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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
stores in France, Carrefour began expanding into the rest of Europe in the late 1960s. By 1988, the student authors say, "It was the top retail company in Europe with 65 hypermarkets in France and 115 in Europe and South America" -- not to mention 2 stores in the View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
Bob DiRomualdo admits that he wasn't much of a reader until he paid a visit to Greenland. The son of a Philadelphia fireman, DiRomualdo took a job with RCA after graduating from high school to earn money for college. Dispatched by the...
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James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work
notes Cahill. Among the clubs that support nonprofits, the HBS Association of Southeastern New England and the HBS Club of Philadelphia have hosted nonprofit conferences for several years. These conferences provide nonprofit leaders with...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
and COO of Rohm and Haas, the largest specialty chemicals company in the United States. The longtime Philadelphia resident, who started his forty-year career at Rohm and Haas as an engineer, says he was ready for retirement but felt no...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
from publishing weekly to biweekly. Knight Ridder, the Wall Street darling that owned the Philadelphia Inquirer and Detroit Free Press, is no more, having been swallowed and largely written off by a peer whose own fortunes then...
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- 27 Aug 2019
- News
Sweating It Out in Philly; Whiskey Flights in Portland
Clubs News Clubs News Philly Club Builds Sweat Equity with SLT’s Amanda Freeman A dozen intrepid alumni from the HBS Club of Philadelphia recently worked up quite a sweat to learn more about the fitness industry from wellness entrepreneur...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
Charlotte New York Philadelphia Fundraising for local nonprofits or for scholarships to attend Executive Education’s Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management program Austin Ottawa San Diego Washington, D.C. All-day alumni...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Answering the Call
The Reverend Robert Brooks's small, crowded office at Christ Episcopal Church in Kent, Ohio, is a long way from the executive suite that he occupied for nineteen years at the Philadelphia investment firm of Cooke & Bieler. He has moved a...
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Susan Young
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Scott Howe Nineteenth-century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Nearly 150 years later, Scott Howe (MBA 1994), president and CEO...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed
Nonprofit Management, a program offered by Executive Education and the Initiative on Social Enterprise. In addition, several clubs, including Philadelphia and Northern California, have sponsored summer internships in their communities for...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
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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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
Brother. "His family had a number of serious problems," O'Neill relates. "It was up to this boy to keep them all together, and somehow he did, all the while developing his own natural talent for baseball. "Today that young man is playing in the View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
products." After graduating from Yale and working two years at the Philadelphia National Bank, Dubinsky came to HBS, where a presentation of the first electronic spreadsheet helped shape her career path. "I knew immediately that this was...
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- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
enviable connection with its avid New England Patriots fan base. Other sports and entertainment organizations took note, and, in 2016, KAGR was spun off to help outside clients such as Ticketmaster, the NBA’s Philadelphia ’76ers, and the...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
the high-tech industry? Growth. I had learned as a banker [at Philadelphia National Bank] that most career opportunities are presented by areas that are growing quickly, and the personal computer industry fit that description. I was also...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
Buffalo, New York, granted its first two executive education scholarships this year. “This program is really great because it benefits the local community,” says Richard (“Bing”) Sherrill (MBA ’62), treasurer of the Buffalo club. The HBS Club of View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
attended and taught at Tuskegee Institute and knew Booker T. Washington, brought his family to Philadelphia during the great black northward migration before World War I. America’s father served in the Army in World War I in France, and...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
callers the opportunity to purchase the relevant CDs. The *CD service "enables real-time impulse buying," Chen told the Philadelphia Inquirer (February 11, 1999). "It is a lost sale if you can't act on it." Currently being tested in...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch, and emerge stronger, smarter and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. In Be Where Your Feet Are, the former CEO of the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils...
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- 22 Nov 2017
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How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Between 2013 and 2016 the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers were one of the worst teams in the league. In 2014 they tied an NBA record with 24 consecutive losses. And...
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