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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
S. McNamara, were few; he apparently did not return for reunions nor did he contribute to the Bulletin’s Class Notes. At graduation, MacDonald requested that his diploma be mailed to him. From Cambridge, MacDonald moved his family back to...
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- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5
still not fully free. The first time I talked about race outside of my home was at Lanier Middle School. My class watched a documentary on the June 1998 murder of James Byrd, a 49-year-old Black man who was...
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Doha Tantawy
launched her own business, "Easy Pan," which she describes as "aspiring to be the Blue Apron of the Middle East." After a year, when she realized she couldn't reach the growth targets she had hoped for, she shut the...
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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Training Principals to Build Great Schools
Picture two schools with the same demographics—rural middle schools, for example, that serve equally high-need populations. Both use the same state-mandated curriculum taught by certified teachers. Why is one school thriving while the...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
at how much of that has gone to the new middle class in Asia, India, and China, and not to the working middle class in the already developed...
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- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose
factory in the middle of the city, and it is probably the only city in India where you can drink clean water straight out of the tap. Both my grandfather and father worked at Tata Steel, the iconic steel manufacturing factory. I grew up...
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- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Power of Entrepreneurship
opportunity for all citizens. “IGNIA is a venture capital firm. Today we're the largest VC firm in Mexico. We focus on investing in businesses in Mexico that serve the emerging middle class or businesses...
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Finance
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
HAA Honors HBS Alumni
Three HBS alumni were among six individuals recognized in September by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) for outstanding service to the University. Topping the 2012 HAA Awards list was F. Gorham Brigham (MBA 1939), who has served as secretary of his HBS View Details
Fred R. Lazarus, Jr.
Through acquisitions and organic growth, Lazarus, Jr. created the largest department store operation in the United States (including Filene’s, Bloomingdale’s, and Bullocks). Lazarus targeted the middle class...
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Retail
Ellsworth M. Statler
room. Statler’s genius in providing luxury-like amenities to middle and working class people helped his hotel chain become popular with every day Americans.
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Restaurants & Lodging
Diane S. M. von Furstenberg
Von Furstenberg emerged on the fashion scene with three simple black jersey-style silk dresses in 1970. In the denim craze of the seventies, the silk dresses stood out for their elegance and sophistication, and it was upon this basis that von Furstenberg built her...
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Fabric & Apparel
Eugene W. Rhodes
and purchasing equipment, as well purchasing the paper’s office building. Under Rhodes leadership, the Tribune took on a conservative tone, catering to black middle class values, while still championing...
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Publishing & Print Media
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Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog
protagonists, this course seeks to fill the gap. Composed of the emerging middle class and low-income sectors, the base of the pyramid encompasses 5.0 of the 7.5 billion people in the world. In most nations,...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
several professors who never called on a woman in class "unless it was a discussion of a 'woman's product.'" A Class of 1973 alumna recalls professors "who, in the middle of a...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Ascent of Money
legislation to revive the ailing middle class as business groups dig in for a fight on Capitol Hill. Model Patient The Massachusetts approach to health-care reform, enacted under former governor Mitt Romney...
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- 25 Aug 2021
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
Back in 2011, when Melissa Zaikos (MBA 2000) first began digging deeply into the standardized test scores of the Chicago Public Schools system, she saw that elementary schools seemed to be getting better in the Chicago area. But once students reached View Details
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
reached middle and high school, the gap between the high-achieving students and those who needed academic support grew considerably. A few years later, Stanford University released a study that confirmed her observations. “Chicago had...
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- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Innovating Education to Create College-Ready Academic Achievers
Ian Rowe (MBA 1993) is navigating a clear path to success for students at Public Prep, a network of tuition-free charter schools in New York City. Like the North Star-shaped model that frames the schools’ mission, Rowe is building a foundation for children in pre-K,...
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Durdana Achakzai
Durdana Achakzai has been a pioneer all of her adult life. At Pakistan's GIK institute, she was one of only five women in a class of 160 engineering students. After graduation, she was one of the first two women hired as territory...
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Hugh M. Hefner
In 1953, Hefner broke out of the conventional sleaze of the adult entertainment business by indulging the fantasies of the middle class executive male and including interviews with high profile celebrities...
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