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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
emerged, and it’s one that hinges on social skills. Sadun leads the Digital Reskilling Lab at HBS; Fuller co-leads the School’s Managing the Future of Work project. Here, they talk about the rise of soft skills in the C-suite. Your... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
Payne’s downtown office, Rodakis laid out the rationale for a nonprofit. He also shared the concern that he might not have the right skill set to run it and wondered whether he should try to hire someone. “You’re the perfect person for... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
ultimately a class about communication. And it was really made clear that the job of a CEO is mostly to communicate. The CEO can't make all the decisions themselves; they can't do all the work themselves,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
presidency in 1995, Zobel, still in his mid-30s, became president and CEO. In 2006 he was appointed chairman, retaining the role of CEO while his brother Fernando became president and COO. "My father placed a lot of trust in us," observes... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
sticker from the nonprofit. While the women discuss their respective micro-enterprises and how they might invest their pooled savings, Cruz’s adopted daughter plays with some children nearby. For Trickle Up president and CEO Nathalie... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
Bond CEO and Cofounder, Social Finance Tracy Palandjian attributes her instincts as a social entrepreneur to her Chinese upbringing. “Master the basics, then innovate,” “Waste nothing,” and “Distance tests the strength of horses; time... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
oil industry. I came full circle with both of those cases, having spent my career in the oil industry and as CEO of a company involved in the Macondo well disaster in 2010. Going through the Macondo crisis and looking back on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
experience,” she says. “No one ever spoke about culture; it was embedded. We were in it together.” That interest in the very human aspect of how work gets done is more than clinical. When asked, anyone who has worked closely with Enan mentions her strong sense of... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
greatest risk from the disastrous effects of sea-level rise. Yet cities also have the ability to act without waiting for state and federal action, adds Raphael Carty (MBA 1983), former CEO of Callida Energy, a software startup focused on... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
camp in local, cross-sector collaboration toward the goal of a sustainable future through shared prosperity. When Christy Gillenwater came to YALP in 2018, she was six months into her new job as president and CEO of the Chattanooga... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993
without the notion of EQ and IQ coming up. Erdoes is someone who has both emotional and intellectual intelligence—in spades. The combination of compassion and analytical skills serves her well as she blazes a trail in the upper echelons... View Details
- 29 Jan 2024
- News
On the Road to Recovery
pandemic has put a spotlight on the importance of nurses in the health care sector, and the high demand for their skills has given nurses greater bargaining power to negotiate higher salaries and better working conditions. “I think the... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
highly trained athletes will use every martial arts skill at their disposal—karate, jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, judo, and boxing, among others—to score a win by knockout, submission, or points. Face lit by the glow of his smartphone, ONE FC... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
much I didn't know," she says. Greenwich CEO Charley Ellis (MBA 1963) encouraged her to apply to HBS, and with the company profit-sharing program, she was able to finance her graduate education. "I was hell-bent on making the most of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
two daughters—Johnson conquered every challenge that came her way and methodically set about transforming the company. In 2014 she was appointed CEO and in 2016, she took on the role of chairman. Her stellar track record includes... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young