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- 02 Apr 2019
- News
Remembering William Wilder
consortium, later moving on to become chairman and chief executive of Consumers Gas. In 1994, Wilder received the Alumni Achievement Award from HBS. In 2017, he was awarded the Order of Canada and was also inducted into Canada’s... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- News
Risk and Rewards
Adebayo Ogunlesi (MBA 1979) is chairman and managing partner of Global Infrastructure Partners. In this interview he talks about the rewards of taking risks on unexpected opportunities. “People often ask me, ‘What is the best advice you... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
Leading the Way
Jim McNerney (MBA 1975) is the retired chairman of the Boeing Company and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video he discusses his experience as a leader of two of America’s top companies and the lessons he... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Dateline Belgrade
Slobodan Milosevic's decision to withdraw Serb forces from Kosovo last spring was helped along by a surprising secret envoy: Peter Castenfelt (MBA '72), chairman of Archipelago Enterprises, a London-based financial firm. Reporting that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
California Research Center Marks Fifth Year
steering committee chairman Arthur Rock (MBA ’51), CRC executive director Christina L. Darwall (MBA ’75) and her staff wrote a mock case about Rock, a legendary founding father of the venture capital industry. Rock, who was presented with... View Details
- 11 Aug 2020
- News
Find Your Allies
making decisions to issue millions of dollars of bonds,” she says. Today, Harris is vice chairman of global wealth management and a senior client adviser at Morgan Stanley in New York, which she joined in 1987. Harris says she wasn’t... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Promoting a Deeper Understanding
“Once you understand the environment each of us is coming from, it makes it a lot easier to communicate, which is what business is all about. Communication is key to solving problems,” says Bullard, chairman of E.D. Bullard Co., a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Touching All the Bases: Stephen A. Greyser
commentator; a current board member of four marketing-related corporations; formerly an editor and later board chairman of the Harvard Business Review; and former executive director of the Marketing Science Institute. He was elected a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Class Day, Commencement Mark New Beginning for Newest Alumni
achievement and filled with anticipation, youthful spirits and energy will not be denied. Fittingly, it was brighter days and business leadership that Class Day speaker Jamie Dimon (MBA ’82) chose as the focus of his remarks. Dimon, View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered
an enormous and long-lasting impact on students and faculty alike.” After retiring from the faculty in 1993, Pearson served as an operating partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice until 1997 and as chairman and CEO of YUM Brands, PepsiCo’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC). Whitehead is also the founder of HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), dedicated to generating and sharing knowledge that helps organizations and individuals create... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
A Case for Coffee
TechnoServe’s chairman is Paul Tierney (MBA ’68). Profile of Paul Tierney, Dec. 2002. In the spectacular setting of a safari tent perched on an escarpment overlooking Lake Manyara, the safari participants returned to their HBS roots and... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
President and COO, 20th Century Fox 1987 Cofounds Castle Rock Entertainment; named Chairman and CEO 1989 Castle Rock produces When Harry Met Sally and Seinfeld 1999 Named President and COO, Warner Bros. 2004 Awarded Pioneer of the Year,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
instruction. The initial phases of planning and design have just begun, with construction anticipated to commence in the summer of 2000 and completion scheduled for late 2001. Hawes retired last year as chairman and CEO of Life Re... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
details). His service to HBS is long–standing: In 1981, he and his classmate, Fayez Sarofim, funded the first professorship at HBS in the field of entrepreneurship (which has been held by Howard H. Stevenson since its inception). From 1997 to 2002, he served as... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
HBS Collaboration Helps Management Education for Minority Students
Five years ago, HBS professor Francis J. Aguilar (now emeritus) and Walter Y. Elisha (MBA '65), then chairman and CEO of Springs Industries, Inc., brought together a dynamic coalition of corporations and business schools to address the... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
David Wetherell, chairman and CEO of CMGI, and Andreas Schmidt, president and CEO of AOL Europe. In all, sixty CEOs and founders, along with representatives from over three hundred companies, participated. For more information on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Avon CEO Jung on Leadership
Jung Andrea Jung, chairman and CEO of Avon Products, Inc., knows a thing or two about reinvention. After taking over the venerable beauty-products firm in 1999, she helped it shed the last vestiges of its “Ding-dong, Avon calling” image... View Details
- 16 Feb 2011
- News
Healthy Growth
has been chairman and CEO of IDEXX, a Maine-based firm that develops diagnostics and information technology for veterinarians, as well as testing technologies that ensure safe water, milk, and livestock production. According to the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
AASU Looks Ahead
alumni, and business leaders. Those who attended the gathering, held in mid-February, heard from two keynote speakers: entrepreneur George Fraser, the author of Success Runs in Our Race, and General Gary Cooper, chairman and CEO of... View Details