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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms In their new book Aligning the Stars: How to Succeed When Professionals Drive Results (Harvard Business School Press), HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch and former Bain & Company... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
aspirations. Through purposeful steps, bold action, and an unleashed imagination, she built her new life from the ground up. Now she is the CEO of her own multimillion-dollar lifestyle brand and ready to... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
A recent Bloomberg profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood (MBA 1999) offers an inside look at how the 16-year company veteran has worked to redefine the tech giant. Hood’s tenure as CFO began with an immediate challenge, as detailed in the Bloomberg piece: Once Nadella took... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
twice been named the Best Company to Work For by Washington CEO magazine. I remember sitting in Professor Ray Goldberg’s office during my second year at HBS discussing a project I was working on. His assistant interrupted to tell him that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Turning Point: One Story at a Time
Radhika Piramal (MBA 2006) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Radhika Piramal (MBA 2006) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was 17 years old when I told my mother I was a lesbian. The news came out of nowhere for her, but I never, ever... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
as a wood workshop in the small town of Billund, Denmark. Carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen eventually shifted the business from making houses and furniture to crafting wooden toys. He based the name of his new venture on "leg godt," the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
Illustration by Lu Zhang Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) grew up feasting on the stories her parents told about how they met and what it was like for them to leave China to start a new life in the United States. These narratives were central to... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
developing “ecosystem” for starting new ventures. HBS professor Lynda Applegate moderated the event, which was inspired by a case she coauthored with Alexander Meyer (MBA 2005), SAP vice president of global business development. “Rising... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
But Wilcox has been at the helm of world-changing companies before. Prior to his latest venture, Transatomic Power, Wilcox (MBA 1995) was the CEO of E Ink, the company that created the display technology for the Kindle, Nook, and other... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
assumed it was some combination of choice, poor financial decisions, and bad luck,” says Shumway, the founder, chairman, and former CEO of Cicero Group, a Salt Lake City–based consulting firm that uses advanced analytics to help clients... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
fashion, arts and culture, and business and finance. It features guides to each of the continent’s 54 nations, where you can find everything from breaking news to museum guides, as well as content from such partners as the Council on... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
It isn’t news that US companies have a problem with diversity, especially in the C suite. Although African Americans make up 13.2 percent of the US population, only 1 percent—that’s just five people—are CEOs... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black. (Netflix also recently debuted Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, a Tina Fey–created comedy originally slated for NBC.) Even live sports, cable’s best hope for retaining subscribers, can be viewed... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
LERNER: Congress won’t address needed patent reforms until CEOs get involved in lobbying for change. Professor Josh Lerner, who holds a joint appointment in the School’s Finance and Entrepreneurial Management units, is best known as an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Ink: Comfort in Discomfort
The Excerpt The past or the future. Personal gain or the greater good. Consistency or change. In their new book, Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems, co-authors Wendy Smith (PhDOB 2006) and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
hotels, Captain C.P. Krishnan Nair; the Mumbai office shared by the husband-and-wife law team of Cyril and Vandana Shroff; and the funky space of Park Won Soon, the mayor of Seoul. She’s now brought those essays together in her new book,... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
weekend work crew. "I remember being out there on the first day of framing," he says. "We went from slab to entirely completed walls in eight hours." In 2012, nearly 25 years after pounding nails and hanging drywall in that first house, Spencer became president and... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
and HBS senior lecturer Jim Matheson READ MORE We'll return to Brix in a little bit, but he isn't alone in his efforts to turn captured carbon dioxide into a useful product. HBS senior lecturer and longtime cleantech investor Jim Matheson, who we introduced in Episode... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
1991 and served in various managerial capacities before being named president in 2000 and CEO in 2005. Despite the chain’s strong showing in a down economy (with three new stores scheduled to open in March... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
night. I have new ideas for products and product features all the time, which I call bold beats. An example of a small bold beat was animals that move in FarmVille. This took a day of engineering, but when we turned it on, our players... View Details