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- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
Middle East, running a huge sovereign wealth fund, took it over. He was a royal family member. And I had never met him before, so I was going to be the first person who managed money for this giant institution. To meet him, it was going... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
governance, is when neither CEO wishes to step aside. "The deal will likely be dead in the water," he observes. "If these individuals cannot satisfy their own career and financial interests, our research shows that, in general, the CEO most likely to lose his View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
country has a First World infrastructure - financial institutions, health care, and transportation, for instance - and it is rich in natural resources." South Africa is indeed the linchpin of the region, but it also faces unique... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
Issue Focus: The Global Manager GETTING ORIENTED: On his first evening in Cape Town, South Africa, Jan Dolezal (HBS 2013) and his FIELD 2 team explored the city's bustling waterfront. Photo courtesy Jan Dolezal Learn about hosting FIELD2... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
to scale couldn’t find a chief financial officer or a chief operating officer, so we got into executive search,” adds Bradach. To address this need, in 2003 Bridgespan launched Bridgestar, offering a full range of executive search services and an online View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
believe most patients are more knowledgeable about their own health care than they are given credit for. The popular press has done a good job of covering advances in genetic research, and consumers are trying to integrate that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
summary of Satyam’s activities. Then, in 1991, Raju suggested to an Illinois client that Satyam move its twenty associates back to India, where they would perform the same work but be paid in rupees, at a savings to both parties. The client requested that Satyam View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
but we're kind of the canaries in the coal mine—in that our business is risk. Our job is to price risk and thus predict risk.” Up until 2012, Liberty could just trend past weather data into the future and get reasonably close predictions.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
day, Lhota thought, as beautiful as any the city ever sees. After seven years in the Giuliani administration, including service as the city's budget director, Lhota, the deputy mayor for operations, was becoming more conscious of each passing day. His View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
professor Sumner Slichter (the School’s first University Professor) wrote in 1945, “Something should happen to men who come to the Business School which could not happen to them anywhere else in the world, and which will leave its mark on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
competitor Motorola. At the age of forty-three, Andy Grove was running one of the most important companies in the world. His first year as COO was a resounding success. He was pictured in the Annual Report, full-bearded, next to the... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
President of the HBS Women’s Association (HBSWA) Elizabeth Crabill (MBA 1999) Elizabeth Crabill (MBA 1999) What’s your day job and title: I’m a CEO in the travel industry, and currently serve as CEO for Trevello World Holdings. When did... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Faculty News
first time. David A. Thomas, an authority on mentoring, executive development, and workplace diversity, becomes a chaired professor as the inaugural incumbent of the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professorship of Business Administration. The chair... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
across eating disorders. And I'll talk to three of those, because I think anyone with an eating disorder can probably identify with one of these three. And the first one was I didn't know how to recover. I tried everything from... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
a trait. But I remember, like, my first job in sales. I was good, right? But why was I good? I could always see GE through my customers' eyes. And because I could do that, it made me much more effective to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
innovation leaders’ trajectories from heading up a new team and generating first results to navigating the inevitable crosswinds, complications, and conflicts—and ultimately delivering success. Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Guide to... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Department at Gibbons PC In Newark, led a conversation about the responsibilities of managers and companies when an employee has been named in a complaint. Panelist Kenna Baudin (MBA 1994), head of U.S. private equity at executive search firm Egon Zehnder, gave advice... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
the MCC is doing the right thing, for the right people, at the right time," Bloom says. "This is the best job I've ever had. We're really trying to implement the principle of teaching a man to fish in order to give people the basis for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
vis-à-vis managers. The situation has changed in pretty fundamental ways. I know people who are still beating up on boards, saying boards aren’t doing enough. But the reality is that in general boards have gotten a better handle on their companies now than they did... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity by Karen G. Mills (MBA 1977) Palgrave Macmillan Small businesses are the biggest job creators and offer a path to the American Dream. But for many, it is difficult to get the capital... View Details