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- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
and a shoebox containing $2,000, the firm's total finances. Less than twenty years later, her California-based producer of manufacturing systems software, ASK Computer Systems, had reached $450 million in revenues. Kurtzig, who is now the View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Photographed by Melissa Golden David Bradley was painting a picture with words. The owner and chairman of Atlantic Media had gathered about 400 staffers in a small Kennedy Center theater near the company’s Watergate offices. It was the... 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
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
conversation that would eventually lead to Rogers meeting with Comstock and GE CEO and Chairman Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) at GE’s headquarters in New York. In the meeting, Jay recalls Immelt laying out his frustrations with production costs.... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... 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
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
and lox plates are thriving. As the former chair of TPL’s Georgia Advisory Council, Ralph Edwards (MBA 1967) worked alongside Langford during the organization’s intense fundraising and acquisition drive. “At the time, nobody thought [the BeltLine] made sense,” recalls... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
human aspect of how work gets done is more than clinical. When asked, anyone who has worked closely with Enan mentions her strong sense of empathy and skills as a communicator and connector. When James Harmon, chairman of the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
Schultz (MBA 1983) was working as an executive chairman for a tech company, and on his way home from a fundraising presentation at a venture firm when he had an epiphany. A longtime executive with a personal interest in history, he had... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
of all professions." A few years later, in 1929, General Electric chairman Owen D. Young ad-dressed the complexities of achieving that goal: "[I]f you ask me to apply the golden rule to a bank rate, I find it amazingly difficult to do."... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
working for an investment management firm in Boston. He then served as the Chairman of the Board of the investment management company I started in Boston nine years later. Professor Salmon constantly amazed me with his ability to ask the... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
between 300,000 to one million ready-to-eat FOOD bars per day, and we need as much help as possible.” FEBRUARY 17 Kamil Yazici (GMP 23, 2017), board member and vice chairman of Turkey’s Anadolu Group, detailed his organization’s sweeping... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
best hospitals in Boston,” recalls McCance, chairman and president of the Boston-based venture-capital firm Greylock Partners. “It was nearly 100 years after the disease was first identified, and yet the best physicians in town could only... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Trust, JetBlue chairman Peterson explores how a culture of trust gives companies an edge. Consider this: What does it feel like to work for a firm where leaders and colleagues trust one another? Freed from micromanagement and rivalry,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Harvard's highest academic rank. With Porter as its chairman and CEO, the ICIC has a mission to "spark new thinking about the business potential of inner cities, thereby creating jobs and wealth for inner-city residents." The many... View Details