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- 01 Dec 2013
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Alumni News | Book Briefs
To break through this glass ceiling, women must learn to take bold steps when opportunities arise. Blalock, who rose to become CIO in the traditionally male utility industry, offers her advice and that of 28 top female executives to show...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams
lived there. I spent a couple of months immersed in that community, with our mandate being to figure out how to move them. “We started investigating what their right was to be there in the first place,” he says. “Most had been paying taxes and View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
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Rescue & Recovery
system. In August 2020, Mercy Corps handed over the management of the system and its distribution network to the local utility company. (Ezra Millstein/Mercy Corps) On a Wednesday afternoon in early August, McKenna is Zooming from her...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
more, the Jiffy Lube woman comes out car's ready! The nearest Kinko's is only two blocks away. I load Norton Utilities onto my laptop, and it miraculously recovers all the data on my doomed floppy. I pop the disk into one of the PCs at...
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- 22 Oct 2013
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Pulling the Plug
Eric Giler by Francis Storrs Standing on the stage of TEDGlobal in Oxford, England, WiTricity CEO Eric Giler (MBA 1982) is nervous. It's July 2009, and he's about to show how his company's technology can beam electricity through the air to wirelessly power a...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
process at every level of the 17,320-employee company. "Most nonhuman resources, such as capital or equipment, can be acquired," he says. "What's more important is how a corporate strategy is executed and how people utilize resources." At...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
helped to establish in 1994. As a managing director at the Carlyle Group, Mathias is active in identifying and funding companies with high, sustained growth potential. In addition, he serves as something of a utility player in helping to...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2008
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A U.S. Turnaround?
Wien In 1945, the United States was clearly the world’s leader militarily, economically, and politically. Its universities were preeminent, and its cultural life was enriched by the migration of Europeans during the previous decade. This position of leadership lasted...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame
understandable concerns about their ability to maintain and utilize them over time." Post-Games Wrap-Up Mosley began working with ACOG in 1992. Supported by a team of six lawyers, and by ACOG's construction division and its $500 million...
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Garry Emmons
- 25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
So you need some people treating the currency as a store of value as well. And, incidentally, these sorts of dynamics don’t just play out with general-use cryptocurrencies. They also show up in individual tokens, like NFT projects. If a View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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Green Talk at HBS
Before an overflow audience in September, Scott Nyquist (MBA ’84) and Thomas Seitz of McKinsey gave a talk on the “The Future of Energy: How Geopolitics, Environmental, and Supply Risks Are Shaping the Industry.” Drawing on the consulting firm’s research on greenhouse...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Nadkarni (MBA 1987) HarperCollins Leadership Tech entrepreneurs, make your startup dreams come true by utilizing this founder-to-founder guide to successfully navigating all phases of the tech startup journey. With the advent of the...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Letters to the Editor
Seeds of Green Congratulations to Erika Diamond and Annie Fishman (both MBA 2007) on their founding of the HBS Green Business Alumni Association as reported in the September Bulletin. It’s great to see their efforts and the related story of HBS alumni in green...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Early Impact
Mulan Chu Chao Center will open where Kresge once stood. Made possible by a gift from a Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao and family foundation, it will be a hub for executives and a bridge to the HBS community. MBA Program Innovation Continuing its history of educational...
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- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
That was a great moment. Morrell: Nicole was no stranger to the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship when she launched Energicity in 2015. Until its IPO, she had been a part of US-based OPower, a software-as-a-service company that helped View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Ready for Launch
A daily apartment cleaning service (Fresh Maid). An organizer of one-day extreme endurance events for men (Tough Mudder). A market-based solution to increase the milk production of cattle in rural India (Doodh Bhandar). These are just a few of the semifinalists...
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- 18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit
contracts was one to build all the custom-designed consoles and workstations for the Army’s Command and Control Center in the basement of the Pentagon. In addition to the military work, the company was chosen to build custom-designed fixtures for dispatch centers for...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2010
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Wind Shift
HBS professor George P. Baker, a finance expert, has in recent years become an alternative-energy change agent as well, spearheading community wind projects in Maine. Now on leave from HBS, Baker is the CEO of Fox Islands Wind LLC, which last November unveiled three...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin
understand how best to utilize their talents to make a difference. We help companies find ways to become more profitable in socially responsible ways. If a company is seeking ways to invest in a community it operates in, we can find...
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