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opportunities for jobs they might not have thought achievable, provided health insurance for 40 families and allowed peace of mind for retirement plans. My personal whiteboard contains lessons that have shaped who I am and represents... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
distinct culture. In 2024, the co-founders, Powers (now president and CEO), CFO Barbara Wight, and Vice President of Human Resources Shaun Paluczak took time to reflect on the ESOP. Many employees were still unclear about what the ESOP meant for them, with some... View Details
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Hawes Hall | About
educated in Hawes Hall would use their knowledge “to serve their fellow human beings.” Her husband, the retired chairman and CEO of Connecticut-based Life Re Corporation, also emphasized the link between business education and public... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Happier-ness at Work
Professor Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey get the good news/bad news out of the way on page 5 of their new book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. “If the secret to total happiness existed, we would have all found it by now,” they write.... View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
University, where senior and retired executives learn to develop leadership skills in the service of solving large social problems. Many of the examples in the book come from her experience leading that program. Sean Silverthorne: We’re... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
recalls his father asking. That question stayed with Pete Stavros. There had to be a better way. Early in his career as an investor, Stavros was part of a deal with a company that had an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), an employer-funded, stock-based View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
Last year, the pioneering Black-owned global asset management firm Brown Capital Management found itself at a crossroads. The secret to its success had been a deliberately diverse hiring strategy, but with the looming retirement of its... View Details
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Cumnock Hall | About
well-appointed offices and support services for HBS emeriti professors. The Center offers a wide array of amenities to retired emeriti faculty at HBS. These features include office space, equipment use, archival document storage,... View Details
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
zero. Consumer confidence has plummeted with the value of 401(k) plans and retirement nest eggs. Retail sales fell 1.2 percent in September, double the expected decline. Car sales are at a fifteen-year low. And credit card defaults look... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
both could be very direct as well. Hesselbein, according to one account, once lectured a class of retiring CEOs that included Alan Mulally, who was out of a job at Boeing prior to becoming CEO of Ford, to stop “whining” about what they... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
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HBS Cases | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Library Search Search Search Lehman Brothers: 1850 - 2008 Resources Baker Library Collections HBS Cases HBS Cases The HBS Archives in Baker Library includes a comprehensive collection of more than 50,000 retired HBS cases, beginning with... View Details
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
industry conferences. Recently retired as CEO of TotalEnergies Ventures, Nadkarni has served as advisor to the World Economic Forum and was on the selection committee for the WEF Technology Pioneers for several years. In 2021, Nadkarni... View Details
- 09 Feb 2021
- News
Investing in Entrepreneurship
Scientific), to name a few. As a founder and managing general partner of Venrock Associates, he led the venture investments of the Rockefeller family during a 45-year career. Now retired and serving on numerous corporate and philanthropic... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 Feb 2019
- News
New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures
firm based in Boston, where he served in a wide range of roles, including managing partner and Executive Committee member. He also served as board director of more than 30 public and private companies. He recently retired from Summit and... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au
the HBS experience as he has: “It has opened doors that I didn’t even know existed.” (December 2015) Learn how you, too, can give back by naming HBS as a beneficiary of your will, trust, or retirement plan. View Details
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
Screen Time
iStock/ST.art MBA 1982’s Section B had already formed a close-knit group that gathered often in the decades following their time at the School, when the pandemic appeared in the spring of 2020. Unable to enjoy one another’s company in person, the group didn’t miss a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
Heralding a New Era of Finance, Capitalism, and Democracy, Robert Bruner (MBA 1974/DBA 1982) and Sean Carr make the case that looking into financial crises of the past can help clarify current conditions—and inform one’s outlook on the future. In May, Bruner View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
GDP, that is, total aggregate output, the market value of all final goods and services produced. In a sense, all that you (as a country) have is the total output that you produce in a year—your GDP. Sometimes people think if everyone owned lots of stocks and bonds, we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2017
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John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
1998 Named Chairman, Vanguard 2002 Publishes Straight Talk on Investing: What You Need to Know 2009 Retires from Vanguard 2009 Named head of FINRA Board of Governors 2012 Named Director, General Electric 2015 Elected Chair, University of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Kristin W. Mugford | About
and the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. Kristin retired in 2013 as a Managing Director and partner at Bain Capital, one of the world's leading alternative investment firms, after nearly 20 years as a private equity and credit... View Details