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- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
president and CFO of Medtronic, overseeing a number of acquisitions and sales at the medical device company and broadening its reach to include a more global investor base. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
would need to hire a new CEO. “But we couldn’t bring someone on until we knew what we were looking at,” Kordestani explains. The board asked CFO Beth deHamel to step in as interim CEO, a role she filled for a year while the leadership... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
Chairman and CEO, Joh. A. Benckiser SE Meeting with colleagues in New York. Harf chats with InBev's CEO Carlos Brito and CFO Felipe Durta. Working with his daughter Katharina (left) at DKMS. Visiting the showroom of designer Derek Lam.... View Details
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- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
racial inequities, the murder of George Floyd, and the growing movement for justice and change with panelists from organizations on the front line. They included Omar Blayton, CFO of Sunwealth, a solar impact fund that invests in solar... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
three weeks ago, we had a very significant problem at Africa.com with an advertiser. And I looked up the HBS alumni network and found the CFO of this company was an HBS alum, reached out to him in that capacity, and we solved what would... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
benefits, I think about the benefits to the company and the benefits to the worker. For the company, the biggest immediate benefit—which gets all CFOs excited—is the real estate savings. If folks are working from home and in fact working... View Details
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
like too much. But that’s why you need it. It’s so helpful for lots of issues,” he says. “For example, maybe your company is looking at an acquisition, or maybe your CFO is leaving. You can bounce your ideas or concerns off the group... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
and knowing that insiders considered the CFO position a thankless assignment. “I’m a sucker for learning opportunities,” he adds, “and this was one I couldn’t pass up.” After two years as CFO, O’Neal rose to his current post, making him... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
service outlets. "When Gerry was hired, it was the company's first deliberate action to view consumer packaged goods as an important growth platform for Starbucks," says Barry Beeninga, a 16-year veteran of the company who worked with Lopez as View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
holdings to financial institutions that directly support Black communities. Netflix CFO Spencer Neumann (MBA 1997) and the company’s director of recruiting, Aaron Mitchell (MBA 2011), were recently featured on CNBC. Mitchell explained... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
spartan, vinyl-floored office in a former communist-run railroad repair yard, and Jeanne Hilsinger insists that is precisely where she wants to be. Now CFO of Mavel a.s., a Czech manufacturer of turbines and turnkey hydroelectric power... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
to unplug. Decker Susan Decker (MBA ’86) came straight to HBS from Tufts University, where she majored in economics and computer science. As an analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Decker covered Yahoo!, a company she would join as View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
(MBA 2002), served as the city’s CFO from 2010 to 2014 after working as an advisor to the mayor and serving in the department of administration and finance. Mitch Weiss (MBA 2004)—now Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management unit... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
for a way to bring his Harvard business skills to bear on a cause he believed in. That led to a post as the CFO of New Hampshire Audubon, where he “quickly fixed some problems due to lack of financial controls” and put the organization on... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
(MBA 1992), president of Staples.com. Keynote speaker Deborah C. Hopkins, EVP and CFO of Lucent Technologies, addressed the group via satellite four days prior to her company’s official announcement of a $2 billion cost-cutting plan.... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
enjoy that Some days I work with our CFO on food-spend projections, or help our COO build a multi-year strategic planning framework. Other days, I work with my team to coordinate food donations or manage inventory turns. Even though we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
firsthand as CFO of Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA). An American citizen, I came here in 2006 to work in a USAID-sponsored project aimed at combating corruption in state-owned enterprises. Here’s one case I encountered: A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
Stearns before serving as the CFO for a nationwide health-care company with 24,000 employees. Zweig worked at Time Inc. and Dow Jones and cofounded Salon.com. He was most recently senior editor at the World Business Academy, an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
grow their business. Stewart, an award-winning CFO and veteran entrepreneur, shares his expertise and insights to help entrepreneurs more fully understand how a bank thinks about them and their business as a credit risk and a loan... View Details