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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
is something I was afraid to do earlier in my career so as to not come across as incompetent. Now, I’m completely comfortable asking the “dumb” questions so that I am fully equipped to operate at the best of my ability. —Clifford Maxwell...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
stories of his great-grandmother Georgia Joyner, a sales agent for Madam C.J. Walker, the Black entrepreneur considered to be the first female self-made millionaire in the United States, and his great-great-great grandfather William...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Counter Intelligence
When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just...
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Amy Crawford
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
textiles from retailers and municipalities across Europe. The company operates facilities in Germany, where garments are sorted with a combination of automation and manual tech, so that the useful life of each piece can be extended. About...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
Asia-Pacific operations. Earlier, while at Carlyle, he oversaw the purchase of KorAm Bank in 2000 and its sale four years later to Citigroup, in a deal that more than doubled Carlyle’s original investment. That outcome caught the eye of...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,...
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- 12 May 2023
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Alabama's Yella Fella
facilities in 12 states. That cleared the path to major customers like Home Depot and launched a phase of record growth. Sales have more than doubled since 2016, thanks to the remodel and renovation booms set in motion by the pandemic....
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small
least 75 percent of India’s consumer goods sales despite the significant inefficiencies of an outdated business model. “Kiranas are limited-inventory, 2,000- to 5,000-square-foot shops that don’t always get on-time deliveries or access to...
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- 04 Feb 2021
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Andy Jassy Named Amazon’s New CEO
most recent quarter, AWS had net sales of $12.7 billion with an operating income of $3.6 billion, more than half of the company’s overall operating income,” the Journal...
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- 01 Jan 2010
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James Dimon, MBA 1982
Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: B.A., Economics and Psychology, Tufts University, 1978 On Leadership: “Set and meet high standards of integrity, performance, and service. You have to be...
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- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
This was my favorite case in my favorite class, Entrepreneurial Management, taught by Professor Howard Stevenson. The protagonist learned the hard way that she had to plan to manage growth and, unfortunately, her operations infrastructure...
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- 01 Jan 2013
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Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
throughout Jacobson's life. At the University of Pennsylvania, Jacobson studied international relations with a specialization in China. After college, she worked in operations at Greenwich Associates and was soon promoted to run the...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2013
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Thai Lee, MBA 1985
tech company, while parenting two children (now 15 and 10). In 1989 Lee and her then husband purchased Software House, a small, unsuccessful software sales company. Within a year she had changed the name to SHI International, reflecting...
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success
Acquisitions department and presided over some of the largest deals transacted during the merger-crazed 1980s. He joined Morgan Stanley in 1988 as a managing director and later served as cohead of Mergers and Acquisitions, becoming a member of Morgan's View Details
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2022
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My First Job
the rest of the employees were safely leaving the building and that the fire was contained. I learned that real leadership means running toward the fire and being concerned about the safety of others before your own. —John Fees (MBA 1999) Dream Teen I was a View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
publisher in Lowell whose products included Gideon Bibles. Another—which came his way via an Executive Education participant who was president of the Boston Bruins—was from a small company with about a million dollars in sales that...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Action Plan: To the Letter
Ninan Chacko (AMP 158, 2000) was on vacation in Turin, Italy, when he stopped to snap a photo of a street sign. In the picture, all you can see is the name: Via Roma. But for Chacko, the CEO of Monotype, the world’s largest type seller, the classic letters told the...
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- 11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
Homeplus; and the 2019 acquisition of Godiva Chocolate’s Asia-Pacific operations. Earlier, while at Carlyle, he oversaw the purchase of KorAm Bank in 2000 and its sale four years later to Citigroup, in a deal that more than doubled...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded...
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