Founded by an HBS grad, Egon Zehnder is the world's largest privately-held executive search firm. In this episode, host Denise Silber interviews EZ senior partner Helene Reltgen, an HBS MBA with fascinating insights on leadership skills, digital transformation, becoming a board member, diversity, and coaching.
How do you launch a billion-dollar health tech business coming out of business school without prior business or tech experience? In this episode, host Denise Silber interviews Dr. Lissy Hu, a Harvard MD MBA, whose winning HBS business competition idea for solving a healthcare system problem, turned into a going concern acquired at $1.3B in 2020.
Can leading a manufacturing business and governing a state in the US, have much in common, when the operations and bottom line are so different? In this episode, host Denise Silber discusses leadership with John Lynch, a Harvard MBA who became the successful CEO of Knoll and went on to be a four-term Governor of New Hampshire.
In this episode, our host Philip Guarino is joined by Richard Steel, CEO of Parsec Ventures. Richard discusses why businesses and investors will have no choice but to adapt to changing consumer habits, given that consumers have already become more conscious of environmental, social, and governmental issues.
Marks & Spencer, the 136 year old global British retailer, was already in the midst of a turn-around strategy when lockdown hit. In this timely episode, host Denise Silber and guest, Archie Norman (MBA ‘79), Board Chairman of Marks & Spencer, discuss the current company crisis, the way forward, and his insights as a veteran of mega turnarounds.
Join host, Denise Silber, and guest, Joe Toplyn – four-time Emmy winning comedy writer, best-selling author, entrepreneur, and inventor of an AI that generates original jokes – as they discuss the fact that while succeeding in comedy is challenging, with an entrepreneurial mindset, professional opportunities can be limitless.
In this episode, Denise Silber, host of HAE Invites, interviews the CEO of Moderna Therapeutics (MRNA), one of the most strategic and observed life science companies of the COVID crisis. In December 2018, Moderna became the largest biotech IPO in history. Now in 2020, they are called upon to do what has never been done before, to accelerate the development of a vaccine for a new disease.
Join Denise Silber in this episode of HAE Invites as she speaks with Dr. Nasrin Hafezparast, co-founder and CTO of Outcomes Based Healthcare, about how her company is improving the lives of 56 million people in the UK. Tune in as she talks about how they analyze their data and why they aren’t considered as an AI healthcare company, why they zeroed in on the “hire slow, fire fast” approach for the team members they work with, and OBH’s plans to improve healthcare systems in other countries
In this episode of HAE Invites, Philip Guarino interviews Maurice Gopikian, investor, serial entrepreneur, and founder and president of Harvard Angels France about how he helps startups connect with the right investor and what it takes to be a part of their Angel network. He also discusses why it's important to create connections that can help you change or start a new career and the things that founders need to consider when approaching a potential investor for his company. Stay tuned.
In this episode of HAE Invites, Denise Silber and Philip Guarino talk about what led them to be a part of the persistent global movement to make things better through innovation. Tune in to learn more about HAE Invites, the people they will be bringing into their show, and how these individuals are changing the business landscape with the work they do.
