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- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
program in the 1960s to his role today as president and CEO of Pioneer Group, which creates affordable housing through the renovation and preservation of historic buildings in the American Midwest. Freeman... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
1996, Hema Hattangady took over as the CEO of Conzerv, an embattled family-owned firm based in Bangalore that manufactured digital energy meters. Over the next 12 years, she grew it to become India’s largest energy-management company.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014) is cofounder and CEO of the market research firm the Sports Innovation Lab, and when we spoke in May, it... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
expenses. It’s about the things that would make their work better and easier, which are resources that private-sector employees take for granted.” In January 2019, Lisle became CEO of Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, a... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
and corporate battles that he witnessed in the nearly six decades of his career. He replays his two stints—in the late 1980s and the early 1990s—as the CEO of Canada's darling of the telecom industry, Mitel Corporation, and offers many... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
in our safety performance.” Under her watch, Anglo American has taken a much more collaborative role with the towns where the company operates. “We are not interested in coming in and getting all we can out of the land and then leaving,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
of course be Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, who put in just one year at Harvard College before retreating westward to lay the groundwork for the computer revolution. HBS alumni selected Gates, barely twenty years old and a business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Organizational design, structure, and culture do play a role and almost always have in corporate scandals. Companies that get into trouble often do so because of minimal internal connections between many parts of the organization. With... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
grounding in every aspect of the business. “I like to tell people that I rose up the ranks through the sheer force of nepotism,” he deadpans with self-deprecating humor. He made HBS his last training stop before taking over as president and View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
on effective professional feedback, honing it in roles at tech icons Apple and Google. The idea? Radical candor, or as Scott (MBA 1996) defines it, caring personally while at the same time, challenging directly. At its base, she says,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
with the office's January inauguration. By bringing together nearly sixty business and management academics and about twenty CEOs and managers from across Asia, the forum provided an opportunity for HBS professors working on Asia-related... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
in 1969. Ginny’s eyes teared up. “He was our father,” she said, and explained that he had developed Alzheimer’s disease in his 50s and died in 1996. Dick Vancil played an enormous role in my life. He was a master of the case method, as... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
check without sacrificing quality overall. "My class gets a big bang out of the sheer volume of the notes," comments Arthur W. "Artie" Buerk (MBA '63), who is serving a second term as the HBS Alumni Association's chief class correspondent. Part of Buerk's View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
(MBA 1988) is cofounder and COO. She is also the founding CEO of Mediva, the company’s consulting arm. Platanus clinics share overnight resources and electronic medical records, so their combined 2,500 at-home palliative care patients... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
Economic Development under Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. “I had learned from [HBS professor] Michael Porter about the synergy that comes from establishing industry clusters, and that became our focus. We became metrics driven and also changed the culture by hiring former... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
three MIT scientists founded E Ink in 1997. “I was the business guy,” says Wilcox, who over time has held senior leadership roles at the company in areas ranging from sales and marketing to finance to R&D. Twelve years later, the company... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
Osmosis team (Editor's note: Shiv is cofounder and CEO of Osmosis) and the work we are collectively doing to improve how we educate current and future health care professionals. This recognition would not have been possible without the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
What is the connection to the gangs of Soweto, and how is the nefarious and powerful Imam Abed Al-Kumein involved? What is one of the largest investment banks in South Africa’s role and who is the mysterious hacker, Vladimir Al-Masri? To... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
studies (see sidebar). I recently had a chance to talk with Nohria about his formative years, the opportunities he sees ahead for the School, and his views on the role of business in society. What follows is an edited version of that... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Arizona, give their CEO updates on their respective projects via video chat. There are more than a dozen reports, covering everything from marketing to engineering to HR. Some are brief, some—a disagreement over a potential... View Details