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- 01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella
this one played out brilliantly. Within a decade, Dr. Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) rocketed through the ranks of Sandoz and in 1996 led the firm’s merger with Ciba-Geigy, emerging as CEO of the new company called Novartis, based in... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
the successes of the BNVC became the basis of the 2020 case, “The Black New Venture Competition,” written by HBS faculty members Karen Mills, Jeff Bussgang, and Martin Sinozich. The case is also the basis for the HBS course, Scaling... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
institutional clients, and corporate services. In 1998, Merrill chairman and CEO David H. Komansky (107th AMP) asked him if he’d consider being CFO. “This was an opportunity to see the whole firm comprehensively,” observes O’Neal, who... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
of course be Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, who put in just one year at Harvard College before retreating westward to lay the groundwork for the computer revolution. HBS alumni selected Gates, barely twenty years old and a business... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
experience didn’t make her risk averse, she says. “It made me a better CEO. When you run for office, you really cannot care what people think about you, so I learned to be a lot tougher.” As CEO from 1998 to 2008, Whitman transformed eBay... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
some success with three different patent-based ventures, for instance—and Darwall will see if she can find a subject that fits the bill. An HBS Outpost While research is the primary function of the CRC, there is also an opportunity and a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
searches and appropriately rewards their efforts." The result of this dynamic has been one of history's great technology success stories. In a second volume of Design Rules, the authors will examine how the interrelated processes of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
throughout your career. Early in your career, pick your boss, not your job. Seek those who give open and honest feedback, guidance, and support. Early success will help build confidence and competence. In the middle of your career, make... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Frida Polli (MBA 2012) is the CEO and cofounder of pymetrics, which uses neuroscience-based games to help match people to their perfect careers. In this episode, she talks... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
to date. He returned to Red Lobster as CEO in 2014, and in this episode of Skydeck, I talk to him about the challenges and opportunities he saw, how to lead during times of change, and why social responsibility is so important to both him... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
Vogl (MBA 1998), CEO of The Mountaineers, explores the past, present, and future of the adventure business on our new Skydeck podcast MORE Tom Vogl (MBA 1998), CEO of The Mountaineers, explores the past,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
“Before his talk, Professor Shih toured three Moog factories in the Buffalo area,” says Sherrill. Moog Inc., which is currently headed by CEO John Scannell (MBA 1999), is a leading aerospace manufacturer, producing critical components for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
San Francisco. Following a subsequent job at Westinghouse Broadcasting headquarters in New York, in 1989 he became assistant to the chairman and CEO of CBS, Laurence Tisch. During a “fascinating” three years with Tisch, Baer became... View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
value for the program participants.” Groysberg’s leadership of the W50 celebration in 2013, marking 50 years of women’s admission to the full-time MBA Program at HBS, combined with his recent case study on the rand* construction company and its founder and View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
especially the CEO or the president, wanted it. Again, it’s not something you can force, although you do have to force something if you have to remove a CEO. There are times when that happens, because they're just not doing the job the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
The price was five times our investment: It had been eight years, a little longer hold than we would have liked, but a very good outcome nonetheless. The CEO would continue to run the company and signed up for a whole new equity package;... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the true measure of View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
it was the right decision. When she was appointed CEO of Time Inc. in 2002, the rest of the world knew too. “I’ve always had a long-term view,” notes Moore. “You’ve got to choose a career you’ll be happy growing old in because time goes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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INK: Taking Care
was in the midst of a rising career when she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. Doctors told her she had three years to live. Decades later, after a second cancer diagnosis and successful treatment, Giusti is here to say that if cancer... View Details