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- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
increased focus on initiatives that instill confidence and dignity,” Shumway reports. All Ideas on the Table Implementing a long-planned succession strategy, Shumway stepped away from his CEO role at Cicero... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
alumni who are working to make a successful transition. The second program, Strengthening Your Role as a Nonprofit Board Leader, was available to all returning classes, and we believe it could become de rigueur for our graduates who are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
STRATEGIC ADVICE: HBS professor Michael Porter took a question before his presentation. What happens when you bring over 450 CEOs and presidents of New York City’s leading nonprofits together for a daylong educational summit? Answer: a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
thinking ‘where is the best opportunity going to be for me professionally?—I couldn’t move back to Detroit,” Rhea says. Instead, he went into finance in New York. After the financial collapse he left banking for a position as chairman and View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
cannot be successful unless they show vulnerability, are consistent, take time to be balanced, have a vision, and embrace their role as decision-makers. In the 2010 case “Toby Johnson: Leading After School,” Johnson, with military service... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
you can catch and hold one of the briny little creatures in your own two hands. As president and CEO of the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center in Boston, Arthur Pearson (MBA 1991) is working with Boston Public Schools to make... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
just-released first book, Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press), Venkatesan's recipe for success includes doing things that most managers and CEOs aren't trained... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance, but ever since his undergraduate days of studying public and international affairs at Princeton, Offensend planned that, one... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
In the course of an hour-long interview, Keith T. Clinkscales (MBA '90), president of Vibe magazine, drops close to fifty names. Those mentioned by this 35-year-old CEO of an enterprise that is considered "da bomb" (a high compliment)... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
“He reminded me that it wasn’t my dominant hand that was injured, and that I needed to focus on all that remained, not on what I had lost.” So when the Army gave him a prosthesis, Jefferson chose not to use it, and instead guided himself through a tough but ultimately... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
hospital, his doctors told him there would be no trip to Massachusetts, only long months of rehab and preparing for a life without the use of his legs. Yet it was also the beginning of a successful dual career as an executive and a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 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 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 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 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
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
equity, and real estate. KFC in China: Secret Recipe for Success by Warren Liu (MBA ’81) (Wiley) Liu examines the major factors that catapulted KFC to the top of the Chinese restaurant- service industry in less than two decades. He... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
Mickey Herbert parleyed a stint as an administrative assistant to a pediatric neurologist into a successful career as the founder and CEO of a Connecticut HMO. Not bad for someone who confesses he had “no... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
gender pay gap for 25 years,” notes Wooldridge. “We need to speed things up.” Likewise, the proportion of women in CEO roles has increased steadily; but, at the current pace, it will take 80 years to achieve parity. “Everyone has a part... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
APPLING George Appling (MBA 1998) has become king of his castle. The Texas native turned an "enduring passion" for Renaissance fairs into a successful business owning one. "What sets our fair apart is that we didn't build it to make money... 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