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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
daily combat. Michael Farmer (MBA 1971) is chairman and CEO of Farmer & Company, a strategy consulting firm for the advertising industry. He is the author of two books, Madison Avenue Manslaughter and Madison Avenue Makeover. View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
valued at over $750 billion. The former vice chairman of Citigroup, he recently joined Lazard as president—and continues to draw on the foundational values that have shaped him, with an eye to paying it forward to future generations. Ray... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
trouble with that is that your present editor cannot write as well as the New Yorker editor. If he could he would probably be using his talent to better advantage than he is at present." Wright continued as chairman of the magazine's... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Sherwood says by phone from her office in Grand Haven, Michigan, where she serves as vice chairman of JSJ Corporation, a family-owned entity comprising six manufacturing companies. "I had come right out of college, and many of the men had... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
lost rank in Money magazine’s annual list of the most desirable careers. Moore, who spent a decade at Sports Illustrated and another ten years at People before being appointed Time Inc.’s chairman and CEO, says that while her own job... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
housing is a problem that increasingly affects companies and employers, as well as the overall economy," says F. Barton Harvey (MBA '74), (see related story) chairman and CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
university presses. As volunteer vice chairman of New York–based Do Something, Inc., Dave Mazza is one of many classmates to put his skills to work in the community. Dave combined his career's worth of executive search contacts with his... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
San Francisco. Following a subsequent job at Westinghouse Broadcasting headquarters in New York, in 1989 he became assistant to the chairman and CEO of CBS, Laurence Tisch. During a “fascinating” three years with Tisch, Baer became... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
234,629 In 1971, T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA 1956) became CEO of Sealed Air Corporation, a fledgling New Jersey protective-packaging company. Under his leadership, Sealed Air soon became known for its quality products and technological innovation. By the time Dunphy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
HBS and the Kennedy School of Government. Coup, who’s 41 and a numbers whiz, worked as the policy director for the anti-deficit Concord Coalition in Washington, D.C.; a strategic planner in the office of the American Stock Exchange’s chairman; and a special assistant... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
thought had laid the company low, making this one of his finest leadership hours as he oversaw Corning’s return to stability. A former board chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and former (and longest-serving ever) member of the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
years later, he’s still at Accel and can lay claim to one of the most storied careers in the venture industry: 25 companies that have completed IPOs or successful mergers; directorships with Wal-Mart Stores, Marvel Entertainment, and Facebook, among others; and past... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
when they are freed from restraining pre–conceptions and inhibiting circumstances. In the book’s foreword, Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google, notes that in high tech and many other industries today, “the environment is changing so... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
New England elites — Massachusetts Investors Trust chairman Merrill Griswold, MIT president Karl T. Compton, and Vermont Senator Ralph E. Flanders, the first Congressman to publicly upbraid Joseph McCarthy. Fresh from the U.S. victory in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
of innovative plan.” Pozen, chairman of MFS Investment Management and the host of an HBS conference last summer that examined Massachusetts’s health-care reforms, says hordes of curious officials from across the country have come to see... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
systems-change initiatives. By working with social entrepreneurs and philanthropists, the organization aims to break down barriers to opportunity in America. Jeff Walker (MBA 1981), chairman Rebuild Congress Initiative brings together... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
it to market is so low that it remains a risky proposition." Profitable firms such as Genentech, Genzyme, and Biogen already have products on the market, as does Amgen, where Gordon M. Binder (MBA '62) served as CEO until his retirement last month (he will continue to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
too. “It’s a nation-building exercise,” the former co-CEO and chairman of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion says. “It’s critical to Canada’s history and to our future.” The Erebus sank in 1845, part of an ill-fated mission by British... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
DreamWorks Animation and Walt Disney Studios, who serves as chairman to Whitman’s CEO. She holds up her iPhone to demonstrate what this future that they envision might look like on a five-inch screen. From the fish-eye perspective of a... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Senior Director in International Government Relations Europe and Eurasia of Exxon Mobil and former Special Assistant to the U.S. President for Russia and Central Asia; Hubert Joly, Senior Lecturer at HBS and former Chairman and CEO of... View Details