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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
principles of partnership. Tierney: In these businesses, the people you pay are more important than the people who pay you. Your people are your product. This creates a complex and unforgiving business: If a professional service firm’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pearson Hunt
Industrial Administrator Program, the Army Quartermaster Corps School, the Navy Supply Corps School, and the Army Air Forces Statistical School (where I did my teaching), as well as the Navy's Contract View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt
- 21 Nov 2008
- News
No More Squawking about the Campus Turkey
Summit, when the press took notice and filed stories, went to her head. If anything, she became more aggressive and finally crossed the line separating irksome from menacing, whereupon her campus privileges... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
After resigning last fall, Gorgas joined the board of an accounting software and services company and is now considering other board opportunities. “I was introduced to the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
the distractions of email and a Bloomberg terminal are difficult to access, but a nap area is always ready. Portraits of mentors help Spier model his decision-making on their behavior. To keep focus View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
industry, most recently as CEO of the Swiss/Chilean company Aport SA. Airlines have since abandoned all aspirations of luxury to focus on reducing operational expenses. It’s the reason we’re seeing a bumper crop of low-cost carriers, Fraser adds. If anyone is to pick... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)
In 1978, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in Boston Harbor was unceremoniously shut down because of contract disputes with its Algerian suppliers. In 1987, the terminal’s owner, Cabot Corp., tapped Gordon Shearer (MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Donella Rapier to Head External Relations
Donella Rapier (MBA ’92) has recently been appointed associate dean for External Relations at HBS, following the resignation of James C. Schroeder, who accepted a position as chief development officer at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
in clandestine seizure of Iraq’s off-shore oil terminals and cleared Iraqi waterways for delivery of humanitarian aid. Service from September to December 2001 (off Iraq, Afghanistan) View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
Baker Library) and accessed with the DECmate housed in a VT100 terminal cabinet. At first I was envisioning Doris and Val at their Decmates inputting all the data for some... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
their jobs to offer to resign, and Dayton Hudson Corp. insists that outside directors resign if they change jobs. The General Motors Board of Directors Corporate Governance Guidelines assert that "individual... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
persuaded him to switch from law to banking. Wasserstein has seen both good times and bad. In recent years, his firm, Wasserstein Perella, has had to endure the roller-coaster ride of the M&A business itself; then, in 1993, Joe Perella... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
72, he was considering some “new directions” when President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) asked him to head the SEC, which was reeling from the resignation of its chairman and criticisms about its effectiveness... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
almost resigned as CEO of GE. READ MORE Dan Morrell: I want to talk about an episode in 2009. This is in the wake of the financial crisis and you guys had just made a dramatic cut to the dividend. You were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Turning Point: On the Line
Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Day 116 was bizarrely poetic. Or poetically bizarre. And not just because I was an HBS grad participating in his second strike. To that point in last year’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
simplistically said, ‘Well, if we just get a new manager, we’ll solve the problem.’ ” —HBS professor Clay Christensen, on the forced resignation of Rick Wagoner (MBA 1977) as chairman and CEO of General... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Exploring the Galápagos
and ten minutes later Marty, with life vest on, is aboard a panga (dinghy) approaching Darwin Bay for a “wet landing.” Last summer, HBS Alumni Travel took a group of nineteen, ages 14–87, on a trip that can only be described as fantastic.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
From 1988 to 1993, Juan Enriquez-Cabot was CEO of SERVIMET, a for-profit urban development entity of the Mexico City government which grew 4,000 percent during his tenure and became the city's largest revenue source after taxes. In 1993,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
Reed Edwin C. Reed (MBA ’79) spends Saturdays with his family, but on Sundays, you’ll always find him at the office. Reed is the CFO of the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica, Queens — a powerhouse religious institution View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
always said, “Why would I retire? Everything I’m doing in my job, I’d be doing anyway.” And I truly believe that at the age of 85, he would wake up at 6 a.m., and the first thing he would do is go to his... View Details
Keywords: Finance