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- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
leadership, working my up to CMO, and then President and CEO roles. I worked on educational toys and entertainment properties (Hasbro), contributed to taking an early e-commerce company in the educational toy space through an IPO and... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- News
The Business of Access
nonprofits and social services organizations whose staffs had the skills to help, and plotted a different way to give back. “My thinking was, if I were to help people here in California,” she recalls, “that would pay it forward for... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
gender pay gap for 25 years,” notes Wooldridge. “We need to speed things up.” Likewise, the proportion of women in CEO roles has increased steadily; but, at the current pace, it will take 80 years to achieve... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
Viruses are out there, waiting to strike, and vaccinations are our best defense. But that defense is a man-made system, and therefore subject to breakdowns. In a talk titled “The Significance of Vaccines in Global Health,” Merck CEO... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
his motorbike into in the late 2000s. READ MORE [Sound of motor bike] Aldi Haryopratomo: Hi, my name is Aldi. I am the CEO of Gopay, and also the founder of Ruma, or now called Mapan. Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA 2011) Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
The technology behind telemedicine—health care delivered remotely and asynchronously—has been improving for years, but in 2017, the United States hit a tipping point. This year, Kaiser Permanente’s CEO announced that of the company’s 100... View Details
- Web
Women's Leadership in Business and the Economy - Blog: RGE Report
lead in the world of finance. The panel speakers hailed from different parts of the financial services industry yet had much to share with one another and the audience. Beverly Anderson (MBA 1997) is CEO and President of BECU, the largest... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
brokered creation of the first social impact bond, which supports a program to reduce reoffending rates among former inmates of Her Majesty’s Prison Peterborough, a facility 75 miles north of London housing short-term offenders. The bond will View Details
- Profile
Ann S. Moore
Ann S. Moore (MBA 1978), the first female chair and CEO of Time Inc., oversaw nearly 150 magazines and their brand extensions. During her tenure, she launched more magazines than Time founder Henry R. Luce and, as publisher of People,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Expanding the brand of the country’s largest magazine publisher
Ann S. Moore (MBA 1978), the first female chair and CEO of Time Inc., oversaw nearly 150 magazines and their brand extensions. During her tenure, she launched more magazines than Time founder Henry R. Luce and, as publisher of People,... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
directions and the implications of this work for rethinking traditional categories of organizations, namely business and charity. September 2014 Perspectives on Psychological Science How Much (More) Should CEOs Make? A Universal Desire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Motivate Me, Please
SolStock Former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy was known to criticize staff for being "coin-operated" instead of mission-driven. Understanding what motivates good performance is crucial for managers to master. Here is a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
choices. That doesn’t solve the problem of forum shopping. In fact, it makes it worse. What if rating agencies were paid by investors rather than by bond issuers? Wouldn’t that stop forum shopping? In theory, yes. The people who are being served by the rating agencies,... View Details
- 27 Apr 2018
- News
Placing Nurses Where They Are Needed
Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) is CEO of Nightingale Nurses, a service that provides traveling nurses to hospitals and health care facilities across the United States. In this interview, he talks about the advantages of flexibility and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
there is great uncertainty as to whom the successor should be and how the process of finding a successor should be managed. There is something very wrong with this picture. I would have been surprised by this situation before completing my latest research on View Details
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
investment vehicles. What's the reason for these phenomena? According to one report, Michael Jensen and Kevin Murphy, in a book to be published in the next several months, CEO Pay and What to Do About It,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
trouble being promoted in certain work environments, and hold a tiny percentage of top corporate management positions. According to a 2010 report from research firm Catalyst, among Fortune 500 companies, only 2.6 percent of CEOs are... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
New Book Recounts Storied Class of ’49
Business. At their 25th Reunion, nearly one-fourth of the class were presidents or CEOs of their respective companies, and more remarkable in today’s era of the disposable CEO, nearly one-third of the class would retire in such roles.... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
and believe that it makes a difference, engagement drops off dramatically. When engagement falls, so does productivity. Message Not Being Heard Many senior executives have been focused on building mission-driven organizations for the last decade. The View Details
Keywords: by Bill George