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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
sailing feat yet. It was time for me to place another call to update his amazing story (see article). Last March, skippering the 60-foot Great American III, Wilson completed this year’s Vendée Globe, an around-the-world, singlehanded,... 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
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
Download Jim McNerney profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1949 Born, Providence, Rhode Island 1971 Earns BA, American Studies, Yale University 1975 Earns MBA 1975 Joins Procter & Gamble, Brand Manager 1978 Joins... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
As the global economy grows ever more competitive, American manufacturing is at a critical juncture. The country has been surrendering jobs, production capacity, and know-how to other countries at an alarming rate. The answers to this... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
Image by John Ritter It’s not just that Americans can’t find a middle ground on tax policy or abortion rights anymore—political polarization has sunk to a depth from which Americans can no longer see eye to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
point is not whether public or private providers deliver the service but the efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness of that service,” says Jeremy Pelczer (AMP 162, 2002), president and CEO of American... View Details
- 24 Feb 2011
- News
Show Time
An Oscar statue (CC BY-NC 2.0) The Academy Awards are coming up, that annual homage to movies and their place in popular culture. The festivities are also a reminder of entertainment’s importance as a mainstay of the U.S. economy and, for better or worse, as an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
magazine. Among many honors, he was elected president of the American Finance Association in 1993 and the Western Economic Association International in 1994 and admitted to the View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
On the Inside
Other HBS alumni are also feeling welcome inside the Beltway. Among them is longtime conservative tax strategist Grover Norquist (MBA ’81), president of Americans for Tax Reform, who “has the Bush... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
sportswriter Brian Phillips wrote in the New York Times. “The next thing I want to see from United States soccer is a jackhammer, not a news conference.” “It was heartbreaking,” says Carlos Cordeiro (MBA 1980), who at the time was vice View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Lisa Frankenberg
particularly for the English speakers who were suddenly flooding the country," says the young entrepreneur. With five other American backpackers, she helped start the country's first English-language newspaper, Prognosis, a monthly geared... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
Continental -- Brier went dot-com in 1998. He cofounded and became president of Priceline Travel, a division of Priceline.com, the e-commerce company that enables its customers to name their own low price for airline tickets, hotel rooms,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
floor of Merrill Lynch headquarters at Manhattan’s World Financial Center. As president of Merrill’s U.S. Private Client Group, O’Neal oversees sixteen thousand brokers — or financial advisors, as he calls them — in eight hundred branch... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
Cofounder & Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Former Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Yale University, 1953 B.A., American... View Details
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
subsequently joined Doriot’s venture capital firm American Research and Development Corporation (ARD), where he worked for seven years before forming Greylock in 1965 with fellow HBS alumni and ARD colleagues William Elfers (MBA 1943) and... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
says Anthony Harris (MBA 1979), president and CEO of the Fiberscope's maker, Campbell/Harris Security Equipment Company (CSECO). "If you catch vehicles going southbound, you generally interdict cash." This truck was going south: In the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the VC community to see itself as a real industry.” The venture capital industry began to take shape after World War II on the northeastern seaboard when in 1946 Doriot became president of the first public venture capital firm:... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
been in his family for more than a century. He huddled with locals about the idea, then helped to convene a group of motivated backers, who ultimately raised $500,000 with one fundraising letter. He later agreed to be the project’s View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
1776, by David McCullough In any survey of great American corporations that have left their mark on business history, IBM would always hold a special place. Its origins date back to the late 1880s, when mechanical time recorders and... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback and flanked by a Native American man and an African man, which has presided over the entrance of New York’s American Museum of Natural History... View Details