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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Bringing women to the boardroom table
Placing female candidates on boards of public and private companies is Beth A. Stewart’s mission as CEO of Trewstar. The search firm addresses the inequity of board representation—only 16 percent of Fortune...
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- 11 Apr 2020
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Reading Together, Apart
director of Teach for America Miami-Dade before becoming CEO of Caribu, landed among the Inc Female Founders 100 list in 2019; Caribu made it to TIME Magazine’s best inventions of that year. Then, in March...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
issue as the founder and CEO of the executive search firm Trewstar, which places experienced and accomplished women on corporate boards. She offers her advice here. What tips do you have for senior female...
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- 22 Jul 2019
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A Way Forward for Women
After resigning last fall, Gorgas joined the board of an accounting software and services company and is now considering other board opportunities. “I was introduced to the talented female CEO of the company...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Bounce Back from a Blunder
the assurance that you’ll share the hard truths quickly. “It ultimately catalyzed them to have more trust in me because they knew I’d be honest.” Victoria Montgomery Brown is CEO and cofounder of the digital media company Big Think. Her...
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- 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
aspirations. Through purposeful steps, bold action, and an unleashed imagination, she built her new life from the ground up. Now she is the CEO of her own multimillion-dollar lifestyle brand and ready to share the steps she took with...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
A seasoned media executive, Sarah Harden (MBA 1999) was serving as interim CEO of the media company Hello Sunshine when she was brought up short by an early conversation with company founder Reese Witherspoon. “Reese told me that before...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
stick around long enough, you’ll get that title. Robert and Michelle King are the show runners. They’re the CEO and chief creative officer because they created the show and everything—story ideas, casting, final pass on a script, killing...
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- 19 Feb 2021
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A Playbook for Progress
an unstoppable force.” Dan: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Jacqui Adams (MBA 1978) is CEO of a communication strategy firm that she launched after more than two decades as an Emmy award-winning CBS news correspondent. Bonita...
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- 18 Oct 2016
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Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
Birchbox, a beauty product subscription box service that has grown to more than 1 million subscribers. “We started raising funds and suddenly we were in rooms where there were no people who looked like us,” said Barna, now the first View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
applying to business schools. And not just any business schools, but Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, and Kellogg. I was working anywhere from 80 to 95 hours per week in private equity. I was the only female at the firm of three offices. To...
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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
countries. During his visit, Obama hosted an entrepreneurship conference attended by the likes of former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. The president announced that American businesses...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Women and VC
DODI: Backing ventures with products important to women and families. Photo courtesy Monica Dodi A cofounder of MTV Europe, a former executive at Walt Disney/Europe, and former CEO of AOL’s Entertainment Asylum, Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) is...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
AASU’s 35th Annual Conference
Named after the late H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA ’33), the annual conference of HBS African-American alumni and students sported a celebratory air as it convened, with a record number of participants, for the 35th time in February. Special guests were keynote speaker Ann...
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- 17 Apr 2019
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Two Alumnae Among Time’s Most Influential of 2019
Alumnae Jennifer Hyman (MBA 2009) and Aileen Lee (MBA 1997) were selected for the Time 100—the magazine’s annual list of most influential people. Jennifer Hyman (photo by George Etheredge) Jennifer Hyman (photo by George Etheredge) Hyman is the cofounder and View Details
- 14 Jun 2018
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Dhivya Suryadevara Named GM’s Next CFO
Photo courtesy of GM Photo courtesy of GM The CEO of General Motors, Mary Barra, recently announced that Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003) will be named CFO. Fortune reported that as vice president of corporate finance, Suryadevara has been...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
companies from having to navigate an often-noxious power dynamic between male investors and female entrepreneurs seeking their funding. Looking to the crowd liberates companies from having to navigate an often-noxious power dynamic...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
to our office,” she explains. As a student at HBS, Khan decided to figure out a way to help female entrepreneurs access venture capital. In the summer of 2015, with support from the Rock Summer Fellows program, she started an accelerator,...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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A Wide Screen Approach
says. “They were watching five times the amount of video content as the average US consumer.” She took the numbers and the direct-to-consumer streaming plans to WWE chairman and CEO Vince McMahon, who had been planning to launch a linear...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
to HBS to gain the business skills she found she needed at the paper. Stints at The Boston Consulting Group and Wang were followed by a stellar fourteen-year career at Lotus, where Rudden ran the teams that developed Lotus 1-2-3 and Lotus Notes. At press time, having...
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