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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Rippleworks, Andy Kaplan (MBA 1978) recently led a session to help social venture teams through the COVID-19 crisis. Rippleworks convened 100+ social enterprises to share practical advice on managing and leading through a View Details
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
recalls. Only later would they realize how well-matched their ambitions were: Model wanted to work in finance at a biotech firm, and Mathur wanted to become a health care investor. Today, Model is head of financial planning and analysis... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff
background in oil and gas with his management education to become an oil analyst first at Arthur D. Little and then Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. In 1987, he founded McDep, LLC, which conducts independent energy investment research.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
thinking, translating his insights into practice and correcting the most common misconceptions about them. Guide to Managing Growth: Turning Success into Even Bigger Success by Rupert Merson (PMD 71, 1996) (Wiley) Successful growth... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
investment in improving everyday life in Detroit by a national retailer—that people didn’t believe could happen in the city. “Uncertainty is a horrible constraint for investment,” Cummings says of Detroit’s financial chaos prior to the... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Big Ambition Behind Educational Innovation
Innovation has been in the School’s DNA since it introduced the case method for management education almost a century ago. Sometimes innovation is about creating bold, new ideas, as happened when the field method was introduced to provide... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
but his achievements over the past fourteen years speak volumes about his skills and vision as a leader. From the vantage point of his sparsely staffed Boston headquarters, for example, he sets the overarching strategy for each firm, while giving View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
Solutions for Better Corporate Governance (Bloomberg Press) emphasizes accountability, transparency, performance measurement, and a strong system of checks and balances in its practical approach to reform. Why did you write this book? After 25 years of advising... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
One of the most essential roles of the general manager is to be the person who can move an organization forward through the most tangled of circumstances, says Professor Amy Edmondson, “where there is uncertainty, different points of view, and high stakes, whether... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
Download Jim McNerney profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1949 Born, Providence, Rhode Island 1971 Earns BA, American Studies, Yale University 1975 Earns MBA 1975 Joins Procter & Gamble, Brand Manager 1978 Joins... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Second Acts
grew rapidly during the ’90s and managed to weather the dot-com bust. Eager for new challenges, Meakem sold the company last year for nearly $500 million and has embarked on a career in venture capital and politics. Committed to helping... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
least four consecutive years of top financial performance or have led a business or service that changed the way people live and work. Our previous book, In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century, shows that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
sometimes be skirted, frauds sometimes perpetrated, society’s resources misallocated, and the environment sometimes damaged. Managements are sometimes tolerated or even embraced who should not be—managements preoccupied with... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
having spent the first 16 years of his life alongside his family, moving from Mexico up and down the West Coast of the United States to harvest peaches, olives, cherries, and plums. He managed to graduate from high school in California in... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
by Messrs. Arafat and Peres. Given his artistic bent, why did Høegh enroll at HBS? "I see myself as a catalyst," he explains. "Having both an artistic and a financial background makes it easier for me to bring brilliant people together... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
landing on an aircraft carrier in darkness, flying combat missions over Korea, breaking the sound barrier, and then teaching others to do the same. This is the story of that journey. The Big Ordeal: Understanding and Managing the... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
2011. Of the nation’s 16.2 million management jobs at smaller companies, only 6.7 percent are held by blacks, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. These realities prompted John Rice (MBA 1992) to found View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
that can't tell you exactly how much our customers have on deposit. We have 35-year-old systems for maintaining records on tape files. Our collection process and compliance examinations are months or years behind, largely due to antiquated systems. We collect $1.5... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Working to improve California's public education system
obvious and sometimes more subtle ways, both as a connection and as a connector with people who have graduated before me or after me,” she says. “It’s a great network to have, and it’s great that my management skills were developed at the... View Details