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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
diversity of businesses and products that were virtually unimaginable before the advent of full-service financial institutions. Named president of the firm in 1984 and chairman in 1991, Fisher is widely... View Details
- 20 Dec 2023
- News
New School
In the early days of the pandemic in 2020, Curriculum Associates, a Massachusetts-based company that creates research-based print and online instructional and assessment tools, made the decision to make its products free to teachers and... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
set for massive positive impact, and the demand is there; the only real impediment is bold philanthropy,” Wolf says. At HBS, Wolf studied with Clayton Christensen, whose theory of disruptive innovation describes a process by which a View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
yourself, build your professional network, and navigate sensitive workplace issues. Discover how to position yourself for promotion and decipher the unspoken “soft skills” that are paramount to success in the professional realm. Grounded... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
of change. The unprecedented flood of mergers and acquisitions, the advent of the global marketplace, the stock market's dizzying rise, and the capricious fortunes of technology-based companies have made financial services a fascinating... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Turning Point: Where Credit Is Due
Nagi Otgonshar (MBA 2015) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Nagi Otgonshar (MBA 2015) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Earning a full scholarship has always been the only realistic ticket to a superior education for me. It was this golden opportunity that allowed me to... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
tough. It was tough. Julia Hanna: When he graduated from HBS in 1970, Gerry Schwartz (MBA 1970) passed up the offers he got to work on Wall Street to join a land development company in Florida. It seemed like a quick, sure path to substantial View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
strategy and we have successfully acquired three companies. MEMCO (India) and MFT (Germany) have not only expanded our geographical footprint but also diversified our product range and customer list. In addition to camshafts, PCL group... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
positivity rates that could inform safe operations. As the testing program wound down in late 2022, McKnight was focused on a bigger project: leveraging Ginkgo’s biotech knowledge to create a pandemic-free world. “Our alerting mechanism... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
out of poverty, providing products and services that have improved people’s standards of living, and creating fulfilling jobs and careers. But the challenges facing the world today require business to do even more—to address persistent... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor
Barclays, Roosevelt has held key positions in domestic and international finance, financial and derivative products, and government-advisory initiatives. By the mid-2000s, as awareness of global warming... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
had experience with retail in emerging markets: Monroy, who is Colombian, worked for Procter & Gamble in Mexico for seven years, while Campbell held a number of positions at Walmart, with stints in India and China (which was “like going... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
training program at the venerable Ayala Corporation—the largest and most widely diversified conglomerate in the Philippines—and attending HBS, he accepted a short-term position at Ayala and never left. Today, Zobel embraces his role as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
prices would plummet, their competitors would be all over them, and employees would be jumping ship. But even if you can't be absolutely open with everyone, leaders have to confront their companies' problems and, of course, share them with top management." John Kotter... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
capital providers and nonprofit loan funds, seek to expand economic opportunity in low-income communities by providing access to financial products and services. As Michael Pokorny, a senior director at the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
standardization has been a failure mode for innovation and productivity until recently,” he observes. Yang has spent much of his career in the cleantech industry and is founder and CEO of Liatris, an eco-friendly insulation startup. He... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services