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- 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 Jun 2013
- News
Notes from W50
Fortune 500 companies." —Dean Nitin Nohria "Eighty-two percent of women believe that prioritizing family over work is a barrier to success. Let's not let our humanity be a barrier." —Professor Robin Ely "Do... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
executives from the aerospace and defense industries, Fortune 500 presidents, general managers in the Boston area, and heads of nonbusiness organizations about their decision-making. Based on his interviews,... View Details
- 31 May 2013
- News
Seeing the Light
EVANS: A second career emerges from a lifelong avocation. Photo courtesy of Chip Evans For decades, Chip Evans (MBA 1973) was a Mad Man in Manhattan, doing account work for major Fortune 500 clients at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
of those less fortunate pivots was pretty standard stuff: After a change in leadership, I was unceremoniously fired at the bank where I had been promoted just a few days earlier. After a year of frustration and effort I gave up on the... 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 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
tomorrow's big profits. Dare: Straight Talk on Confidence, Courage, and Career for Women in Charge by Becky Blalock (PMD 68, 1994) (Jossey-Bass) Although women hold most of the managerial and professional jobs in the workforce, they occupy only 14 percent of C-suite... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
company, last fall Robinson joined PRT, a global firm that provides information technology solutions and services to Fortune 500 companies. He stepped in to help lead PRT's initial public offering just after... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
Thompson-Woode says. “I’m one of the few to break through, and I’m making sure I pass on that knowledge I’ve gained at HBS.” Thompson-Woode is now working as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. She’s studied the careers of women executives in View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
leaders in each field. They present insights from interviews with top executives in six industries: private equity, management consulting, hedge funds, investment banking, the management of Fortune 500... 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 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
Fortune 500 company or becomes a partner at a well-respected professional services or private equity firm, she has excelled beyond the need for a training program. That is not to say that these programs... View Details
- 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 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
field research. Over a period of six years, he interviewed nearly forty board members of Fortune 500 companies who, together, had participated in more than a hundred CEO successions. Subsequently, he visited... View Details
- 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
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
15–17 in Shanghai. The forum presents a terrific opportunity for alumni to hear from Fortune 500 global business leaders, government officials, HBS faculty, and prominent U.S. and Chinese leaders. Outside... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
significantly, the firm is a cutting-edge organization that has achieved enormous success using what may well be the business model of the future. In a presentation last fall in Burden Hall, the 33-year-old entrepreneur, the youngest-ever CEO to lead a View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
Watkins, an expert on leadership transition, presses his case for “accelerating” the critical transition period that begins when a new CEO — or a new manager at any level — is hired. Watkins estimates that more than a half-million managers enter new positions each year... View Details