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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
COO & CFO “So you’re thinking of my contributions in terms of revenue alone?” Katrina VP, Private Label Products “I understand we’re a family, but we have to put emotions aside. This is a business.” Petja Founder & CEO “I don’t know if... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Herman I. Safin
Lee. After two years working as an analyst in the Financial Institutions Group at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, Safin was given the option to become an assistant to the CFO or an associate in investment banking in Moscow. "I was... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
important, the team’s hard work and small-business connections attracted the attention of real-world investors. Petitti and Biederman, now co-CEOs of the Boston-based company, and teammates Peter Maglathlin (MBA 2014) and Joseph Miller (MBA 2014), View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Wells to Lead IMD
firms, including the Monitor Company and Datapaq, both of which he cofounded. He also served as CFO for PepsiCo and Frito-Lay International. After a teaching stint at HBS in the mid-1980s, Wells rejoined the faculty in 2002. View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
A Passion for Education
to CFO and oversaw the company’s initial public offering. In 1993, he joined medical device maker Medtronic as senior vice president and CFO, a position he held for a dozen years and from which he retired in 2005. Investing in Future... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
Clinton as assistant secretary and CFO of the Department of Commerce, Bilmes’s attention shifted to government spending. “The government is good at making promises, but poor at valuing what those promises are going to cost,” says Bilmes,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
Courtesy Coles This was going to be the year everything got back to normal. Since Leah Weckert (MBA 2008) became the CFO at Australia’s Coles Group in 2018, the supermarket giant had announced a demerger—the largest in the country’s... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
adopt new technology have been forced by circumstances to change their processes. “Outreach really created the category,” says Melissa Fisher (MBA 1998), who recently joined Outreach as CFO to help manage its rapid growth. She comes to... View Details
- 28 Jul 2021
- News
Squarely in Their Corner
Amrita Ahuja (MBA 2007) witnessed the hard work and challenges involved in running a small business: Her first job was working as a summer camp day counselor at her parents’ daycare center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Appointed CFO of... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
electric monopoly. Two classmates joined Maddy at Adesemi — Côme Laguë (MBA 1993), who served as CFO and today is CEO of Zetta Research, and Waleed Iskandar (MBA 1993), an early investor who was killed on September 11, 2001, as a... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Dan Geffken (MBA '87)
adoption. “It's easy for my classmates to keep track of how old Molly is,” laughed Geffken, SVP, finance, and CFO of Transkaryotic Therapies in Cambridge. “They can chart her age by our reunions.” This year Geffken was treasurer for his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
benefits, I think about the benefits to the company and the benefits to the worker. For the company, the biggest immediate benefit—which gets all CFOs excited—is the real estate savings. If folks are working from home and in fact working... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Marilynn Davis (MBA '82)
career has also included impressive stints in public service, as CFO of the New York City Housing Authority in the 1990s and as assistant secretary for administration at the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
School in some capacity, making it one of the largest employers of the School’s graduates. We talked to three alum-turned-staff—Crispi, CFO Rick Melnick (MBA 1992), and CIO Steve Gallagher (MBA 1995)—about why the classroom still feels... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
president of Strategic Interactive Group; Joy D. Covey (MBA '89, JD '90), CFO of Amazon.com; and Deidra Wager (AMP 154), an executive vice president at Starbucks. Professor Regina E. Herzlinger's session on "Managing in the Nonprofit... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
being his own boss, Royster instead went to work at Boston-based Capital Resource Partners, then the African-American private equity firm TSG Capital in Stamford, Connecticut. At TSG he was introduced to one of its portfolio companies, Radio One, which he joined as... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jonathan Mariner
watchdog since early 2002. “Baseball is a public trust,” elaborates the thoughtful CFO who oversees MLB’s $800 million budget. “Every decision you make is analyzed, debated, and second-guessed by fans, politicians, sportswriters, and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
future “Case Study,” send an outline of your company’s challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu Case Study Update: Walden Local Meat In 2018, Walden Local Meat CEO Charley Cummings (MBA 2011) had just brought sectionmate Philip Giampietro on board as View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
and knowing that insiders considered the CFO position a thankless assignment. “I’m a sucker for learning opportunities,” he adds, “and this was one I couldn’t pass up.” After two years as CFO, O’Neal rose to his current post, making him... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Mariner (MBA '78), CFO of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins, traces baseball's major turning point to the mid-1970s when several players, supported by a Supreme Court ruling, established their legal claim to "free agency" and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons