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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
knowing where the CEO and his executives were taking the corporation. We all understood our fiduciary duties and our responsibilities to the shareholders as well as to the long-term health and viability of the enterprise. The exception I... View Details
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
20 years of experience successfully commercializing new technology from research labs, currently as CEO of Xtalic, a company that engineers stable metal alloys at the Nano-scale. Tom was also CEO of Z... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
capitalized, loss-making technology company is what it took for me to learn that! —Steve Papa (MBA 1999) founder of Endeca; founder and current CEO at Parallel Wireless; longtime NVC judge and mentor... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
on local employers to provide admitted students with mentors and paid work experience starting in grade nine. Co-author of the recent book, Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools Create a Pathway from High School to College to Career, with... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
14-week fellowship that connects them with mentors and money to build their companies. Mills thanked attendees for engaging with the case, and for understanding the many barriers that exist as well as the difficulty for Black founders to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
worked for Duke Energy as assistant to the company’s CEO after graduation, but in 2013 he and McCready reunited and cofounded Double Time Capital, an investment firm focused on funding utility-scale solar farms in North Carolina. The firm... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
stuck with me is that, in the end, a decision must be made. You can't be wishy-washy. He told us to always remember that when you get to the top of a company, decision trees do not grow at high altitude." ADVICE TO STUDENTS "It's terribly important to choose your first... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
Economic Development under Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. “I had learned from [HBS professor] Michael Porter about the synergy that comes from establishing industry clusters, and that became our focus. We became metrics driven and also changed the culture by hiring former... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
Goldman turned to Lex Suvanto (MBA 1999) for help. As CEO of a strategic communications unit within Edelman, the world’s largest public relations and marketing firm, Suvanto had teams and skills at hand that could support the kind of... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
Management Assistance Program (MAP), a local nonprofit, to match volunteers with projects. In addition to consulting work, volunteers can mentor a nonprofit executive or serve as a board member. Both Levy and Sanchez of South Florida cite... View Details
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Jackie Burgos
internship with Citigroup in Manhattan when she was only sixteen. There she found business mentors at the highest levels of the organization, including CEO Sandy Weill. “It was important to me,” Jackie says.... View Details
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Jackie Burgos
internship with Citigroup in Manhattan when she was only sixteen. There she found business mentors at the highest levels of the organization, including CEO Sandy Weill. “It was important to me,” Jackie says.... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
As CEO of Indonesia’s Sintesa Group, Shinta Widjaja Kamdani (OPM 31, 2002) is the third generation of her family to lead the highly diversified holding company that began as a rubber plantation in 1919. Kamdani had been at the company for... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
fashion e-commerce company, Peach. It’s also a challenge to an industry where a company’s potential is often predicted based on its similarity to other successful ventures, most often led by CEOs who look a whole lot like Mark Zuckerberg.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
business? “In the past, it seems like for many companies, the answer has been ‘no,’” says West. West and other HBS grads believe that’s the wrong answer. With the help of Andrea Hoffman, the founder and CEO of Culture Shift Labs, they are... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
entrepreneurs such as Tim Westergren of Pandora and Evan Williams of Twitter. YouTube cofounder and former CEO Chad Hurley has called the book “an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.” A past recipient of the HBS... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
established. “I will be 87 in the spring,” he says. “It’s time to let the younger people—in their 70s— take it and expand it.” Even so, he remains a champion of the program and has started to mentor other clubs in launching similar... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
Blacks. My concern is Hispanics which wield significantly more economic buying power, land ownership It seems to me that everywhere I look Hispanics are being left out.”), and more systematic mentoring (Paul, a graduate of HBS,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
faced. This lyrical summary of those answers offers practical advice for understanding where we came from, who we are, and where we are going. The CEO Pay Machine: How It Trashes America and How to Stop It by Steve Clifford (MBA 1968)... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
young Indigenous Australian university student who created the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a nonprofit organization he formed to respond to the problem of Indigenous high school students completing high school at... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman