Executive Committees - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1996
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

meetings a year in Boston (as well as the annual Global Alumni Conference), and be an active participant in the Board's activities. The 1996-97 Board consists of 36 members (not including ex officio): 88 percent are MBA alumni and 12 percent have graduated from the... View Details

Keywords: Cathy Connett

01 Sep 2012
News

Hierarchy's Last Stand

rapidly disappearing, and those who like lording it over others or feeling immune from the rules can no longer get away with it. Status no longer confers a “Get Out of Jail Free” card, as too many indicted and convicted executives have... View Details

Keywords: Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Corporate Services

01 Feb 1998
News

Making a Case for Women

Marjorie Alfus, a retired Kmart executive who now concentrates on the real-estate and stock markets; the Committee of 200 (C200), a national organization of women business executives; and the School. "Women,... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

goodwill. With the Games only weeks away, officials at the headquarters of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) are putting the final touches on a six-year preparation effort that culminates with next month's opening... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

13 Jul 2017
News

Making Friends with Mother Nature

the boards of Sarah Lawrence College (his late wife, Mary Lawrence Clifford, was Sarah Lawrence’s great-great-granddaughter) and the American Museum of Natural History, where, as a member of the Executive View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Dec 2005
News

Baker’s back

architect Robert A.M. Stern, several preservationists, and Skanska USA, the construction manager. The School’s internal structure of an executive committee and fifteen subcommittees also provided clear... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2000
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Tradition and Outreach at HBS Club de France

addressed the needs of an increasing membership while maintaining strong bonds with the School. He instigated a tradition of monthly luncheons as well as an advisory interviewing committee to meet with French applicants to HBS. In the... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

28 May 2019
News

In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic

my own.” Kamdani integrated all the businesses into the newly named Sintesa Group (“sintesa” translates to “synergy” in Indonesian) and shook up the organizational structure, establishing an executive View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Offices of Other Holding Companies; Management

16 Oct 2014
News

Innovating for International Aid

of San Francisco. Wu is currently chairman of the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants as well as a Presidential Innovation Fellow working on the Development Innovation Ventures project at the United States Agency for International... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Oct 2001
News

New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook

about," he notes. A proud father of three, Cook now serves as Intuit's chairman of the executive committee of the board, having handed over the role of CEO in 1994 "to someone who is actually good at it," he... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 1998
News

Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered

high-level policy issues with senior executives or technical nuances of research with fellow academics. His influence on the academic field of operations management and on industrial practice has been profound." Jaikumar was highly... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership

Introduced by HBS Dean Kim B. Clark as a business leader who "exemplifies the character and values that we hold dear at Harvard Business School," Katharine Graham, chairman of the executive committee of the... View Details

01 Jan 2003
News

Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

Cofounder, Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer American Management Systems, Inc. Former Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service Senior Advisor, The Carlyle Group Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page ©2003 www.RockyThies.com... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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From the Editors

since your alumni director discovered that he had inherited an editorship along with his other problems, the Bulletin Policy Committee has been advising him to make a regular feature of two or three pages of interesting stuff about the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2005
News

Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

and rural development in the areas where its workers live, funding efforts, for instance, in primary school education, agriculture, and health care. As a longtime leader of his country's business community, Bajaj is the only top executive... View Details

20 Apr 2016
News

Steps to Success

those classes,” she says. A return to consulting, for marketing firm Mavens & Moguls—run by her sister-in-law, Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)—led Ruhr to join the volunteer board of the American Refugee Committee (ARC). Eventually she became... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Sep 2008
News

The MBA Turns 100

pack. Indeed, popularity has led to a disturbing commoditization of the degree. Just a generation ago, notes Dean Jay Light, there was only a two-year MBA. “Now there are one-year programs, two-year programs, daytime programs, nighttime programs, weekend programs, and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 1999
News

A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

and reports the station and approximate time she heard a song, she receives information about the song and how to purchase the CD on which it appears. With the troubled Salt Lake City Winter Olympics Organizing Committee sorely in need of... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Oct 2002
News

Sam Hayes

1998, was appointed to the HBS faculty in 1972. He taught in the MBA, AMP, and OPM programs, and continues to teach in executive programs at HBS and overseas. His current research focuses on Islamic banking and investment practices, the... View Details