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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs Take the Helm
giving, recent graduates, international alumni, and HBS Fund Investors Society membership. A graduate of Wellesley College, Anna is chairman of the Spangler Companies, a private investment firm. Tom, who received his BS from Stanford University, is chairman and View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
some of the personal details of how and where they grew up—and how that shaped the person they are today. Photos by Susan Young READ MORE Julia Hanna: John Hess (MBA 1977) is CEO of Hess Corporation, a global independent energy company... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
active HBS volunteer who is president of Houston's Simmons & Company International, an investment bank specializing in the oil service and equipment industry. "Education has always been very important to our parents," says Julia Simmons... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)
cleaning sewers and servicing machinery as a mill foreman), but that on-course connection helped him land a position at Adams in 1998, where he rose to CEO in 2002. In 2012, Brewer was named president and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
Executive Education degrees and accreditations, and a range of sectors, demographics, and experiences. Board members are drawn from a pool of active alumni volunteers. The current board president is Andreas Stavropoulos (MBA 1997). On... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
oil industry. I came full circle with both of those cases, having spent my career in the oil industry and as CEO of a company involved in the Macondo well disaster in 2010. Going through the Macondo crisis and looking back on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf
The room lights up when Peter Harf talks about perfume. His enthusiasm is contagious as he discusses a new cosmetics collection. The chairman and CEO of Coty Inc., one of the world's leading fragrance and cosmetics companies with $1.7... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
information here. Alumni Breathe New Life into HBS Club of Seattle The HBS Club of Seattle is once again an active and growing alumni club, thanks to the recent efforts of its current co-presidents Shyam Ayengar (MBA 2006) and Jon... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
an entrepreneur, investor and inventor who has been working with sustainable housing and renewable energy since 2007. She is the immediate past CEO of BrainHeart Energy, the largest geothermal group in Sweden. She’s also an inventor who... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased Careem for $3.1 billion in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
nowhere to go but up - and the CEOs whose investment activity is linked to available cash flow. With her degree expected in June, Malmendier is in the midst of applying for faculty positions. She hopes to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
but also in schoolyards, says NBA Africa CEO Victor Williams (MBA 1998). “We want the first instinct of African kids, when they see a ball, to be to bounce it rather than kick it.” The NBA’s presence in Africa dates back to 1993, when the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
Borders is gone. So are B. Dalton, Waldenbooks, and Crown Books. Barnes & Noble, headed by CEO Demos Parneros (AMP 178, 2010), now has about 630 physical bookstores—down from more than 700 in 2011. But the number of independent... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Cofounder and activist in residence, B Lab UK Kim Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) Global Ambassador, B Lab and Head of Impact, B Lab US & Canada Business as a Tool for Activism BIO BIO As the recent IPCC report made clear, this is a “Code Red”... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Niren Chaudhary (AMP 191, 2016) has spent most of his career in restaurants, working in leadership positions at Yum! Brands and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts before becoming the CEO... View Details