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- 01 Mar 2008
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An American Odyssey
make a difference for Africa.” America’s Africa involvement also includes the African News Network, a Washington, D.C., start-up he cofounded that will broadcast quality news, documentary, and public-affairs programming about Africa to...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
knowledge loss, identify the deep smarts essential to their business, use techniques for transferring knowledge when its loss is imminent, identify and implement long-term transfer program apprenticeships, set up individual learning plans...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
academics had expressed concern that locking up the money would leave sick women in a lurch, when she asked the savers if they wanted to ease the restrictions, they actually requested the opposite: The program should require medical...
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- 04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
beyond the bottom line, and so we need to have all that data ready to sort of slowly move that that oil tanker around. >Hi, I'm Georgia Zocca (GMP 23) from the General Management Program in 2017. My question is, if we want to invest in...
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- 06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
imagine a homelessness prevention program in Chicago actually studying those from a rigorous, academic perspective to see what's working and what's not. The sabbatical led me to that choice of employment for a year, a limited-term interim...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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A Class Act
notes in this manner will likely increase. Technology also assists on the processing end, enabling class and section correspondents to communicate with classmates with greater ease than ever before and to submit their copy seamlessly to the Alumni View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2012
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The Accidental Pioneers
education." While Sherwood and her seven classmates were rightfully recognized as pioneers, they were not the first women to sit in an Aldrich classroom. From 1960 to 1965, several dozen women earned an MBA after completing a first year of coursework through the...
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2003
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These Are the Good Old Days
a nonprofit that helps outfit unemployed women for their job search. At Time Inc., Moore has supported a growing trend toward community service. One example is “Time To Read,” a program that serves more than 27,000 kids and adult learners...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
the boardroom environment is more challenging than ever, the learning needs of directors have grown. There currently exists a hodgepodge of optional director training programs at universities, associations, and for-profits, but they are...
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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
by Ted Turner, who sold his company, Turner Broadcasting, to Time Warner. As a result, I found myself reporting to Bob Daly and Terry Semel, the chairmen and co-CEOs of Warner Bros. That in turn led to my being asked to run the film View Details
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- 01 Sep 2011
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The Spangler Effect
college degree, and he felt like he needed one to be admitted. My dad didn’t have enough money to go to college, nor did my mother. “I told him to go talk to the associate dean in charge, which he did. The dean told him he could come to the next session. At 49, my dad...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
1999), program manager, Strategic Decisions Group Diane and Peter Escher (both MBA 2009) Children: Hazel (4); Josh (2) Diane and Peter both work for startups in downtown Seattle, commuting to different floors of the same building. Diane...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend
Baker asked Christensen, whose courses were perennially oversubscribed and universally praised, to cochair a program that would help other HBS professors improve their case-method teaching capabilities. With roots at Harvard Law School,...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
incorrect paperwork, the IT team programmed an electronic “poka-yoke” (a term from lean manufacturing in which an engineering solution prevents a mistake) that keeps a mailing label from being printed unless the bar codes on the SmartPak...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
ahead of its time. Ecomagination was an internal program dedicated to sustainability and reducing the company's environmental impact. Now it launched in 2005 and it has been, as you note, one of the most successful commercial efforts in...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots
analyzing the size of their addressable markets, to figuring out how they will scale their businesses to satisfy demand. And members of all three groups can serve as resources well beyond the program itself, investing in the startups they...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
should not view it as a substitute for broad public-policy measures that reach all citizens. PEAK PERFORMANCE: HBS professor Warren McFarlan worked tirelessly behind the scenes to plan and organize the summit’s timely and memorable View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan
College is launching Level Up, a program that will partner with Scranton and other local high schools to enable juniors and seniors to work toward an associate’s degree at the cost of $100 per credit. “Despite the uphill battle we still...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) (Harper) In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers raiding insurgent compounds in Afghanistan. The Army reasoned that...
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