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- 01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
Former President & CEO, eBay Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Princeton University, 1977 A.B., Economics SELECTED PREVIOUS POSITIONS Hasbro, General Manager FTD , CEO Disney, Senior Vice President Bain... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Administration Harper Business Rapid and unprecedented changes brought on by the pandemic have accelerated the transition to remote work, requiring the wholesale migration of nearly entire companies to virtual work in mere weeks and leaving View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
company’s e-commerce infrastructure. Beyond these advances, however, he has little interest in outgrowing his company’s family-run origins. “Our employees count on us and our customers count on us, and we try to do right by them,” he... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
value concentration; there’s been such a focus on efficiency that there are way fewer redundancies in a company’s production capacity and inventories,” says Beer, who offers insight and advice to alumni seeking guidance in unprecedented circumstances. How do you train... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
One day in 2010 the CEO of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced that thousands of employees would soon conduct business in a tongue most of them knew nothing about: English. Within days all the signs at the Tokyo headquarters were... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
From the beginning, the company’s goal has been to hire and train as many Afghans as possible; today, 75 percent of senior management and 97 percent of all employees are natives. Roshan launched as scheduled... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Moving Mountains
death. Following the second OPM round one month later, Barco was named president by her mother. "I don't manage our employees in the autocratic way that my father did," she notes, "and yet my style, which is... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In November 2014, Sony Pictures suffered a massive, high-profile data breach, with hackers breaking in and stealing everything from confidential employee data to unreleased... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
weekends in a row. He spoke with associate editor Julia Hanna about everything from his approach to a film’s business plan, to the challenges of managing internal growth on his teams—and how the Lego Movie is like The Avengers. READ MORE... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
the workers’ allegiance. She does so in part by meeting one-on-one with every employee and introducing innovations such as pairing a shift worker with a manager in coleadership roles. “This is an unusual... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
Racism and Third-Degree Racism,” published in The Atlantic, John Rice (MBA 1992) proposes a way forward. We can end racism, he writes, by increasing its cost. The founder and CEO of the nonprofit Management Leadership for Tomorrow, where... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
of fresh orange juice. For the last 18 years, Arhodidis worked for Eurobank, one of the country’s four systemic banks. When he left last July, he was a member of the executive board and a general manager in charge of global markets,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
experiences also sent him on a quest to find academics who were studying sabbaticals so he could better understand how the implementation of sabbatical policies impact employee behavior. Informally called the Sabbatical Project, DiDonna’s... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
grown up in the business all of my career, and when I finished college and came back I was a full-time employee for the first time. After a year or so I was promoted to work under my dad as one of the department managers. And within a few... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
Educational Travel, now with 25 employees in Cuba and in the United States, is a true family business. Gordon is a managing director, along with Michael and Collin Laverty and one of Collin’s college... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
fields of management control and health care. Her latest book, Market-Driven Health Care, won the 1998 Book of the Year Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives. Herzlinger opened the conference by reporting on the forces... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
of hundreds and perhaps thousands of dogs and cats (the numbers remain unclear, as there is no centralized database of such information). While the situation was uncertain, there was some concern that a production run of SmartPak’s LiveSmart Weight View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
people who are different from themselves. Examples might include a production supervisor who can rally everyone in an organization, from frontline employees to union leaders to CEOs; or a platoon leader who works with people from a range... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Notebook
Name: Sasha Novakovich (MBA ’99), President & CEO Company: GetConnected, Inc. (founded 1999) Size: $20M annual revenue, 100 employees Location: Boston, MA Web: www.getconnected.com Elevator pitch: GetConnected processes voice, data, and... View Details
- 21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Department at Gibbons PC In Newark, led a conversation about the responsibilities of managers and companies when an employee has been named in a complaint. Panelist Kenna Baudin (MBA 1994), head of U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley