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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
their peers,” he says. For Army Colonel Everett Spain (DBA 2014), who served in Kosovo and Iraq, it’s equally clear why military veterans are attracted to business school: “In business, you can continue to be a leader of character in an investment bank or a View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
no matter what I’m involved with, I’ll still bring the same tools to bear on it as I would if I were working at a Fortune 500 company. I approach the smallest problem in the same fashion as I would if it...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Books
Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene, and Myra M. Hart (Financial Times Prentice Hall) Every day, women in the United States launch more than 450 new businesses. They employ more people than the Fortune 500 and...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
fact," says Davis, "more than two-thirds of all business enterprises worldwide are owned or managed by families, and 30 percent of the Fortune 500 companies are family owned or controlled." In Generation to...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2003
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Books
Watkins, an expert on leadership transition, presses his case for “accelerating” the critical transition period that begins when a new CEO — or a new manager at any level — is hired. Watkins estimates that more than a half-million managers enter new positions each year...
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- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
also has a famous second career, that of motivational speaker. In that role, Zander has appeared several times at the World Economic Forum in Davos as well as at old-age homes, middle schools, Fortune 500...
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- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
people. There was a study that was done on Fortune 500 executives, trying to figure out why some of them got promoted fastest. And the only commonality that could be found is that executives who tended to...
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- 25 Jun 2018
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An Unfinished Story
Forty percent of all Fortune 500 companies were started by either an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. Those 200 companies together would make up the fourth largest economy in the world. We need to...
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April White
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
October 2020. This is her first gig as chief executive, but it’s one she has long envisioned. As a little girl, growing up first in the DC area and then later in Connecticut, McKenna dreamed of running a Fortune View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
(Palgrave Macmillan) Rossetti helps readers understand transition and presents a step-by-step roadmap women can use to make transition positive, optimistic, and approachable throughout their lives. Rossetti was in her mid-forties, a senior executive at a View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
software and services company. The CRC is not her first startup: in 1986 Darwall cofounded ViewStar Corporation, a software company serving Fortune 500 clients that was eventually acquired by Mosaix. At the...
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Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
"I wouldn't want a Fortune 500 company bringing me religion." Echoes Vaill: "Talking about spirituality in the business context feels risky and awkward, and people tend to question the motivation behind it."...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
company he started has been in business less than 25 years. That's a relative blink of an eye compared with some of the enduring Fortune 500 powerhouses that can trace their roots back to the turn of the...
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- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
again, psychotic. This time, thinking I was the pope. Hanna: I wondered, that might have been a different experience, given that you were at a big Fortune 500 company. Before you were in a pretty high...
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- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
accusations of price gouging and calls for generic alternatives. The few big companies still investing in vaccines saw their fortunes take an upward turn in the mid-2010s, as countries with growing economies, like China, expanded...
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- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
seven people died after taking cyanide-laced capsules of the pain reliever—the focus of an HBS case Singer still remembers well from LEAD, he says—but with an added level of difficulty: “She was a woman in a man’s world, the first and only View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
director of one of America’s largest private companies and chair of the governance committee of an S&P 500 company. He distills governance research into a handful of insights and includes candid interviews with exceptional board chairs,...
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- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
partner at DHR. “In 2020, Latinos held less than four percent of Fortune 500 board seats. But Latinos are a major force of the US economy, with a projected purchasing power of $1.9 trillion by 2023.” Curiel...
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Margie Kelley
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
to change the mindset,” he said, citing the grim representation of Black people in leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies. “We need to have the courage to recognize this as a defining moment in the...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
journalists are embedded in Iraq, compared with 500 in Vietnam in the 1970s. Is the decline of the Fourth Estate no more lamentable than that of the Sony Walkman? Things are feeling downright funereal. Newsweek purged 111 staffers from...
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