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Joe Lhota (MBA 1980) is the kind of courageous, steady presence you want at your side when crisis hits. Consider Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, when New York City’s streets, tunnels, and subway lines were flooded, and power was cut to many businesses and residences. Lhota, as chairman and CEO of the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, got the city’s transit system back on track using the same take-charge skills he displayed on September 11, 2001, when, as Rudy Giuliani’s deputy mayor, he helped coordinate emergency response after the first tower was struck.
“It was amazing and inspiring to see ordinary people respond with courage and humanity,” recalls Lhota, who worked to get New York’s business community up and running.
This battle-tested native New Yorker’s leadership experience also includes managing major organizations such as Cablevision and Madison Square Garden. After an unsuccessful run for mayor of New York in 2013, Lhota is now chief of staff at New York University Langone Medical Center, where he works closely with the CEO assisting in managing all activities associated with directing a complex medical center, and serves as an advisor on issues of management and policy related to the strategic direction of the organization.
(Published April 2014)
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