Corporate Responsibility - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

industry, men earn 24 percent more, on average, than women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) These stories aren’t encouraging, though the widespread response to them is. And these numbers, and others looking at... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters

financial independence and control.” The response to iTrust’s financial planning seminars for women has been “overwhelming” and bodes well for the future “because women are more open to and are more likely to adopt a financial planning... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

02 Nov 2020
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The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

2018, I left my corporate job and decided to explore opportunities with a social impact-driven food organization, particularly one focused on food access and hunger relief. What made the Greater Boston Food Bank stand out among the... View Details

04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

China, and India combined. It's a huge market. But they also discovered that over 90 percent of female consumers, who are responsible for most of the shopping, are dissatisfied with the goods and services that are out there. Top of the... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future

to the teaching of corporate governance at Rice University. He recalls the day in 1972 when HBS Dean Lawrence Fouraker asked him to organize an initiative unprecedented at HBS, a venture that became known as the Energy Project at the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Sep 2006
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Street Singer

however, the economics major decided to try an internship in investment banking, courtesy of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, a mentoring program for minority students. “I fell in love with Wall Street and the idea of taking on an enormous amount of View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

Editor Julia Hanna talks to Wilson about thinking beyond standard economic models, what collaboration looks like to him, and the work that has fundamentally changed the way governments and corporations buy and sell essential goods and... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero

and corporate sponsors; naming rights; 29,500 season tickets (including 15,000 “charter seats”); and the loans it would take to cover the price tag for a $357 million ballpark. “Larry is the nicest person in the world, but he is also a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

a rising corporate attorney, was charged with murdering his lover, also a rising advertising executive in Manhattan. The dramatic trial that followed this incident played out for several years, mirroring the loss of sensibility to crime,... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates

I’m the CEO of Invest Macedonia, the primary institution in the country responsible for attracting foreign investments. The prime minister asked me to take the job, and I report directly to him. It’s the highest nonpolitical position in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

concentrating its control in the hands of a single member of the firm, the three founders agreed to create a series of overlapping funds. Each general partner could then take responsibility for running one of them, with input from his... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

says Bond, who, prior to her Motown career, served as a financial analyst for several corporations and investment firms. "The songs are as fresh today as they were 25 years ago." Candace Bond, vice president of catalog development and... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

As it happened, many of the young men and women returning home from war were in complete agreement with Slichter. By one measure - a series of Air Force outprocessing interviews conducted in 1945 - the number of veterans intending to join large View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

those in the Class of '71 were destined to earn their MBAs during one of the most turbulent social and political eras of our times. Turbulence within the class, in the form of widely divergent views on the day's events, was also in evidence. A petition urging View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

bar for which he became responsible accounted for $80,000 annually of the $500,000 business. With his personal style of leadership, that brand grew into the Neutrogena Corporation in 1961, went public in... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

authors call for a greater sense of urgency from corporate boards, policymakers, and risk practitioners to resolve the many challenges facing today’s private and public sector organizations. They offer insights into specific risk domains... View Details

08 Jun 2023
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Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner

to excellence and lifelong learning in their careers and contributions to the community. The dinner was the first large-scale gathering for the Club since the end of the pandemic and attracted 400 alumni and guests to the Glasshouse in Manhattan. Through View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

13 Jul 2016
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From Money to Ministry

responsibility to inform the Admiral and be with him as he grieved for his son. “This was a taste of the pastoral ministry of journeying with someone during one of life’s tragedies,” Quainton says. With that experience etched in his... View Details