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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
James Has New Role
served in various administrative posts at the School for fifteen years, ending as Associate Dean and Senior Executive Officer. He then worked in the private sector as President and COO of The First Marblehead Corporation until 2005, when... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
communication, transportation, and travel, creating a new commercial reality. He argued that the future belonged not to the multinational corporation but to the global corporation that did not cater to local... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
imperative that we engage immediately with each of these challenges—individually and collectively. The decisions we make about how to manage our investments, our business operations, our supply chains, our people, and our corporate... View Details
- 16 Sep 2010
- News
Idea Takes Root
to create a new corporate reporting model fit for the 21st century.” Indeed, Eccles and others are pioneering a new way for businesses to operate. Too bad the American press missed the story. View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
Comstock: a community service entrepreneur who has founded two inner-city banks and other community organizations in New York and the San Francisco area using his personal credit card. Chuck Knight, who runs Emerson Electric: a master at... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
part of what’s driving consolidation across the country,” Hansen Shapiro observes. The National Trust used a leveraged buyout to acquire the titles, which will continue with their mission under a new public benefit corporation that is... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of an Alumni Achievement Award honoree. When... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
Zehnder utters these words with considerable passion, since he created the unique corporate culture in which these qualities are so fundamental. In 1976, as Egon Zehnder International continued to grow and prosper, he decided to give up... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Marquis Jet Takes Off
an opportunity to create a fourth way that would lower the financial barrier to private-jet travel while guaranteeing high-quality service and aircraft through a partnership with NetJets. Allard and his partners, who also came with... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
working in the public sector to be extremely rewarding and is deeply committed to helping small US manufacturers who operate in large corporate supply chains. "We cannot lose their expertise," she emphasizes. "If we do, we'll lose even... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to a 2018 UN report, up from 55 percent today. That means making room for and creating the infrastructure for another 2.5 billion people to live, work, move, and consume. Meanwhile, the... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
“read-write” era, corporate networks democratized publishing. We are now in the midst of the “read-write-own” era, sometimes called web3, in which blockchain networks are granting power and economic benefits to communities of users, not... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
sparkling academic career. The author of classics such as Competitive Strategy, Competitive Advantage, and The Competitive Advantage of Nations, he is widely regarded as the world's leading expert on competitive strategy for corporations... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund
million gift from the Frist family. The combined gift is the largest to support student aid in the School’s history. These gifts will establish the Frist Financial Aid Fund at HBS. Drs. Thomas F. Frist Sr. and Thomas F. Frit Jr. were founders of Hospital View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
Senior executives have taken most of the heat for the headline-grabbing scandals that have rocked corporate America over the past few years. Scott C. Newquist (MBA ’75), president of Board Governance Services, wants to shift some of that... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
to somehow be of service to others.” A graduate of Morehouse College with a degree in computer science, he recalls that, at the time he applied to HBS, deciding between an advanced degree in business or in religion was “almost a toss-up.”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
Owners’ Loan Corporation deemed vast swaths of Baltimore populated by people of color to be “hazardous” and shaded them red on its official maps. Banks refused to offer mortgages and other financial services... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
hundreds of millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by bringing mobile phone service to the Chinese countryside), that brought medicine where it had been unaffordable (which the Indian pharmaceutical firm Cipla... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
elite events such as Davos are still coveted, but those events are also broadly covered, including by the new anyone’s-a-journalist who carries a smartphone camera. Actions and conversations increasingly leave a digital trace, which has led to the downfall of careless... View Details
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
Beth Stewart Corporate America's glass ceiling doesn't stop at the C-suite. Only 16.6 percent of Fortune 500 companies have a woman on their board of directors. Beth A. Stewart (MBA 1982) is uniquely qualified to change that. And she is... View Details