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- 17 Jun 2014
- News
Shedding light on business issues and opportunities in Asia
When Michael Shih-ta Chen (MBA 1972) attended HBS in the early 1970s, only a handful of case studies featured businesses in Asia. Now, some 25 cases a year focus on business issues in China, Korea, Australia, Southeast Asia, and other surrounding countries. As the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
practice designed to "bridge" the gap between the seemingly disparate worlds of corporate management consulting and nonprofit organizations worldwide. Tierney, who serves on the Board of Directors of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
no national reputation — was appointed,” Ferguson recalled. “But he listens to everyone, judges ideas on their quality rather than on their source, and makes better decisions because of that.” Financial consultant Andrew Brimmer, the first African American appointed to... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
purchased by Google for $3.2 billion in 2014. Nolan and Natarajan “Venkat” Venkatakrishnan, director of FirstBuild—the GE/Local Motors partnership—are sitting with Rogers in the University of Louisville’s University Club in late April,... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
of local and global companies, government organizations, and universities in Hong Kong. A group of high school students also attended at the invitation of the club’s Board Director Max Burger (MBA 1981).... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
experience here that combines art, nature, and architecture,” says van Caldenborgh, who chairs Voorlinden’s board and spends five or six days a week at his office in the museum, about an hour’s drive from Amsterdam. The tranquil setting... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
Theatre Company; Deborah Perry, from the YWCA of Rhode Island; and Karen Santilli, from Crossroads RI, shared their perspectives on the program and agreed it was “the most outstanding executive experience” of their careers. According to HBSASNE View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
startup, that’s because he is. In addition to serving as president of the board of directors at the Sontag Foundation, Sontag is the president of The Spring Bay Companies, an investment group he helped... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
company. “There is a clear distinction between the board of directors and the management team,” explains Tian. “I have the right to hire and fire people. I’ve hired about twelve hundred employees so far but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Recognizing Potential
number of people who can benefit from the ideas and scholarship developed at the School," says Stevens, who, with his wife, Mary, is a member of the Board of Dean's Advisors and a founding donor to HBX. Their leadership support of HBX... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
skills I’d developed over several decades of consulting work. Yet I had no idea how to make that happen. Working in Washington at the time, I cold-called the curator of Southeast Asian ceramics at the Smithsonian’s Sackler Museum, asking, who do you know in Cambodia?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
economic shocks, corporate scandals, international competition, or technological disruptions. Zero-Sum Game: The Rise of the World’s Largest Derivatives Exchange by Erika S. Olson (MBA ’03) (Wiley) Olson, a former managing director at the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
have not made as much impact, so we have an opportunity,” she said. Egon Zehnder, founding chairman of a global executive search firm, observed that most boards of directors seeking new leadership now put... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
1967 Founds Asset Management Company 1980 Provides early capital for Amgen, joins board 1998 Appointed chairman, San Francisco Opera Association 1999 Funds BUILD, nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youth 2002 Receives... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Anheuser-Busch InBev Board Member, Fundação Estudar Chairman, Lemann Foundation Jorge Paulo Lemann (above, center) is the leading force behind Banco Garantia, Brazil’s most prestigious investment bank. At Garantia and later at GP... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
music director just a week before the flooding began, had led the orchestra only a handful of times as a guest conductor. Now, at 38, he was tasked with rebuilding an orchestra with no home or foreseeable income. When the orchestra took... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
recruiting,” he says. “I got a deep appreciation for how much impact two years of business school can have on someone’s trajectory. And, beyond that, I saw how much impact senior leaders could have; and not just within their organizations, but also outside in their... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s and became its chair in 2009. Her work with the charity has been informed by her business career, she says. A partner at... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives
During the bull market of the 1990s, stock grants and options formed increasingly large components of executive compensation. Now, however, with many options "underwater" as share values have declined well below the strike price, boards... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Serving through TechnoServe
top-notch board of directors who bring management and strategy expertise to the organization. Getting this group together, he says, is very rewarding. “We meet and brainstorm, and then we take trips to see... View Details