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- 01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way
expressed in its earlier statement. The new statement includes the following: In the Business Roundtable’s view, the paramount duty of management and of boards of directors is to the corporation’s stockholders; the interests of other... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
percent of Fortune 500 board members, a number that has grown only by a percentage point a year in recent years. Groysberg’s research—published in 2012 with Deborah Bell in partnership with WomenCorporateDirectors and Heidrick &... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
enthusiastic Tait was working on an idea for a game and wanted to run it by Furlong. When the pair met for breakfast at the Hi Spot Cafe in Seattle the next Saturday at 7 a.m., the bleary-eyed Furlong was surprised to learn that Tait was not developing a computer or... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
Southeast Asia. She was a board member of Friends of Khmer Culture, dedicated to preserving Cambodia’s cultural heritage, and in 2016 was awarded a royal medal for distinguished services to the king and the people of Cambodia. A former... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
economic shocks, corporate scandals, international competition, or technological disruptions. Zero-Sum Game: The Rise of the World’s Largest Derivatives Exchange by Erika S. Olson (MBA ’03) (Wiley) Olson, a former managing director at the Chicago View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
Relief Turkish Philanthropy Funds Red Crescent (Turkey) (Syria) HBS COMMUNITY NEWS MARCH 29 Hakan Polatoğlu (AMP 178, 2010), board member at the Eskisehir-based food producer Eti, notes that his company has been producing a special... 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
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
Boeing, he will keep mentoring future generations, including at HBS, and he’s excited to have more time to apply his leadership skills to his community as a board member and through volunteer activities. McNerney will also, no doubt,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
the state’s Office of Traffic Safety. But things never really got rolling until McMinn became involved in 2008 and rallied 34 local organizations that now occupy the coalition’s board of directors. “People don’t realize the power they... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Advisory Board and the Corporate Executive Board, I never had the idea that I was a great businessperson, but I thought I was a good businessperson,” he says, citing the highly successful research companies he started and later sold.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
Convergence Station, a 90,000-square-foot installation in Denver, Colorado. (For comparison, the Whitney Museum of American Art has 50,000 square feet of gallery space.) In 2022, Jose Tolosa (MBA 2004) was brought on board as CEO to what... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
retention. Stay with these target customers until you reach $1 million or $2 million in revenue, then move upstream when the product is more mature. —Ralph Folz is an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Rock Center, a board director, and... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
director of PVR Cinemas. Latin America—On May 7, the center hosted the first of a series of online events. Nicolas Shea, the founder and board chair of Cumplo.com, a crowdfunding platform in Latin America, spoke to some 120 alumni and... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about the factors that are driving their organizations’ strategy. Over the last several... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
wind.” Greenways for Houston Although he emigrated from Ireland as a small child and grew up in Virginia, Skelly has embraced life in Houston, where he serves on the Houston Parks Board and Houston Bike Share Board. He also regularly... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
arts organizations. He has served as a docent at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Detroit Institute of Arts, and currently serves on the board of the Jackalope Theatre Company, a black-box theatre startup. “I also... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
that later in life.” Initially, she began on the sly by saving money provided by her husband for groceries, in order to make the garage suitable for the nursery school. When he saw its success, he got on board and bankrolled the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
regular reunion attendee, class volunteer, and a past member of the HBS Visiting Committee, Tisch currently serves on the Board of Dean’s Advisors. His strong interest in strategic philanthropy led him to get involved with the School’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
revenue, and industry, Ferracone provides boards and individuals evaluating executive pay with the ability to analytically determine an appropriate compensation package. The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge by... View Details