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- 25 Jul 2023
- News
Why Leaders with Big Egos Worry Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott
correlation with superior shareholder returns from those leaders who have the sense of humility and self-awareness.” The article tracks Wesfarmers’ recent rise in stock price (about 40% over the past five years) and notes Scott’s... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
Castleman, 93. I've always been really interested in Arthur Brooks's articles and books that he's written. From Strength to Strength, it was my favorite book of 2023. Listening to him read that book was just so powerful to me. And now his... View Details
- 09 Jan 2023
- News
Alumna Leads Biggest Ever Debut for a Woman-led Hedge Fund
"SurgoCap will use data science to invest around the theme of how technology can enhance other sectors such as financials, industrials, health care and enterprise data, according to people familiar with the matter," the article notes.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
that her example will encourage other developers to see communities like Southwest Baltimore as places where they can generate profits while making change. “Sometimes,” she observes, “it’s about taking the risk of coming in and building something.” Since this View Details
- 07 Nov 2022
- News
Victoria’s Secret Buys Alumni-Founded Adore Me
garment industry in France, so I frequently heard friends and family complain about the options for buying lingerie in the United States,” he said in a 2014 article from the “First Five Years” HBS alumni profile series. “I found that... View Details
- 11 May 2023
- News
How FOMO Became a Fixture
days before my HBS reunion in 2014, a reporter from Boston Magazine hunted me down. He was writing an article on the history of FOMO and traced it back to me. We met for an interview while I was in Boston, and the rest is history. His... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Standard Bank Group. (You can read more about Williams’s work with NBA Africa in this recent article from the HBS Alumni Bulletin.) The panel was moderated by Naana Winful Fynn (MBA 2004), a former investment banker with Goldman Sachs,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Oct 2021
- News
Apollo Hires Legendary Banker Bill Lewis (MBA 1982) to Boost Top Ranks
article announcing the move in Bloomberg. Before that, he spent 24 years at Morgan Stanley, becoming the firm's first African-American managing director in 1989. Lewis was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Harvard Management... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- News
The HBS Tunnels
objects of undergraduate fascination and lore. They’ve been written about in four Harvard Crimson articles in the 1960s-80s (see here, here, here, and here). Besides being the setting for a murder mystery (Jane Langton’s The Memorial Hall... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
all and stepped down from his businesses at the end of November 2017.) The article ripped through her life like a wrecking ball, Dixon says. Her marriage crumbled. The startup was put on ice. Personal traumas that had long been buried... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
December 1991. It was the first time many people saw the words gay and corporate America in the same sentence. The reporters called me about this Audiotext hotline that I’d started, and that led to an article in Time magazine called... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
The first in a series of occasional articles on HBS graduates who have embarked on second careers. Just a few months removed from Wall Street, where he commanded a workforce of six thousand seasoned financial services pros, Richard S.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
was 81 years old. Levitt taught thousands of HBS students during his tenure at the School from 1959 to 1990. A scholar of international renown, he changed the way marketing was studied and practiced in business. In the 1960 Harvard Business Review View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
L.E. Simmons
the money that oil companies spend flows through these businesses." Riding out the sometimes stomach-churning ups-and-downs of the oil business, for fifteen years L.E. and Matt Simmons have been an influential force in the oil fields. A recent Houston Chronicle View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
distinctive qualities—which a 2013 New York Times article described as “tasting softer and richer” than most syrups and pouring with “a languor more like that of honey”—in part to suspending harvesting earlier in the season than many... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Larry Murphy
It was reading a Life magazine article (Ann Moore, take note) about Eastern colleges that helped propel Lawrence P. Murphy from a small town in Missouri to Williams College, followed by HBS. In 1985, after positions at Citibank, Bain, and... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
will always be on the margin unless there is huge support within the public. Major changes in a business occur when major economics are demonstrated—new markets with new products, innovation, business model. These were well highlighted in many View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
When More Is Better
example, a Financial Times article last April about Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), the CEO of a new nonprofit organization that links experienced businesspeople with humanitarian projects in developing countries, led to this issue’s... View Details
Keywords: meta
- 27 Oct 2022
- News
John Middleton’s Big Swing
A recent article in the New York Times tracks the team’s World Series appearance back to the decision-making of principal owner John Middleton (MBA 1979). Specifically, the article notes that Middleton spent... View Details