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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
In the late aughts, Joe Burton (PMD 75, 2000) looked like a success story. In 2006, after a successful career in consulting and the C-suite of numerous public companies, he was named COO of McCann Worldgroup, overseeing $1.5 billion in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 May 2013
- News
Alex Popa, MBA 2007
School’s Young Leaders Program, which encourages contributions from young alumni by lowering the giving threshold for certain funds. Although his career path since HBS has been in investment management, Popa, a vice president at the Los... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
South Asian Women at Work
Smart but passive. Good technicians, but not likely managers. Women from India and Pakistan frequently must combat stereotypes about how they function at work. But they should resist labels and pursue the careers of their dreams, said... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Deborah A. Farrington, MBA 1976
For Debby Farrington, the road to HBS began at age 11 with a visit to the New York Stock Exchange. "I was fascinated," says Farrington, who majored in economics at Smith and was one of just nine women in her HBS section. Comfortable in the role of a pioneer,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Secrets Behind a VC Success Story
Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) never intended to make a career of venture capital. But he turned out to be pretty good at picking winners and helped propel Accel Partners into the ranks of the top VC firms. more Case-Method Godfather Chris... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of '97 Placement Statistics Similar for September and January Cohorts
& Media 4% Investment Management 4% Health Care 3% Consumer Products 3% Other Services 12% Other Manufacturing 3% Employment by Company Size (number of employees)** 10,001 22% * 883 students graduated in the Class of 1997, with 607 in the... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967)
organization, and think strategically,” says Spreng. “It benefited me tremendously throughout my career.” He went on to a 40-year career in high-tech manufacturing and marketing, including serving as a group general View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Teaching is in his DNA
especially to his junior colleagues. Kim Clark, McArthur’s successor as Dean, often told the story about going into McArthur’s office for a career conference in the spring of 1984. Clark, then an associate professor in the Technology and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
combination offered by Ford Motor Company’s management training program. While he excelled at leading teams to solve engineering-based manufacturing problems, it was a stint in sales and marketing that changed his life. “I was on the job... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he holds a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
Three years ago, Minnie Ingersoll pressed her career coach with a basic query: What does a COO actually do? After 12 years at Google, Ingersoll had cofounded the online car marketplace Shift in 2013, taking on the unfamiliar role. “I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
full courses Acting in Time: Leadership and Management in the Face of Large-Scale Risks is a leadership capstone course designed for students who, over the course of their careers, will lead an organization that faces large-scale risks.... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
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
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
More Than a Business
attempted a career in professional sports, playing for a year with the Milwaukee Bucks and the Cleveland Cavaliers. But the lure of business ultimately proved stronger, pulling Graves to HBS, where he explored his interest in View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 May 2013
- News
Robert F. Higgins, MBA 1970
While some people end their careers with a focus on philanthropy, Bob Higgins began his that way. After graduating from HBS, he spent nine years with three different private foundations, each with a deep interest in health care. Today,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
professor J. Sterling Livingston's class. Born and raised in Syracuse, New York, Fox graduated cum laude from Le Moyne College and served in the U.S. Navy prior to arriving at Soldiers Field. Drawn to Livingston's interest in managing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
Prem Ramaswami (MBA 2013) (courtesy Prem Ramaswami) Prem Ramaswami (MBA 2013) (courtesy Prem Ramaswami) Shireen Soheili (MBA 2016) (courtesy Shireen Soheili) Shireen Soheili (MBA 2016) (courtesy Shireen Soheili) During her job hunt for a product View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Fellowships Have Impact
Leadership and Innovation “The fellowship was helpful in making decisions for my life in the sense that by minimizing my student loan burden, I was able to really pursue the career that I was most excited about.” Josue Zapata (MD/MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Given success of this magnitude, why aren’t for-profit managed charter schools like Sabis in high demand? The authors rebut the charge that for-profits running charter schools are in it for the money, not the kids, and they explore the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A founding father of Silicon Valley venture capital guides entrepreneurs
Throughout his long career as a venture capitalist, Franklin “Pitch” Johnson (MBA 1952) has worked primarily in the biotech industry, earning a reputation as a thoughtful investor, trusted adviser, and generous philanthropist. In 1962,... View Details