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- 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
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
perspective, he says the 2008 crisis can be seen through the lenses of bad beliefs and bad incentives—the latter being the idea that there was a common understanding of risk in the financial system, but people were motivated to ignore the evidence. “Across the View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
advice do you have for current HBS students who hope to launch their own companies? "Make the time to connect with your HBS classmates and use them as a sounding board for your business ideas. When you're knee deep in building your... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
HBSAB Board Member John Carrier (MBA 2000). “This is a topic that many of our members are very interested in,” he says. “It was such a great case and everyone engaged with it.” HBSAB President David Harris (MBA 1984) adds that engaging... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
strategy transformation practices with increased involvement in the company’s philanthropic initiatives around homelessness and improving educational outcomes. He also serves on several statewide boards that promote public education and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
participate in the HBS curriculum. As members of a mock board of directors, alumni volunteers work with small teams of students who act as case protagonists and propose solutions to issues facing their company. MBA students and alumni... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
in the retirement of EARTH University’s distinguished president José Zaglul, who had led the university since its founding in 1989. Condo was familiar with the school and its emphasis on agricultural sciences, but when a board member... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
because they have been out of their home districts while serving our country,” says Shultz, himself a Marine Corps veteran. Other members of With Honor’s advisory board include next-generation veteran Nate Fick (MBA 2008), whose story of... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
accountable?” He also expressed concern that too much emphasis is placed on independent board members. “The more independent, the more ignorant,” he said. “Sector experts can be very helpful.” On the Continent, executive compensation is a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
United States, and as an alternative representative to the United Nations General Assembly. During that time, Franklin also started a management consulting firm and began serving as a director of corporations such as Aetna, Dow Chemical, and Westinghouse Electric.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
to help anticipate the next flash point, putting into practice significant enforcement actions, and introducing new management structures. Although he thinks Sarbanes-Oxley needs some adjustment to lower the compliance costs for smaller companies, “it has made View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
patient's range of motion. "One-third of every board meeting is devoted to new products," he states. "It continues to fascinate me, because it represents the future." Wyss's passion for improving medical practice can also be seen in the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
a wide variety of other activities as well. He chairs the boards of two institutions with worldwide reputations—the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the Cleveland Institute of Music. And to help the city's minority businesses, he created a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
school board more satisfying than sitting in Congress because he was actually doing something. He is not alone, and there are a lot of reasons for it. But we cannot afford that. We need enough new people to come in and question it, people... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
of France, on my way to Lisbon in Portugal. And I had been on a work trip in Cannes. Which is a town near the French Riviera. I'm waiting for a flight, I'm sitting with some colleagues. And we were really just waiting to board at the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
That this has been a period that's also been helpful for them. How is that so? Make that case. Angela: Well, innovation happens usually out of necessity. We're seeing that across the board with every business, with every industry—and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
losses, at EMRI’s quarterly board meetings he focuses on the organization’s very human bottom line. “We track the number of lives saved. It’s like our earnings per share for the quarter,” Palepu explains. “It’s a very inspiring statistic... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
early December, the board fired Wallace as CEO. A few weeks later, the company closed for good. It isn’t the sort of story that alumni like to trumpet when they return to their alma mater. But today, that is why Christina Wallace is back... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios