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- 06 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Announces 2023 Alumni Achievement Award Honorees
(GMP 18, 2015) CEO and President, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) COO and Treasurer, Ford Foundation Founder, Moms of Black Boys United Raymond J. McGuire (JD/MBA 1984) Former Vice Chairman, Citigroup Antonis C.... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
can not always be positive. No rose gardens. So this experience of mine helped me very much. JH: Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) is treasurer and COO at the Ford Foundation, enabling the organization's grantmaking program as it... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
Women who pursue STEM fields are accustomed to being challenged. When Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) began her career working as a field engineer for Schlumberger, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies, the all-male crews on the oil rigs were often less than... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
this activity in established institutions. At HBS, he racked the exhaust pipes on his old, turquoise-blue Ford pickup with the express purpose of setting off car alarms in the Soldiers Field Park garage. He used game theory in a classroom... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
HBS Global Networking Night 2013
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
uncomfortable with that notion. One first step would be to have a woman vice president. Gerald Ford is reputed to have said that America will have a woman president after a woman becomes vice president and succeeds a male president who... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
single individual has achieved so much in such a short time," with "Microsoft's technology accelerating the world economy." Most influential business leader Bill Gates Jack Welch Henry Ford Alfred P. Sloan Thomas J. Watson The runner-up... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The MBA at a Crossroads
students straight from undergraduate programs and promoting internally without requiring an MBA. The global economic crisis only added to the chorus of concerns about the MBA degree. The Carnegie Corporation and Ford Foundation reports in... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Developing ideas that have tangible, real-world impact—not just in academia but in practice and policy—has always been a vital part of HBS’s DNA. So not surprisingly, when the coronavirus hit,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
would you do if Ford said, “Boy, we could take the car as is, but the cockpit would be very different if we conceive of it as a job.” Imagine the differentiation that it would bring to Ford. It is not just a compact anymore. + ONLINE... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
city of seven gleaming skyscrapers built in the 1970s. A relic of a time when the Ford family shaped the city, it was once home to the Ford Motor Company. The tallest of the buildings is now topped with the... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
mechanical ventilators by the end of May. Ford Otosan is producing protective face shields, aerosol boxes, and waterproof protective gowns. Tofaş is building biological sampling cabins, intubation cabins, and protective face shields. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
Division of Research from 1953 to 1968, died on March 14. He was 92. Fox joined the HBS faculty in 1949 and served at the School for 25 years. He was the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration from 1955 to 1967, and from... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
month for Internet access. We bundled a computer and online access and support for less than $25 a month and launched that business. And soon into it [we] got a call from the Ford Motor Company. The CIO said, ‘We're spending over $125... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Nirmalya Kumar, with Pradipta K. Mohapatra (AMP 113, 1993) and Suj Krishnaswamy (Harvard Business Press) When Tata Motors bought the Jaguar and Land Rover brands from Ford — complementing the Nano, its innovative $2,500 car — a new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
include Jacques Nasser, president and CEO of Ford Motor Company, HBS professors Michael Porter and Clay Christensen, and Tom Coughlin, EVP, president, and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Division. Be sure to visit the Cleveland conference Web site... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
three, I’m tired of going around the minivan.” A loss in market share to Ford and GM eventually pushed Chrysler to the left-side sliding door—and market share increased immediately. “This is what happens when you listen to your... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
has also made the most of joint ventures, initially a 1993 deal that enabled Ford to manufacture and market the Escort in India. “We were then making open-top Jeeps and didn’t have a clue how to make a mass-market car,” he says. “Thanks... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
Casey Foundation; and Deborah Winshel (MBA 1985), Global Head of Social Impact, BlackRock, Inc. Ford Foundation President Darren Walker began the final day’s sessions with a fireside chat on “Partnering for Systemic Change” alongside HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
Photographed by Luciano Munhoz From her São Paulo office, Claudia Sender (MBA 2002) has a clear view of the Octávio Frias de Oliveira Bridge, a spectacular 450-foot-tall structure of yellow steel cables laid over an X-shaped support tower that spans the Pinheiros River... View Details