Myra M. Hart is a founder of
Staples Inc.
Staples Inc. is an American retail company headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts, that offers products and services designed to support working and learning.
The company opened its first store in Brighton, Massachusetts on May 1, 1986. By ...
She graduated from
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...
with a B.A. in 1962 and a Harvard M.B.A. 1981. She obtained a
DBA from
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
in 1995.
Biography
She was a founding member of
Staples Inc.
Staples Inc. is an American retail company headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts, that offers products and services designed to support working and learning.
The company opened its first store in Brighton, Massachusetts on May 1, 1986. By ...
, the office superstore. She served as a professor of management practice at
Harvard Business School until retiring in 2006. She co-authored four books and developed more than 60 Harvard Business School cases.
In 1999, Hart was elected to the Cornell board of trustees and serves on the investment committee and the Committee on Alumni Affairs and Development. Hart is a director of the National Foundation for Women Business Owners, on the corporate boards of directors of
Kraft and
Office Depot, and on the Board of Advisors o
AbsolutelyNew Inc."AbsolutelyNew corporate website, Board of Advisors list"
. Accessed on October 30, 2008. Hart is a member of the Boston Club and the MIT Enterprise Council.
References
Cornell University alumni
Harvard Business School alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Staples Inc. people
Harvard Business School faculty
Kraft Foods people
Living people
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