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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
twice been named the Best Company to Work For by Washington CEO magazine. I remember sitting in Professor Ray Goldberg’s office during my second year at HBS discussing a project I was working on. His assistant interrupted to tell him that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Greenhill Family Gift Enhances Global Research
Greenhill & Co., a merchant-banking firm he founded in New York City in 1996. Previously, he had a long and successful career in investment banking, as president of Morgan Stanley and chairman and CEO of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
issue as the founder and CEO of the executive search firm Trewstar, which places experienced and accomplished women on corporate boards. She offers her advice here. What tips do you have for senior female executives looking for a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
Need for Speed Entrepreneur and investor Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) and Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn and a partner at Greylock Partners, have been fixtures in Silicon Valley since the early days of the commercial internet. Firsthand witnesses to massive View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
"counterphobic move." Punch cards and mainframes were the technological order of the day when she enrolled at HBS, and a successful career in marketing -- including top-level positions at J. Baker Inc. and Bank of New England -- had... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
photos courtesy of Walden Local Meat In 2014, Walden Local Meat founder and CEO Charley Cummings (MBA 2011) crisscrossed New England in a company truck to personally deliver orders of chicken, pork, lamb, and beef—all pasture-raised on... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
hit," notes Joe O'Donnell, a former varsity catcher at Harvard College and now chairman and CEO of Boston Concessions Group, Inc. "At the time, the ball just barely cleared the fence, but 25 years later you remember it sailing out of the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Imprint “You are fierce. You are bold. You are unique. You are driven. You are inspiring. YOU ARE A GIRL MOGUL.” As founder and CEO of Mogul, Pham has created one of the most successful platforms for girls... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- News
Smarter Farming
Steven Carden (MBA 2003) is CEO of PAMU Farms of New Zealand (formerly Landcorp Farming). In this video, he talks about the changes the organization is going through to adjust for shifting dietary trends and the impact of large-scale... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work
large whiteboard to enable the discussions to mimic those conducted at HBS. By all accounts, the hard work of the organizers paid off. "I congratulate the HBS alumni in Ireland on a very successful program. They have combined 'hands-on'... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
Business School Press) When he talks about his research on the process, economics, and management of experimentation, Associate Professor Stefan Thomke is fond of quoting Thomas Edison’s notion that “the real measure of success is the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
thriving “pure DTC” brands due to rising customer-acquisition costs, the continued importance of retail, and the reality of Amazon Prime. Few customers purchase in a single channel long-term but rather purchase across channels as needed. I’ve seen young brands have... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
conference organizer Karen A. Page (MBA '89) put it, to "tell their stories, discover they're not so different from one another, and learn some useful ideas for making their lives and careers more successful and satisfying." It was a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
organizations. Their extensive empirical research draws on in-depth case studies of the organization, structures, systems, and management practices in nine large MNCs; a detailed survey of headquarters-subsidiary relations in three of these companies; and wide-ranging... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
significantly, the firm is a cutting-edge organization that has achieved enormous success using what may well be the business model of the future. In a presentation last fall in Burden Hall, the 33-year-old entrepreneur, the youngest-ever... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
industries - aerospace, banking, communications, entertainment, manufacturing, railroads, retailing, and health care - opting to join forces with their former competitors? Is this a repeat of the Eighties or something altogether different? And what makes some mergers... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A United Front
again at summer break. "We had a chance to speak with a range of people he works with and values, from the club's CEO and his assistant coaches, the players, and the youth team to his longtime assistant, the kit manager, and even the... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
International Trade at the U.S. Small Business Administration; Steven Wolfe Pereira, CEO of Alpha & Company and former executive at Televisa Univision; and Liz Montaño (MBA 2009), Chief Operating Officer at NJ/NY Gotham FC, a National... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Passing the Torch
Jeffrey Immelt In the closest thing to a royal succession business has had in many a year, last September Chairman Jack doffed his crown, bid farewell to his subjects, and ceded rulership of the kingdom of GE to his handpicked successor,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
Laura S. Scher (MBA '85) is something of a modern-day Robin Hood, an entrepreneurial activist who redistributes the wealth of the marketplace to those in need. Through her company, San Francisco based Working Assets Funding Service, this View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso