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- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
language, is now my biggest challenge. —Krizia Li (MBA 2012) Back to top Multiple Lenses on “Optical Distortion Inc.” A small firm is ready to introduce a new product—contact lenses for chickens—and now an entry strategy must be planned....
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
and real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation - now NationsBank - in the early 1980s. With the enrollment of his two...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
of 732. Once they clear the formidable hurdle of admission, some 89 students in the programs receive a level of backing and resources for field research that sets HBS apart, thanks in large measure to alumni generosity. "There's an...
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- 15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1997
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High Fives
Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. New York, New York In 1973,Joe Perella founded First Boston's mergers and acquisitions group, which flourished under his fifteen-year tenure.After serving briefly as cohead of investment banking at First Boston, he left the View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
the donut shop business that my second year of business school, I accompanied my dad to a meeting with a private equity firm in New York. My dad was asking a million-and-a-half dollars for the business. He wanted out. He wanted to sell....
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Retail Trade
- 01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People
commonsensical, and proven to work.” Klarman’s long-term outlook has served him — and large numbers of clients and community members — extremely well. At Baupost, the Boston-based 165-person firm he has led...
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- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
“The mission statement of Endeavor is to create an economic multiplier effect in markets where it’s difficult for small entrepreneurs to become really large and successful,” says Ayala. “And the way they create this multiplier effect is...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Identifying why the path to the top for women and racial minorities remains elusive
all lawyers but just 6 percent of partners. Kathleen L. McGinn, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, is motivated to explain why—and how—demography remains a factor in career mobility. Studying a large law View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
of these economic differences and differences in the principles that people believe most deeply in, we are seeing large and increasingly firm political differences,” he says. “The majority of Americans...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
company operation or process." "I think of intrapreneurship as an attitude or spirit that involves creating something new," she says. The General Motors Saturn and the Hewlett-Packard DeskWriter computer printer, for example, were both products developed by...
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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
the things that sets the firm apart from its competitors is its investment in the service sector. “Human assets have different management requirements,” Hellman notes, adding, “We give a large part of the...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Peter Wendell (MBA '76)
Silicon Valley. The Valley is unique, he says, because it is a magnet for intellectual talent (including graduates of Stanford, where he teaches a course on entrepreneurship and venture capital), has a concentration of large companies...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
opportunities to sell something at a profit. These opportunities are exploited by adventurous investors who are willing to risk large losses in order to make large gains. A community in which everyone...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Taking a Stand. Patagonia pulled its advertising from Facebook and has recently renewed its call on other firms to boycott the platform until Facebook can make sure its products do no harm. What would taking a stand look like for your...
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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
professor J. Sterling Livingston's class. Born and raised in Syracuse, New York, Fox graduated cum laude from Le Moyne College and served in the U.S. Navy prior to arriving at Soldiers Field. Drawn to Livingston's interest in managing View Details
- 23 May 2019
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Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
to be the best version of themselves. Indeed, Rodríguez’s colleagues at Gentera—a financial services firm focused on underserved communities—can’t imagine running the firm without his involvement. Working in...
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
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Avoiding a Succession Crisis
The rapid changes at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup highlight the problem many firms face as they consider succession. What we are seeing should be surprising and disturbing to us all: At investment banks of great importance, the board of...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
Richard Branson, the British entrepreneur, corporate titan, and death-defying balloonist, touched down at HBS last fall to share his wit and wisdom with a large Burden Hall audience. Branson, founder and chairman of the Virgin Group, a...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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New Releases
organizations. Their extensive empirical research draws on in-depth case studies of the organization, structures, systems, and management practices in nine large MNCs; a detailed survey of headquarters-subsidiary relations in three of...
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Judith A. Ross