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01 Dec 2002
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HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power

firms employ to evaluate opportunities. Cathy Hughes, founder and chairman of Radio One, the largest African American– owned and operated broadcast company in the United States... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Summit Sound Bites

too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to... View Details

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

startup scene. In addition to moving home, she'd had open heart surgery and changed jobs several times. Meanwhile, Egypt had become a hotbed of startup activity. Last fall, Enan stepped into the role of partner at San Francisco-based VC... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

firms that are American household names—Disney, Stride Rite, Procter & Gamble— and then applied her multifaceted talents to a fledgling start-up auction site. During her ten years at the helm, eBay grew from... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

firms in the US, why have only 140 companies been able to exceed the $100 million mark? What do these firms do differently from View Details

13 Feb 2019
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We’re All Going to Get Hacked

Rothrock’s cell phone rings. Rothrock (MBA 1988) is the CEO of the cybersecurity firm Red Seal, and a higher-up at Sony was looking for his help. After View Details

26 May 2016
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W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975

learned how to be a team player on the ice or off of it is hard to say, but it is a winning formula that has led to exemplary leadership in three Fortune 100 companies. At the helm of Boeing for View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Air Transportation; Transportation

29 Jan 2021
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Holding Business to Account

behind-the-scenes work of impact investment firms and the wins that aren’t so public. “There’s been so much work done with regard to indigenous people’s rights everywhere, from View Details

01 Jan 2008
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Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

Mahindra. “From the corporate center, we provide services—financial skills and help with branding, for instance—and monitor the financial targets very closely, but we are essentially allowing professional... View Details

23 May 2019
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Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

that has proven effective across all aspects of the business. It was instinct, in fact, that prompted Beck to develop two natural, vegan brands, M-61 and Lune+Aster, and both are now best sellers. By 2015, with several View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2020
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Karmic Kickstart

of those less fortunate pivots was pretty standard stuff: After a change in leadership, I was unceremoniously fired at the bank where I had been promoted just a few days earlier. After a year of frustration and effort I gave up on View Details

Keywords: transitions; higher education; travel; reflection; cancer; Educational Services

01 Dec 2002
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Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics

is now one of the three largest executive search firms in the world, with billings of almost $300 million last year. At the 2002 HBS Alumni... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Green House

complex, and Harper worked with design-and-build firm Group Design Build to execute an exacting vision. Each bay and gable creates challenges for unwanted air leakage and heat loss. To dramatically decrease potential loss at View Details

12 Jan 2017
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Personalizing Women’s Path to Success

know, and that navigation unveiled itself at HBS.” As an alumna, Skeete Tatum has served as president of the HBS Alumni Board, and she and her husband recently joined the Board of Dean’s Advisors. After... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

13 Dec 2017
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Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Late last summer Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) got a call from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Hessan's an entrepreneur and executive. And she previously founded View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Q & A: Gustavo Herrero

HBS at the LARC was an excellent way to achieve that goal. I believe my prior experience as a CEO of leading local firms will probably help open up some doors, although the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

29 Jun 2016
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Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story

financed by women, in an industry where women have been largely underrepresented in all of these roles,” says Mandelli, who is managing director of the investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. “And... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; photography by Chris Taggart; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

23 May 2018
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Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003

University When the head of the presidential search committee for Robert Morris University (RMU) came across Chris Howard’s résumé, he thought the search View Details