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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
victim of foul play. Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur by Victoria R. Montgomery-Brown (MBA 2003) HarperCollins Leadership With women leading only 24 Fortune 500 companies,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
bought in 2000 for a record $4.7 billion, and the Grey Global Group, which Sorrell brought into the fold in 2005, the firm now employs 100,000 people in 2,000 offices in more than 100 countries. Among its clients are over 330 of the View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
of those less fortunate pivots was pretty standard stuff: After a change in leadership, I was unceremoniously fired at the bank where I had been promoted just a few days earlier. After a year of frustration and effort I gave up on the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
becoming a Fortune 500 CEO. “I had very high aspirations,” says Beilharz, who was, by 1988, in top management at MetroCel, a major player in the then-budding cellular industry. “I was enthralled with my... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
“alliance,” not a merger), he is the only person ever to simultaneously head two Fortune 500 companies. This “alliance” has brought together two companies that maintain their substantially different cultures... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
CEOs 70 alumni are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies In January 2007, Daniel Birnbaum (MBA 1992) was running Nike's operations in Israel when he got a call from his friend and fellow HBS alum Yuval Cohen (MBA... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future
remarks on implementing sustainability in a Fortune 500 corporation. The entire event was brilliantly moderated by Ali Aslan, world-class international journalist. Vincent Dessain (MBA 1987), the head of the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
founding Pactual. Over the years, Jakurski has learned that successful investing in Brazil requires intimate knowledge of the country. The two most prominent kinds of outside investors, he observes, are "offshore portfolio managers, most of whom don't know the region... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
company, last fall Robinson joined PRT, a global firm that provides information technology solutions and services to Fortune 500 companies. He stepped in to help lead PRT's initial public offering just after... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
their peers,” he says. For Army Colonel Everett Spain (DBA 2014), who served in Kosovo and Iraq, it’s equally clear why military veterans are attracted to business school: “In business, you can continue to be a leader of character in an investment bank or a View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
no matter what I’m involved with, I’ll still bring the same tools to bear on it as I would if I were working at a Fortune 500 company. I approach the smallest problem in the same fashion as I would if it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
surveyed.) “Apparently HBS wasn’t the West Point of Capitalism,” Stevenson says, “we were actually the incubator of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship was a much more likely career than being a Fortune 500... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
median annual pay of a Fortune 500 CEO is approximately $3 million in option grants, $1 million in bonus, and $1 million in salary. But in addition, that same executive will, over time, have accumulated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
honest." —Michael Horn (MBA 2006) Education Executive Director, The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, San Mateo, California Carl Christopher (MBA 2006) Director of School Operations, Partnership for LA Schools HIRING C.Ed.Os "School districts can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
heading a services company that provides end-to-end technology solutions to over 150 Fortune 500 clients. With 28,000 employees located in 54 countries, Satyam, founded in 1987, had revenues of $1 million... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
field research. Over a period of six years, he interviewed nearly forty board members of Fortune 500 companies who, together, had participated in more than a hundred CEO successions. Subsequently, he visited... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
Watkins, an expert on leadership transition, presses his case for “accelerating” the critical transition period that begins when a new CEO — or a new manager at any level — is hired. Watkins estimates that more than a half-million managers enter new positions each year... View Details
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
also has a famous second career, that of motivational speaker. In that role, Zander has appeared several times at the World Economic Forum in Davos as well as at old-age homes, middle schools, Fortune 500... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
twenty-first century, the distribution of both wealth and income became increasingly unequal. The top 5 percent of the income distribution saw their fortunes rise as both their livelihoods and assets grew. At the same time, real wages for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
15–17 in Shanghai. The forum presents a terrific opportunity for alumni to hear from Fortune 500 global business leaders, government officials, HBS faculty, and prominent U.S. and Chinese leaders. Outside... View Details