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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
giving advice and not being in the position to actually execute it." Today, as president and CEO of CNBC, the financial news network viewed in almost 200 million households worldwide, the Detroit native's job is all about execution. Her dual role includes overseeing...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
long before she had exhausted her retirement savings. “I never thought I’d be on the needing end,” says Rhenisch. “I was living a good, solid, confident middle-class life until I got sick. Then the foundation of everything I had built...
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- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
overlapping board work and corporate partnerships. “If I wasn’t the first person to call, I was darn close,” he says. “I asked her what she was going to do.” “I told Jeffrey I was going to retire and think about what else to do,” Whitman...
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- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
global emergencies. His work included the planning and delivery of humanitarian aid during the war in Afghanistan—an experience he found both powerful and frustrating. When a US town raised money to donate an ambulance to the Afghan...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
wonderful businessmen who were very good role models. I loved the idea of marketing and serving customers, and I planned to go to business school right after college. My father talked me into going to law school first, but after I...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
(MBA 1992), CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, suggests that we address the issue of wealth inequality by creating “a way for those with no investment assets to participate in the success of capitalism.” His specific plan is...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
J. DeLong (Organizational Behavior; Entrepreneurial and Service Management) and Michael A. Wheeler (Negotiation, Organizations & Markets) have been named Professors of Management Practice. Retirements Three outstanding and long-serving...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Notes from W50
negotiation tactics and responsible investing. Keynote speakers included Karen Gordon Mills (MBA 1977), administrator of the US Small Business Administration; Ann Moore (MBA 1978), retired chairman and CEO of Time Inc.; and Sheryl...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
seed funding, Leiman and Ogden prepared a business plan to pursue greater funding. While their initial attempts to attract investors in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe were unsuccessful, they continued to move ahead....
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
can benefit from the 'cool' aura around our product," notes Grubman. "You don't have to play football to become a fan." But HBS associate professor Juan Alcacer, coauthor of a case titled "The Globalization of the NFL," forecasts headwinds for the league's View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
created value in the for-profit marketplace and want to take a similar approach with philanthropy," Emerson asserts. Joining this group of philanthropists are baby boomers, who are "entering their retirement years very engaged," Emerson...
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Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
distribution of wealth, to the effects that life events such as births and deaths, marriages and divorces, and hirings and retirements have on a business. Davis and his Generation to Generation coauthors have also developed a powerful...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Business by Leonard C. Green (OPM 18, 1992) (AMACOM) “Big new ideas rarely make great businesses.” “Laboring on a business plan can be a waste of time.” “You are going to need dramatically more start-up money than you think you do.”...
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- 10 Sep 2008
- News
Thanks for the Memories
Community Narratives section offers video recollections of retired and current faculty, and alumni leaders. In addition, it presents a collection of over 140 poignant and humorous stories by HBS alumni, staff, faculty, community members...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
instruction. The initial phases of planning and design have just begun, with construction anticipated to commence in the summer of 2000 and completion scheduled for late 2001. Hawes retired last year as...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership
believed a fiber-optics revolution was coming. His hunch proved right, the company flourished, and Houghton retired after a successful 13-year tenure. But then came perhaps an even greater challenge. With the telecom meltdown and the...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
look at its purpose and what it was giving back to the public,” says Lewis Braxton III (PMD 66, 1993), who recently retired as deputy director of NASA’s Ames Research Center and is now pursuing a position with a space startup. Over the...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
of hard work, fidelity, and building the alliances necessary to achieve enduring success. John Andrew, a retired Boeing executive, offers a unique insider look at the profound changes the company experienced in the 1960s as the product...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
taxes. This strategy was implemented by a handful of men over those fifty years, most important among them John Cowperthwaite, who ran the trade and industry department after the war and then spent twenty years as deputy and then actual financial secretary before his...
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- 10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
of—engineers.” Louneva, who plans to head to Silicon Valley after graduation, took a computer science course at Harvard College. For others not ready to commit to a full semester, the club offers an always sold-out, two-day intensive...
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April White