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- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
significant dilution under any restructuring plan. The current chairman and CEO has been with the company for only a year and a half, following a decade of senior management turbulence in which the company has seen nine different CEOs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
outsider, free of the usual debts to the party machine. Mitsotakis came to power as a relative outsider, free of the usual debts to the party machine. A year later, as a Harvard undergrad, Mitsotakis wrote his senior thesis about Greek... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
struggling retail stores; and turn them into a national chain. Cenedella worked as a senior vice president at HotJobs after graduation and became fascinated by a difficult problem in the job-matching industry. Job ads garnered hundreds or... View Details
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
licensing and acquisitions and R&D. Eric Dunn MBA ’83, Harvard University; AB, Physics, Harvard University Eric is currently the CEO of Quicken Inc. Prior to his current role, Eric served as a Senior Vice President, CFO and CTO at Intuit.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
going to be taken into the receivership process and liquidated or restructured. “One thing the critics don’t fully acknowledge is the world we live in right now,” continues Moss. “It’s one of massive implicit guarantees that are... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Janet Kraus doesn’t wear a hoodie. She doesn’t live in Silicon Valley. She doesn’t write code. And she isn’t, perhaps most significantly, a straight, white, 20-something man. “I have built tech-enabled businesses,” says the HBS... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
agencies focused on development projects and private-sector growth in emerging economies often seen as too risky for most investors. But this new assignment was something else entirely. “I have a phenomenal job and I’m living in a safe... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
that boom to strengthen dysfunctional political systems," says HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu. "It's a real tribute to the Brazilians that they used that decade for a lot of important things—and out of Brazil has emerged some real... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
that does not come as easily to public company leaders, with the exception of the higher-ambition-type leaders we studied. Public company leaders have the constraints of capital market expectations for short-term quarterly earnings. They View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
as their mental well-being—a forthcoming article in American Psychologist examines current organizational psychology research to help business leaders manage COVID-related fallout in the workplace and develop solutions to ease the stress many employees are... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
says. Everyone who faces it feels some degree of helplessness. And Jim's helplessness was juxtaposed with the fact that, for all his relative youth and inexperience, he had been put into a position of remarkable power over the lives of so... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
20-year-old college senior with a blond cowlick, he was ready to climb the mountain. The sky was cloudless and the temperatures near zero as Moore and his friend Lewis Thorne skied through the heavy forest. At the tree line, they... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Classes of 1998 and 1999 combined. "We have students from as far away as Georgia, Brunei, Gabon, and the Ivory Coast," she says. From Argentina to New Zealand, few corners of the world are missing from today's class profile. Inherent Enrichment Professor Steven C.... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
a set of practices to guide firms as they adopt ambidexterity. Senior leadership is crucial here. We discuss the importance of leading in a consistently inconsistent fashion. Readers will come away with a new understanding of how to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Gates said, does many things well, but the inspiration for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation came in part from a market failure in health-care delivery. Individuals who live in areas where tuberculosis, AIDS, and malaria are still... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Johannesburg where she lives with her two young children and Euvin Naidoo (MBA ’03), also a native South African. She’s working in health care, her passion, but views her Leadership Fellow experience at Oxfam as integral to a long-term... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709488 Investing in Early Learning as Economic Development at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank Harvard Business School Case 309-090 In his role as View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
the failure experience. In Greece, you're not supposed to fail. So in my life, I look politically like the cosine curve, up and down, up and down, up and down. So I had to learn and I had to live politically through thick and thin, you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
understood the banks’ response, but I also knew my strategy and business plan would revive the company,” he says. “There were jobs to be created and families hoping for a solution.” Viana had been in a similarly tight spot at other times in his career. He was a fixer,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Ashish Dhawan (MBA ’97), founder and senior managing director of ChrysCapital, a private-equity firm based in Mumbai. Even so, Dhawan believes that a growing awareness of the outside world and a sense of competitiveness in the Indian... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna