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- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
for the longer term. Are they going to foster the rule of law and give domestic and foreign entrepreneurs more confidence to invest? Are they going to allow private companies to better compete with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
understanding, especially of my peers,” Johnson says of the experience, which in the end was a resounding success. In the case, Johnson privately wonders if she can transition from the intensity and engagement of “defending freedom” to... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
companies like International Harvester and US Steel. But over time, automation steadily reduced the number of workers required to extract the mineral, while competition from natural gas and cheap, low-sulfur coal from out west did the... View Details
- Web
Oral Histories | Baker Library
did, when I finished the MBA, interview in insurance companies and other kinds of companies that were in the Hartford area. Career I loved mentoring people, training people. I set up little programs for... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Ayala Corporation: “Due to the pandemic, the Ayala Group has shifted to a proactive and solutions-oriented approach to the challenges we now face. It has viewed the crisis as an important transition for the company in its support of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
stations. I hope the uptime metric means that more people will give thought to the funding needed and will signal to companies that the time is now to invest in the means necessary to meet the 97% standard, if they haven’t already done... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
CEOs 70 alumni are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies In January 2007, Daniel Birnbaum (MBA 1992) was running Nike's operations in Israel when he got a call from his friend and fellow HBS alum Yuval Cohen (MBA 1991). "Dani, I need your help,"... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
effective leader of innovation. The truth is, leading innovation takes a distinctive kind of leadership, one that unleashes and harnesses the "collective genius" of the people in the organization. Using vivid stories of individual leaders at View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
customer and product markets, and geopolitical environments. Professor William Fruhan leads the corporate finance piece of the curriculum, providing perspective on the globalization of financial markets. "Increasingly, there is more interest in View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
involving fifteen federal agencies. In the private sector, Treadwell is chairman and CEO of Venture Ad Astra, which invests in and develops new geospatial and imaging technologies. “From 2007 to 2009, we are marking the International... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
First, it would provide for a collective approach to poverty reduction. The WDC board of directors would include about twelve of the world's most admired MNCs. In addition, associated companies could be called on to participate in... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
preview of their current work and interests as they prepare to become leaders in various areas of the business world. Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone President, HBS Club of Columbus What’s your day job and title: I am a Director of Strategy for the Americas at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
commercial and investment banking had been torn down, and banks, investment banks, and insurance companies were in each others’ businesses. “As a result of deregulation, the derivatives market and the market for mortgage-related... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
guru Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings; Matthew Szulik, president and CEO of the open-source software company Red Hat, Inc.; and Dean Kamen (7th OPM), chairman and CEO of Segway LLC and creator of the Segway Human Transporter.... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
caused a lot of uncertainty. Specific companies or business sectors would suddenly find themselves the object of very aggressive, extreme criticism, not just by administration sources, but by the president publicly, which was... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
curves at sixty miles an hour!” Any entrepreneur can tell you how well the same description suits the wild ride of a start-up, and the e-mail coming through on Gisholt’s Trio promised a perilous turn of its own. Back at company... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Lovett, Bohlen, and Kennan. They had similar educational backgrounds (Groton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton). Four had successful private sector careers as well as extensive public service. They shaped the post-WWII international scene while... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
with the stock market. After the Crash of 1929, a new regimen of regulation was decreed for the financial services industry, with the 1940 Investment Company Act imposing especially tight controls on the nascent mutual fund industry. In... View Details
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Commencement 2017 Address | About
I’ve witnessed the lives led by our graduates. Many of our alumni currently lead some of the most admired and most valuable companies on the planet. They have been crucial to the creation and evolution of entire industries, including... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
just after a successful dive in the South Sandwich Trench. He had the experience. Since 2002, he has been a managing partner at Insight Equity, a private equity firm he cofounded, and currently serves as chairman of four companies. This... View Details