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- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
Economic Development under Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. “I had learned from [HBS professor] Michael Porter about the synergy that comes from establishing industry clusters, and that became our focus. We became metrics driven and also changed the culture by hiring former... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
student-focused initiative has collectively raised more than $30,000 in less than 3 weeks, has mentored more than 350 prospective business school and graduate students, and started a fundraiser to procure oxygen concentrators and channel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
others, you’ll create a self-perpetuating culture.” “My parents were the first in their families to attend high school, never mind college,” says Jack Brennan (MBA 1980), former chairman and CEO of the Vanguard Group. Brennan cites the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
covered in Parts 2 and 3 to specific, challenging boardroom conversations: for example, giving critical feedback to the CEO or handling a difficult media conversation. Delivering Alpha: Lessons from 30 Years of Outperforming Investment... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
momentum for the NCF’s founding. Thomas, chairman and CEO of Rapid7, a cybersecurity and compliance solutions and services company, says that 19 founders launched the NCF, “but it could easily have been 100.” Among many Black and brown... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
faced. This lyrical summary of those answers offers practical advice for understanding where we came from, who we are, and where we are going. The CEO Pay Machine: How It Trashes America and How to Stop It by Steve Clifford (MBA 1968)... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
skill and effort, which can create incentives to shift earnings toward lower-uncertainty periods. We show that the resulting opportunistic earnings management is concentrated in CEOs, firms, and periods where such incentives are likely to be strongest: (1) where View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
and mentored a bevy of other scholars who explored and explained the coming of managerial capitalism through their research, writings, and course development. Thirteen years after Professor Chandler's retirement, that tradition of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
been collaborating for three years to increase the number of African American biologists and chemists. In 1995, they launched the UNCF Merck Science Internships. The undergraduates, doctoral students, and postdoctoral scientists who receive these internships are... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
says Porter, who will teach in the program that is designed to provide the necessary tools to CEOs of rapidly growing companies. "Urban areas are becoming a new arena for innovation, transformation, and growth in our economy. The business... View Details
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
most important." I spend my life trying to make the next generation a little less neurotic about money.— Joline Godfrey, Independent Means, Inc. As the founder and CEO of Independent Means, Inc., a financial education company aimed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
Harvard Business Review Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women By: Roberts, Laura Morgan, Anthony Mayo, Robin Ely, and David Thomas Abstract—Any list of top CEOs reveals a stunning lack of diversity. Among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
topics and concerns that are similar across different disciplines. This paper reports on the consortium outcomes and insights from mentors who took part in it. We develop a set of observations to guide the evolution of the sciences of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY
Capital, says George Floyd’s brutal killing, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a pandemic that “has blown disparities in race and income wide open” created momentum for the NCF’s founding. Thomas, chairman and CEO of Rapid7, a... View Details
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
the first in his family to get an engineering degree, to go abroad for additional graduate business education, and then return to India to pursue a business career. His enterprising character enabled him to eventually become CEO of a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
best because God, President Roosevelt, and I would never, ever forgive you.” Affectionately called “the body snatcher” by FDR because his CEO meetings proved so very effective, Weinberg rapidly accumulated an extraordinary advantage for... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
Bower finds far too many companies are managed without leadership development as an objective; as a result, when the time comes to name a new chief executive, those firms turn to outsiders. Both insider and outsider CEOs have strengths... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
March 2014, Kevin Counihan, CEO of Access Health CT, Connecticut's state health insurance exchange, stops to consider the success it has experienced so far and to think about how to ensure its long-term sustainability. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
and Mary are unapologetic about the reality that success in their industry requires it. Yet both also spend many hours mentoring subordinates, setting the next generation of leaders up for success. And they each display deep devotion to... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details