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- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
move, but his perseverance paid off once again. Today, Petzel works in London at a comfortable altitude—24 meters (79 feet)—as a managing director in the firm's Merchant Banking Division, one of four divisions that put capital to work. "I... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Sylvia Wachsner (PMD 35, 1978), director of Sociedade Nacional de Agricultura in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “Drawing from the faculty’s industry knowledge, I have learned about consumer behavior and have captured insights that I’m able to... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
complete information about Africa,” Clarke says, “the ignorance will dissipate. I think the desire to engage with Africans becomes real.” Clarke launched the site in 2010, giving up the certainty and rewards of her position as a managing View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
Welsh offers another take on the downside of part-time and flexible work arrangements in the corporate world. She has two children, took her maternity leave for each, and went back full-time to her job as a managing director at Bankers... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
Lakhani co-directs, and the HBS Digital Initiative, led by its director, David Homa. Platforms such as the Learning Network will amplify the Institute’s work, explains Stefan Esposito, senior director of the Learning Network. “It will... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
associate dean for Faculty Development and Research and faculty director of the Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability Project. “The national unemployment rate early in the pandemic had jumped to over 13 percent; the standard prediction... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
director at Netflix. Writing a novel while working full-time is no small task. How did you do it? When you’re the parent of young children, the hours that are your own become fewer and fewer. You learn to operate on criminally low levels... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
Riad Armanious (MBA 2008) regards the pandemic as the greatest professional challenge he has faced as managing director of family-owned Eva Group and CEO of Eva Pharma, a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Egypt. The... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
recruiter and marketing director to head of innovation. Today, she runs Fueled for Growth, an innovation consulting company, which assists financial firms with due diligence in the energy and industrials sector and helps companies solve... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
and board directors I worked with at Outward Bound,” he explained. However, during a “fascinating, intellectually engaging, intense, and ultimately life-changing” two years at HBS, Pearson unexpectedly “fell in love” with the economics of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
its own idiosyncratic preferences. The CEO controls the company culture. One key, I think, is to listen broadly, with an open mind. The board of directors is an important sounding board, but the CEO is in a position to gather and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
observes Steve Nelson (MBA ’88), executive director of the MBA Program. “In that time, Spangler has become so much a part of the fabric of the HBS community. We had 32 buildings spread across a 40-acre campus, but no central space for... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
1999), program manager, Strategic Decisions Group Diane and Peter Escher (both MBA 2009) Children: Hazel (4); Josh (2) Diane and Peter both work for startups in downtown Seattle, commuting to different floors of the same building. Diane is business development View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
implications can have local consequences, said panelist Alesha Black, the managing director of the Global Food and Agriculture Program at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. The first panel spent some time discussing with alumni and... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
After HBS, he signed on with the Ford Motor Company, where he served in various capacities, including two years as managing director of Ford Argentina S.A. In 1998, he moved to Mazda (33.4 percent of which is owned by Ford) as senior... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
causes and impact of the country’s mortgage meltdown. Serving since 1998 as director of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Retsinas also teaches at the Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government. A... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
effective on several levels. Nina B. Shapiro (MBA '76), a senior official at the World Bank, completed the program in August. As director of the Project Finance and Guarantees Department, she is in charge of implementing the Bank's effort... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
as the faculty and the administration. The challenge is in keeping up with them." In addition to leading MICA through a period of growth and success, Lazarus has played a significant role in the Baltimore community. He is a director of... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
enthusiastic about the November event. "The presentations by HBS professors were right on the mark," said Allen W. Reedy (MBA '87), director of business planning at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. "They identified the... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
passing over it of the loyalty to country and alma mater and a lasting suggestion that they should devote their manhood developed by study and play on the banks of this river to the nation and its needs. In that spirit, Fieldhouse, the View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers