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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
October 2020. This is her first gig as chief executive, but it’s one she has long envisioned. As a little girl, growing up first in the DC area and then later in Connecticut, McKenna dreamed of running a Fortune 500 company. As CEO of... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
it was an incredible example of the power of marketing, regardless of whether you have a better product.” Wiegele: “Since I design our ads and run our marketing, I’m always thinking about the ‘Dumb Ways to Die’ case and the Science of... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
one of the things you talk a lot about, too, in the book is the fact that being the CEO is a lonely job. Right? That it's lonely at the top. And I wonder in those moments who you would reach out to. Or how you dealt with that, generally. JI: So I went from View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
different backgrounds, the students are here for similar reasons. Startup Lockdown is a good trial run for a budding entrepreneur, says Behrens. He’s hoping the week will help him answer two important questions: “Am I really the person... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
nationwide high-speed, high-capacity fiber-optic network covering fifteen coastal cities and over 80 percent of the domestic data services market. With backing from shareholders, including the Ministry of Railways (fiber is being View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Seventy Years Out: Class of 1932 Celebrates Reunions
John Brink (left) attended his last five reunions and came back for his 70th to “keep the record going and to see the old gang.” Brink said that times were tough when he was at HBS and that half the class didn't have jobs upon graduation:... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- News
Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt
value of loyalty,” he continues. “The Marines taught me to judge people by a simple rule: If you’re running up a hill under fire, will the person at your side stand by you? This value has determined how I’ve hired and worked with people.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Donors Invest in Students’ Future
BARCOTT: Pledges to pay back donors in “service and deeds.” I am here tonight to thank all the donors who believe in the promise that the students in this room represent,” Rye Barcott (MBA ’09) told the nearly 550 people gathered in early... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
wanted to be outdoors," he says. A typical day on the farm runs 12 hours minimum, often stretching around the clock during calving season. "Twenty heifers may start giving birth in the middle of a snowstorm," says Whiteside. "Once I was... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
Marty Cordova (MBA 1974), a Vietnam vet who has seen good days and bad, is dedicating himself to helping other vets get their lives back together. Cordova is finance director of Rehabilitation Services and Veterans Programs (RS&VP), a... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
strong community. As our base of instructors continues to grow, we are starting to see the network effect of BollyX gaining more brand awareness." What's it like to wear two very different hats at BollyX? (Minal runs BollyX and also is... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Roll the Credits
After a 38-year run as Hollywood’s leading man in Washington, Jack Valenti (MBA ’3/48) announced in March that he will step down as president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Valenti, a Houston native, was a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Mom Corps
have come, as retiring baby boomers deplete companies of skilled and experienced workers. And O’Kelly has found that there is no shortage of mothers looking for a kid-friendly route back to corporate America. Mom Corps, launched in 2005... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
Girlfriends started back in 1965 by two ladies, two African American ladies, that lived in the Bronx in New York. They would visit each other’s house, drinking coffee and all. And then they just decided, well, let’s invite someone else.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
best young executives and to see firsthand how effective each one really was, what work he was best at, and with whom he worked particularly well. After the war, hundreds of these same executives went back to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Women and VC
DODI: Backing ventures with products important to women and families. Photo courtesy Monica Dodi A cofounder of MTV Europe, a former executive at Walt Disney/Europe, and former CEO of AOL’s Entertainment Asylum, Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) is... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
with people. People had long lists going all the way back to Vince Foster and Whitewater and fast forwarding to the Clintons taking furniture out of the White House, and the Benghazi and the emails, and the Clinton Foundation, and Donna... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Given success of this magnitude, why aren’t for-profit managed charter schools like Sabis in high demand? The authors rebut the charge that for-profits running charter schools are in it for the money, not the kids, and they explore the... View Details