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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Illustration by Dave Cutler At the peak of his career as CEO of Bain & Company, Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) quit his job to form a nonprofit professional services organization. Frustrated by the plodding pace of Alzheimer’s research,... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, Reddit had seen its share of CEO turnover as it grappled with questions about how to moderate content and build a sustainable advertising model without crushing the site’s notoriously independent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
for any big company that would have me. I had no particular interest in trains or railroads, but the Chessie System happened to be hiring at the time.” Chessie and the Seaboard System Railroad combined to become CSX in 1986. In 2003, Ward became chairman, president,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
materials science from Northwestern and an M.S. from Stanford. After graduation, Agarwala returned to India, where in 1996 he started a successful iron-ore mining company and later founded a Calcutta-based management training school.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
is the CEO of one’s own life,” he adds. “Maybe I could have been a better executive, or a more accomplished mountain climber, or a better husband and father if I hadn’t tried to balance those three things. But it was my choice to try.”... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
Cornell works for Blue Origin, where she is head of astronaut strategy and sales and supports engine sales for the space exploration company. Along with a few dozen fellow employees, all dressed in royal blue company polo shirts—including founder and Amazon View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 18 Jan 2022
- News
HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
chair of the Asia-Pacific Research Center; Willy C. Shih, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration at HBS; Lihong Qin, cofounder and president of NIO; and Paul Yang (MBA 1996), partner and CEO... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
participated in the signing ceremony for an investment of $132 million by Fruit of the Loom, which is closing its plant in Ireland to consolidate operations here to serve the EU market. One of our most successful initiatives is a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
David H. Langstaff (MBA 1981), president and CEO of Veridian Corporation of Arlington, Virginia, a knowledge–systems company that works extensively in the area of cyber assurance and security. Explains Langstaff, “For managers, it’s not... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
Image by John Ritter About a month before schools began to close in the United States in response to the pandemic, Sal Khan (MBA 2003) (pictured above, right), founder and CEO of the online learning platform Khan Academy, began to see... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
1996, Hema Hattangady took over as the CEO of Conzerv, an embattled family-owned firm based in Bangalore that manufactured digital energy meters. Over the next 12 years, she grew it to become India’s largest energy-management company.... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
redefine the meaning of success in business. B Lab’s mission is to assemble a global community of Certified B Corporations, which are companies that meet certain prescribed standards of social and environmental performance, public... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
empathy, particularly for their employees. And I would say the toughest one to have is courage. Now Chad has to have courage, but I've seen a lot of CEOs that have no courage and their companies don't fare well over time. Now, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
capital, and because many smallholders don't have clear title to their land—and therefore no collateral—banks are loath to lend them the funds they need. To unlock financing for his initiative, Masha turned to his friend Ladi Balogun (MBA 2000), View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
for the environmental groups at the table. “Their job is to stay there and not make too many waves.” But Eamer got it, she says. “He was the sane one, trying to actually find solutions.” Rick Jeffery, CEO of Coast Forest Products—a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
taste. My name’s Ayr, I’m the founder and CEO of Clover. And, the way to think about this is it’s like an internal company process that you guys are all sitting in on. ... Julia: That Brussel sprout sandwich and every other item on... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
scope of his thinking: You can’t talk about success and strategy without also understanding purpose, they said. Gulati was skeptical. But he decided to explore it, and in conversations with leaders like Blackrock View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
(MBA 1988) is cofounder and COO. She is also the founding CEO of Mediva, the company’s consulting arm. Platanus clinics share overnight resources and electronic medical records, so their combined 2,500 at-home palliative care patients... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
come together. It’s about being more globally competitive and creating jobs in the United States, which is a dialogue the President wants to have. You traveled recently throughout Asia with President Obama and other American CEOs and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
co-CEO of the New Paper, and Sur, founder and CEO of the Juggernaut, leading a new venture in an intensely competitive environment has been the best sort of challenge, calling on every one of their MBA skills. On November 3 they talked to... View Details