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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
PepsiCo COO Grace Puma and former Nike President of Consumer Direct Christiana Smith Shi show women how to maximize their career journeys, get paid what they’re worth, navigate the shifts that occur in any company, build a leadership... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
interviews conducted by Hawkins during the writing of his biography of Termeer, the former chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Genzyme Corp. The collection features 120 interviews with leaders in biotech, science,... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
Then there's the recent debacle involving a big beverage company. The vice president of sales for one of the company's largest regions dramatically underpredicted demand for an upcoming major holiday. His motivation was simple—he wanted... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
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Richard P. Melnick | About
negotiations with the 5,000 member Harvard University Clerical and Technical Worker’s union. Rick is a member of the Board of Trustees of Minerva University and is a Past President of the Boston Chapter of Financial Executives... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
baked-beans maker searches for a non-family president who can take the reins while staying faithful to the family's founding values. Senior Lecturer Lena G. Goldberg and Chad Carr One of the Lab's most public initiatives is Godrej LOUD... View Details
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Melcolm Ruffin
his college education and his NBA career offered him simultaneous introductions to HBS alumni – and powerful Black leadership. In his second year at UMass, Melcolm attended an event featuring Dan Reed, then president of the NBA D-League... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
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Emily Schlichting
story with a Washington, D.C. think tank, Emily became the public face of ACA advocacy throughout her college career, speaking at press conferences, testifying to Congressional panels, and even working with the White House. President... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
Bancel took a few weeks to weigh his options, and in mid-2011 he became president and founding CEO of Moderna. He feels certain that the company is producing something that could turn the biotech world—and the treatment of patients— on... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
Meet Cheryl Andrus: Manager. Survivor. A vice president responsible for corporate and product marketing at FranklinCovey in Salt Lake City, Andrus was asked in August 2002 to also take charge of one of the company's business lines. Along... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
McCann-Erickson, Inc., 1956-59 With a student loan to repay after HBS, Zehnder jumped at the advertising agency's starting salary of $7,500-the highest offer he received-plus the prospect of an international posting. By 1959, aged 29, he was vice View Details
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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products
Business Review Harvard Business Review (LEFA login for full access.) HBS Alumni Bulletin HBS Working Knowledge Jobs Harvard University Privacy Policy Trademarks Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College Harvard Business School... View Details
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
Clubs News Clubs News Southern California Holiday Gala Will Boost Scholarship Fund After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, the HBS Association of Southern California (HBSASC) is once again hosting its annual Holiday Benefit Gala on December 9 to support the HBSASC... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Research Summary
Managing Processes
David A. Garvin is examining the nature and use of managerial and organizational processes—the means by which work is accomplished—including strategic processes that chart corporate direction, resource allocation processes that distribute funds,... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Edward E. Matthews, MBA 1957
By the time Ed Matthews arrived at HBS in 1955, he was a married Korean War veteran eager to advance his real world education. “As an undergraduate, you learn things from a theoretical perspective,” says Matthews, a graduate of Princeton who is now View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
to San Francisco, where he became CFO in 1981 and president in 1983. The calling to be near the company's operations -- which had moved to Kentucky in the 1970s -- then proved irresistible. In 1989, Jed, Sherri, and their two children... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
very well might have– occurred.” Perry Evans, President of ThriveHive, stated in the New York Times, “In any transformation I’ve seen, the winner is always the one who takes out a clean sheet of paper and says, ‘This is how you would do... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
generation of businesspeople to follow his lead." These gifts point to increasing momentum around Harvard, HBS, and Brazil, highlighted by last year's visit by Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff to the University to witness the signing of... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
furthering her own organization." Women's World Banking, based in New York, also utilizes a network strategy in its work. When president Nancy Barry (HBS MBA '75) started leading the organization in 1990, it served approximately... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
president and CEO of Estée Lauder International Inc. "Ted's writings taught me that relationship management is particularly relevant in a global business," she adds. "I knew every single department store owner in every part... View Details