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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
with encouragement from faculty mentors, pursued his growing interests in markets and investment. During his tenure at the School he has served as chair of the Finance unit and taken on a number of key administrative roles, including View Details
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
nonprofit board service is of great interest to alumni. So we were very thoughtful to find the best people for the topics of conversation,” says Amelia Angella (MBA 2001), Associate Director for the SEI.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Giving Kids Tech Tools to Make an Impact
Amy Kadomatsu (MBA 1998) believes every student can be an innovator and use technology as a force for good. As chair of the board of directors at Mouse, a youth development nonprofit that empowers students... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Stem Cell Man
Last year, Brock Reeve (MBA ’88) was named executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to bring his managerial and diplomatic skills to bear on achieving organizational cohesion and help speed laboratory innovations to market.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
require listed firms to have a majority of independent directors and mandate compensation committees to be entirely composed of outside directors. The exchanges also require firms to get shareholder approval of overall executive... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
and marketing director to head of innovation. After years at Covanta, a waste-to-energy business, she now runs Fueled for Growth, an energy consulting company, while devoting her personal energies to helping women and girls find—and... View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- News
Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community
organizations in her community. Currently director of strategic philanthropy for Congregation Rodef Sholom, she has also served on the boards of the Marin Horizon School and the Greater Bay Area Chapter of... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- News
Shedding light on business issues and opportunities in Asia
When Michael Shih-ta Chen (MBA 1972) attended HBS in the early 1970s, only a handful of case studies featured businesses in Asia. Now, some 25 cases a year focus on business issues in China, Korea, Australia, Southeast Asia, and other surrounding countries. As the... View Details
- 30 Nov 2021
- News
Cold Calculations
the pole—can increase the amount of solar radiation the region deflects and slow global temperature rise. It’s an audacious idea,” says Steve Payne (MBA 1985), chair of the board of the 12-year-old nonprofit. Payne joined the project as a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
company. “There is a clear distinction between the board of directors and the management team,” explains Tian. “I have the right to hire and fire people. I’ve hired about twelve hundred employees so far but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Recognizing Potential
number of people who can benefit from the ideas and scholarship developed at the School," says Stevens, who, with his wife, Mary, is a member of the Board of Dean's Advisors and a founding donor to HBX. Their leadership support of HBX... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
organization while keeping his day job as a vice president at Honeywell Corporation. He and the leadership team, which included Peterson and fellow former Olympic committee member Phil Bardos, put together a board of View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
and other government and industry groups on issues involving business-government relations and policy formulation. In addition to teaching and consulting, Sloane has served as a director of numerous companies and on the advisory View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s and became its chair in 2009. Her work with the charity has been informed by her business career, she says. A partner at... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives
During the bull market of the 1990s, stock grants and options formed increasingly large components of executive compensation. Now, however, with many options "underwater" as share values have declined well below the strike price, boards... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Serving through TechnoServe
top-notch board of directors who bring management and strategy expertise to the organization. Getting this group together, he says, is very rewarding. “We meet and brainstorm, and then we take trips to see... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians
a pro bono partner helping with Internet, strategy, and marketing issues. ZEFER cofounder and director Anthony Tjan (MBA 1998) (see "New Ventures New Gains" in this Bulletin issue) has also favored FtT with his expertise, and his firm to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
are trying to do the right thing. How do we make boards even stronger? Some good ideas I've heard recently call for getting the independent directors to meet alone without management and having somebody... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 May 2017
- News
Nisa Godrej Takes Over
Agrovet, an agribusiness division of the conglomerate. A 2014 profile in the HBS Alumni Bulletin outlines her approach: Her first board placement upon returning [from HBS] was with Agrovet. She noticed gaping wounds in the balance sheet... View Details
- 06 Nov 2014
- News
Building a Startup Community Beyond Commencement
As director of the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab), Jodi Goldstein (MBA 1996) has watched a number of innovative student businesses thrive at the space in its three years of operation. But watching those students lose their access to this... View Details