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- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
business? “In the past, it seems like for many companies, the answer has been ‘no,’” says West. West and other HBS grads believe that’s the wrong answer. With the help of Andrea Hoffman, the founder and CEO of Culture Shift Labs, they are... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
an astronaut. After selling Stylus, he briefly indulged a long-held passion by studying jazz piano, before settling into a spectacularly successful career as an entrepreneur, building and selling three tech companies — Direct Hit, Xfire,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
aren’t that clear.” Despite the pain of Quincy’s failure, Wallace doesn’t regret the experience. “I’m more fulfilled when I’m scrappy and building something, so I’m grateful to have been ripped away from the notion that I need financial comfort,” she says. Acting as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
“golden age of the experience economy,” according to David Askaryan (MBA 2015), founder and CEO of the Museum of Future Experiences (MoFE). It taps into a very basic human instinct, he says. “You could look at any number of ancient... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
genes to the inner ear with unprecedented efficiency.” The five-year-old company will likely apply for clinical testing permission for its lead therapy in the first half of 2022—a key hurdle in the notoriously lengthy process of advancing novel medicines from seed to... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
generation of Internet-savvy consumers, and how today's CEOs can transform their own focus and that of their organizations from "dot-com" concerns to a more sweeping "dot-corp" vision. Next up was Microsoft president Steve Ballmer, who... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
searches and appropriately rewards their efforts." The result of this dynamic has been one of history's great technology success stories. In a second volume of Design Rules, the authors will examine how the interrelated processes of... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
recruits the guest CEOs and serves as moderator for an evening of unscripted, entertaining dialogue about building and championing successful brands. “Our goal each year is to deliver the unexpected, and we... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
Even though Aisha Dozie (MBA 2002) had served on the boards of several private and nonprofit organizations over her career, her two-year search for the directorship of a public board proved to be a “pretty tricky and convoluted” process. The founder and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
“Before his talk, Professor Shih toured three Moog factories in the Buffalo area,” says Sherrill. Moog Inc., which is currently headed by CEO John Scannell (MBA 1999), is a leading aerospace manufacturer, producing critical components for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
co-founded Constructeo, a maker of online collaboration tools for the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, with fellow HBS alumnus Bertrand Dumazy (MBA 1999). The mixed success of the company's product offerings led to a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
EMC's Ruettgers Finds Gold in Data Storage
eleven-year tenure at the Hopkinton, Massachusetts-based firm, Ruettgers, who became CEO in 1992, has guided EMC to the top of its market. With $1 billion in profits expected this year (compared with $30 million the year Ruettgers became... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
platforms at once. “Nobody had streamed a service at that scale before,” says Wilson. “We were holding our breath, because we were basically betting our business that this was going to be a successful pivot.” It felt like a sharp turn not... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
several of the new research tracks the project has produced and how a few of these ideas are being put into action. Transportation and Infrastructure After organizing a transportation summit in February 2014 that featured everyone from GE View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
she leads a popular series of “On Board Bootcamp” seminars for aspiring board members. (The next is June 26–27 in New York City.) Both women stress that launching a successful board career requires some preliminary research. “You have to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
partners who demonstrate that they can move quickly and help Saga learn, while also experimenting with digital D2C marketing that can be rapidly iterated. —Chad Laurans (MBA 2006), CEO and cofounder of SimpliSafe Yes and Yes Word of mouth... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
economy, and help turn the country around. The Power of Many: Values for Success in Business and in Life by Meg Whitman (MBA ’79) with Joan O’C Hamilton (Crown) Whitman, the former president and CEO of eBay,... View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Pitching In for Female Leaders
Ebru Koksal (AMP 192, 2017) is a senior advisor with J. Stern & Co. in Istanbul, Turkey. She was the CEO of Galatasaray SK, the leading football club in Turkey for 15 years, and is the only woman to be elected to the executive board of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)
Less than a year later, new Time Inc. CEO Rich Battista (MBA 1990) asked Wong to add COO to her title. Time was “a touchstone” of Wong’s Long Island childhood, but the newsweekly is just one part of the company’s story, she says. “Time... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
manufacturing, announced that Ogden would spin off its shipyard and six manufacturing companies. Bill Connell, then 47, was executive vice president of Ogden, and after seventeen years with the company, he was not willing to accept the notion that U.S. manufacturing... View Details