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- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
now a SVP of Greenlight.com, which recently merged with CarsDirect.com. “It moved quickly from class project to religious quest,” adds Nussey, the former CEO of e-business consulting firm iXL and current president and View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Tales, author and retired group vice president of General Motors John Smith tells the story of how he and his team sprouted new life and purpose into the storied Cadillac―once the quintessential expression of accomplishment and success in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
individuals. Entrepreneurial Spirits: Through the Seventeen Success Principles of Napoleon Hill by Poly Emenike (OPM 38, 2009) (The Napoleon Hill Foundation) A testimonial to the efficacy of the principles of Napoleon Hill (1883-1970), an... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
coauthor of Own the Room, is a leadership coach with a track record of helping CEOs and senior leaders take their effectiveness to the next level. The AEI Presents: The Invisible Men A video podcast sharing stories of amazing Black men at... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
help,” she says. A success to be sure, but the nonprofit world, Lisle quickly learned, was more complicated than the business world: “In the private sector, a customer pays and receives something, whether it be a product or a service. In... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
for solutions to make the next generation of microfinance tools even more transformative. One of the great surprises of microfinance has been the astonishingly high rates of loan repayment, at around 96 or 98 percent. How do you interpret that? Ben Roth: One metric of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
problem with this hugely successful model—one that, by some estimates, can be credited for more than one-third of marriages in the United States between 2005 and 2012: The experience of online dating is often awful, especially for young,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
Setting the Standard for Commercial Success As chairman of Esquel Group, Marjorie Yang (MBA 1976) oversees one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-end cotton shirts. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Hong Kong, Esquel employs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
innovation and crisis. “Is there a structural relation between innovation and crisis? I think there has to be,” Merton said. Successful innovation will always outstrip the infrastructure to support it, at least for some considerable time.... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
end of the studio’s decade-long string of successes that included Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo—each movie breaking new ground in its own way, pushing the boundaries in terms of both technology and storytelling. It was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
that they make, for example, is believing that they’ll actually find satisfaction through money, power, and fame. Sooner or later, they become a success addict. If you’re an alcoholic, you can’t actually drink so much alcohol that you’re... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 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... 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