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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Hardymon Receives VC Award
Felda Hardymon, the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice, has received a Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award from the National Venture Capital Association. A member of the HBS faculty for more than a decade, since...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
its five subsidiaries — the Bulova Watch Company, insurer CNA Financial, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Loews Hotels, and the Lorillard Tobacco Company — and from other investments. Since 1997, when the founders passed the baton to the next...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Righting the Ship
When Ross Stuckey (PLDA 21, 2016) joined the headquarters of the NAVSEA Warfare Centers as their capital improvement program (CIP) manager in 2016, he was charged with leading divisional managers at each of the NAVSEA WC’s 10 subsidiaries. He also was responsible for...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
these jurisdictions. But the 20 percent levy should be reduced to reflect any taxes paid by US multinationals in low-tax jurisdictions. If a foreign subsidiary of an American corporation pays some tax in a low-tax jurisdiction, it should...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
the top 200 businesses worldwide have adopted business codes, fewer than half indicate that they monitor compliance. And gray areas will persist. Notes Wells: “It’s not clear that subsidiary managers always...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Accelerating Allston
managing director at Bain Capital. “It’s so incredibly important to the future of Harvard, the city of Boston, and the entire state of Massachusetts. When John Paulson made his transformative gift, the light underneath the project really...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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How Does the HBS Endowment Work?
established in 1966 with a gift of $100,000. Since then, it has supported more than 100 MBA students and—as a result of appreciation over time—provided $49,000 in need-based financial aid awards in academic year 2017–2018. The HBS endowment is View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
obliterates all competitors, fall so precipitously? Other minicomputer firms were suddenly failing too. How could good managers seemingly turn bad so fast? That was the puzzle. Colleagues suggested exploring the disk-drive industry...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Up by the Roots
39,000-square-foot processing facility. It stretches into branch offices and warehouses serving six major Chinatowns across the United States and Canada, two offices in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and a wholly owned subsidiary in Nanjing...
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Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a...
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Nicole Torres
- 12 Aug 2015
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Alphabet--the Pros and Cons
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Gamble, and other consumer-goods businesses. "Create or identify the need, and then fulfill that need in a big way." Lopez arrived at Starbucks in 2004 to lead its global consumer-products division and, over time, expanded his responsibilities to include View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
business economics from Harvard. Fung is one of Hong Kong's most prominent businessmen, serving as chairman of Prudential Asia, the Asian investment management subsidiary of the Prudential Insurance Company...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
submitted were quite a bit different from what they first showed me.” A member of Staples’ original management team, Krasnow is currently a domain expert in marketing at Highland Capital Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm. I...
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- 29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Dreyfoos’s collection, encompass the years from 1950 to 2013 and reflect 60 countries. Those in the early decades have a historical aura, and many others may soon join that group as cultures evolve and the environment eliminates or recovers species. A View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
urban neighborhoods," says Poorvu. He also notes that it is very difficult to build sound but less costly housing because of constricting regulations, building codes, and bureaucracy. "When all the various levels of subsidiary costs are...
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Garry Emmons
- 27 May 2014
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How Separate Should a Corporate Spin-Off Be?
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
I wanted to be president of a $500 million business, and I achieved that,” he says. “When I left at age 54, there was no great epiphany, although the fact that we sold our subsidiary businesses made it financially easier for me to...
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