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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Returning to the Roots
It’s not a role he sought or expected. But when his brother died of a brain tumor late last year, Florent Latour (MBA 1999) became CEO of Maison Louis Latour, a winemaker established in 1797 in the Burgundy region of France. The 11th generation of his family to lead... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
sticker from the nonprofit. While the women discuss their respective micro-enterprises and how they might invest their pooled savings, Cruz’s adopted daughter plays with some children nearby. For Trickle Up president and CEO Nathalie... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Aug 2023
- News
Kraft’s Foundation to Combat Antisemitism Appoints Alumna as President
The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism (FCAS) recently announced that Tara Levine (MBA 2001) will serve as its first president. Founded in 2019 by Robert Kraft (MBA 1965), chairman and CEO of the Kraft Group, FCAS addresses the rise in antisemitism in the United States... View Details
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
that, Conn says, the rules of strategy that he learned in business school no longer apply. So how do we change the way we solve strategic business problems? In this episode of Skydeck, Conn talks with Associate Editor Jen Flint about his View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)
cleaning sewers and servicing machinery as a mill foreman), but that on-course connection helped him land a position at Adams in 1998, where he rose to CEO in 2002. In 2012, Brewer was named president and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Feb 2024
- News
Startup Shepherds
tapped to launch Martha Stewart Living’s first online business; in the process, he discovered the need for an internet strategy firm focused on media and publishing. Sherman set off on his own as founder and CEO of WestEnd View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Shamrock factory on Lake Erie. I also worked with her on Bonnie Bell, which is a cosmetics company, and a marketing plan for this new startup called Leggs, which did pantyhose. Then I worked for International Harvester doing tractor sales... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
trash collection to snow removal. If the forecast is correct, DSNY will have to clear 5 to 6 inches from 6,500 miles of city streets—a task that involves fitting plows to 2,000 garbage trucks and salt spreaders while continuing to collect the 24 million pounds of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
program in Afghanistan, is a founder, and former naval officer Ben Bines (MBA 2015) worked initially with the team. Rumi Spice cofounders Kimberly Jung and Emily Miller, pictured holding saffron, While Jung and Miller still have a hand in the company, they have taken... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
simple-ingredient, raw-food diet. Spies couldn’t find such a thing in the pet aisle, so she started making it herself and quickly maxed out the freezer of her San Francisco kitchen with dog food. Within a month, George’s energy and health had rebounded. “He was like a... View Details
- 20 Apr 2023
- News
How Joe Hinrichs is Getting CSX Back on Track
Photo via LinkedIn In a recent Q&A with the Wall Street Journal, new CSX CEO Joe Hinrichs (MBA 1994) discussed the steps he's taken to address challenges at the rail company since becoming View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
Bond CEO and Cofounder, Social Finance Tracy Palandjian attributes her instincts as a social entrepreneur to her Chinese upbringing. “Master the basics, then innovate,” “Waste nothing,” and “Distance tests the strength of horses; time... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
latest developments in leadership to HBS alumni and other executives all over the world. What Change Demands of Us, a new Executive Education course developed by the initiative, will be offered later this year. The initiative draws on the... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
BANCEL Throughout 2009 and 2010, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) had received upward of 20 calls from biotech companies asking him to come aboard and lead the company. It made sense. He was a highly recruited CEO successfully running... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
get intimidated, which served me well throughout my career in Fortune 500 companies, startups, and now as an entrepreneur. That case was the fork in the road of my career, and I have been in marketing ever since. It gave me confidence to explore a View Details