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- 01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007
has shown a similar ease when it comes to changing course. Although she studied chemical engineering at University College Dublin, she went to work for McKinsey & Co. in 2001. Stints in private equity and commercial banking followed, as... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
have now gotten to the point where all of a sudden Wall Street actually wants to see profitability, and so the commissioning dollars are getting clawed back. One of the opportunities both commercially and creatively is co-production. It... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
understand, first of all, don't get confused by purpose statements. Theranos had one. Purdue Pharmaceutical had one. Facebook pulled one out in 2016 when they were in trouble. And you read those statements and you’re like, you gotta be kidding me. So the first thing is... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
Harvard Business School with the hope of returning to his banking career. “Harvard showed me a whole different aspect to banking,” he says. “Professor Charlie Williams, who taught Commercial Banking, was my mentor. He made banking... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
and shipping them to restaurants. His idea was to use a similar procedure as the basis for a commercial ready-to-heat soup operation. Eager for a new challenge and armed with both legal and business know-how, Shafir joined with Nessen to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
because they play such a significant part in people’s lives,” says Sundy, now senior vice president and chief commercial officer for another American classic, La-Z-Boy. “Sometimes these brands get old or stale,” he admits, “but they still... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
what we do,” says Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002), the chief commercial officer for BoxLock. He’s spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to do things right in the midst of a pandemic. Atlanta-based BoxLock began as a B2C company... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
McNerney. “The trick was to create a stronger fifth culture that retained some of the original essence of each.” During his tenure, Boeing recaptured the top position in the global aerospace industry as well as in commercial airplanes. It... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
Sell High includes chapters explaining the events leading to the creation of the Internet bubble, from the Internet's humble beginnings in the 1960s as a federally funded defense research tool to the “wild excitement” generated several decades later by discoveries of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
into the marketplace, including creation of federal deposit insurance, securities regulation, banking supervision, and the separation of commercial and investment banking under the Glass-Steagall Act. As Moss is quick to point out, there... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
and free vertical housing (apartment buildings) in Dharavi to its longtime residents. In exchange, the DRP will develop the freed-up land with commercial and residential real estate, all desirable and valuable for its convenient proximity... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
The awarding of “up-front” bonuses — before cash and profits from commercial endeavors — invites employees to maximize their short-term interests while compromising the company’s long-term interests. Systems of reward that ignore... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
effort in Allston around the commercialization of science and technology. Finally, values and leadership may be the most important work we’ve done here. Leadership is now a defining characteristic of HBS, with a yearlong sequence of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
used software to launch their attacks. “Under the press of business and getting a product to market, some commercial software manufacturers have indulged in a ‘good–enough’ standard,” says Langstaff. “They reason that they can always fix... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
president and CEO of COMPS InfoSystems between 1992 and 2000. During his leadership, the small regional print-publishing firm that covered commercial real estate became a national electronic database publisher, with 420 employees and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Black-owned banks go to Black people. We know that, Carver Bank in New York, for example, 80 percent of their commercial loans or business loans go to Black people. And we know conversely, that less than half a percent of mortgages given... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
"War Stories: Success Criteria for Business in Greater China." On the panel were several veterans of the Chinese commercial battlefield. "I believe the future is in China," said a solemn Thomas Kirkwood, director and CEO of China General,... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
about the “glamour” of movie making when they spent a day as extras on set. “It is so damned boring,” says Munger. “That day on set, shooting the scenes over and over, all I could think was, How do they have the patience to do this?” In addition to whatever View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
Current business models seem no friendlier to stem-cell R&D than the existing political climate. But that could be on the verge of change, says Bruce Cohen (MBA ’82), president and CEO of Cellerant Therapeutics. His Palo Alto firm develops and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons