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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 Oct 1997
- News
L.E. Simmons
The corporate offices of Houston-based L.E. Simmons & Associates, Inc. (the general partner to SCF Partners, L.P.), are located on the 66th floor of the Texas Commerce Tower, the tallest building in the United States outside New York and Chicago. Height is not the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Power of National Identity
nationalist tendencies that would emerge after the breakup would be uniformly detrimental to Western interests. Abdelal’s research draws instructive lessons from the fact that neither of these scenarios materialized and suggests that policymakers need to take a closer... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
The Dow's high for the year was 891.66, there were long lines at the gas pumps, and Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers were essentially one-office firms. "Most of us who went into banking thought it was going to be a demanding and exciting career path,"... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
fairly stressful. “Switching jobs is hard work,” he says. “You’re processing a lot of new information, and anxiety is normal and even healthy in a situation like that.” After a few months, he relates, “your stress level should plateau, and your effectiveness as a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
the growing acceptance of e-mail acknowledgments, Butler advises, “A genuine, elegant, handwritten thank-you note is still the gold standard. It leaves a more lasting impression.” — Deborah E. View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
a head in May 1970, when hundreds of students and some faculty members assembled on Baker Beach to decide whether or not to join with students across the country and engage in a symbolic strike to protest the shootings at Kent State. Dean Lawrence View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
Control and Prevention. Were there any topics that you had to omit that you wish you could have covered? There was a chapter on how to fall in love, which I really wanted to include, but my editor thought it was too subjective. — Deborah... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
care to a system where it is all managed care. So even though the U.S. insurance system is large and decentralized, when we move, we actually move with dizzying rapidity. — Deborah E. View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Dick Franyo: From Banker to Barkeeper
promotional and charitable events, which often are tied to the cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay. (One percent of the bar’s revenues are donated to The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and other conservancy causes.) “At the Boatyard, what we’re really selling is a lifestyle,”... 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