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- 05 Oct 2023
- News
On the Move: Massimo (Max) Magni (MBA 2003)
strategic long-term growth of the company. Magni’s journey to Macy’s has been many years in the making. He grew up in a village of 8,000 people in Italy. His parents believed in the importance of traveling, so Magni spent a year as a...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ilana D. Weinstein (MBA 1995)
Weinstein: Standing tall and seeing all of the strategic possibilities in a highly competitive industry. I grew up in New York City and worked in every store along our 10-block radius. I learned how to sell and negotiate at a young age. There’s a scrappiness and...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
division of the multinational oil and gas company BP and as head of commercial and strategic partnerships for H&M Group. Looper comes from a desire to decouple growth from resource consumption, an idea that Bolon notes is gaining traction...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
Similarly, Prysm’s online courses are designed to help working professionals grasp the business implications of emerging technologies, regardless of sector. If you want to trade in digital assets, for instance, it doesn’t matter whether...
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- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
about what to do and whether or not my ideas and hunches that I had in business school might well in fact apply, decided that the problem with the business really lay with strategic decisions being made at the top of the business. And I...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
3, a startup competitor—but was fired when his strategic recommendations for expansion didn’t align with upper management’s. At that point, Keen made good on his HBS application essay and joined Cherokee Nation Enterprises (now Cherokee...
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- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
COSCO in the Port of Piraeus. The port, which sits on the sapphire waters of the Saronic Gulf, has been a strategic asset since the 5th century BC. The investment will transform it into the biggest port in Europe and create critically...
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- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
“My work is about making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes,’” wrote Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) in a Class Notes post announcing his 2013 career move, from private development consultant to lead financial and private-sector development specialist at the World...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
the changing global landscape for business leaders Look in any closet, toy chest, or family room in a typical Western home, and you’ll find a trove of goods supplied by a century-old Hong Kong–based export trading company— Li & Fung Ltd....
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
edge and attract new devotees without losing its core following? “We can still accommodate the traditional customer because our styling is classic,” says Matthew McEvoy (MBA 1989), strategic planning director at Burberry. Founded in 1856,...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
Jørgen Knudstorp, just 35 years old when Kjeld promoted him from director of strategic development to CEO in 2004. Knudstorp's slow-it-down approach of managing cash carefully, focusing on core products, and reducing product complexity...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
than half the firm's trading volume and handles some $4 billion in securities transactions per week. A few years ago, online transactions were nonexistent at Schwab. But just as significant as the explosion of its Internet View Details
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
research and action in this type of underfunded effort, what Clara Wu Tsai calls the “white spaces.” She notes, “I believe in being strategic and bold and in trying to fill the gaps, funding high-impact ideas and visionary leaders that...
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- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Applying Business Principles to Military Problems
Donald Reidy (MBA 1990) is director of strategic planning and resource allocation for the Naval Special Warfare Command, in California. In this video, he talks about applying business management principles learned at HBS to his role in...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
than 35 Israeli-Jordanian and Israeli- Egyptian joint ventures are already up and running. Why are top Middle Eastern business leaders now seeking out strategic alliances with their neighbors? What benefits can regional cooperation at the...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
it's definitely outside the box of where I thought I would end up," says Le Roy Moore, who recently moved from operations to a marketing role that involves coordinating strategic initiatives across UP's business groups, including...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
inventory. The problem with that is you might have strategic consumers who delay their purchase of a pair of sandals, for example, to take advantage of the discounted price. Whereas if you didn’t use a markdown, then—who knows?—maybe...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
News in the News Biz
Professor Joseph Bower brought his expertise in management and economics to the newspaper trade in an article titled “News Is Strategic in the Newspaper Business,” which appeared in last fall's issue of...
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- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Five Receive 2013 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
everything they do. As such, they represent the best in our alumni body. Exemplary role models, they inspire all who aspire to have an impact on both business and society. The 2013 award recipients are: Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987 Cofounder and Managing Partner, View Details
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- 01 Feb 2001
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Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
Baker returned to the United States and was involved for many years in a variety of trading activities that took him to some two dozen countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Observing further how corruption could subvert markets...
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