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- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
the use of ESO in CEO compensation. Paper not available at this time. Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services Authors:Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
leaders must respond to. The selection systems used to pick leaders, which he says homogenize the pool of potential CEOs and presidents. These are especially important, Mukunda argues, because they preserve... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
meeting for the very latest on the coronavirus pandemic. In his work as the CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Enable Biosciences, an award-winning early and accurate disease diagnosis company in San Francisco, Seftel had been aware of the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
search was made during the dinner; yet within weeks, the first CEO was interviewing for the telecom post, which he only learned about later through a headhunter's phone call. Why would the telecommunications company View Details
- 25 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Maria (Brewer) Palma...
During my time at the company, we grew from 23 to over 100 people and I worked both in Business Development and then as the Chief of Staff for the CEO while we scaled. It was an incredible experience and I... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 04 May 2017
- News
How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
A recent BloombergBusinessweek magazine profile of Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995) offers an in-depth look at the Facebook COO’s philosophy of sharing and how that vision guides the company—now the world’s fifth largest by market value. The article traces Sandberg’s focus... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Energy Efficiency as a Common Purpose
ambidextrous organization that can embrace both exploiting the existing business while at the same time exploring new business opportunities. “There’s lots of change going on in the utility world today. Energy efficiency; we want to help... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
supply-chain management, turning to outsourcing for almost every component used on the assembly line and relying on just-in-time deliveries several times a day. "We went through the difficult process of... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
was what led Ira Fishman in this direction. Fishman worked in the Clinton administration as Counsel and Director of the Task Force on Education at the Federal Communications Commission and founding CEO of the nonprofit E-Rate program that... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
systems." Citing Robert Clarke, past Dean of Harvard Law School, Joe recalled Clarke noted that "Boards could be stewards of the corporation, looking after its long term health, or compliance officers using the Board's View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979)
positions in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors, including director of the Peace Corps, president and CEO of United Way of America, and her present post, U.S. Secretary of Labor. I remember driving to Boston with my parents to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
leadership during the Tylenol crises of the 1980s set the standard for corporate responsibility. Burke has been hailed as one of the ten greatest CEOs of all time by Fortune magazine. Lillian Lincoln Lambert... View Details
- 15 Apr 2020
- News
Money Matters
For millennials, who were born between 1981 and 1996, this is likely their first encounter with the kind of market turmoil we're experiencing right now. In "How to Cope if You Haven't Experienced Market Chaos Before," Paul Brown of the New York View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Pathfinder
exception. The difference is that the Pittsburgh native has been with BCG for 28 years and counting, rising to president and CEO in January 2013. “I feel like I’ve been able...to work with some of the best companies in the world on these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Liquid and Efficient
In January, John Thain (MBA ’79) assumed his new position as CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, a move that prompted interim NYSE head John Reed to declare, “We have an exceptional person at a time when,... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Kenneth A. Macke
Macke oversaw a period of growth and expansion for the company. During his CEO tenure, the revenues of Dayton Hudson tripled – from $6.5 billion in 1983 to $19.2 billion in 1994. The number of retail locations also expanded dramatically... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
Harold M. Brierley (MBA '68), chairman and CEO of Brierley & Partners, describes himself as "an accidental entrepreneur," having entered HBS as a chemical engineer planning to pursue a management career in the oil industry. "HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
art-auction company executive; the former CEO of a Spanish-language television company; a retired rear admiral who had headed the Girl Scouts and served on the board of Weight Watchers International; a theatrical producer; and, until two... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
A seasoned media executive, Sarah Harden (MBA 1999) was serving as interim CEO of the media company Hello Sunshine when she was brought up short by an early conversation with company founder Reese Witherspoon. “Reese told me that before... View Details