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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
than three months into her tenure at the business news network — turned her attention to determining what services and coverage CNBC could provide at a time when the U.S. stock markets were closed. On the morning of September 11, Pamela... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
When he took some skeptical conservationists to a meeting at agribusiness giant Monsanto’s headquarters not long ago, Richard Crespin (TGMP 4, 1999) says it seemed the only thing missing was ominous John Williams theme music playing in... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
headquarters is named after him, for instance—attest to his many contributions to the world of business, as do his outside activities, including presenting papers on entrepreneurship, venture capital, and democracy throughout the world... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
recognition in the field I was pursuing." Today, as CFO of a hot new Internet company called Excite@Home, the self-described "introspective" executive is getting plenty of attention. Goldman is busy helping Excite@Home become what he... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
capable people to do things they never knew existed and to achieve mastery of it.” In describing that sense of accomplishment, Ruhr could well be speaking about the early years of her own career, which was born in Professor Ray A. Goldberg’s agriculture and View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
the business world has an important leadership role to play in terms of closing the gap in health and other vital social issues," he says. When Ray Gilmartin joined Merck in June 1994 as president and CEO (he became chairman several... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
leadership. When the School reaches the close of its capital campaign at the end of December, it is safe to say the historic fundraising effort will have been a resounding success. The Campaign for Harvard Business School exceeded... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
and mostly overlooked by outsiders. Gilbane is just one of several HBS alumni working with other Houstonians to expand and improve the treasured parks, which they see as key to the continued growth of Houston’s booming business economy.... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
doors of NeuroLaunch. Since then, the company has worked with two “batches,” as accelerators refer to groups of clients, in sum 11 companies. Headquartered across town from Emory, near the Georgia Institute of Technology, in the heart of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
Stamford. "The headquarters was a dilapidated, pest-infested building in the heart of the local projects," he recalls. In 1988, O'Neill left the law firm to devote his full-time energy to mobilizing community support for reestablishing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and acquisitions are back - with a vengeance - in the 1990s. Across the global business landscape, some $1 trillion in M&A; deals were completed last year. That figure includes one hundred transactions of $1 billion or more in the United... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
Equanimity has been the hallmark of Tosh Barron's life, one filled with precipitous moments and tests of character that might have overwhelmed a lesser person. From her quiet, comfortable office at Xerox Corporation headquarters in... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
There’s no problem the business world can’t solve. That’s the thinking of Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2008), who believes companies—and the great minds who run them—can find sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises. “For whatever reason,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
symbolic things to bigger, provocative, intellectual ideas—I just had none of that previously”), she worked as a banker in Philadelphia, funding mom-and-pop cable TV startups in rural Pennsylvania. It cemented her decision to apply to View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
opportunity to create and spread innovative solutions to some of society’s most pressing problems. In doing so, they joined a groundswell of interest in social entrepreneurship. Just as entrepreneurs spot missed opportunities in business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
An ailing horse and an overweight Labrador retriever provided the inspiration for Becky Minard and Paal Gisholt (both MBA ’93) to launch SmartPak, a business that provides nutritional supplements, dog food, and supplies to customers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
to General George S. Patton. Stillman is professor emeritus of management at the University of New Orleans College of Business Administration, where he taught from 1967 until 1982. He has written a total of eighteen books, a number of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
businesses. “I love helping people make a large-scale impact,” says Doerr. “I’m a networker, an organizer, an unbounded enthusiast and supporter of great entrepreneurs and leaders.” When he joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980, the eight-year-old venture... View Details
- 11 Jul 2025
- News
Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast
Utah Alumni Explore Future of Great Salt Lake The HBS Club of Utah recently got an insider’s look at the economic and ecological health of the Great Salt Lake (GSL) with a presentation by Utah’s first GSL commissioner, Brian Steed, at the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
(SVB), headquartered in Santa Clara, California, wields enormous influence within the tightly knit venture community. So when the bank’s president and CEO, Ken Wilcox (MBA 1983), comes calling, it’s an important occasion — at least under... View Details