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Lauren Murphy

Lauren is the Founder and Principal Coach of Pivotal Executive Coaching, partnering with senior business leaders to accomplish their professional and organization goals. She works with executives in technology, healthcare, real estate, consumer products, and financial... View Details

12 Apr 2017
Blog Post

2+2er Pursues HBS/HKS Joint Degree

Director of Strategy and Analytics at the NYC Department of Education. I learned more about the amazing change that can be catalyzed from the intersection of business and government. It was then that I also decided to apply and was... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

Marketing Muscle

side of the world, Fabiola Arredondo (MBA '92) has established local Yahoo! Web portals from Italy to Scandinavia. Cited as one of twenty "Trend-Setting Women" in the November 1999 issue of Tornado-Insider.com, Arredondo's leadership style as managing View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Maiden Voyage

is the United Arab Emirates, which formally introduced its UAE Space Agency on May 25, 2015, during the fifth Global Space and Satellite Forum in Abu Dhabi. The agency tapped Khaled Al Hashmi (GMP 11, 2011), an aerospace engineer with significant technical-managerial... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Space Research and Technology; Government

01 Sep 2005
News

New Career Wanted

When contemplating a move that will set your career on a new course, be sure to sharpen your navigational skills. “The research and preparation that go into making a move are crucial to success,” counsels Christine Sullivan, director of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2004
News

Inside Executive Search

is a delicate feat that first requires a basic understanding of how these firms work. In The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers (Crown Business), James M. Citrin (MBA 1986), a senior director in the Stamford, Connecticut, office of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

28 Feb 2011
News

Rebooting the Human Condition

equally at home negotiating with Mexican guerrillas and sailing the world's oceans (with genomics guru Venter, among others). From 1988 to 1993, Enriquez served as CEO of Mexico City's for-profit urban development agency. Later, as an HBS senior research fellow,... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

21 Mar 2019
Blog Post

What I Didn't Know About HBS Faculty

brother-in-law, a Managing Director at a leading PE firm. I couldn't believe the lengths my professor was willing to go for me. Not only was the professor deeply engaged in our conversation, but he took it upon himself to connect me with... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Addressing The Financial Security Gap

The pandemic has served as a wake-up call on many fronts, but to Anne Ackerley (MBA 1988), managing director and head of the Retirement Group at BlackRock, it has focused a particular spotlight on the retirement crisis in the United... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

11 Dec 2019
News

A Righteous Path

“Today is a pretty exciting day here,” Safe Passage Project executive director Rich Leimsider (MBA 2003) says as soon as he picks up the phone in late October 2019. “As of today, we are representing 1,001 children who the US government is... View Details

Keywords: April White; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2018
News

Preparing Our Students for a Changing World

ventures have been incubated at the Harvard Innovation Labs,” says Executive Director Jodi Goldstein (MBA 1996). “Collectively, they have worked on an incredible breadth and diversity of ideas.” 83% of Harvard University students engage... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

the connectedness of alumni to the School and to each other. While the HBS alumni network is very good when utilized, our Board of Directors has been working toward strengthening ties between the School and two important alumni... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

Short Takes

directors hold large blocks of stock in public corporations, those firms experience increased performance relative to competing firms whose board members lack such significant holdings. "Sophisticated large-block owners are beneficial to... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

19 Nov 2014
News

The Power of Yes

money to good use: Dichter would simply open his wallet. At the time, Dichter was director of business development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2002
News

HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power

Governors in 1966 (Ferguson, appointed in 1997, was the third), closed the conference with remarks at a Sunday brunch. Other featured speakers included BET president and COO Debra Lee and former FCC chairman William Kennard, now a managing View Details

13 Dec 2018
Blog Post

"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012

shift from her previous strengths to her new ambitions. At Path, a mobile application startup based in San Francisco, Cynthia joined as a business analyst, but during her five-year tenure, moved to design and product development, becoming View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Higher Ground

music director just a week before the flooding began, had led the orchestra only a handful of times as a guest conductor. Now, at 38, he was tasked with rebuilding an orchestra with no home or foreseeable income. When the orchestra took... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Health, Social Assistance

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

shared #MeToo stories of abuse after Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault in October 2017. “With the Weinstein story, a dam broke,” says Colleen Ammerman, director of Harvard Business School’s Gender... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

who also found the study to be a useful source of related research. At the same time, Silberman and EPA colleague David Hindin, senior policy director for innovation and next generation compliance, urged the researchers to look more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

organizations around the world was delivered to the IMF's managing director in the first week of September, 2009 (Lombardi, 2009). Long-term governance reforms are central to the Bank's legitimacy as a global public institution. At the... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

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