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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Action Plan: Horse Sense
In Thoroughbred racing, no one knows for sure how to pick a champion. But after decades in the business, Terry Finley (OPM 45, 2014) is probably a better guesser than most. As president and CEO of West Point Thoroughbreds in Saratoga... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Escape from Alcatraz
Illustration by Noah MacMillan Illustration by Noah MacMillan The first challenge of Boda Borg is describing it. The Swedish company—headed by president and CEO David Spigner (MBA 1987) and imported to the United States by Chad Ellis (MBA... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund
company¹s president and executive committee head, attended HBS in 1989, when he was working for Sandoz, a Swiss-based pharmaceutical firm. Sandoz merged with another Swiss company, Ciba-Geigy, to become Novartis in 1996. In his new... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)
got the idea: There are four of us who founded the business. Hemi Thaker, our president and CEO, had worked at a chip company and with network equipment companies, and he saw impairment testing becoming important for next-generation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
leadership during the Tylenol crises of the 1980s set the standard for corporate responsibility. Burke has been hailed as one of the ten greatest CEOs of all time by Fortune magazine. Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA ’69), founder, former View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- News
An Entrepreneur of the Arts
In 2009, she cofounded the Russian Foundation of Chicago, a non-profit group dedicated to raising awareness of Russian culture in Chicago, which she served as president of for two years. In 2010, Chicago’s Mayor Richard M. Daley asked... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Reunion Snapshots
husband, "he made a number of changes to put us on a better track." Now chairman of the 75-employee Barco-Duval Engineering, Lynda and her daughter, company president and COO Kathy Barco, are both OPM graduates themselves. "One of the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction
proceedings was the presentation of the first-ever Dean's Award for service to the HBS community (see sidebar below). In the late afternoon, a ceremony featuring the remarks of John Crowley (MBA '97) and outgoing HBSAA president Catherine... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Making the Case for Maine: HBS Club and State's CEO Discuss Business Issues
Lane-Merrill (MBA '82), marketing strategist and director of research at ViA Marketing & Design, a strategic brand management company based in Portland. President of the newly reinstated HBS Club of Maine, Lane-Merrill is one of three... View Details
Keywords: Janine Brunell Looker
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
At first glance, not many would figure the bookish president and CEO of telecommunications carrier China Netcom Corporation for a revolutionary. But Edward Tian Suning is certainly making waves as head of one of the country’s new brand of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
assess public education reform needs, and assemble different aspects of the city’s recovery plan into a report to be submitted to President George W. Bush (MBA ’75). The trip inspired an ongoing effort that has sent some students back to... View Details
- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
media company's relatively unknown cable TV subsidiary, Home Box Office. He took the job at HBO and stayed for 34 years, recently retiring as president of HBO Home Entertainment, the network's DVD and digital program distribution... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
Ettus Photo Courtesy Samantha Ettus In The Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do (Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2004), Samantha Ettus (MBA ’01) set out to write “a CliffsNotes for life.” Ettus, who is the founder and View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979)
positions in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors, including director of the Peace Corps, president and CEO of United Way of America, and her present post, U.S. Secretary of Labor. I remember driving to Boston with my parents to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
understand. My first jobs were in retailing, on the finance side. Thirteen years after HBS, I had a midlife crisis. I was working for a soon-to-be defunct department store in Baltimore and knew it was time to get out. I left my job to explore other options — to “find... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
A Precursor from the 1930s
with Harvard’s engineering department to offer a short-lived ‘Master in Engineering Administration’ degree program, graduates of which would be trained ‘for work in the air transport industry.’”) When Charles Eliot became president of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
"staff assistant to the president for executive manpower" was an irony not lost on many, including herself. Manpower? As she answered a press inquiry about the title at her introduction, "This is a good question with no good answer."... View Details
- 14 Jun 2024
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
and serve as ambassadors to the alumni community. On Wednesday, May 29, Alumni Board President Andreas Stavropoulos (MBA 1997) welcomed attendees and kicked off the day's sessions. Jana Pompadur Kierstead, Executive Director, MBA and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
In Brief
one by envisioning what she could not find: sexy, comfortable underwear that absorb odor and wick away moisture. More New Post for Palepu Professor Krishna Palepu, Senior Associate Dean for International Development at HBS, has been tapped by Harvard View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Africa Business Conference Creates Ongoing Forum for Change
Guaranty Trust Bank. “In addition to an information revolution, we need an ideological revolution that will change people's ideas about what is possible,” added Amadou Mahtar Ba, president of AllAfrica Global Media. Part of that change... View Details