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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Takeaways
Edited by April White Peter A. Gudmundsson photo by Susan Young Peter A. Gudmundsson photo by Susan Young “All organizations need great people. Veterans are great people, so all organizations need to hire veterans.” —Peter A. Gudmundsson... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Man on a Mission
Girand Courtesy Jim Girand Jim Girand (MBA ’61), who’s been a high-tech entrepreneur since the 1960s, is also a veteran duathlete and former age-group national champion who hasn’t let a bout with prostate cancer slow him down. Indeed,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
something relevant.” In 2000, Nkontchou, a veteran of Andersen Consulting and Merrill Lynch, started LiquidAfrica with $250,000 of his own money and $2.5 million from Modern Africa, a Washington-based private equity fund. Among his goals... View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
- News
GOP Elite Fundraiser and Former Marriott Honcho Fred Malek Is Dead at 82
Keywords: Hospitality
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
Marty Cordova (MBA 1974), a Vietnam vet who has seen good days and bad, is dedicating himself to helping other vets get their lives back together. Cordova is finance director of Rehabilitation Services and Veterans Programs (RS&VP), a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Last Look
you on what we have learned in the next issue. Thank you! Last issue’s LAST LOOK: Thanks to Elmer Hulen (MBA 11/’47), who guessed that the photograph depicts the “parking lot” for one of the occasional picnics on Baker Lawn “with which the spouses of GI Bill View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- News
The Special Ops Program That Put Woman in Afghanistan Warzones
- 05 Apr 2020
- News
Launching in a World in Limbo
launch, the New York Times chronicled Whitman and Katzenberg’s challenging third act in a story called, “Two Veteran C.E.O.s Risk $1.8 Billion on a Streaming App. In a Pandemic.” Both led some of the biggest companies in the U.S. before... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Books: Winning the Influence Game
Mickey Edwards, and HBS research associate Usha Thakrar have drawn on interviews with government insiders, top lobbyists, consultants, and veteran CEOs to offer executives proven strategies for influencing the government rules and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Blue No Longer
recounted to the New York Times (March 10, 2002). At the outset of his tenure, for example, Gerstner scoffed at the notion that a new vision needed to be articulated for the company. That would require “a yearlong debate,” he said, when what was needed was “to save the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
(MBA ’01), a 34-year-old, well-connected political neophyte and the only Iraqi war veteran running for Congress as a Republican. “Having a guy who was on the ground and had an extremely active role in Iraq, and who came back and made a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Swap ’Em If You Got ’Em
Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Blake Hall (MBA ’10) grew up in a military family, became an Army Ranger, and was a platoon leader in Iraq for fifteen months. A conversation with a fellow veteran about the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
When you look at two of the biggest developments in business in the last 25 years — globalization and the Internet — Jeanne P. Jackson has been right in the thick of it. Before launching her own small investment and consulting firm last year, the View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Shared Vision for a Better World
because he was impressed by, among other things, the case method and by several alumni colleagues at Chemical Bank. “It was clear they had been superbly educated,” he says. Upon arriving on the HBS campus, he quickly found community and camaraderie. “There were at... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Bringing women to the boardroom table
January 2013 through March 2014, with more appointments expected in the coming year. “I saw how difficult it was for a woman to become a director: there was a gap in the market for this service,” says Stewart, herself a 20-year veteran of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
McCance First to Serve as Entrepreneur in Residence
McCance: A veteran of venture capital shares his expertise with HBS faculty and students. Courtesy Greylock When Henry McCance (MBA ’66) joined Boston-based Greylock Management Corporation in 1969, venture capital was a cottage industry.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Reinventing the Wheel
the air or clogging landfills appealed to Cardozo. He’d worked extensively in startups and spent some time in the corporate world, but now he wanted more than commercial success—he wanted to lead a company that had what he calls a “strong sustainability story.” In need... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
issue or understand its urgency." Working with fellow executive producers James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub, and 60 Minutes veterans David Gelber and Joel Bach, Abbasi secured backing from HBS alumni Bill Bowes (MBA 1952), Chris Hohn (MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
INK: The Bookshelf
to bring people together, with examples from combat veterans and from white settlers who had been captured from frontier communities by American Indians. The settlers made the decision to ultimately stay and be part of an interdependent... View Details