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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
1948. After selling the Browns in 1951 (the franchise eventually became the Baltimore Orioles), Bill DeWitt worked for the New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers before the Cincinnati Reds hired him as general manager in 1961. His success...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
An innovative thinker who created BayBanks, one of the most successful retail banking franchises in the United States, William M. Crozier, Jr. (MBA '63) has a lot to say about the evolution of banking. As head of BayBanks for 21 years,...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 05 Aug 2015
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Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
lets people report on the nature, number, pattern, types, location, frequency, and values of bribes and then uses that data to lobby the government. He initially wanted to franchise the site for use in the Philippines, but during a summer...
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- 28 Apr 2022
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Finding Her Place
global franchises and innovation at ConvaTec, helping to prepare the $1.8 billion, London-based company to go public. After its successful IPO, in 2018, Hudson took some time off to travel with her husband but fully expected to return to...
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- 21 Mar 2019
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Helping Veterans Build Careers
focused on helping each one of them, often through his HBS network. Five years later, HBS alum Brett Odom (MBA 2005), a veteran Navy pilot and Top Gun instructor, reached out about Activision Blizzard—publishers of the popular Call of Duty entertainment View Details
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Kola Masha's innovative franchise model. It's a revolution that can't come soon enough for Nigeria. The country was once the breadbasket of West Africa until Royal Dutch Shell discovered vast oil reserves in 1958, and the agriculture...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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An Authentic Leader
inspires the innovative products and superior services that create lasting shareholder value. Did we expect too much from CEOs over the past decade? During that period, we saw the rise of the imperial CEO. They were treated like rock stars, or like a View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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A Vibrant Brand
her devotees books on pies and wreaths, the king of hip hop has published a best-selling biography of slain rap star Tupac Shakur and will soon release an illustrated history of hip hop. Both multimedia franchises are continually finding...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
comic books at Marvel? They will always be very important. In a sense, comic books are our R&D function. What is unique is that we have a very profitable R&D effort with triple-digit ROI and net margins of 30 to 35 percent. We can take creative risks with new or...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
innovations may have been -- whether it was Ray Kroc's refinement of franchise economics or Henry Ford's perfection of assembly line production -- every organization faced the key business problem of determining where to place the...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Q & A: Herb Kohl
life. And I've been happy with all of them, so far. We'll see what tomorrow brings. Local Hero A lifetime basketball fan, Herb Kohl worked to get the Bucks to Milwaukee in 1969. Not wanting to see the NBA franchise leave his hometown when...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
builds. We think that our distinctive competence is operating excellence and the way our people show up for our guests — which isn’t to say that the Hiltons and Marriotts aren’t trying to be good operators. But their niche is distribution — more dots on the map. Once...
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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
bought his first franchise in 2000, says the new alignment made him more confident about the future. SVP Kristy Cunningham on the rollout of all-day breakfast in 2015: “Part of the mantra we were pushing was, if it’s good for the...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero
from a franchise on the brink of leaving town in 1992 to toast of the town in 2010 is the stuff of Hollywood scripts. And indeed, when the lanky, loquacious executive talks about his lifelong history with the team, his reminiscences are...
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- 05 Aug 2016
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Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
franchise the NeuroLaunch model worldwide, and he’s already in talks with groups in London, Singapore, and Israel. Over the next year, the company will hold neuro startup forums in a number of cities to begin building a global community...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 29 Aug 2018
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The Value of Valleys
I did. Frank Lorenzo, class of 63'. As a CEO of continental airlines, and before that Texas International Airlines, we faced airline deregulation, which was of course very tough thing since we had been in a regulated business where we had a protected View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment
mutely pouting. I learned a lifelong lesson: When you don't know what to say or do, say or do nothing. Find Your Place Rusty McClure (MBA 1975) AS A MARRIED MBA STUDENT, in order to afford a better apartment, I applied for and was awarded the student View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Oakland to inquire about franchise opportunities. Founded during the Depression by William Dreyer and Joseph Edy, Dreyer’s had established a Bay Area reputation for premium quality and inventiveness, dating back to the debut of its Rocky...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Producers
marketplace mean studios are making fewer and bigger movies. “Corporations are about reducing risk; making movies is about taking risks,” says Zee. “The safest bet seems to be franchises and big, expensive movies. But where is the...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Yoga Inc.
they teach. Once a week, a volunteer takes the donations, which manage to cover the $1,200 monthly rent, to the bank. Ironically, Vaccaro has had other studios seek him out about emulating his business model. He’s even been approached about View Details
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Deborah Halber