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- 01 Mar 2022
- News
2022 Alumni Achievement Awards Announced
Kidwai (MBA 1982) Former Executive Director, Board of HSBC Asia Pacific; Former Chairman, HSBC India; Founder and Chairman, India Sanitation Coalition Robert L. Ryan (MBA 1970) Retired Senior VP and CFO, Medtronic Inc. Robert B. Wilson... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
to a new working paper coauthored by Lecturer Abigail Allen, the opposite is often true. When the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) proposed stricter public pension accounting standards in 2012, many state governments balked.... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
launch of WaterRev, an investment company that focuses on novel technologies which enable sustainable practices of water use. In 2012, she joined the board of the Boston Beer Company, producer of Samuel Adams, Angry Orchard, and other... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
just absolutely wonderful,” says Janet Stark (MBA 1982), Board Chair for the HBSWANY, and organizer of the event. “After the play, we all just circled around Gloria and had this great conversation. She stayed with us for a while, and even... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
ACCION's helm in 1994. You left Wall Street for ACCION. Why? During 4 a.m. leveraged-buyout marathons at KKR, I'd occasionally wonder if I might be doing something else, however small, that could help make the world a better place. At the time, I was a View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
Launches Year Up 2012 Publishes A Year Up, which becomes a best seller 2013 Named Chairman, Roxbury Community College Board of Trustees 2014 Year Up will serve 2,100 young adults Gerald Chertavian takes the adage “what doesn’t kill us... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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 leading executive search... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
no national reputation — was appointed,” Ferguson recalled. “But he listens to everyone, judges ideas on their quality rather than on their source, and makes better decisions because of that.” Financial consultant Andrew Brimmer, the first African American appointed to... View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
A Vision for the Earth
Beautiful Planet. In this interview, he talks about the benefits of the scientific research done in space and his hopes for worldwide impact of the film. “The job that I’ve had for the past few years was as an astronaut on board the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
putting his ideas into action. At a high level, he has led a restructuring of the organization’s all-volunteer board, creating technical and commercial committees to focus on strategy and better involve the board members in the goal of... View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s and became its chair in 2009. Her work with the charity has been informed by her business career, she says. A partner at... View Details
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
50 Years After King
the most influential women in business. Beyond her leadership at Young & Rubicam, she led a $5 billion division of Kraft Foods. Today, in addition to extensive board work, Fudge is a dedicated philanthropist, with a focus on education and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
than none at all. “When you set high expectations for voters, you’ve got to make sure you deliver on them. If you want democracy to work well, you need both the winners and the losers to be on board and accept the results.” “The Perils of... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives
During the bull market of the 1990s, stock grants and options formed increasingly large components of executive compensation. Now, however, with many options "underwater" as share values have declined well below the strike price, boards... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Serving through TechnoServe
top-notch board of directors who bring management and strategy expertise to the organization. Getting this group together, he says, is very rewarding. “We meet and brainstorm, and then we take trips to see if what we think jibes with... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
B,” she recalls. With Goldberg’s help, Ruhr got a summer job working for General Mills in its Stockton, California, regional grain office. Upon graduating, she went to work for the company, first on the trading floor at the Chicago Board... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
boards of several Boston organizations, including The Windsor School, MATCH Education, the Telluride Foundation, and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), which she describes as "all incredible, impact-oriented nonprofit organizations... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
well as the $5,000 Crowd Favorite Prize. “It’s all a blur,” says Pak of the whirlwind experience. Just the day before—Earth Day—she, Paiji Yoo, and Mascari had launched the New York-based company. Then, that night, Pak boarded a flight to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
needs to formulate (and commit to) engagement mechanisms for economic governance—which builds citizen confidence in their role as partners. To ingrain legitimacy in Zambia, for instance, a cabinet-level executive Privatization Agency was created under a View Details