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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future
country. Guillaume Hannezo, CFO and senior EVP at Vivendi Universal, delivered the opening keynote address on Saturday morning. Suggesting that the events of September 11 have created a new collective reality for the United States and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
single person who was hired during my time at Kohl's. How did you first get involved in politics? In the mid-1970s then Governor Pat Lucey asked me to be state chairman of the Democratic Party. When the Senate seat View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Sherwood came to HBS with the aim of being a securities analyst on Wall Street, but she graduated without a job offer. "I guess I picked the stodgiest firms to interview with, and Wall Street wasn't very open to women at the time," she... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
"dream" in conversation more frequently than "market cap," "stock options," or "IPO." A native of Bombay, India, Ranadivé says he feels both international and American. "You can have big dreams here," he remarks. "The United States is a very multicultural and View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
from the hundreds of youth and adult state associations, clubs, and professional leagues, offering his comprehensive platform to transform soccer in America: investing more in world-class national teams, growing participation at the youth level, making US Soccer more... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
cause of it. Thick, old ice reflects 80 percent of solar radiation, helping to keep the planet cool. Brittle, newly formed ice is only half as effective and melts more easily. And open water reflects only 5 percent of the solar radiation... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
“Yeah, you guys are not very competitive in Hong Kong anymore.” After consulting the family and Victor, who was still teaching at Harvard Business School, we decided to follow the business and set up in Taiwan. And I remember distinctly, six months after we View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
opportunities to working with founders and managers to sponsoring over 120 successful initial public offerings. As well known as the venture capital industry is today, that was far from the case in 1965, when Greylock opened a small... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
were asking important questions and making changes, and West saw companies taking initial steps to address diversity issues, including hiring diversity officers as senior executives. With a focus on diversity, the numbers began to show... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
on the topic, corporate boardrooms are stuck. The first challenge to adding women to boards is that there are just not enough open board seats to fill and the second is that of the very few open spots (7% of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
yoga “gurus” she encountered in New York. In 2008, after Stiles opened Strala Yoga, the popular doctor and self-help author Deepak Chopra hired her as his personal yoga instructor, a huge endorsement.... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
get behind their ideas, going through fertility treatments while launching a company, managing investor expectations, prioritizing mental health, setting benchmarks, hiring to fill experience gaps, and even returning VC funding. “It takes... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
probably win some guests over with your pet-friendly policy, too. People love their pets. When you’re friendly to their pets, it’s like being friendly to their kids. When we opened the Hotel Monaco in Portland, Oregon, we had searchlights... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
with those on the inside. The large black-and-white checkered marble floor is familiar, if expanded, but there is a new sense of space in the main entrance area that is both inviting and grounding. An open central stairway makes it clear... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
the time had an excellent retail training program. "They actually hired me over the phone," Jackson says with a laugh. After eight years at Federated, she worked for a series of top retailers - Saks Fifth Avenue, Disney, and Victoria's... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
make a sales call. I didn’t know how to negotiate a real estate lease. I didn’t know how to set up a payroll. I had no idea how to interview and hire the right people. These are all really important business skills. Photo courtesy of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
the physiological state of the human body. A much better method is to get information about the DNA, RNA, and proteins. Understanding that information will help us detect a disease before it becomes symptomatic." "It's a way of thinking about disease that wasn't View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
people. When Cohen visited Nairobi to survey the damage, she found the embassy site a “tangled, chaotic mess,” with stairs that ended in midair and entire floors blown open to the elements. SaysCohen, “The bombings were horrific. The... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
that means for both hiring organizations and job-seekers. The conversation, titled "How to Hire Your Next Job," was based on Bernstein's ongoing research for an upcoming book on the topic, and took place in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley