Reputation Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989

company representatives, the first of its type in Peru. Meeting with Anglo American executives. While Carroll is proud of the progress Anglo American has made within its mining communities, her reputation has also been built on strong... View Details

01 Dec 2003
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Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth

remarks follow. While our survey did not explore the reasons for choosing branching over affiliation, some nonprofits may prefer branching because it allows the nonprofit leader to exert the most control since the new organizational units are established and View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Action Plan: Yes, Chef!

Wolfgang Puck (OPM 53, 2019)—aka the father of California cuisine, OG celebrity chef, and culinary empire-builder—began his career as a disgraced cook’s apprentice at a hotel restaurant. At 14, he’d been eager to take the post just outside his Austrian hometown: Not... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune

01 Jun 1997
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David M. Hughes

110 percent" of himself to anything he's involved in, earned a reputation among students and staff at HBS as someone who could always be counted on to do a job - and another and another - and do it right. Sometimes in highly visible... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

fashion e-commerce company, Peach. It’s also a challenge to an industry where a company’s potential is often predicted based on its similarity to other successful ventures, most often led by CEOs who look a whole lot like Mark Zuckerberg. Tech has long had a View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2018
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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)

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of management skill as athletic... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Oct 1999
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Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business

also with regard to management practices and reputation in the community. The result of her efforts is the MBA elective course Globalization, Culture, and Management. According to Paine, as they examine the... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 2014
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The Digital Deck

As a professor in the Strategy Unit, Bharat Anand has studied how media companies move a traditional product into the online space. Some have managed that transition well, he says, and others have not. In the early days, Anand observes,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

18 Nov 2020
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Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

worldwide, the two-day event opened with a special interactive presentation by HBS professors Joseph Fuller and William Kerr called The Future of Work—And Managing the Impact of COVID-19. Fuller and Kerr serve as co-directors of the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2001
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Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment

industry giants such as Brandon Tartikoff and Grant Tinker. There he began honing the skills that have since secured his own reputation as a television programmer extraordinaire. The key, Sagansky observes, is finding the right niche, "a... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

Former President & CEO, eBay Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Princeton University, 1977 A.B., Economics SELECTED PREVIOUS POSITIONS Hasbro, General Manager FTD , CEO Disney, Senior Vice President Bain... View Details

05 Nov 2013
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Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans

of effort on his part. Wilkins moved to the Crescent City four years ago from Boston with his wife, New Orleans native Ginny Wise, and three sons. Prior to his arrival, he had been a brand manager for Proctor & Gamble, a marketing vice... View Details

Keywords: New Orleans; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2006
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A Capital Asset

five-year stint managing the multibillion dollar United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds, Cohen was tapped by National Trust for Historic Preservation head Michael Ainslie (MBA ’68) to be the nonprofit’s senior... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Jan 2012
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Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952

After three years, the pair sold their portfolio to Sutter Hill Ventures, and Johnson looked for a company to buy. Instead, he ended up back in the venture business, founding Asset Management Company in 1967. Over the ensuing decades,... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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KPMG for Mayor!

Nigerians. It could lay out its management plan as part of its election campaign, and voters would take that into account in making their decision. Why would locals vote for a foreigner? If they felt it was their only option to get out of... View Details

Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

08 Aug 2013
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Cause Marketing Gets Personal

resulted in a breast cancer diagnosis, and Langer's battle against the disease led her to volunteer at the then-pioneering National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO) in 1988. "We had the first extensive, disease-specific cancer site on the Web, and built... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2002
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HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power

no national reputation — was appointed,” Ferguson recalled. “But he listens to everyone, judges ideas on their quality rather than on their source, and makes better decisions because of that.” Financial consultant Andrew Brimmer, the... View Details

28 Jun 2024
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Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories

New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details