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...sales of $230 million a year. Along the way, there were innovations and successes as well as botched shipments, lawsuits, and other setbacks. The one constant was Chouinard, who has reviled the idea of being an ordinary businessman throughout the years. “I continued to practice my MBA theory of management, management by absence,” he writes, “while I wear-tested our clothing and equipment in the most extreme conditions of the Himalayas and South America.”Chouinard’s other business philosophies are listed out in the second chunk...
...Irish Brown has had a charmed career. Propelled by education-focused parents and an MBA from Columbia University, she moved smoothly from Wall Street to Washington to corporate finance. Though she succeeded as an investment banker specializing in high-yield capital markets, Irish Brown, whose four grandparents emigrated from the Caribbean, noticed few faces like hers in the workplace. On Wall Street, "diversity has been an issue for a long time not just for people of color but women as well," she says. "Being a woman of color, you notice it from both angles...
...revival of the banking and consulting industries, but the number of applicants to Harvard Business School (HBS) has been declining in recent years. According to a report published by Bloomberg.com, a financial news website, the average compensation of June graduates of the HBS Master of Business Administration (MBA) program increased 11 percentage points to $174,580. Increased job hires by firms such as PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are partially responsible for driving the rise in salaries. Business school class of 2005 hires at Goldman Sachs were awarded average base salaries of $115,000, a 35 percent increase...
...program that HBS hopes will help China and other Asian countries meet their demand for effective business managers and leaders. The intensive program focused on the participant-centered learning model and the case study method of instruction, which differ greatly from the usual lecture-based format of most Asian MBA courses, according to Baker Foundation Professor F. Warren McFarlan, who was one of 10 HBS professors who taught the program. Participants in the program attended at least six classes and seminars a day, in addition to the out-of-class preparation and exercises they were required to complete, according...
...There, he put his expertise in business communications to use in a compulsory course that gained notoriety amongst HBS graduates, “Written Analysis of Cases,” or “WAC,” as it was known for short. The course required first-year MBA students to submit biweekly papers, to be dropped off in a slot on the side of the library by 9 p.m. on Saturday, although this was later changed to Friday under pressure from students. “It forced each of us as students to integrate all of the course...