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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
lived there. I spent a couple of months immersed in that community, with our mandate being to figure out how to move them. “We started investigating what their right was to be there in the first place,” he says. “Most had been paying... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
value and revenues.” (In addition to his duties as Cardinals’ chairman, DeWitt serves on the Major League Baseball Executive Council and the Ownership Committee, and holds a seat on the board of MLB Advanced Media.) In 1995, when DeWitt... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
startup executives across many different functions, who share their stories and describe their responsibilities; and a methodology to identify and evaluate startups and position readers to find the opportunity that’s right for them. Rebel... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
brought in a new chief executive that increased operating profits by 80%, but it didn't matter because the interest was so big that it a bottom-line level, no matter what he did, it was never enough. By the time we got to late 1990... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
(MBA 2002), private investor, senior executive “First, my wife and I felt our top priority was to decide where we wanted to live and then look for a job, as opposed to letting my work drag us around the country. Second, I have elected to... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
problem here was the first a-ha, and then the next a-ha was that we came up with a really elegant solution to it. And then we were like, wow there’s a really interesting business model around this. We did a lot of upfront work. We crystallized that we wrote it down and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
plans that our team could use to execute different projects; then I was able to choose a couple to pursue for my own interest,” recalls Naidoo, who also cites the need to immediately shed any sense of MBA “specialness.” “At Oxfam, there... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
of realistic, technology-agnostic best practices for supporting hypergrowth in nearly any environment. In this new edition, they add many new examples, plus case studies from many exceptionally demanding sites, including Etsy, Nasdaq, Salesforce, Shutterfly, and... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
in Kuwait against nearly 2,000 other applicants. It was there that Parija came to the attention of two high-level executives who were HBS alumni—Aubyn Hill (MBA 1978) and Amal Wahab (MBA 1987). "I was extremely impressed with these two... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
Jacobson’s vision. “Joe managed people by saying, ‘I don’t think you can do X, Y, and Z,’ which makes a 19- or 20-year-old want to immediately prove him wrong,” Wilcox remarks. Joined by the steadying presence of longtime publishing View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
as anything but a business. The reality is you have sponsors who are paying $40 million - they want a return on their investment, and they expect you to operate like a business." While Wallace spends a lot of time as a troubleshooter, she... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
entrepreneurship,” says Senior Lecturer Mike Roberts, who also serves as executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. “As much as our faculty is connected to practice, students still see us in the role of evaluator.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
months pregnant with her second child, Clara, and delivering a speech to hundreds of Disney executives in Frankfurt - she recalls thinking, "This is ridiculous!" Dodi explains, "More than anything, it was the travel that became impossible... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
paying much closer attention to boardroom composition. The movement is building momentum, with plenty of upsides for companies that rise to the challenge. “Board diversity has moved from being nice to do, to a business imperative,” says... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
and how far their daughter would set her sights. “When I was accepted at Harvard College, my parents’ immediate reaction was, ‘Great. Now how are we going to pay for this?’” remembers Harris. “I told them, ‘I don’t know, but we’re going... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
can’t yet afford to pay market rates. For some qualifying students, the Rock Loan Forgiveness Program helps reduce their debt burden after graduation. FAST FACTS 45 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, Rock Executive... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
professor Carl Kester, a member of the Class of 1977, has engaged many students in discussions about leadership. So it seemed fitting for the Bulletin to ask him to coordinate an exchange of views on the topic among a small group of the many chief View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
hard to imagine being the only woman in a room of 350 people, but that’s what many of us experienced.” The founding CEO of AltaVista, Ilene Lang (MBA 1973) was a pioneering IT executive at companies including Symbolics and Lotus... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
percent increase in earnings. Their hard work is paying off, but Martin and Giraud understand the importance of recreation, too. Martin, who, in addition to his North America duties, serves as executive vice... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
for them. But who's going to pay for it? They bring up a lot of questions about policy. We are the only country that does not have an infrastructure for elder care. And they ask a lot about reimbursement mechanisms because Medicare for... View Details