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05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”

through," he said, noting that the drive for investment banking revenues on Wall Street led to conflicts of interest between those sectors. "Self-governing, particularly in the auditing process, was a disaster." Out of... View Details

Keywords: by Catherine Walsh

17 Feb 2022
Blog Post

The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS

Leschly led students through conversations, Q+A sessions, and presentations aimed at inspiring change and innovation in the sector. The lauded American dream, Leschly posed, rests heavily on the promise of higher education—a supposedly... View Details

10 Feb 2016
News

A Leader’s Call to Action

Barbara Nick (AMP 165, 2003) has spent more than 30 years in the gas and electric industry, honing her skills to become an award-winning leader in business and in her community. She knew her success was due in part to other leaders—the people who gave her... View Details

21 Apr 2014
News

Spirit of philanthropy advances Executive Education

underprivileged. “It has been the DNA of the organization to play a role in the community,” says Tata of his family’s company, the Tata Group, which he led as chairman from 1991 to 2012. The multinational conglomerate comprises more than... View Details

Career Coach

Megan Gardner

capital led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer, expanded the company to 28 different cities with 350+ employees and contractors while growing the online member base to over a million people. She worked with top retailers like Target,... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Hospitality

Portrait Project

Kunal Modi

home that we missed. In the school courtyard, we debated what it meant to be an American abroad. Those little conversations led to lasting friendships that anchored my formative years in Singapore. With each new chapter of my life, I've... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

On Track

trials forced her to put those aspirations aside. The drive that led her to excel in athletics had to be rechanneled into the private sector, a life change that brought her to HBS and eventually to the top of her chosen field,... View Details

Keywords: Finance

11 Jun 2015
News

A personal mission to serve veterans

take care of them and their families,” she said. “That experience shaped what led me to HBS.” While later working at PepsiCo, Sullivan was appointed by President Obama to the American Battle Monuments Commission, which resulted in her... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Agent of change

Nikki Skovran (MBA 2014), a former special agent for the FBI, spent three years breaking up gangs in Baltimore, then another five years investigating violent crimes in Chicago. Her expertise as an investigator led to an assignment in... View Details

27 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

discussions with Pierre-Jacques and coaching sessions with Jonathan Shepherd, HBS Career Coach, led Tingle to decide Harlem Capital was ultimately worth the risk. “I was sold on the team; I was sold on the mission. And your internship... View Details

Profile

Nathalie du Preez

it to see it from other perspectives." That desire for different points of view led Nathalie to the United States, where she fulfilled a business degree at Wharton and later worked for Goldman Sachs. These formative experiences... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together

implement change in an existing large organization," notes Garvin, "for the entrepreneur, staffing is everything. That insight surprised students and led to an interesting discussion." The thirty alumni who were able to come to campus for... View Details

Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine

01 Oct 2001
News

David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High

Monsanto, moving up the ranks to president of its Performance Materials division, a $400 million enterprise. In 1997, he left the company to become president and COO of the Performance Materials unit at BFGoodrich in Ohio. There he led a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Dec 2004
News

A Case of Achievement

event, Dean Kim B. Clark introduced the panel of five alumni and presented each of them with their award, HBS’s highest honor. Next came the case discussion, led by HBS professor Nitin Nohria, featuring comments from both the student... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Mar 2012
Report

A Jobs Compact for America's Future

What's good for individual U.S. companies is no longer automatically good for business nationwide, for U.S. workers, or for the economy. That, coupled with the failure of business, government, and other institutions to engage in productive dialogue and ultimately... View Details

Portrait Project

Sylvia Ko

physical constraints. My family could not afford travel, but I explored places you probably never heard of. I was on bed rest, but I led armies to conquer empires. My peers on the playground teased me for having “squinty eyes and yellow... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Finding sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises

market-based solutions to difficult problems. "Business can be the greatest force for good on this planet," says Goodwin. Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, he led the establishment of a nationwide recycling program that currently... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Women at the Top

nearby Hingham, Massachusetts, that she helped create and successfully led over the past eight years. Bourneuf came to HBS eager to gain exposure to developments in the broader business environment and possibly a new career direction.... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

25 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Not Waiting for Progress: Diversity and Inclusion in the Film Industry

and led the firm’s $1.2 billion Consultant Relations Division. During his time at Capital, in addition to launching the Blackhouse Foundation, Diamond joined the Executive Leadership Council (ELC), a prestigious membership organization of... View Details

20 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Chasing a Dream: My Summer Internship at Chelsea Football Club

second-division team. After graduating, I worked in management consulting in Dubai, where I led my firm's soccer team, playing against other consulting firms in the region. Later, I moved to Madrid, started working at Amazon, and joined a... View Details

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