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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Wheels Up
immediate concerns: the safety and mental health of daa’s 8,000-odd employees and the organization’s liquidity. “We’re a very high fixed-cost industry, so when revenues tank, you run into issues quickly,” he notes. Philips credits the organization’s View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Q&A with Janet Cahill
are presented by CFO Rick Melnick in the School’s annual report. Will the School continue to need alumni support after The Harvard Business School Campaign closes on June 30? The success of the Campaign does not change our reliance on... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
taught competition and strategy, and Marco Iansiti, who taught operations strategy. Just as important, Laguë met both his future business partner and his future wife at HBS. In 1994, he joined classmate Monique Maddy (MBA 1993) in Africa to become View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
banker knew she was eminently qualified, yet such opportunities seemed to evade her. “Everybody wants somebody with previous public board experience or who has been a CEO or CFO at a publicly traded company,” she says. In Dozie’s view,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Records an “Excellent” Year
Fiscal year 2007 “proved to be an excellent financial and operational year for Harvard Business School,” declared CFO Richard Melnick (MBA ’92) in the School’s newly released annual report. He cited continued growth in the global economy... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future
country. Guillaume Hannezo, CFO and senior EVP at Vivendi Universal, delivered the opening keynote address on Saturday morning. Suggesting that the events of September 11 have created a new collective reality for the United States and... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
of innovation in fields as diverse as real estate law and songwriting. But it is in the health sector where Watson’s impact is most tangible, where its benefits are literally the difference between life and death. “What I focus on,” says Watson VP and View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
COO & CFO “So you’re thinking of my contributions in terms of revenue alone?” Katrina VP, Private Label Products “I understand we’re a family, but we have to put emotions aside. This is a business.” Petja Founder & CEO “I don’t know if... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Herman I. Safin
Lee. After two years working as an analyst in the Financial Institutions Group at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, Safin was given the option to become an assistant to the CFO or an associate in investment banking in Moscow. "I was... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
Courtesy Coles This was going to be the year everything got back to normal. Since Leah Weckert (MBA 2008) became the CFO at Australia’s Coles Group in 2018, the supermarket giant had announced a demerger—the largest in the country’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
able to accomplish so far, but doesn’t want all the credit. Just about the only topic that lights up his voice more surely than dynamic glass technology is the team he’s hired — including CFO Mike Armsby (MBA 1997) — to make the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
adopt new technology have been forced by circumstances to change their processes. “Outreach really created the category,” says Melissa Fisher (MBA 1998), who recently joined Outreach as CFO to help manage its rapid growth. She comes to... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
electric monopoly. Two classmates joined Maddy at Adesemi — Côme Laguë (MBA 1993), who served as CFO and today is CEO of Zetta Research, and Waleed Iskandar (MBA 1993), an early investor who was killed on September 11, 2001, as a... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
military telecommunications or beam the Super Bowl worldwide? Joseph Landon (MBA 2007), VP and CFO of Planetary Resources in Redmond, Washington, one of the space startups pursuing asteroid mining, estimates there are about 400 active... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
School in some capacity, making it one of the largest employers of the School’s graduates. We talked to three alum-turned-staff—Crispi, CFO Rick Melnick (MBA 1992), and CIO Steve Gallagher (MBA 1995)—about why the classroom still feels... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
president of Strategic Interactive Group; Joy D. Covey (MBA '89, JD '90), CFO of Amazon.com; and Deidra Wager (AMP 154), an executive vice president at Starbucks. Professor Regina E. Herzlinger's session on "Managing in the Nonprofit... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
being his own boss, Royster instead went to work at Boston-based Capital Resource Partners, then the African-American private equity firm TSG Capital in Stamford, Connecticut. At TSG he was introduced to one of its portfolio companies, Radio One, which he joined as... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
things don't go as planned, remember to look in the mirror, and don't lose the learning. Leave everything better than you found it. Leslie Hale (MBA 2001), CFO and sVP, RLJ Lodging Trust, Bethesda, Maryland Take advantage of the fact that... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Mariner (MBA '78), CFO of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins, traces baseball's major turning point to the mid-1970s when several players, supported by a Supreme Court ruling, established their legal claim to "free agency" and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
question the wisdom of using its own stock to hedge merchant investments rather than contracts with bona fide counterparties. It failed to monitor the conflicts of interest that the board itself had approved involving Andrew Fastow’s dual role as Enron’s View Details