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- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Dhivya Suryadevara Named GM’s Next CFO
percent a decade ago. "While Suryadevara’s appointment highlights one positive development, it also underscores a not-so-great one. In having a woman in the CEO and CFO role, GM will join what is currently a group of one. Among Fortune... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?
millennia. Ubiquitous communication is allowing people to rapidly compare how they’re doing with others. When countries promise a lot and deliver little, they end up as brands no one wants to support. How would you describe the U.S. brand? As a well-respected, strong,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Boosting Boardroom Diversity
According to the Alliance for Board Diversity, representation of women and minority men on Fortune 500 companies has grown, however slightly—from 12.8 percent in 2010 to 14.4 percent last year. A new... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
The Wisdom of Crowds
profile. “He refuses to use his name to get a dinner reservation,” said his roommate, Matt Bakal (MBA 2004). Zagat intends to expand Zagat Survey’s Web business (building Zagat.com’s content and capabilities) and its corporate sales (developing relationships with View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing
Sheila Marmon (MBA 1999) has built her career by breaking down barriers. The founder and CEO of Mirror Digital, a technology-enabled media and advertising company, Marmon has executed more than 350 interactive campaigns, connecting View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Highly Energetic
industry, forecasting its future grows ever more difficult. Three-quarters of the Fortune 500 now report on their carbon emissions, and “irrespective of what you believe about the science, climate change is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Online Job Bank Debuts
bank’s listings include part-time work and temporary consulting assignments suitable for people at any career stage. The job bank plans to reach out to the Fortune 500 and other companies to inform them of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
true that there are plenty of positive statistics out there. Women make up 46.4 percent of the Fortune 500 workforce and just over 50 percent of management, professional, and related occupations. Our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. (MBA 1988)
platforms reach about 9.5 million unique visitors each month. We are now the number-one Black digital media brand. Ten years ago, when we started our directory of African Americans sitting on Fortune 500... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
To cap his already impressive business career, David Price is unabashed about his final goal. "I want to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company," he declares, exuding the energy and optimism reminiscent of a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
HBS Club Meets U.S. Ambassador
Members of the HBS Alumni Association of Germany had a unique opportunity in September to meet with William R. Timken Jr. (MBA ’62), the current U.S. ambassador to Germany. Timken previously had a 43-year career at The Timken Co., a View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Bringing women to the boardroom table
Placing female candidates on boards of public and private companies is Beth A. Stewart’s mission as CEO of Trewstar. The search firm addresses the inequity of board representation—only 16 percent of Fortune View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
sponsorships to Fortune 500 companies trying to reach our network of millions of K-12 students and their parents. new england TrophoMax® is the brand name for patented agricultural seed and leaf inoculants... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
Karen Page (MBA '89) is a consultant to Fortune 500 food companies in marketing strategy, culinary trends, and new product development. With her husband, Andrew Dornenburg, a professional chef, she has... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
need for industry experts to serve on boards. Under current regulations, directors must be independent as a means to avoid conflicts of interest. Today, ten out of twelve directors of Fortune 500 companies... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
becoming a Fortune 500 CEO. “I had very high aspirations,” says Beilharz, who was, by 1988, in top management at MetroCel, a major player in the then-budding cellular industry. “I was enthralled with my... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
“alliance,” not a merger), he is the only person ever to simultaneously head two Fortune 500 companies. This “alliance” has brought together two companies that maintain their substantially different cultures... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
founding Pactual. Over the years, Jakurski has learned that successful investing in Brazil requires intimate knowledge of the country. The two most prominent kinds of outside investors, he observes, are "offshore portfolio managers, most of whom don't know the region... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
their peers,” he says. For Army Colonel Everett Spain (DBA 2014), who served in Kosovo and Iraq, it’s equally clear why military veterans are attracted to business school: “In business, you can continue to be a leader of character in an investment bank or a View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
no matter what I’m involved with, I’ll still bring the same tools to bear on it as I would if I were working at a Fortune 500 company. I approach the smallest problem in the same fashion as I would if it... View Details