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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Rust Belt Turns ‘Sun Belt’ with Solar
Abound’s CEO in 2010. Prior to joining Polaris in 1998 (he became CEO a year later), Tiller had worked at GE for fifteen years, including service as general manager of GE Silicones. He’s confident that...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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Passing the Torch
Jeffrey Immelt In the closest thing to a royal succession business has had in many a year, last September Chairman Jack doffed his crown, bid farewell to his subjects, and ceded rulership of the kingdom of GE to his handpicked successor,...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Harvard MBAs Rule?
GE among them. As if that weren’t enough, it noted that even the newest occupant of the Oval Office, George W. Bush (MBA 1975), “spent some time hanging at Harvard.” With HBS producing so many entrepreneurs in recent years, Fortune...
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- 30 Aug 2018
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“No Interest in Being the Only”
of RLJ Lodging Trust, a Bethesda hotel company with a market cap of $3.8 billion. “I am humbled and honored to be the first, but I have no interest in being the only,” Hale told the Washington Post. Hale, who joined RLJ in 2005, has also worked at View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Claudio Knizek “My goal is not only to lead people, but to lead by inspiring them.” Born: El Salvador, grew up in Brazil Citizen Of: Mexico Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, German Stanford: BS and MS in industrial engineering Summer 2002: worked as business...
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- 05 Dec 2016
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How to Start a Tech Company Without Tech Experience
freelancers working on projects for companies such as GE and Pfizer. “You’re hardly alone,” Catalant co-CEO Biederman tells would-be entrepreneurs with tech dreams in a commentary for Fortune. “We’re living proof that you can start a tech...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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In Brief
HBS) play as the world confronts what may be the most explosive socioeconomic challenge of the new century? Security Chief. As president and CEO of GE Security, Louis Parker (MBA ’90) has molded a collection of formerly independent...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Fourth Annual African-American Alumni Association Conference
leadership roles in a quickly changing economic environment. Planned speakers include Tom Jones, chairman and CEO of Citigroup's Global Investment Management and Private Bank Group; Lloyd Trotter, president and CEO of GE Industrial...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Flying High
Jim McNerney (MBA ’75) departed GE in 2000 to become, at 3M, a chief executive for the first time. Named chairman, president, and CEO of The Boeing Company in July, McNerney is the aerospace giant’s third leader since 2003, a period...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Gregg Petersmeyer
intranet software tool designed to help workers within an organization create their own “communities of interest” in giving back. “It’s a communication platform to improve employee respect and trust, corporate culture, and community well-being,” Petersmeyer says. —...
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- 16 Mar 2018
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Giving Back to Help The Next Generation
game-changer for me,” says Sergio. “That was critical in my decision to pursue an MBA at HBS.” The former engineering major from Chicago left her operations job at GE to attend HBS. Sergio explains that the Michael J. and Mary C. Johnston...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
Chairman & CEO, GE Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Dartmouth College, 1978 B.A., Applied Mathematics LESSONS FROM HBS “Understanding the difference between knowledge and intelligence.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
met for a catered lunch in a room next to Welch's office on the 53rd floor of the GE Building at Rockefeller Plaza. "We talked nonstop," says Sanders, who spent his summer in Boston at the investment management firm of Gannett Welsh &...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard
face the world with a Harvard MBA and ‘go for it,’ there’s something wrong”). NEWLY MINTED HBS GRADUATES check out their sheepskins and whoop it up. The day before, GE CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA '82) primed them for the road ahead with a call...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Rebel with a Cause
continued as a doctoral student at HBS, where he challenged GE CEO Jack Welch in front of uncomfortable first-year MBA students about GE’s investments that, according to Massie, supported South African apartheid. Massie has never been shy...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
say that owning a company and working together has been a lifelong dream (they met while working at a GE Aerospace plant in Syracuse, New York). “Linda’s better at clearly defining goals and responsibilities and then holding people to the...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
Center up near Harlem. For the next fourteen years, working mostly with children from the ages of 9 to 11, I started a newspaper, a book club, and a creative writing club. Now, when I visit the center, I’ll sometimes pass a young adult on the street who’ll exclaim,...
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- 08 May 2015
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Ubiquitous digital connectivity is now essential to competitiveness
organizational tasks, and managerial processes. Digitally enabled outcomes, rather than units sold or services performed, are the basis of new business models. For example, GE originally sold capital goods, and then became a contract...
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- 27 Apr 2017
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Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation
Norm Liu (MBA 1982) (photo by Susan Young) Norm Liu (MBA 1982) (photo by Susan Young) DONOR: Norman C.T. Liu (MBA 1982) Fellowship; N.C.T. Liu Family Fellowship In explaining what prompted him to establish fellowships at HBS, Norm Liu (MBA 1982), the retired CEO of...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Fast Forward
several of the new research tracks the project has produced and how a few of these ideas are being put into action. Transportation and Infrastructure After organizing a transportation summit in February 2014 that featured everyone from GE...
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