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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
logically and ‘toned down’ my comments to show respect, while still providing constructive ideas. Initially, he seemed to take the feedback well. But then I gradually noticed a distancing in our relationship. Eventually, I realized that he did not support my further... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
mistrust that spills into the general business environment. How do you balance the demands of your career and your personal life? Lafley: I don't manage as well as I'd like. I exercise regularly in order to stay healthy. I keep in close... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
her yard. Interested in a “green” career post-HBS, she found it difficult to locate the alumni and networking opportunities that would provide a leg up on the job hunt, so she joined forces with Fishman to create an alumni organization to... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
through the standard American dream script of from high school directly to four-year degree completion, directly onto career or further education? MDP: I think we need to figure out division of roles and articulation of those roles... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
faculty members hired this year, eight are people of color. We became the first academic partner to the OneTen initiative, which aims to create jobs and career paths with family-sustaining wages for one million Black individuals in the... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
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Road Work
Friedman. He’d had a successful career in investment banking and venture capital, which included being the founder and former president of the investment banking operation of Houlihan Lokey at the age of 28. Houlihan Lokey would go on to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
Shapiro visited Levitt to consult about a possible career path in manufacturing. “It was the second time I went to see him,” he recalls, “and Ted was visibly nervous. He said, ‘Your voice. Your voice has a pleading quality to it that is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
students at the most prestigious schools now shunned traditional management careers altogether in favor of fields like consulting and investment banking. Faculty at the elite business schools were thus educating fewer future managers,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
create given their love of the outdoor life. Still, it was a strange alliance between a scruffy, eccentric outdoorsman and two clean-cut East Coast, Ivy League Republicans on the fast-track for careers in finance or politics. After... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
seldom enough to be beyond the living memory of today’s bank executives, fund managers, and traders. The average career of a Wall Street CEO is just over twenty-five years, which means that firsthand memories at the top of the U.S.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Whereupon Professor Salmon ran up the steps towards the student, stopped, and coming face-to-face with him said in a loud voice, "But you gotta!" One definition of business is decision-making under uncertainty. If you are a manager, you have to decide. This image has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
great that in 1965 the SEC even raided ARD’s offices to conduct a “surprise audit.” Doriot was so enraged at the SEC that he kept a file of vituperative letters addressed to the agency that were stamped: “Not sent — on advice of counsel.” Despite a somewhat tragic... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
William Roedy (MBA '79), serving as president, international, of MTV Networks allows him to combine his two loves: music and world travel. Indeed, Roedy, who began his career as an account manager for HBO, says, "I virtually live on an... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
had to memorize everything, and I thought, ‘Could I get a computer to do all this stuff so I don’t have to?’ ” That notion had furthered his interest in artificial intelligence, which had led to his career at IBM, and now, with Watson’s... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
had an engineering degree from Princeton and an MBA from HBS. He had a good job at a sugar company in his native Mexico City. His career path seemed set. Music, though, was innate. His grandparents on his father’s side had been friends... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
understanding what can I control in my environment? What can I not control? And then developing that new vision of greatness for yourself. What does that look like? And then the things that I can control, for me, it was having a successful business View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
expedition as its lead mountaineer, he was single. His romance with Katrina Hincks, a Vassar grad now living in New York, had ended abruptly, and that, along with dim prospects for the career in publishing he had envisioned when he... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
products—including soap, toothpaste, and shampoo—to thousands of children and young adults in need in Massachusetts. “During COVID-19, what we are doing is more important than ever,” says Feingold, who retired from a 23-year career at... View Details