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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
How Much is Fair?
market to decide” what executive compensation should be, but added that “the problem comes when the market isn’t really free, and the CEO largely sets his own pay.” He further pointed out that from 1980 to 2001, the average working... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
that requires sizable investments in projects that take several years to pay off, I believe the ideal is some combination of both. We could cut back on investment in future products or international joint... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
the people below you were paid. One consequence of the trend in going outside the company to hire a new CEO was that pay became set across a horizontal spectrum, decoupling it from the internal labor market... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Michael Ward (MBA ’76) grew up in blue-collar Baltimore. As a kid, he racked balls and collected customers’ money at Club Ritchie Billiards, his father’s pool hall; when he was older, he took summer jobs in an asphalt factory to pay for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Donor Spotlight
Ann Moore (MBA ’78) When Moore retired as chairman and CEO of Time, Inc., she turned the company’s offer of a parting gift into a fellowship for HBS women. Crediting the School with having opened doors for her, she says, “This is my way... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
things," says Greg Thompson (MBA 2005), CEO of the Tennessee Charter School Incubator, which provides managerial training and school launch support for charter school leaders. "Now we need systems to make sure high-quality people have the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Gold Mettle
'74/JD '75), who was hired after the SLOC reportedly took just one day to review some 42 other candidates. Romney, the former CEO of Bain Capital, immediately cut costs and eliminated perks to reassure... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
Slayton (MBA 1990) discussing the situation he faced in 1997 when he took over as president and CEO of a small company called MySoftware. The firm was a struggling Silicon Valley business that developed and sold software for a variety of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Ann Moore, MBA 1978
Fresh out of HBS in 1978, Ann Moore did the unexpected and accepted the lowest-paying of 13 job offers, as a Time financial analyst, because she loved magazines. The unexpected turned into the unprecedented when she rose through the ranks to become the chairman and... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
stock, GE CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) made the decision to cut the company's annual dividend for the first time since 1938. It was gutting for Immelt. He knew the financial impact such a move would have not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
typically pays from $50,000 to $120,000 for a house, often buying in bulk from owners tired of repairs and rent collection. Redbrick then hires local managers to take over those and other chores. After HBS, Lee worked at Bain and started... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Expanding the brand of the country’s largest magazine publisher
Ann S. Moore (MBA 1978), the first female chair and CEO of Time Inc., oversaw nearly 150 magazines and their brand extensions. During her tenure, she launched more magazines than Time founder Henry R. Luce and, as publisher of People,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
New Book Recounts Storied Class of ’49
Business. At their 25th Reunion, nearly one-fourth of the class were presidents or CEOs of their respective companies, and more remarkable in today’s era of the disposable CEO, nearly one-third of the class would retire in such roles.... View Details
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), and Charles R. ("Chuck") Lee (MBA '64), chairman and CEO of GTE Corporation. Edelman, who established the CDF in 1973, received the club's Leadership Award and was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
there is great uncertainty as to whom the successor should be and how the process of finding a successor should be managed. There is something very wrong with this picture. I would have been surprised by this situation before completing my latest research on View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Parsec Ventures CEO Richard Steel (OPM 45, 2014) has had a wide range of professional experiences, including everything from running... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
On The Case
Professor Linda Hill first met Tom Mihaljevic (GMP 15, 2013) when he came to campus to participate in a fireside chat that Hill unexpectedly wound up facilitating. At that time, he was the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and the pair... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
drinks that would win the brand international recognition. Smith liked the café concept and the enthusiastic workers behind the counter; he took a substantial cut in pay to sign on as EVP and CFO. Today, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
underperform and be overcompensated. A caricature, but sadly still true: consider the enormous pay packages for CEOs in companies that lose money. Shareholder protests (such as those in the United Kingdom),... View Details