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- 10 Oct 2017
- News
Risk and Rewards
Adebayo Ogunlesi (MBA 1979) is chairman and managing partner of Global Infrastructure Partners. In this interview he talks about the rewards of taking risks on unexpected opportunities. “People often ask me, ‘What is the best advice you... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
Leading the Way
Jim McNerney (MBA 1975) is the retired chairman of the Boeing Company and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video he discusses his experience as a leader of two of America’s top companies and the lessons he... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Dateline Belgrade
Slobodan Milosevic's decision to withdraw Serb forces from Kosovo last spring was helped along by a surprising secret envoy: Peter Castenfelt (MBA '72), chairman of Archipelago Enterprises, a London-based financial firm. Reporting that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
California Research Center Marks Fifth Year
steering committee chairman Arthur Rock (MBA ’51), CRC executive director Christina L. Darwall (MBA ’75) and her staff wrote a mock case about Rock, a legendary founding father of the venture capital industry. Rock, who was presented with... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Faculty Retirements
Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. For twelve years, he was chairman of the Finance Advisory Board of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He now serves on the boards of Swarthmore College, the New England... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise
leaders generating important social value.” The Social Enterprise Award was created to highlight the increasing number of young alumni who have chosen to work for nonprofits in the New York area, explained Ed Hajim (MBA ’64), chairman of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Fourth Annual African-American Alumni Association Conference
leadership roles in a quickly changing economic environment. Planned speakers include Tom Jones, chairman and CEO of Citigroup's Global Investment Management and Private Bank Group; Lloyd Trotter, president and CEO of GE Industrial... View Details
- 08 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Meet The Aerospace and Aviation Club
professional insights, personal stories, and advice for students considering entering these fields. During the 2015-2016 academic year, we hosted NASA astronaut Terry Virts, Turkish Airlines CEO Temel Kotil, former Boeing Chairman Jim... View Details
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- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Ann Moore, MBA 1978
Fresh out of HBS in 1978, Ann Moore did the unexpected and accepted the lowest-paying of 13 job offers, as a Time financial analyst, because she loved magazines. The unexpected turned into the unprecedented when she rose through the ranks to become the View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Waxing Philosophical
As he turned over company operations to his children last winter, it was a time for reflection for Samuel Johnson (MBA ’52), chairman emeritus of SC Johnson, one of the country’s oldest and largest family-owned firms, with $9 billion in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Construction Begins on New Exec Ed Building
entities of the Tata Group and was presented in October 2010 by Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975), chairman of Tata Sons Ltd., based in Mumbai, India. The gift is the largest from an international donor in the School’s 103-year history. View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering a synergy at work that benefits associates as well as customers
mindset, which also has been the subject of an HBS case study. "People are people; it doesn't matter which nationality or which culture," explains Natarajan, who, in addition to leading Zensar, serves as chairman of the NASSCOM... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
AASU Looks Ahead
alumni, and business leaders. Those who attended the gathering, held in mid-February, heard from two keynote speakers: entrepreneur George Fraser, the author of Success Runs in Our Race, and General Gary Cooper, chairman and CEO of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
A Match Made in Heaven
Adams Boston Lager, the first successful U.S. “craft beer” and the impetus for the microbrewery revolution. Koch, who is chairman of The Boston Beer Company, was similarly unconventional in assessing the talents of one of his executive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
Ideally, a board of directors is informed, active, and offers sound advice while maintaining a collegial but challenging relationship with the company’s CEO. In reality, some 61 percent of CEOs at our largest companies also serve as board View Details
- 16 Dec 2019
- News
Jeff Shell to Become CEO of NBCUniversal
Current chairman of NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment Jeff Shell (MBA 1991) will take over as CEO of the media company on January 1, reports the Los Angeles Times. In a statement to the Times, Brian Roberts, the current CEO of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
Wilkis Wilson, Traub, and Maybank Main article: Where Innovation Rules Marvin Traub (MBA 1949) joined Bloomingdale’s in 1950, became its president in 1969, and served as chairman and CEO from 1978 to 1991. Today, as View Details
- Portrait Project
Patricia Barron
HBS, speaking truth to power, seizing opportunities. For me, accepting risk is essential for living a full life. Straight talk is in my DNA, though I had to grow "business legs" for courage at work. (Then learn diplomacy to be heard!) I telexed our View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Heart of the Deal
of Comcast who will run the new enterprise, has high-profile business, especially TV business, in his genes. His father, Dan Burke (MBA ’55), is the former CEO of Capital Cities/ABC and a television industry legend; and an uncle, James Burke (MBA ’49), was View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- News
A lifetime of quiet leadership
awarded a Presidential Citizens Medal for his service. Subsequently, he devoted himself to advancing the cause of numerous nonprofits, in particular, serving as chairman until 2006 of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, following... View Details