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Deborah M. Winshel
Deborah Winshel is a member of the Faculty of the Harvard Business School where she teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability to first year MBAs and executives.Most recently, Deborah was a Managing Director and Global Head of Social Impact at BlackRock. She worked with the CEO and senior leadership to direct BlackRock’s own capital to create and fund multiple initiatives and partnerships...
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
engaging with any group you’re trying to influence — whether it’s across the globe or the people in the next department — is to make sure that you retain your allies, do whatever you can to neutralize your adversaries, and most important, win over the big group that’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
of the scientists who had become convinced that MBAs have skills and knowledge that could be highly valuable in their own fields. The course was really a grand experiment, but by the end of it, the students were pulling together, which is what I had hoped for. I’m... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
disintegrated, specialized providers. And if those providers don’t start to integrate as competitors in the health-care market, they will be the losers. — Deborah Blagg Related Links An Excerpt from The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
It is ten o'clock on a mild March morning in Charleston, South Carolina. A gentle mist is falling, weighing down the yellow Lady Banksia roses in the garden outside Roper House, an impeccably restored Greek Revival mansion that overlooks Fort Sumter and the city's... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
Fountain House provides that alternative for over a thousand people in New York alone." De Chazal hopes his new schedule at Morgan Stanley will allow him to sharpen his focus on others. "We live in an incredibly rich country during a time of tremendous wealth... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
Jessica Gelman (AB 1997, MBA 2002) (photos by Neal Hamberg) Jessica Gelman (AB 1997, MBA 2002) had a passion for basketball that dated back to middle school, a stellar record as a high school player, and an extraordinary college career as co-captain of a record-setting... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
If you are one of the 17 million people who participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge a couple of summers ago, the money you helped raise to support ALS research may be at work today in a late-stage biopharmaceutical company headed by Robert Blum (MBA 1991). Blum is... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jonathan Mariner
Mariner Photo courtesy Jonathan Mariner “There aren’t many activities that bring a community together so quickly — without respect to age, race, and gender lines — as a winning ball club,” observes Jonathan D. Mariner, the veteran sports executive who has served as... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
Photos by Richard Bolger Joop van Caldenborgh (AMP 71, 1975) crossed the world many times in three decades as founder and president of the Netherlands-based Caldic Chemie, BV, an international distributor of compounds for industrial, health, and food industries.... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
Photos by Chris Taggart “Some of the students I mentor, when they see a young guy in a leadership position who went to Harvard and worked on Wall Street, they assume I come from privilege,” says Kwame Owusu-Kesse (AB 2006, MBA/MPP 2012). “One of the best parts of my... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
(photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty) When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped off the plane into a country struggling for a toehold in the 20th century. “They brought ladders up to unload our bags,” recalls... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
When it comes to starting new ventures, some people think big picture and others dive into the details. When Robb Turner (MBA 1990) talks about the start-up of his flourishing maple syrup company, it’s obvious he’s pretty good at both. A West Point graduate with a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
(photos by Jennifer Heffner) As lead private-sector specialist at the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) draws on 25 years of experience in helping countries and regions to develop competitive private sectors.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
represented? In-house counsel has a tremendous role to play, but it is a serious mistake for managers to delegate to them the responsibility for managing the legal dimensions of business. The law is often not clear-cut, and general managers, not lawyers, should be... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Kumar Mahadeva
Mahadeva Photo courtesy Cognizant Cognizant Technology Solutions (Nasdaq: CTSH) founder, chairman, and CEO Wijayaraj A. (“Kumar”) Mahadeva explains how his company can help businesses still reeling from “post-bubble hangovers.” “We keep the mission pretty simple,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
A New Path for Alumnae
lives are rich, varied, and have many different passages. — Deborah Blagg For more about A New Path, visit www.alumni.hbs.edu/path/. For information about career resources and tools, visit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Bridging the ESG Data Gap
Megan Murday The idea for a digital platform to help venture capitalists calculate, benchmark, and improve portfolio ESG performance crystallized while Megan Murday (MBA 2021) was studying at HBS. Now the CEO of the software startup Metric, she says that “investors... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
down the road and looking to change direction, don’t hesitate to jump in. I’m a huge fan of starting your own company, because I think it lets you get closer to life. Your destiny is in your own hands. If it’s Sunday night and you’re not excited about going to work on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
public-offering practices, every business cycle produces reasons for the two of them to come together to figure out how to improve the system. The process feels a little tense at times — and we are going through one of those periods today — but the outcome is almost... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg