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- 04 Nov 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
international markets, they’re developing ambitious plans for their producers.” Lack of infrastructure makes follow-through on those plans challenging in Haiti, the third-poorest country in the world and the site of a catastrophic...
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Deborah Blagg
- 30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
included everything from international political conflicts to “an increasingly competitive marketplace.” Most observers assumed this latter challenge was a sign of America’s changing tastes—that the...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
wants to open a chain of retail shops selling a commodity product you can get anywhere for 25 cents, but he will charge 2 dollars. Of course, you listen politely and then fall off your chair laughing when he leaves. [Starbucks founder]...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser...
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- 10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat
terms, but he embraced blogging, which was a radical idea in 2006 because people thought it would destroy our brand.” In other words, the magazine—a carefully thought-out and meticulously produced product—would be compromised by less polished, more off-the-cuff...
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- 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising
full-time in 2005, spent seven years developing a deep network of contacts, then set up CET in 2012 to offer travel services to school groups and political think tanks alike. Three years later, in 2015, Michael Laverty—Gordon’s...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
those in the Class of '71 were destined to earn their MBAs during one of the most turbulent social and political eras of our times. Turbulence within the class, in the form of widely divergent views on the day's events, was also in...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
for aggressively growing our U.S.-based manufacturing operations, while incorporating a global mindset and offering our customers a true international capability.” With technology leveling the playing field, CGM can function as a globally...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
TUMULTY: “Rather than challenge voters, politicians look for the lowest common denominator.” In the following article, the first in a series of occasional opinion pieces by HBS alumni who are professional writers, Time magazine’s national View Details
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Bozidar Djelic
guests. “There is great pressure in this job,” says Djelic. “There are so many needs and so little money. Letting off steam is important for me and my colleagues.” The go-go pace of his work life can serve a useful political purpose,...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
finance, product, policy, or legal, there is a way to tackle part of this big problem,” he says. Caroline Quazzo (MBA 2017), a founder within Exelorate Growth, the internal incubator of Exelon, the leading provider of zero-carbon energy...
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Jen Myers
- 23 May 2019
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Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
country, and the international arena. His efforts and innovations—in business, government, and philanthropy—have made him a global leader on some of the most pressing issues facing America and the world, from climate change and gun...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
carrier-based jet fighter program. When introduced, the first jet aircraft were underpowered and in many ways inferior to propeller-driven aircraft of the time. This book examines the Navy’s internal struggle to adapt the jet engine to...
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Management
- 16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
Roland de Demandolx (MBA 2002) who led the effort. “It's a key event of the year that gives us the opportunity to reach out to alumni running other HBS Alumni Clubs across Europe and Israel. It is also a way to assist the school in building a vibrant, inspiring, and...
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Margie Kelley
- 19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green
doctorate at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and on a dissertation entitled "On the Physics and Chemistry of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in Terrestrial and Marine Environments." Dawe was the co-president of the HBS Energy Club and had spent his...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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The Doctor Is In
experiences at an early age, due to either an illness of their own or that of a close relative. "My family was politically active," Slavin continues, "and I worked on health policy issues one summer in college for Congressman Ed Markey....
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Get Well Soon
Art by James Yang/Getty Images Health-care reform is more than a political football. For twenty years it’s been a ground-level topic of increasing importance for the administrators, physicians, nurses, and frontline employees who interact...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference
paper as you can get." Participants ready to launch new ventures added skills to their entrepreneurial tool kits in an interactive seminar presented by HBS professor Myra M. Hart, while others heard about international investment...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
Laura A. Liswood (MBA '76) is cofounder and secretary-general of the Council of Women World Leaders (CWWL), an independent, international organization based at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Made up of many of the world's...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka
She questioned patients. She wrestled with the genesis of the country’s predicament and the political obstacles in the way of reform—information that served her clients but also readied her for her own launch. Then she left. Satoshi...
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Health, Social Assistance