3 posts and columns on Jill Greenthal

The Huffington Post Goes to Harvard Business School–As a Case Study, That Is!

in News on April 12, 2010 at 11:17 am PT

While a lot of people doubted Arianna Huffington when she co-founded her eponymous blog site many years ago, she can add another I-told-you-so to the pile after today’s induction of the Huffington Post as an official Harvard Business School case study. Huffington, as well we HuffPo CEO Eric Hippeau have been at the school today, answering questions from the 900 students to whom the case study has been presented.

From the Desk of Former Yahoo President Sue Decker

in News on May 19, 2009 at 6:00 am PT

Recently–in the echo chamber that is Silicon Valley–several people told BoomTown quite separately that former Yahoo President Sue Decker had become an executive-in-residence at the Blackstone Group. Actually, when reached via email, Decker told me she has yet to decide her next step after leaving Yahoo and had simply set up a no-strings-attached desk at the private equity firm’s San Francisco office, but is definitely not an EIR there. And who says bloggers don’t check? In fact, a move to join Blackstone formally would have been very ironic for Decker given that the firm–specifically, longtime friend and former colleague, Jill Greenthal–was one of the advisers to Microsoft in its failed takeover battle for Yahoo.
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Frenemies in the Yahoo-Microsoft Battle?

in News on February 14, 2008 at 12:07 am PT

One of the more unusual situations in the current stand-off between Yahoo and Microsoft is the stress it has likely put on the longtime professional relationship and personal friendship between Yahoo President Sue Decker (pictured here) and Blackstone Group’s Jill Greenthal. That’s because Greenthal (pictured here) is advising Microsoft on this deal, along with Chuck [...]