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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
A Miller's Tale
thriving catalog business that sends King Arthur flour, recipes, and baking items to far-flung devotees, Sands and his wife, Brinna, have initiated baking programs in schools. They also operate a Baking Center (a bakery, store, and...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
of Business Administration The wisdom of the Turkish proverb, “A tribulation is better than a hundred warnings,” was not lost on the HBS students who traveled to Istanbul this year as part of the required, yearlong FIELD (Field Immersion...
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- 02 Dec 2018
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Fostering Great Leadership
Ken Olivier (MBA 1979) and Angela Nomellini While an undergraduate at Stanford, Ken Olivier met a Ford Motor Company executive he admired. “I asked his advice on how I could get to his position,” he says. “That’s how I ended up earning both View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
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To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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The Weather Channel Forecast: Challenges Ahead
2f1f4a24430fe040f37c6d7564258142 Viewers love The Weather Channel, giving its president and CEO, Bill Burke (MBA ’92), an enviable edge over many of his counterparts in the notoriously fickle business of cable network programming. On...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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She’s Got Your Back
Corbin’s business and relocated its headquarters to Indianapolis. “Our first member in Columbus was a woman named Patty Bowman,” Hicks recalls. “She gave us the entire list of contractors she’d ever used.”...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Taiwan Club President Thrives on Region's Entrepreneurial Energy
"Taiwan today is an exciting place to be in business," said Benjamin P.L. Feng (MBA 1975), managing director of All Asia Partners, a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei. At HBS this fall to attend his 25th Reunion, Feng took time...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online
your overall global strategy, says Professor Pankaj Ghemawat. One key: recognizing that regions don’t stop at national borders. An excerpt from the December 2005 Harvard Business Review. The Geography of Corporate Giving Where a company...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Making a World of Difference
Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens. "In order for people to get along, they have to respect each other's differences," says Slifka, a successful Wall Street investor who has applied his business talent to various philanthropic ventures...
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- 28 Sep 2018
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Pushing Progress at Panasonic
to never again waste time on things like that. “There was so much of this kind of inward-facing, pointless work going on,” Higuchi said in an interview. Higuchi instituted some changes right away. He moved the division’s headquarters from...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Playing to Win
in turning losing teams into winners, Louis-Dreyfus has an enviable record of reshaping underperforming companies into formidable competitors. A scion of one of France's most prominent business families, he rejuvenated IMS International,...
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Garry Emmons
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
collection expanded quickly, as visits to museums and galleries intensified his interest in the work of prominent artists, such as Serra, Ellsworth Kelly, Damien Hirst, and Tracey Emin, as well as talented newcomers. Some of the works were exhibited at Caldic’s View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
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View from the Top
entire companies and the driving force behind the turnaround of the American economy, is suddenly under siege,” the New York Times declared in June. In the months since, the chorus of voices questioning today's business leaders has only...
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- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
Burke: A need to close the income gap. After her graduation from HBS, few people could accuse Mary Burke (MBA 1985) of having led a dull life. As reported in the Madison, Wisconsin Capital Times (October 5, 2011), Burke first worked for McKinsey, then started a View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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Inside Intel
Field sales was aware of the problem Intel faced, but, according to a sales engineer in the Hauppauge, New York, headquarters of Intel’s Atlantic Region, “the message wasn’t getting through to management on the West Coast.” On November 2,...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Cutting Edge
"We're reemerging as a high-margin, health-and-wellness company," says Silk, speaking from Smith Brothers headquarters in Chicago. "We'll continue to make our traditional cough drops, but we've also introduced a variety of...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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The Next Big Thing
It's a case of competition and strategy on a global scale, and the stakes could hardly be higher. The prize? Leadership in the realm of life sciences, a field that experts say will shape and dominate 21st-century enterprise. What city or region will become the...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
be part of GE just as it’s relocating its headquarters to Boston.” Graham Fairbairn (MBA 2018) Hometown: Sydney, Australia Destination: General Mills, Minneapolis “I come from a consumer packaged goods background and have had the...
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Julia Hanna
- 22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard
flexible workplace at our headquarters in Boston, where people can visit or have small team retreats. Our remote culture has allowed us huge flexibility in hiring and logistics. I did not expect that the investments we made for remote...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 2002
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Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
than three months into her tenure at the business news network — turned her attention to determining what services and coverage CNBC could provide at a time when the U.S. stock markets were closed. On the morning of September 11, Pamela...
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