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01 Mar 2010
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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

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

05 May 2023
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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
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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

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

03 Mar 2017
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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
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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

19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire

empathy, particularly for their employees. And I would say the toughest one to have is courage. Now Chad has to have courage, but I've seen a lot of CEOs that have no courage and their companies don't fare well over time. Now, the... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

capital, and because many smallholders don't have clear title to their land—and therefore no collateral—banks are loath to lend them the funds they need. To unlock financing for his initiative, Masha turned to his friend Ladi Balogun (MBA 2000), View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

experience when you failed at something? Roslyn Braeman Payne (MBA 1970), president, Jackson Street Partners, San Francisco, California In February 1986, I was selected to be the first CEO of the Federal Asset Disposition Association, a... View Details

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