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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
governance, is when neither CEO wishes to step aside. "The deal will likely be dead in the water," he observes. "If these individuals cannot satisfy their own career and financial interests, our research shows that, in general, the CEO... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
for example — we are working to influence the environmental choices global companies make in the large-scale production of commodities such as palm oil, pulp, livestock, and soy.” The Power of Serendipity What’s your next career move when... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
2012, Phil Strause (MBA 1967), a former boss from an early career stint at Deloitte, sent Lo a business plan for a vertical farming company. She forwarded it on to the German investor, whose family, it so happened, had major European... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
workforce pipeline to groom local interns and AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers for full-time positions at the school, where he pushes them to pursue postsecondary training. And he’s hired a number of ex-miners and other refugees from mining-related industries, helping them... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
just seems like there's a lot going on in kind of this part of our life. Any advice in all your research that you've really gleaned from managing this moment in time for those of us who feel like we're at the peak busyness both of family life and View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
color, diversifying boards, and leveraging diversity in organizations, as well as one called Thrive, which is designed to encourage career advancement for underrepresented minorities with 5 to 7 years of experience (with an emphasis on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
my intuition. Chad Waite (MBA 1983) OVP Venture Partners Gut Check In 2012, just one year into my VC career at Bessemer, I met a sharp and energetic founder named Nat Friedman. He told me about his company, Xamarin, which helped... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
leadership position in the cosmetics industry. "I researched different companies in Baker Library, called HBS alumni to find out about contacts, and finally wrote directly to L'Oreal," he recalls. "The HBS name certainly opened doors." Baeza is pleased with his View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
a well-worn career path for his cohort at Trinity College, one of Sri Lanka’s most prestigious private high schools. It wasn’t a traditional high school experience, however; between the ages of 16 and 18, Mawilmada guesses he attended... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
was very different when you started your first business in 2000. And I wonder if you can talk about your career evolution—how your professional experience sort of offered you a perspective on the ideas that you elaborate on in the book?... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
and business, as well as his full career as a professor, drilling engineer, and energy executive. Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century (Columbia University Earth Institute Sustainability Primers) by Bruce Usher (MBA... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
for five years before moving over to Xerox in 1978. “I like to learn,” Barron has said. “And I like to do.” That straightforward philosophy led to a multifaceted, 21-year career at Xerox, where she held senior leadership roles in the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
to make good relationships alongside great deals, earn respect while earning multi-million dollar returns, and maintain character even when surrounded by an industry full of characters. Let’s Be Frank began in the final years of Frank Biondi’s life as he recorded the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
this second part of our Skydeck conversation with Immelt, we talk about the trials of the financial crisis, the loneliness of life at the top, and what his post-GE career in education and venture capital have taught him about the future... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
“punishment posting” or perhaps a move that signaled her desire for a slower-paced lifestyle after a fifteen-year career in various areas of ICICI Bank. “There were no visible indicators that signaled the potential for private equity in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) by New York Governor George Pataki. For Whitehead, this may be one of the most challenging assignments in a remarkable career in which he has served as cochairman of Goldman Sachs, deputy secretary... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
to apply to HBS, launching a career that would include executive roles at McKinsey, Citibank, and Union Texas Petroleum, as well as board service for General Mills, Hewlett-Packard, Stanley Black & Decker, and UnitedHealth. From 1993... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
siblings. His father, educated as a lawyer, had a storied career in the Georgia state legislature in the 1970s and ’80s; a stretch of US Highway 41 that runs near Calhoun is named in his honor. Langford’s father also advised Jimmy Carter... View Details