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Alumni on Leadership

Alumni reflect on leadership, ethics, and personal and organizational success through the lens of their own careers in this showcase of video interviews.

1-22 of 22 listed alphabetically by storyteller's last name

CLASS OF1975

Interview with Nancy Barry, MBA 1975 VIDEO: 8 parts

An interview with HBS alumna Nancy Barry regarding her experience at HBS, her work with Women's World Banking, her views on leadership and success, and her thoughts on making a difference in the world.

 

CLASS OF1988

Interview with Teresa Clarke, MBA 1988 VIDEO: 9 parts

An interview with HBS alumna Teresa Clarke about the Joint JD/MBA Program, her life-changing choice to live in and work for the building of South Africa under Nelson Mandela, co-founding a program to send Black students to private schools in South Africa, and the fundamental features of leadership.

 

CLASS OF1977

Interview with Michael Cronin, MBA 1977 VIDEO: 6 parts

An interview with HBS alumnus Michael Cronin regarding his experience at HBS, his thoughts about the nature of leadership, and the essential importance of re-investing the rewards of one's success in one's community.

 

CLASS OF1988

Interview with Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien III, MBA 1988 VIDEO: 8 parts

An interview with HBS alumnus Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien III about being part of a French-Canadian family with a long business history, current business prospects in Canada, the maturation of his ideas on success and leadership, and the incessant necessity to innovate in the Internet Age.

 

CLASS OF1982

Interview with Jamie Dimon, MBA 1982 VIDEO: 7 parts

An interview with HBS alumnus Jamie Dimon regarding his experience at HBS and his thoughts regarding various aspects of success, leadership, and corporate social responsibility.

 

CLASS OF1981

Interview with Donna Dubinsky, MBA 1981 VIDEO: 8 parts

An interview with HBS alumna Donna Dubinsky regarding her experience at HBS and her thoughts regarding various aspects of leadership and women in technology and business.

 

CLASS OF1982

Interview with Michael Fascitelli, MBA 1982 VIDEO: 6 parts

An interview with HBS alumnus Michael Fascitelli regarding his experience at HBS and his thoughts on various aspects of success and leadership and the importance of a sense of humor in life and business.

 

CLASS OF1977

Interview with Ann Fudge, MBA 1977

An interview capturing the oral history of HBS alumna Ann Fudge, who narrates the account of her coming to HBS and the guidance she received from Dr. Margaret Hennig, MBA 1964 and DBA 1971 and charts her career course and highlights the benefits of mutual mentoring relationships. She ponders the meaning of success and concludes that touching people's lives is one's most valuable legacy and conveys her philosophy of leadership and defines the essential elements of acting as a permanently effective leader.

 

CLASS OF1977

Interview with Ken Hakuta, MBA 1977 VIDEO: 8 parts

An interview with HBS alumnus Ken Hakuta regarding his experience at HBS and his thoughts on various aspects of success and leadership, his achievements in the toy industry, and advice on how to start and build a business career.

 

CLASS OF1982

Interview with Seth Klarman, MBA 1982 VIDEO: 8 parts

An interview with HBS alumnus Seth Klarman regarding his experience at HBS and his views on leadership and success and the priority of giving back to one's community.

 

CLASS OF1973

Interview with Ilene Lang, MBA 1973

An interview capturing the oral history of HBS alumna Ilene Lang, who retraces her decision to apply to HBS and explains her strategy of choosing courses by the best professors rather than by subject. She describes the sex discrimination women faced in the 1970s after she graduated from HBS. Mapping the fluctuations and transformations in her ideas on leadership, she formulates her equation of collaborative leadership which she has employed during her many years in the high tech industry. She elaborates her thoughts and research into issues regarding women and leadership and addresses young leaders with her advice to stay true to yourself and to seek out candidly honest advisors.

 

CLASS OF1968

Interview with Mal Mixon, MBA 1968 VIDEO: 7 parts

An interview with HBS alumnus Mal Mixon regarding his experience at HBS and his views on leadership and success and the imperative of dedicating one's success to the service of others.

 

CLASS OF1973

Interview with Kenzaburo Mogi, MBA 1973

An interview capturing the oral history of HBS alumnus Kenzaburo Mogi, who unfolds the story of his arrival at HBS through a training program of the Kikkoman Corporation. He comments on the formative influences on his business career of an exemplary mentor and leader and considers the value of success over the expanse of an entire lifetime. He elaborates on the qualities and qualifications of an effective leader and proffers recommendations to new leaders.

 

CLASS OF1972

Interview with Steve Schwarzman, MBA 1972 VIDEO: 7 parts

An interview with HBS alumnus Steve Schwarzman regarding his experience at HBS and his views on leadership and success and on the inspirational example presented by a great leader.

 

CLASS OF1995

Interview with Saquib Shirazi, MBA 1995 VIDEO: 6 parts

An interview with HBS alumnus Saquib Shirazi regarding his experience at HBS and his thoughts regarding various aspects of leadership.

 

CLASS OF1990

Interview with Peter Slavin, MBA 1990 VIDEO: 7 parts

An interview with HBS alumnus Peter Slavin regarding his experience at HBS and his thoughts regarding various aspects of leadership, and the similarities between the professions of medicine and business.

 

CLASS OF1968

Interview with Martin Sorrell, MBA 1968

An interview capturing the oral history of HBS alumnus Martin Sorrell, who reminisces about youthful advice from the director of his father's company to pursue his interest in business at HBS and his trip to the U.S. in 1964 for the World's Fair during which he visited the campus and applied on the spot. He remarks on the astounding "desire to teach" of the HBS faculty and remembers his father as his closest mentor and advisor and his career and life counsel and defines the ultimate success in business as becoming the best in one's chosen field. He converses on the nature and ingredients of leadership and offers advice to young leaders.

 

CLASS OF1973

Interview with Tom Stemberg, MBA 1973 VIDEO: 7 parts

An interview with HBS alumnus Tom Stemberg regarding his experience at HBS and his thoughts on success and leadership, how to nurture new leaders, and the present and future challenges HBS faces.

 

CLASS OF1980

Interview with Tom Tierney, MBA 1980 VIDEO: 8 parts

An interview with HBS alumnus Tom Tierney regarding his experience at HBS and his thoughts on leadership.

 

CLASS OF1977

Interview with Andrew Tisch, MBA 1977 VIDEO: 7 parts

An interview with HBS alumnus Andrew Tisch regarding his experience at HBS, his views on leadership and success, and his thoughts on family-owned businesses and the succession of leadership in such enterprises.

 

CLASS OF1947

Interview with John Whitehead, MBA 1947

An interview capturing the oral history of HBS alumnus John Whitehead who describes his unique path from HBS faculty member to student, his career at Goldman Sachs where he transformed the nature of the firm and of the investment business, his engagement with the nonprofit sector, and his gift that launched the Social Enterprise Initiative.

 

CLASS OF1984

Interview with Gwill York, MBA 1984 VIDEO: 9 parts

An interview with HBS alumna Gwill York about influential women role models in her life, the stress of success in the arena of venture debt, women leaders of her generation forging ahead together, and her recommendations to young businesswomen about balancing the demands of work and home.