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Alvaro Rodriguez Arregui
having served as the Chairman of the Board for Compartamos Banco (Gentera), the largest microfinance institution in the Americas, and Chair of ACCION International, a 65-year-old US non-profit organization. Throughout his career, Alvaro has held View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
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Prita Kumar
turns in investment banking and private equity, “hoping that I would love that career path because it was filled with extremely intelligent people and highly analytical work.” While Prita did “work with C-suite executives and saw various... View Details
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Mariano Bomaggio
no real experience of how C-suite executives think." His Leadership & Organizational Behavior (LEAD) course offered a different perspective on executive leadership. "I realized how much the culture of a company influences... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
targets. What are these executives not seeing? “First and foremost, CEOs and other C-suite leaders must make an explicit commitment to health and well-being.” Edmondson and Koh: Typically, companies have focused on short-term financial... View Details
- 14 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
Looking to the Next Decade of Change: A Recap of the 10th Annual Retail & Luxury Goods Conference
Donna Karan Co. All three speakers spoke about the winding routes they took to get to the C-Suite and reinforced the need for students to follow their passions and stay true to themselves in order to forge meaningful relationships in a... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
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Triston Francis
I’ve never seen anywhere else.” With his BCG internship, Triston has already initiated his post-graduate plans. Further out, he says, “I’d like to bring together the C-suite executives of companies that sell to low-income communities. A... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
In the late aughts, Joe Burton (PMD 75, 2000) looked like a success story. In 2006, after a successful career in consulting and the C-suite of numerous public companies, he was named COO of McCann Worldgroup, overseeing $1.5 billion in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Oct 2019
- News
Balancing Act
In a snapshot of the PresenceLearning leadership team taken this spring, CEO Kate Eberle Walker (MBA 2005) stands, smiling, just right of center. She’s flanked by three other women and four men—the gender-balanced C-suite she had been... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
tomorrow's big profits. Dare: Straight Talk on Confidence, Courage, and Career for Women in Charge by Becky Blalock (PMD 68, 1994) (Jossey-Bass) Although women hold most of the managerial and professional jobs in the workforce, they occupy only 14 percent of View Details
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Global Leadership Roundtables | Institute for Business in Global Society
sectors who are either topical experts or who have key decision-making authority within their organizations. This includes C-suite executives, entrepreneurs, executive directors of leading NGOs and civil society organizations, senior... View Details
- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
Gina Joseph (GMP 29, 2020), chief strategy officer for the technology media company VentureBeat, was recently honored by the San Francisco Business Times in their “40 Under 40” issue. Joseph is thriving in the media, tech, and gaming world—all industries traditionally... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
Sachs, and held C-suite roles with several large private equity firms, for help with an idea that would eventually become Millicent, their blockchain-based digital financial venture. Dyer says Millicent’s payments network will be a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 20 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care
a cohort, so there’s a shared experience,” she says. “The people who went through Redwoods with me are still among my best friends in the world.” Second, she believes in exposure to C-suite executives. “We get a lot. It not only makes us... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
Synthesis, a leadership assessment and development company. She’s seen a new generation of leaders who have grown up in a culture comfortable with personal therapy turn the C-suite stigma into a strength. “Getting help for the things you... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
called Werk Labs. (Auerbach has since taken a position at Egon Zehnder.) In her four years at Werk, Auerbach watched a sea change in attitudes toward flexibility in the workplace. “Since we started, demand has grown exponentially,” she says. “Today, one in three... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015 Raje breaks C-suite workplaces into four categories: space used to enhance personal energy (think Zen gardens, cloth journals, and pictures of the family pup); space to create organizational... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
corporate governance is a long- or short-term goal? —Janelle James (MBA 2008) STEWART: It is hard to say because I cannot evaluate the subtle impact that the various training programs have on the development of business executives. All I can say is that by the time a... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
what they believed had a better than average chance of succeeding because there were women and men working together in leadership roles. This belief has since been substantiated by numerous studies showing that companies with diversity in the View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 16 Jan 2020
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Hitting the High Notes
needs are the same. The number-one priority among C-suite executives is talent attraction and retention,” says Sheridan, who guides companies on best practices for employee engagement. “I’ve run three companies myself, so I use a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
this mission, Wellthy should also change the basis of competition with its pricing model. Fortunately for Wellthy, C-suite decision makers are of the right demographic to personally appreciate the problem Wellthy solves. Pricing per... View Details