Fortune 500 - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Apr 2018
News

Giving Minorities a Playbook for Corporate Success

a 2016 report on corporate diversity, black men and women account for only 4.7 percent of executive team members in the Fortune 100, although African Americans make up 13.2 percent of the US population. And only 1 percent—that’s five... View Details

Louis F. Bantle

During his tenure as CEO, Bantle generated a 10-fold increase in revenues (from $100 million to $1 billion) for United States Tobacco. He divested of non-core operating units and launched a major advertising initiative which enabled UST to achieve an 80%+ market share... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Richard J. Egan

Egan co-founded EMC and built it into the world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory storage devices. Between 1979 and 1986, EMC’s revenues doubled each year catapulting it into the Fortune 500 in... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

01 Oct 2002
News

Distinct Yet of a Piece

Their office locations range from the summit of a skyscraper in Boston to the front seat of a pickup truck in Oklahoma. Their workdays may be dedicated to helping build companies or to helping save lives. They can be found discussing high-level strategy in a View Details

David D. Glass

early proponent of automated technology that Wal-Mart has utilized to develop one of the most sophisticated distribution networks in the industry. Under his leadership, Wal-Mart became the largest retailer in the world and the second largest firm on the View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Mar 2008
News

Highly Energetic

industry, forecasting its future grows ever more difficult. Three-quarters of the Fortune 500 now report on their carbon emissions, and “irrespective of what you believe about the science, climate change is... View Details

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

18 Jan 2018
News

Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing

Sheila Marmon (MBA 1999) has built her career by breaking down barriers. The founder and CEO of Mirror Digital, a technology-enabled media and advertising company, Marmon has executed more than 350 interactive campaigns, connecting View Details

Charles B. Wang

and business managers to achieve sound products and a culture of management that fosters brutal honesty and integrity. CA earned revenues of over $5 billion and net income of $570 million in 1998, and had the distinction of supplying software products to 19 out of... View Details

Keywords: Services

Career Coach

Joe Blair

than 30 early or mid-stage startups while at firms like Obvious Ventures, Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, and Cota Capital. Prior to his career in venture capital, Joe was an engineer with the energy performance contracting division of a View Details

21 May 2020
Blog Post

Creating a World with Trusted Leaders: An Open Letter from MBA Students

“We as MBA students have a voice and with that a duty to make the voices of those most-vulnerable heard.” Amy, Sarika, and Steve (HBS 2020) watched in awe as signatures reached over 1,200 within a few days supporting the open letter they’d written to View Details

Earl G. Graves

of the black community of the need for such a publication, Grave eventually garnered the support of over 100,000 leaders and organizations. By 1992, the magazine had national recognition–including advertising support from many Fortune... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

30 Jan 2018
News

Four Alumni Named as Presidential Leadership Scholars

Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson. The HBS cohort includes: Tynesia Boyea-Robinson (MBA 2005), president and CEO of Reliance Methods, a consulting firm that provides human capital strategy and placement solutions for Fortune View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Inside the Bestseller List with Neil Pasricha

psychologists and Fortune 500 CEOs, literature, history, and pop culture. Just recently, Pasricha left Walmart for the author’s life. It was a tough decision; he enjoyed his role there. He used concepts from... View Details

Keywords: April White

Profile

John Oxtoby

small-business owners to Fortune 500 CEOs to make sure their ideas and voices were heard." Turning best policy ideas into reality Although John had “an amazing experience in government,” he wanted to... View Details

10 Nov 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

think so. In this study, researchers looked at how the policy announcement affected the stock valuations of 471 Fortune 500 firms. “We find that the June 22 shock eroded the market valuation of the 471... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Gil Addo

firms and in 2021 was acquired by Oak Street Health for $190 million. Prior to founding RubiconMD, Gil was a Consultant at Putnam Associates, a pharma strategy consultancy, where he designed payer and market access strategies for fortune... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

Portrait Project

Tedi Gouneva

difficult to achieve but not impossible. I want to have a big career in finance – eventually becoming a Managing Director at one of the top investment banks, or I might settle for CFO of a Fortune 500... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

3-Minute Briefing: Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. (MBA 1988)

platforms reach about 9.5 million unique visitors each month. We are now the number-one Black digital media brand. Ten years ago, when we started our directory of African Americans sitting on Fortune 500... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Web

Mohammed Guerrab | MBA

interest: Cloud, AI and ML, Digital health, Data science Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: This past academic year, I worked with the Harvard Data Analytics Group where I had the opportunity to work with View Details

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Lehman Brothers Deal Books | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

represented in the deal books are extremely diverse, from small companies that survived only a few years to Fortune 500 companies that still exist today.The collection testifies to the broad reach Lehman... View Details

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