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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Class of 1942 Chair Honors Paul Lawrence, Promotes Leadership
work in the field. Perhaps best known for his landmark volume Organization and Environment (with HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch), Lawrence also produced the definitive work on matrix organizations (with Stanley Davis). Lawrence, who retired in 1991, remains active with... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Proposed Chair Would Honor African-American Business Pioneer
marketing efforts targeted at African Americans, thereby helping to establish that community as a lucrative mass market and contributing to the development of the concept of targeted marketing in corporate America. A lifelong mentor to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Launch Codes
but a lot of them,’” says Gernon. After earlier posts in health care tech and brand marketing, Gernon worked with a number of successful startups—including MotherNature.com, which had a $50 million IPO. More recently, she discovered a passion for coaching entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
He introduced me to his editors and mentors and reintroduced me to subject-verb agreement. And I was going to repay all of this by, in his words, “going to the dark side?” You know, that two-year sojourn for bankers and consultants... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
Cummins, he helped establish India's first college of engineering for women, and at Microsoft, he helped create a computer literacy program that has trained 35 million children and nearly a million teachers in India to use computers. He's also View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
unfortunately fail. The Harvard Business School MBA is outstanding and is an excellent foundation for further training by executive mentors in the business world. Let other business schools change their curricula, but let’s leave HBS... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- News
A Toast to Macchu Pisco
Business Plan Contest, I did a marketing independent study on how to launch a premium pisco brand in the United States. We entered a plan in the contest and were semi-finalists. The alumni I contacted during my second year were extremely helpful in View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
Up stems from his experience as a volunteer in the Big Brother Big Sister program. After earning a degree in economics from Bowdoin College, Chertavian worked at Chemical Bank in New York City, where he volunteered as a mentor to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Sep 2019
- News
Leading the Evolution of E-Commerce
$1 billion. In 2017, when Fleiss left, it had 6 million customers and $100 million in revenues. It was time to try something new. That something new became Jetblack, a text-to-shop service that Fleiss launched this year with longtime View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Marvin S. Traub, MBA 1949
careers of many of the designers that are today’s most popular brands: Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Donna Karan, among them. At the same time, he mentored dozens of employees who went on to lead major stores and brands. After retiring... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
School of Business. At least one doctoral candidate is experiencing a slight detour in his course of study, but happily so. Last November, Ethan Bernstein (MBA/JD 2002) took a phone call from former mentor and HLS professor Elizabeth... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
access to counsel; they also don't have access to people who can give them advice, share insights, or give them substantive mentoring that is relevant to what they’re trying to do.” By simply bringing people together with a specific focus... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
the conversations were not about business. They were about what the Detroit Lions did that week or what was happening with a kid in my class. Coming into the corporate environment felt like a foreign language to me.” Pass it on: “Having View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
says Muilenburg. “The fact that he took time to invest in me and that he has a passion for mentoring has been fantastic.” Newly retired, McNerney admits one of his biggest joys in life for 40 years—on par with his 30-year marriage and his... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
leadership and mentoring and on achieving organization alignment, both vertically and horizontally, across the entire structure of the organization. He also gives readers a method for tracking progress—plant by plant and function by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)
want to do more than just find the best and brightest for a client,” says Wu. “We assess candidates who have done well at a particular firm and look for common traits so that we can be true partners to our clients and credible career counselors and View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
John Dearden Remembered
Distinguished Service Award in 1995. Dearden served as a mentor to a number of HBS students who went on to become members of the Business School faculty, including F. Warren McFarlan. “John Dearden was one of the early visionaries... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
which she'd done research. George Kozmetsky [MBA 6/1947, DCS 1957], cofounder of Teledyne, was another advocate. "He believed that women needed mentors to help get them onto the playing field," remarks Lack, who served on a board with... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
Commonwealth Institute, which provides mentoring services to women CEOs. But she doesn't expect to leave the wired world any time soon. "I don't want to retire just yet. My dad is 80 and is still chairman of his company," Kanner notes. No... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
flipping it and saying, "We'll be remote, so that your job becomes your university campus." And our thesis here is that the employer has skin in the game. This is their future workforce—and not in an ethereal, aggregate sense. This individual, who I have one of my... View Details