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- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
as a meteorologist for the Amy Air Forces during World War II before attending HBS. There he joined the class of 1949—which also included “James E. Burke, who later headed Johnson & Johnson; C. Peter McColough of Xerox Corp.; Thomas S.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2022
- News
Nancy Lane Remembered
Her obituary in the New York Times notes that Lane was “one of the rare Black women in the 1970s to rise in the corporate ranks, notably at Chase Manhattan and Johnson & Johnson.” Her work in the arts featured important foundational work... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Feedback
government can do that help businesses prosper, but government needs to stay out of "we-know-best" decision-making. Things always work better when people do the things they do because they want to do them rather than when they are told to do them. —Gordon O. F. View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
How did you come to focus on algorithmic pricing? In my doctoral work at MIT, I was studying optimization, probability, and machine learning, which are essentially mathematical tools that enable us to use data to make better decisions. From there, I realized I wanted... View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- News
The Beauty Guide
comfort of marketing and join sales, to learn the business from the inside out. That move served her well. She ended up leading Neutrogena, eventually becoming president of US Beauty at Johnson & Johnson. Today, she is global brand... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011)
INTO THE BLUE: Virts, poised for a space-walk training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near Johnson Space Center. (Photos by NASA) An astronaut with NASA since 2000, Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011) piloted the space shuttle... View Details
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- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
strategies prompted by a changing climate with the help of a panel of four HBS alumni with expertise in finance and energy, including Hui Wen Chan (MBA 2010), Vice President, Corporate Sustainability, Citigroup; Michael Ellis (MBA 2008), Managing Director and COO,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2019
- News
A New Purpose for the Corporation
commitment to continue to push for an economy that serves all Americans." An article in Fortune details the discussion that led to this new statement of principles, which began with an examination led by Johnson & View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
Kennedy made it possible to dream of going to the moon. Lyndon Johnson convinced the country it was too big and too good to tolerate racial segregation; Ronald Reagan convinced America that it was still strong enough to bring down the... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
going to press with a major story that could sink your company because you’ve gone public that very week. Katharine Graham’s story is the story of a business leader.” It’s not unlike the decision of Johnson & View Details
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
Mark Johnson, one of the early recipients of the foundation’s signature Distinguished Scientist Award. Johnson is now chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UMass Memorial Health and a professor at the University of... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- News
Keeping the Missions Under Control
Norman Knight (GMP 9, 2010) is Executive Flight Director at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. In this interview, he talks about the unique blend of scientific and technical skills and the management expertise needed to send... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- News
Fidelity Investments puts her in charge
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
In 1943 John H. Johnson sent a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt inviting her to write for Negro Digest, a fledgling magazine that he had recently founded with a $500 loan. The First Lady politely replied that she was too busy at the time.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn (MBA ’06), and Curtis W. Johnson (McGraw-Hill) Taking a cue from Bill Gates’s 2005 critique of the American school... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
building efficiency products such as heat pumps and insulation. As the specifics of how that can be applied and utilized are formalized, it should create some tremendous opportunities for incumbent players to de-risk scaling up new approaches and technologies such as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
dealing with conflicts of interest, and setting an ethical tone within an organization. 2003 Alumni Achievement Awards James E. Burke (MBA ’49), chairman and CEO emeritus of Johnson & Johnson, where he spent almost forty years helping... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
beyond. Putting a Shine on the Environment Samuel C. Johnson S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. by Marguerite Rigoglioso "We aggressively seek out ecoefficiencies - ways of doing more with less - because waste is lost... View Details