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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
Blendtec hit on the idea of showing the industrial-strength power of the product by filming the blender munching everything from rake handles to an iPhone. The videos racked up 60 million hits on YouTube, and the company’s CEO was soon making an appearance on The...
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- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
Optimize for people. Many variables will influence your career choices after HBS—geography, industry, function, company, manager, salary, equity, etc. Sometimes there are correlations between these variables, like high-growth companies tend to have stronger managers....
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway, would no longer invest in newspapers "at any price." "Very smart people looked at Buffett's offer and wondered what he saw in the declining industry that others did not," notes Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor...
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- 20 Jun 2016
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Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
says, it will create a new asset class for socially minded investors, providing them with a reliable ROI that will advance the investing effort. He also believes that changing from a charity-based model of giving has a huge impact on the...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
In 1984, two board members of the Walt Disney Company (WDC) — Stanley Gold and Roy Disney — mounted a targeted campaign to convince major shareholders that Michael Eisner and Frank Wells were the right team to lead the faltering...
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- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
$5 per viewer. However, Ackman’s ROI metric for this series is akin to that of Diogenes’ search for an honest man or Lot’s for righteous people in Sodom and Gomorrah. “It’s really expensive,” he admits, “but want to know something? If...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
issues. ROY WILLIS was born in 1939 in Halifax County, North Carolina, and moved to Norfolk, Virginia, when he was 12. Though an honors student, Willis was denied admittance to the College of William & Mary during the early days of...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Carnival Queen
than the Zulu Queen at the Big Easy's celebration of Mardi Gras. The Zulu Queen presides for one year over the Zulu Organization, a New Orleans nonprofit that supports charities throughout the city. Rogers's reign is in honor of her late father, View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
who wrote the Magic Tree House series; Dennis Scott, former NBA player and reading advocate; Andy Jassy (MBA 1997), CEO of Amazon; Roy Swan, head of impact investing at Ford; and Carrie Rathod, who leads brand innovation at Proctor &...
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- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
else is the same” And a mission-based ROI can be a tough sell sometimes. “I wish I had a stock price, because then it would be easy to show everybody how well we’re doing, or for them to realize we’re not doing so well. Instead, I have to...
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Maureen Harmon
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
entrepreneurship skills in a “mini MBA-style” academy. “If we want to move the needle and transform lives, communities and our economy, we have to start younger,” says Openshaw. “The ROI is tremendous.” After presenting the data on gender...
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Margie Kelley
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Susan Wilner Golden (PMD 59, 1990) had a very frustrating experience caring for her aging mother. With her background as a graduate of the HBS Program for Management...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Faculty News
of Business Administration André F. Perold George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking Roy D. Shapiro Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration Richard S. Tedlow MBA Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration...
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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
investors of the organization’s goals and results and attract potential investors with straightforward reports and graphics. “It isn’t as easy to evaluate the output of our loans as it is for commercial banks,” Oakes explains later, citing the difficulty of calculating...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
East Side Story
In January, veteran New York state senator Roy Goodman (MBA '53) was appointed president and CEO of the United Nations Development Corporation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA '66). In accepting the position, Goodman, a...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Dinner Celebrates Professorships
Roy D Shapiro, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration (at right), shares a laugh with Philip Caldwell (MBA '42), former chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company. Photo: Thomas J. Fitzsimmons Linda A. Hill, the Wallace...
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- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
devoted entirely to manufacturing (and featuring Kim Clark, Steve Wheelwright, Bob Hayes, and Roy Shapiro as youthful professors, along with older hands such as Wick Skinner). After its founding in 1908 (the same year Henry Ford...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
Derby and the Preakness on his first try parallels that of Seabiscuit, the Depression-era Thoroughbred memorialized in Laura Hillenbrand's best-seller and a 2003 movie. Bred by Roy and Pat Chapman on a $10,000 stud fee, Smarty Jones...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created...
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- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
proposition? How are they going to make money? How are they going to get an adequate ROI on this? How much investment is it? And how quickly can they recoup that investment? In the same token, I've got to talk to the rights holder, in...
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