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William B. Rayburn
Rayburn went from service station operator to CEO in a 35-year career with Snap-On. He presided over Snap-On’s impressive growth period achieving 52% market share, becoming the world’s largest independent manufacturer and distributor of... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Leonard A. Lauder
Well before he officially assumed the CEO title, Lauder was the “man behind the scenes,” shunning publicity and acknowledgment to perpetuate his mother’s image. While his mother, Estee Lauder, tended to external relations, Leonard built... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
With Harvard navigating an array of pressures, Jana Kierstead, Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations, spoke with Dean Srikant Datar about how HBS is responding to new challenges while maintaining its... View Details
Amory Houghton, Jr.
Though he is now known for his post-business career as a New York Congressman, Houghton began his career at the family firm as an accountant in 1951. In his many years as CEO of Corning, Houghton focused on... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered
an enormous and long-lasting impact on students and faculty alike.” After retiring from the faculty in 1993, Pearson served as an operating partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice until 1997 and as chairman and CEO of YUM Brands, PepsiCo’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
A strong commitment to community service is a given for most HBS clubs — the challenge lies in determining the most efficient means of leveraging the skills and interests of club members to create change. New York, Boston, San Francisco,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
filled with news from enlisted men and officers serving in theaters around the world: letters sent in by parents from sons at sea; first-person and news accounts of harrowing escapes, rescues, and bravery;... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
Six drone companies put their wares in the air during Making Robotics Fly, a daylong event cohosted by HBS and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to explore the intersection of engineering and entrepreneurship. Among the flyers: Drone Racing... View Details
John A. Ewald
Ewald is responsible for taking Avon public and beginning Avon’s international expansion. He is also credited with introducing the historic “Avon Calling” advertising campaign. During his CEO tenure, Ewald produced 23 years of consecutive... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Making a Case for Women
business school cases feature male executives. In the fall, a new initiative was launched to support the development of case studies featuring women business leaders in key roles. The effort, the Marjorie Alfus/Committee of 200 Fund at... View Details
Daniel P. Tully
Believing that two of Merrill’s biggest problems were complacency and arrogance, Tully’s first task as CEO of the large investment bank was to achieve a value system that promoted integrity and hard work. Personally congratulating anyone... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 16 Sep 2019
- News
Smarter Farming
Steven Carden (MBA 2003) is CEO of PAMU Farms of New Zealand (formerly Landcorp Farming). In this video, he talks about the changes the organization is going through to adjust for shifting dietary trends and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Paulson Sees World of Opportunity
most successful of you will embrace change.” A 32-year veteran of Goldman Sachs who was named the firm’s chairman and CEO in 1999, Paulson urged his audience to pursue careers in areas that may not be trendy but that best conform to their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Stephen Fuller Remembered
Soldiers Field, he served for two years as the first president of the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines and, from 1971 to 1982, as a vice president at General Motors, where he focused on employee relations and workplace issues. After retiring from HBS in... View Details
- 19 Aug 2017
- News
Getting Off the Well-worn Farm Track
As CEO of Landcorps, New Zealand’s largest farming company, Steven Carden (MBA 2003) is a careful observer of food trends. "My job, given that we have got a million acres of land, and that it takes a long... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Justifying Executive Pay In response to “Over the Top” in the September issue, it’s not a question of whether executive pay can be justified on legal or economic grounds (I believe it can). It’s a question of what is right and what is wrong. View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
Clubs News Clubs News With more than $300,000 in cash and prizes on the line, 12 finalist teams pitched their hearts out at the 21st Annual New Venture Competition on April 18.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
HBS Honors Four Alumni
graduate now devotes his time to socially oriented investment and entrepreneurship projects in England and the Middle East. William H. Donaldson (MBA ’58) The cofounder and former chairman and CEO of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Bill... View Details
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
Clubs News Clubs News No matter where they are in the world, members of the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) can connect with each other, hear from business leaders, and catch up on industry trends... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Building Community in the Bay Area
Last fall, over eighty HBS alumni and nonprofit leaders gathered in Menlo Park, California, to hear HBS senior lecturer Reynold Levy discuss the relationship between nonprofit CEOs and their boards. Levy, himself a View Details