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- 01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
with a portfolio of more than $90 billion in loan guarantees, the SBA is responsible for ensuring that 23 percent of all government contracts are awarded to small businesses. "That's $100 billion dollars a year," she stresses. Reflecting on her View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
but is part of another world in socioeconomic terms. Having traded in his power lunches for cafeteria duty, Pechter was in for another revelation. “I wasn’t prepared for the leadership of a fantastic principal, the commitment of the...
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- 24 May 2017
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Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
an entrepreneur, executive, and women’s advocate were evident in her teens. The oldest of three children in a devout Jewish family in Chicago, she ran a business tutoring Hebrew to boys preparing for their bar mitzvot, participated in...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
Technology and Operations Management has proven to be equally rewarding. "The classroom has been an amazing experience," he says. "When we discuss a case, someone can always offer an analogy from an entirely different sector. It makes the View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
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Amazon Is Not Invincible
- 16 Mar 2014
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Strike a Pose, Change Your Life
- 15 Jun 2023
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4 Examples of Business Negotiation Strategies
- 01 Mar 2007
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A Helping Hand
economic power to really shape the world, and that always stuck with me.” Rice subsequently founded a nonprofit organization, Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), to help educate young people about, and prepare them for, business...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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From Das’s Desk
While the External Relations team is working to develop a lifelong learning program for alumni, efforts are under way elsewhere at the School to help prepare MBA students for their lives beyond HBS. Professor Leslie Perlow, with 17...
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- 30 May 2023
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6 Strategies to Improve Your Negotiation Skills
- 01 Sep 2004
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Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
director of Marketing and Communications. In January, the survey will be sent to the next round of reunion classes, with the objective of surveying all MBA alumni by 2008. On the whole, alumni gave HBS high marks for preparing them to...
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- 15 Apr 2016
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First African American Woman to Receive Harvard MBA Talks Power of Persistence, Resilience, and Courage
how her early life prepared her for the rigors of business competition, she told the publication: “As a child growing up in the segregated south, my parents, teachers, and others in authority instilled in us youngsters that competition...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Having an impact by starting and growing companies
Charlie Tillinghast (MBA 1963) talks about how his education at Harvard Business School prepared him for a lifelong career of starting and growing companies. (Published April 2014)
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- 06 May 2015
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Helping people get jobs
Ava Seave’s (MBA 1982) early career in publishing prepared her to launch Quantum Media, a consulting firm where she now helps grow the economy and create jobs. (Published May 2015)
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Turning Point: Crossover
school, and as a volunteer coach for the Bay Area Warriors, a nonprofit I cofounded that draws inner-city players like those I had in Chicago. Many of the challenges are the same too: In 2010, one of our players was shot and killed on a street corner. Basketball can be...
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- 11 Jul 2013
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Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens
cosponsored by HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School. Her winning idea? Global Citizen Year, a nonprofit social enterprise that prepares young people for the challenges of a global economy. Global Citizen Year fellows spend a “bridge” year...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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NFLers Tackle HBS
assist players in preparing for life after football. The players cracked cases on a variety of business topics and took workshops on entrepreneurial opportunities and business management. Also from the NFL and now in the MBA Class of 2011...
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- 23 Oct 2013
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Overcoming Nervous Nelly
- 24 Apr 2014
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Fostering financial freedom for low-income individuals
Scott Cook (MBA 1976) wants to change lives through initiatives he created as cofounder of Intuit. These include the Intuit Tax Freedom Project, which provides free online tax preparation services for Americans who cannot afford to pay,...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Social Enterprise Pioneer
examining how, in their teaching and research, they can best prepare students for leadership roles in this key sector of the economy. The Prophet of Start-Ups A new biography of HBS professor Georges Doriot declares him the prophet of...
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