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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
thinking ‘where is the best opportunity going to be for me professionally?—I couldn’t move back to Detroit,” Rhea says. Instead, he went into finance in New York. After the financial collapse he left banking for a position as chairman and View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
contributors. They are a marvelous addition to any team, but remember that they are employees and therefore have inherent bias as part of the inner workings of the organization. Internal coaches are accountable toward the overall success... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 16 Oct 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance but had always dreamed of working in the nonprofit sector. In 2003, he recalls, “I made this leap of faith, that if I could... View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
Baker Foundation Professor, Emeritus William A. Sahlman presented the Entrepreneurship Award to Michael Martin (MBA 2015), founder and CEO of RapidSOS, an advanced emergency technology company that powers safety, security, health, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
In the News - Entrepreneurship
In the News Every successful entrepreneur knows that the big idea is only as good as his/her ability to execute it. Access to the right knowledge at the right time is often the linchpin to a successful... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
that the future is now for American manufacturing innovation. In a wide-ranging Q&A with Associate Editor Julia Hanna, Boeing CEO Jim McNerney (MBA ’75) says that innovation is the country’s “most sustainable competitive advantage.” And... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Publications 2006 Henry Holt (Macmillan) Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment By: Elberse, Anita Abstract—What's behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2022
- News
Public Good
“I’ve got to listen and learn before I make major changes.” Hudson’s background includes 25 years of experience in the corporate world, most recently in the field of medical technology. After a year-long break following a successful IPO,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Advance Racial Equity in the Office
Rice (MBA 1992), CEO and founder of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT). Unlike the in-your-face brand of first-degree racism, that of the third degree occurs when organizations and institutions fail to weed out the practices that... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing
Sheila Marmon (MBA 1999) has built her career by breaking down barriers. The founder and CEO of Mirror Digital, a technology-enabled media and advertising company, Marmon has executed more than 350 interactive campaigns, connecting... View Details
- 23 Oct 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
“We knew the education system was broken,” says Meredith Liu (MBA 2010) of her first meetings with Priscilla Chan, who founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic organization that she founded with her husband, Facebook CEO... View Details
- 16 Oct 2017
- News
Take Time to Serve Others
Rena Clark (MBA 1990) found success by following her heart. A managing partner at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the lower-middle industrial market, Clark forged a nonlinear career path that... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
forceful keynote address, Earl G. Graves, president and CEO of Earl G. Graves, Ltd., and publisher and CEO of Black Enterprise magazine, observed that a silver anniversary connotes "the blessings of... View Details
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Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog
fundamental to planning and executing successful turnarounds. Course Content and Organization The course will include some brand-new cases with the CEO protagonists present in class, in order to give... View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser, a veteran of doing battle with much larger Microsoft, has some words of wisdom on competing against a market giant: "If you want to beat Bobby Fischer, don't play chess." Glaser, president and View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
Mickey Herbert parleyed a stint as an administrative assistant to a pediatric neurologist into a successful career as the founder and CEO of a Connecticut HMO. Not bad for someone who confesses he had “no... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
Kevin McCall (HBS MBA '81), president and CEO of Paradigm Holdings, LLC, a Massachusetts-based owner and operator of multi-tenanted office buildings. McCall described the process of locating and developing a property as completely... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
that the role of steward is critical to the success of a healthy economic system." Nick C suggested that a response to the question has to take into account many things: "An appointment of such a role may well depend on more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Mar 2017
- News
Leading in the Community and the Boardroom
Benaree Pratt Wiley (MBA 1972) has gathered many takeaways over a long career that has spanned consulting, the nonprofit sector, and entrepreneurship, but one in particular has had lasting resonance: Success is personal. “It’s easy to get... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
need their help on the way down. Ruthlessness in pursuit of success might work for a while. But when there is the merest hint of a problem, a history of callous, cold-blooded, critical behavior means that there is no one left to lend... View Details