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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
Boston Teamwork: From left, Chuck Eisenberg (MBA ’78), Arjuna Costa (MBA ’01), John Flanagan (AMP 96, 1985), Tom White (MBA ’69), Mark Alston-Follansbee, Marco Bitran (MBA ’03), and Charles Cassidy (MBA ’83). When Mark Alston-Follansbee, executive View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
companies, who were looking for blockbusters for large markets,” recalls Nate Boaz (MBA 2006), Prize4Life cofounder and board member, who is now managing director of talent strategy at Accenture in Atlanta. The meeting yielded more... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
skills, and the host country’s needs. Why is Morocco so important? Morocco straddles the West and the Arab world and is a longtime ally of America — it was the very first nation to recognize our fledgling, newly independent United States.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
until many years later that I came to appreciate the dissenting view of the Vietnam War." Ed Mathias, now a managing director of the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in Washington, D.C., came to HBS after serving as an officer in the Navy... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Launches Alumni Survey
career services, curriculum development, executive education, alumni relations, and publishing,” says David Lampe, the School’s executive director of Marketing and Communications. The survey, developed and administered with the help of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Back to School
hunker down and roll up my sleeves and use my experience to make a difference there. It was pretty exciting.” Since 2004, Whitney has been doing the same and more as admissions director at Green Farms Academy, an View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
undertaking," he remarks. "I remember wondering, 'How in the name of God do they put this whole thing together?'" As executive director of the nonprofit Opera Company of Philadelphia, Mulroney is now responsible for doing just that. In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
United States’ most visible, influential export. But given its uncertainties, what would drive HBS alumni to enter an industry characterized in the best of times as “the business of rejection”? * * * * * In Hollywood, the spotlight belongs to the stars and a few View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
In the 2013 independent feature film Beneath the Harvest Sky, two teenage boys struggle to find their future in a rural farming community in northern Maine. Set against the backdrop of the blue-potato farm that employs much of the town,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Porter, Kanter Win McKinsey Awards
managing director of FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm, were awarded first place for their January–February 2011 article “Creating Shared Value.” The article lays out the concept of shared value, which focuses on the connections between... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
of value investing? Jay Lorsch: Getting Boards Up to Speed Under the present system of corporate boards, independent part-time directors are not sufficiently familiar with the business — they have to be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
MBA 2011) were semifinalists in the 2010 contest with FashionStake, a “community-curated marketplace for independent fashion” that circumvents the traditional department store model by giving consumers a voting voice to determine which... View Details
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
Helping HBS Make Big Bets
talent and myriad accomplishments that everyone brought to the table,” she says, noting that she appreciated how much her classmates challenged and supported her. Barnett initially assumed that after HBS she would return to her entrepreneurial life as an View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Inner-City Advantage
for business prospects outside of real estate, Lloyd M. Metz (MBA ’96) of ICV Capital Partners recommended investments based on intellect rather than physical capital, such as health care and software. Ventures that have low distribution costs and are scalable View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
In January 2000, Thomas J. Tierney (MBA 1980) announced that he would step aside as worldwide managing director of Bain & Company, a position he had held since 1992, and become chairman of The Bridge Group, a new Bain affiliate. Tierney's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
are trying to do the right thing. How do we make boards even stronger? Some good ideas I've heard recently call for getting the independent directors to meet alone without management and having somebody... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
hole in the culture you’re trying to build.” No applause meter was available, but on balance, judging from the volume of their cheers and handclapping, Parson got a thumbs-up from the student audience. D. Ronald Daniel (MBA ’54) view full profile A View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
about entrepreneurship as an opportunity. As young faculty colleagues, he and Stevenson had become friends. “Howard was a curious, interesting, independent kind of guy,” says McArthur. “He preferred to pursue what interested him,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
is an independent foreign aid agency with the mission to reduce poverty through sustainable economic growth in some of the world's poorest countries. "Farmer training was at the heart of the Ghana program," says Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972),... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
beholden to the CEO," Burke says. Not only should an independent board and lead director govern companies, he advises, but business executives also need to "recreate a trust agenda." "Nothing good happens... View Details