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- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
acted for other businesses under similar circumstances and had bought them. And they had flourished under their tutelage and under their leadership—Allied Lions, subsequently to be called Allied Domeq, a large View Details
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career;
Food and Beverage Stores;
Retail Trade
- 12 Jun 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO
Immelt has been busy disassembling significant elements of the conglomerate that he began leading four days before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Immelt’s goal was to make GE more streamlined,...
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- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
always in business development, sales, and closing deals,” says Mittal, who eventually moved to Bombay, where “in a six-hour day you could finish what would take a month in Ludhiana.” With the resources of a big city now available, Mittal...
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Susan Young
- 25 Sep 2017
- News
Challenge for Honeywell’s New CEO: Keep Up the Winning Streak
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reflections on the “Artistry” of Teaching
Christensen’s wisdom is remembered and often quoted by former students and colleagues from HBS. At least one chairman of a major national conglomerate still carries with him a copy of the yellowed notes he took in Christensen’s View Details
- 22 Aug 2016
- News
The Future of GE
consumer businesses we were in. We’ve exited plastics and things like that. In the last 15 years, we’re one of the few leadership teams in history that’s sold $100 billion in businesses and bought $100...
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- 21 Apr 2014
- News
Spirit of philanthropy advances Executive Education
During his 50-year career, Tata Group chairman emeritus Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) has become one of India’s most respected business leaders. As head of the Tata Trusts, he is also a champion of philanthropic efforts supporting educational...
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- 20 May 2014
- News
Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
famous for its intellectual freedom,” Wang Jianlin, chairman of the global conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group, told 800-plus students who gathered in Burden Hall in October. “Ask me anything at all.” Students quizzed China’s richest man on...
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
Berryman and Gary A. Zebrowski purchased the near-bankrupt Nashville, Tennessee, company in 1986. Gibson was suffering from the neglect and mismanagement of its previous owner of nearly twenty years - an Ecuadorian conglomerate that...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
with the ungainly conglomerates assembled in the 1960s and 1970s that provided a variety of seemingly mismatched products and services. And while many consultants and investors are seeking to extend this focused model into emerging...
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Judith A. Ross
- 18 Jun 2014
- News
Behind GE's Vision For The Industrial Internet Of Things
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
California, headquarters to learn how he turned a struggling Bay Area ice-cream business into the nation’s leading producer. Today, as chairman and CEO of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Rogers, 63, presides over a $2 billion global...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
manager, for example, is the son of his father’s first employee. “It used to be a true family business,” Hsu says, “and now it’s a business family.” Hsu returned to the farm in 2011, at first taking a leave from General Mills to help out...
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Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
were largely gained in the trenches of a multiyear research project with Professor Tarun Khanna that explores the implications of conglomerate business structures in emerging markets. In the late 1980s and...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
devoted time and resources to protecting the world’s wide-open spaces. Two of this year’s winners cited family life. “Finding a balance is something I’m proud about,” remarked Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (MBA ’87), leader of the 173-year-old Ayala Corporation, a View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
expensive, and many observers were questioning the ability of this country to compete in the world economy. Convinced that the postindustrial era had arrived in America, the chairman of the Ogden Corporation, a giant New York-based View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
where the business models, like the ideas behind them, are still expanding outward. Estimates by Grand View Research predict the industry will keep growing at a compound annual rate of 34 percent, at least through the next five years. The...
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- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) wants to change just about everything at GE, from its image as a slow-moving corporate behemoth, to the focus of its core businesses, to the location of its corporate offices. In May, the company that made the first lightbulb, as well as...
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