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- 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
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
entertained. I’ve always been someone who wants to brighten peoples’ day, and I sought to integrate that into my career. I took on roles that combined creative development and strategic leadership, working my up to CMO, and then President and View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
A native of rural Chehalis, Washington, Orin C. Smith (MBA '67) was an EVP for Danzas, an international freight shipping company, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz approached him in 1990 to join the fledgling company. Schultz, Smith... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
A World Without Borders
Many people associate the name &Beyond with luxury adventure travel. CEO Joss Kent (MBA 1997) thinks of it, first, as a conservation company. Tourism pays for the company’s habitat management, community... View Details
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
to realize, the investment horizon of hedge funds makes them unsuitable overseers of management. Firms that would benefit from modest changes in operating policy or governance, or for which a reduction in CEO View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
percent. “In 2004 and 2005, as these subprime loans started to emerge, it really wasn’t a particular problem because of the lag effect. People who couldn’t pay off these mortgages with toxic terms and exploding payment schedules figured,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
grind of nursing after you return to work,” and “You are not your husband’s mother!” Fair Pay, Fair Play: Aligning Executive Performance and Pay by Robin A. Ferracone (MBA ’80) (Jossey-Bass) Using her database of executive View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
business world with revelations it had been paying bribes for contracts on a massive scale—eventually admitting to payouts in 60 percent of its markets, totaling $130 million to $275 million a year. Shopping trips to Hong Kong were the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Dec 2017
- News
Finding Opportunities to Grow and Lead
Ilene Lang (MBA 1973) is the former president and CEO of Catalyst, where she worked to promote women in leadership in business and beyond. In this interview she talks about finding and creating opportunities for growth and leadership. “I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that... View Details
- Web
Digital Transformation - HBS Online
months, 5-6 hrs/week Apply by November 3 $6,500 Credential Certificate Courses (2) AI Essentials for Business Professors Karim Lakhani and Marco Iansiti Compete in the age of AI with a comprehensive approach to building, leading, and operating AI-powered organizations.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
being a CEO of a multinational corporation. She even dressed the part, going to school in a pantsuit. But the path to the corner office is often an expensive one. Thompson-Woode learned this as a high schooler in Brooklyn when she wanted... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
next day, three major buildings lay in ruins, and some three thousand workers faced the prospect of losing their jobs. But not only did Malden Mills' CEO Aaron Feurstein vow to rebuild his facility, he also promised to View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
for someone to get off the ground: enough to buy inventory, rent space, and begin to generate an income in order to feed, clothe, and shelter a family. A legal loan of that amount from a real bank is also the difference between paying... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Ann Moore, MBA 1978
Fresh out of HBS in 1978, Ann Moore did the unexpected and accepted the lowest-paying of 13 job offers, as a Time financial analyst, because she loved magazines. The unexpected turned into the unprecedented when she rose through the ranks to become the chairman 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
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
different from large, traditional Madison Avenue agencies. Instead of having stable teams based around individual clients, this upstart agency used ad hoc teams that formed and disbanded with every project. Clients commissioned specific projects rather than View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
book aimed at changing our national conversation about health care. In The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (McGraw-Hill), Christensen and his coauthors, the late Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang (MBA ’06), focus not on how the United... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
providers should support equal access to all content and applications (such as data-heavy files of online video) regardless of the source or how much bandwidth it requires. Instead, industry executives contend, consumers should pay... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment