBA 2014) grew up on a 200-acre organic family farm west of Philadelphia that produced everything from apples and blueberries to sweet corn. Andersen absolutely loved it—for the most...
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- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
built his family’s New Jersey–based industrial distribution business over 15 years (to sell to a Fortune 50 company), and then as a consultant to family businesses and international investors. “We’ve witnessed countries mount concerted...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
leader to shoulder blame rather than search for excuses. Everything that happens is ultimately the leader’s responsibility anyway, and promptly taking ownership of a difficult situation means that you can lead your team out of it that...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Matrix allows users—health officials, for example—to assign weights to traditional measures that define the scale of health problems, the impact of diseases on household income, the medical and social spillovers of disease onto other View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
Giving millions of students a new path to learning
Boston as an analyst at a hedge fund and I was tutoring a cousin remotely in New Orleans. At that point, I became what I call a ‘tiger cousin.’ That remote tutoring over the phone worked out well for her, so then I started tutoring her brothers. Then word got around in...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
debt-saddled buyout later, Zell is taking a machete to payrolls, pages, and pencils and staplers. Rupert Murdoch is asserting his personal imprimatur on his newly acquired Wall Street Journal, disabusing his minions of the notion that he would be a hands-off sponsor....
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
Sports in America have always had a magical, transcendent allure. Life may be ambiguous but slam dunks and touchdown passes create their own heroic reality and final truth at game's end. Sports are a bond that brings entire communities and View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
elections, yet the new owners had promised to find a way to finance and build a new home for the team. That Baer was able to help the ownership group keep that promise has to do, in no small part, with a well-honed instinct for marketing...
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- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Mendhro grew up with a desire to learn and experience the world, she had no formal opportunities to do so. “My brother and I would wake up in the morning and explore. It was self-learning,” she says. “Education became a personal goal and interest.” In 1980, a military...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Reunion Snapshots
Erik Sorensen (22nd OPM) Currently the managing director of Club Sultan in Marbella, Spain, an exclusive European holiday ownership club, Erik Sorensen specializes in marketing luxurious vacation opportunities. "My business is about...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
from their purchases. Revenue models anchored on the ownership of products, they argue, are patently inferior. Bertini and Koenigsberg explain that advances in technology have made it possible for firms to collect “impact data” that tells...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. It’s one of the stories...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
Dooley in the early 1970s to meet a need unfulfilled by other HBS executive education programs. As it became clear that ownership made a difference in the attitudes and goals of the participants, the View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
board of Mexico’s National Symphony Orchestra. His father, world-renowned cellist Carlos Prieto, a frequent Yo-Yo Ma collaborator, often hosted musicians at the family home. Prieto took up violin at an early age and would continue to play...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
first thing you need to know is that competitive video gaming has been around a lot longer than you think. On November 10, 1980, five teenage boys faced off at the Warner Communications headquarters in Rockefeller Center in the middle of New York City. They had...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
million per year in sales and employs more than 300 people. Holding 90 percent ownership of the company, he views it as "a family of entrepreneurs" but in recent years has also started a venture capital...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
years I worked at Parthenon Capital. I had a great start of a career there. It was a continuation of my private equity career from prior to school. And I got the idea that I would go out and find a company to buy and run, move to Atlanta with my young View Details