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Deborah M. Winshel
Deborah Winshel is a Senior Lecturer on the faculty of Harvard Business School teaching the first-year required course, Leadership and Corporate Accountability. She is an experienced business and non-profit leader whose vision and strategic direction have helped shape organizations as diverse as BlackRock, Robin Hood Foundation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and JP Morgan. She has extensive...
- 01 Mar 2003
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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,”...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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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...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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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...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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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...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2023
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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...
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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...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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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...
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- 27 Oct 2015
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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...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2007
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The Joy of Work
entrepreneurs whose main resource when they start an enterprise is their passion. Loving what you do doesn’t guarantee success, but I believe it is the essence of creativity and of entrepreneurship. — Deborah View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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Power Trip
lives. Many students hold these leaders accountable far beyond their business successes or failures. Can you be a great leader and not a great human being? What defines a legacy? These are questions people in business rarely address, but they are particularly poignant...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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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,”...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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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...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2023
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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...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2005
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New Career Wanted
resource,” notes Sullivan. “The most important thing,” stresses Carlson, “is to do your homework and take the transition step-by-step. That way, when you land in your new role, you may have to make some adjustments, but there won’t be any big surprises.” — View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
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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...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity
how little definitive research there has been on a topic that has such widespread economic impact. I hope the book will begin to fill that gap. — Deborah Blagg
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Getting on Board
current board members (nearly 10 percent of the directors of Standard & Poor’s 500 companies are 70 or older), Stautberg and Chin believe there will be many opportunities for Harvard MBAs to make a difference through board service in the next few years. “If you haven’t...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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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...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2003
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Books
includes real-life case examples, Connecting the Dots gives managers the tools to make the most of their technology- and projectrelated investments as they optimize expenditures on the new business frontier. — Deborah View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
or in a cubicle on Wall Street, seeing how elements of the status quo actually inhibit desired outcomes — and breaking with those elements — is the real value-added of diversity in the workplace. —Deborah Blagg
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