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- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
member, ed tech veteran, and current cofounder and managing partner of Ethical Ventures, a management consultancy dedicated to social enterprises. In its first month, the Business for Racial Equity Pledge was signed by more than 1,000 people—half of which are either... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
help them expand or make critical improvements. Launched in 2009, Edify has assisted 1,100 private schools by loaning each a minimum $5,000. The schools, which are run largely by locals who grew up in these disadvantaged communities, are able to View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Agenda: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963)
In the early 1970s, Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) was CEO of Texas International Airlines, a struggling regional operation. There were whispers of change coming for the airline industry as Washington considered the pros and cons of ending regulation. “If there was a list of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
exacerbated by the workplace flexibility of the COVID era has put increasing demands on businesses to offer or expand benefits that support family schedules. In this episode of Skydeck, contributor April White talks to Stephen Kramer (MBA 1997), View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
members of the Fed pay attention to media speculation? How do they deal with a situation where the speculation is going in the wrong direction and will likely result in a “surprise” to the markets when announced? Would they prefer to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
and CEO and added a veteran executive team filled with his former industry colleagues—including former CFO Cabot Brown (MBA 1987)—all of them bringing not only two or three decades of experience in drug development, fundraising, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
amount of e-nun-ci-a-tion helps. Before long, you’re hollering into a void of inhumanity, asking to speak with a human. All this can leave us feeling that we’re being held captive in a robot-hostage situation, says Alex Sambvani (MBA 2017), View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
idea suffered from both density and doubt. In short, we wondered not only what its applications really looked like in practice but also if it could ever really live up to its hype. Those questions are at the heart of our recent profile of John Levy, View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
things.” Until he adjusted to the daily grind of preparing lesson plans and correcting tests and homework, Watson regularly found himself logging ninety-hour workweeks — after taking a 90 percent pay cut... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
pounds of food that had been prepared for customers in the catering, hotel, travel, and restaurant industries got stuck in the supply chain when the world seized up. That’s when Philip Behn (MBA 2005), CEO of Imperfect Foods, jumped into... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
going to press with a major story that could sink your company because you’ve gone public that very week. Katharine Graham’s story is the story of a business leader.” It’s not unlike the decision of Johnson & Johnson CEO James Burke (MBA... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
It’s fitting that Erik Dyson’s HBS interview was conducted over a pay phone in Costa Rica, where he and his wife, Debbi, were finishing a three-year program for Habitat for Humanity. Now the CEO of the... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pitch a room full of VCs, Draper included. Students also test their mettle by breaking boards with their bare hands, building boats, and competing in paintball. The residential program, which has included visits from entrepreneurs such as Rent the Runway’s Jennifer... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
It's a long way—a very long way—from the village of Balidhip, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, to Cambridge, Massachusetts. When you grow up without roads, electricity, or running water, when light and darkness control the rhythms of your life, and when you are... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
European consumer products business. In her first Bulletin interview in 1983, Dodi envisioned the future ideal of "a pregnant CEO of a corporation walking into a board meeting" while her other child was down the hall in daycare. But she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
“Unfortunately, the technology for growing flu viruses to make vaccines is fifty years old — it’s chicken eggs.” — HBS Professor of Management Practice and former Merck CEO Raymond Gilmartin, at a November HBS panel discussion on drug... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
LA Reid’s Song
his life and his career, from his first gigs as a teenaged drummer in Cincinnati through the rise and fall of influential LaFace Records to his current role as chairman and CEO of Epic Records. Reid has helped launch the careers of... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
distributor took its toll on his personal life. "It's a 50-country job. I was leaving the country 50 weeks a year," he recalls. He and his husband, Brian O'Leary, had just welcomed their first child in April 2008 when Appling cut back to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
mechanical engineering courses at Northeastern University, and two years as a second lieutenant in the Army (“doing a major’s job”)—proved to be ideal credentials for Knott’s eventual role as founder, president, and CEO of Riverdale Mills... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
this one played out brilliantly. Within a decade, Dr. Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) rocketed through the ranks of Sandoz and in 1996 led the firm’s merger with Ciba-Geigy, emerging as CEO of the new company called Novartis, based in... View Details