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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
camp in local, cross-sector collaboration toward the goal of a sustainable future through shared prosperity. When Christy Gillenwater came to YALP in 2018, she was six months into her new job as president and CEO of the Chattanooga... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Kumar Mahadeva
Mahadeva Photo courtesy Cognizant Cognizant Technology Solutions (Nasdaq: CTSH) founder, chairman, and CEO Wijayaraj A. (“Kumar”) Mahadeva explains how his company can help businesses still reeling from “post-bubble hangovers.” “We keep... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993
be a banker. We work with major endowments, foundations, and countries that entrust us with their money. We assist millions of people every single day—to buy their first home, get their first credit card, or pay for college. I have a... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
father did not mean that Johnson didn’t have to pay her dues to work at the company. As an equity analyst summer intern, she and her cohort pulled all-nighters before industry reviews. That experience solidified her interest in working at... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
siblings cited a deep regard for the School and a desire to pay tribute to their parents. "We wanted to give back to an institution that means a lot to us," says Harris H. Simmons (MBA '80), who succeeded his father as president of Zions... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
a fact Sityodtong has made one of the gym’s competitive advantages despite the expense involved in recruiting and relocating fighters from as far away as Brazil. (Monthly pay for an Evolve instructor ranges from $5,000 to $15,000; housing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
the leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators that we become later in life, paying dividends that far exceed any minimum-wage salary. Here, alumni share stories about their entry-level errors, as well as the personal and professional... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Niren Chaudhary (AMP 191, 2016) has spent most of his career in restaurants, working in leadership positions at Yum! Brands and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts before becoming the CEO... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
requires us to find people who want to stay with the company for the long haul." Another linchpin in Zehnder's vision also sets the firm apart from all others in the field. Clients pay for services rendered, period. There are no... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
founder and CEO of Spire, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services.Making good on those long-term goals, Platzer says, was the result of building a very specific mission for himself while he was at HBS: "To... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
Ninan Chacko (AMP 158, 2000) was on vacation in Turin, Italy, when he stopped to snap a photo of a street sign. In the picture, all you can see is the name: Via Roma. But for Chacko, the CEO of Monotype, the world’s largest type seller,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
world are declaring a climate emergency and a growing number of whistleblowers are coming out to tell the truth. What would telling the truth mean for your business? Supporting people to engage in social movements. Ecosia pays the legal... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
studied music and hosted a late-night jazz radio show. When he graduated from college, Nelson took a job with Boston-based Wellman International and immediately set off for China. “I had no idea what I was getting into,” he says. “But it was a chance to View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
(PhDOB 2019) has studied the issues facing local papers from multiple angles. Now, as cofounder and CEO of the National Trust for Local News, she has developed a first-of-its-kind model to preserve local news as a public good. The premise... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
beloved,” she says. But beloved didn’t pay the bills, and by 2015, after decades of pressure from big chains and the internet, the small, independent store was on the verge of closing. That’s when Brody, a New Yorker who spends her... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
York Times best-seller list for 27 weeks, he did take on another kind of business adversary, those he saw as laying waste to his beloved Sarasota and to Florida’s environment. In the novel, developers and builders, having recklessly destroyed habitat and View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading the way in times of crisis
Joe Lhota (MBA 1980) is the kind of courageous, steady presence you want at your side when crisis hits. Consider Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, when New York City’s streets, tunnels, and subway lines were flooded, and power was cut to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
that requires sizable investments in projects that take several years to pay off, I believe the ideal is some combination of both. We could cut back on investment in future products or international joint... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
Michael Norton explores the common occurrence of “conversational blindness.” See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6066.html. Thinking Twice about Supply-Chain Layoffs Cutting the wrong employees can be counterproductive for retailers, new... View Details