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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
Professional Property Development by John McMahan (MBA ’61) (McGraw-Hill) McMahan addresses the fundamentals of successful property development — marketing, financing, planning, designing, construction, merchandising, and property... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
the context in which specific CEO candidates were successful. It is all too easy to ignore both the past contextual framework of success and the present one. Are they aligned? Does View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
restaurateur and successful CEO who had written seven cookbooks and won three Michelin stars, an Emmy, and a James Beard Foundation lifetime achievement award. But he’d never attended college. He wanted to.... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals
Judy Haberkorn (111th AMP), president of Public and Operator Services at Bell Atlantic, to Pamela A. Thomas-Graham (MBA '88/JD '89), a partner at McKinsey & Company, to Joan Helpern, president and CEO of Joan & David Shoes, the conference... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
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‘Misfits’ in Power: When a Company Needs a Leader CEO, But Gets a Manager | Working Knowledge
organizational needs The demand for leader CEOs outpaces the supply in the countries studied. About half of the statistical correlation between mismatches and productivity stems from this disparity. “There is a common perception that if a... View Details
- 21 Dec 2017
- News
Finding Opportunities to Grow and Lead
Ilene Lang (MBA 1973) is the former president and CEO of Catalyst, where she worked to promote women in leadership in business and beyond. In this interview she talks about finding and creating opportunities for growth and leadership. “I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Waxing Philosophical
As he turned over company operations to his children last winter, it was a time for reflection for Samuel Johnson (MBA ’52), chairman emeritus of SC Johnson, one of the country’s oldest and largest family-owned firms, with $9 billion in annual revenues. A View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Semper Fidelis
In April, Tim Day (MBA 1964), chairman and CEO of Bar-S Foods, a processed-meats producer in Phoenix, Arizona, pledged $12 million in support of the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia. Day’s most recent gift, one of... View Details
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
help you become a better judo strategist. Rule One: Maintain A Deep Focus On Your Core Business Whether we are talking about Palm Computing, Intuit, or even big companies such as Charles Schwab, the most successful judo strategists have... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
No Rain Delay for Graduation 2008
podium, Time Inc. chairman and CEO Ann S. Moore (MBA ’78) challenged the Class of 2008 to make a difference while maintaining balance in their lives. “I’m sorry my generation didn’t advance civilization further for you and left you with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Cyberposium 16
The company wasn’t running on fumes, the fumes were gone,” said Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy (MBA ’85), describing his first desperate days at the firm that has now become a wildly successful online personalized... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership in Practice
William F. Dawson Jr. (MBA 1991) After three decades working with executives in scores of private and public companies, Wellspring Capital Management CEO William F. Dawson Jr. (MBA 1991) is convinced that “the most View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference
a first-time entrepreneur with an idea and nothing else,” said Shukla, who had a career as a successful software marketing executive. She highlighted that experience, did her homework, and pitched the idea to 200 potential clients. Shukla... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
Singleton (MBA ’88). The trio look at what can be learned by stepping back and taking a longer term view of how some of the greatest business leaders of the last century built successful careers. The book draws on information from the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
outliers: CEOs who produced outstanding economic and social value. Every successful CEO produces the first, but too few frame the purpose of their firm or behave in a way that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Books
The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning by Joseph L. Bower (HBS Press) Professor Bower explains how companies can develop internal candidates for the View Details
- 04 Oct 2019
- News
Changing of the Guard at Tesco
Photo via Tesco Photo via Tesco In July, the British retailer Tesco marked its 100th birthday with a 30-hour dance session in Wembley Stadium. Historic milestones aside, the company could also celebrate its recovery from an accounting scandal and extended economic... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering a synergy at work that benefits associates as well as customers
Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), CEO of Zensar Technologies, is cultivating a collaborative management philosophy and innovative HR policies to ensure its 7,000 associates help customers achieve their business needs. At the core of the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
decision because she loved magazines. When she was appointed chairman and CEO of the company in 2002, it was the highlight of her own success story. Now the highest-ranking woman in the Time Warner... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
Way, also seeks that coveted CEO position in order to mix things up in another way: by giving young black men a role model for success in business. "We need more balance in how people look at, admire, and... View Details