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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
accepted an offer from General Electric and held various senior management roles in the United States before moving to India in early 2005, where he became CEO of GE India’s infrastructure business. Although the two stayed in touch after... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Organization before being recruited to Boston-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals in 2017, where she was named CEO and president in 2020. Confessing her own discomfort with failure, Kewalramani reflects on an experience earlier in her career... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Tom Stemberg (MBA ’73), founder and former CEO of Staples, which had received start-up backing from Romney’s Bain Capital, urged him to make universal health-care coverage a priority. Certainly the stars already seemed to be aligning: As... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
degree and experience as CEO of a public company. These criteria can create unnecessary barriers for women, who are traditionally underrepresented in technical-education programs and hold only about 6 percent of View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
Earning Potential
Sion Tesone (OPM 43, 2013) is the founder & CEO of Amani Enterprises, LLC, which operates the for-profit social enterprise TISSINI. In this interview, he talks about TISSINI’s aims to empower Hispanic women through friend-to-friend retail... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
authors write. True, it’s difficult for public company CEOs to push beyond the gravity imposed by quarterly earnings expec-tations. But if you and your investors want PE-like returns, one of the best ways to do that is to act more like a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
New York Club Names Entrepreneur of the Year
highlight of the dinner event was the presentation of the Club's Entrepreneur of the Year award to David McCourt, chairman and CEO of RCN Corporation. McCourt built RCN into the nation's first and largest facilities-based provider of... View Details
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
company. (Formerly CEO of Redbox, Kaplan now serves as interim president of Redbox and president and COO of Coinstar, Redbox’s parent company.) “Value, simplicity, and convenience,” is how Kaplan explains Redbox’s success, citing its... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
the most experienced voices at HBS—Bill George, Krishna Palepu, Rakesh Khurana, and Lorsch himself—to address the challenges of governance and the role of corporate boards in wrestling with critical issues like CEO performance and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
Against Discrimination, led a town meeting on lessons learned from last year's revelations of racist attitudes among certain corporate executives at Texaco. Hugh B. Price, president and CEO of the National Urban League, concluded the... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Scott Howe Nineteenth-century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Nearly 150 years later, Scott Howe (MBA 1994), president and CEO... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
the CEO of the world's largest independent biomedical research and testing company. He set off on a two-year "odyssey" around the United States to try to figure out what was wrong with this country's public education system. Then he ran... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
intangibles: education, inspiration, inter-national collaboration. We are losing ground. Marvin S. Traub (MBA ’49) President, Marvin Traub Associates, Inc. Former CEO and President, Bloomingdale’s, Inc. Traub Read complete profile. Marvin... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
quarter. Overall, the unit now accounts for 38 percent of the company’s business, according to its financial statements, with IBM spending more than $5 billion in acquisitions in the first half of 2016 to nourish cloud businesses like Watson. View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
Cornell works for Blue Origin, where she is head of astronaut strategy and sales and supports engine sales for the space exploration company. Along with a few dozen fellow employees, all dressed in royal blue company polo shirts—including founder and Amazon View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?
ENRIQUEZ: People take too much for granted. PHOTO BY JEFF THIEBAUTH As CEO of Biotechonomy, a life-sciences research and venture capital firm, Juan Enriquez (MBA ’86) has examined the impact of life sciences on the global economy. In his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
“This is the most exciting time in the technology industry since I left Stanford Business School 26 years ago,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (Harvard ’77) told a student audience that nearly filled Burden Auditorium in early December.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell (Harvard Business Review Press) This fictional narrative about newly minted CEO Jim Barton allows readers to... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
Tim Brown, president and CEO of the design firm IDEO. Christensen then drew a parallel between the evolution of the computer industry and what is slowly taking place in healthcare. Initially, people had to take their problems to the sites... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
to date. He returned to Red Lobster as CEO in 2014, and in this episode of Skydeck, I talk to him about the challenges and opportunities he saw, how to lead during times of change, and why social responsibility is so important to both him... View Details