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01 Mar 2004
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Dynamic Group

first trip to Africa, and we came with a partner, friend, or family member(s). Our reasons for taking the trip were variations on the same theme — everyone shared an interest in the mystique of African... View Details

Keywords: Hospitality

17 Apr 2015
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A Driving Force for a Sustainable World

interesting mix of culture. There is a lot of energy. When women are only amongst themselves, they behave differently than in company of men.”... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Scott C. Bolick

supervising the funding of various Student Association events. The good-natured Bolick's affinity for people reflects a deep interest in cultural diversity developed as a child living abroad, reinforced as... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way

Each day the global economy becomes more and more like an African weaving - dozens of different, colorful, and previously isolated threads woven together, gradually becoming more tightly intertwined. Africa, newly rising from years View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

01 Jun 1997
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Thomas C. Høegh

things." A principal organizer of this year's student-led "Cyberposium" conference about the Internet, Høegh has worked as content manager for Firefly, the innovative Internet startup, and serves on the boards View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

27 Apr 2017
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Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation

Norm Liu (MBA 1982) (photo by Susan Young) Norm Liu (MBA 1982) (photo by Susan Young) DONOR: Norman C.T. Liu (MBA 1982) Fellowship; N.C.T. Liu Family Fellowship In explaining what prompted him to establish fellowships at HBS, Norm Liu (MBA 1982), the retired CEO View Details

11 May 2021
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Pitching to Win

the five grand-prize winners. Goble is co-founder of Karivez Bio, a platform for transforming chronic disease treatment through improved drug delivery. Okrah is founder and CEO of Chaku Foods, a fast-moving... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

23 Sep 2020
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Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method

and has held several events over the last year, beginning with a sold-out panel discussion last fall featuring both Gehl and Porter. As the election season has intensified, interest in REN’s message has likewise increased. “We began open... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

02 Jun 2021
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On the Road Less Traveled

unexpected turn. Ed's father died in 1971. And among the items retrieved from his home was a suitcase full of letters—presumably the ones Ed had sent his father as a child. Not interested in revisiting the... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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A Climate Change Optimist

power of consumers, investors, and businesses to create systems-level solutions. “On climate, it’s simple,” says Gravitz, “Stop putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and draw what’s there back down.” For Green America, that’s meant... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe

01 Oct 1998
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Merton Named University Professor

Kim B. Clark called Merton a "terrific choice" for the McArthur University Professorship. "His interests have natural connections with faculty and students in different parts of Harvard," Clark said. "His... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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The Right Connections

impact on the size of the start-up's IPO. "Downstream social capital was essential in attracting the interest of a top investment bank and getting a high valuation for the... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Oct 2002
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Ann M. Fudge

When Ann Fudge was pursuing her MBA at HBS, she used her one-hour commute to Soldiers Field to shift gears from being the busy mother of two toddlers to a focused student handling cold calls with aplomb. Fudge managed her roles as wife,... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off

Students in the second cohort of the new MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences program arrived on campus this summer. When Elisa MacColl (MS/MBA 2022), a consultant in L.E.K.’s life sciences practice, first considered graduate school, she... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75

started soliciting reader input. As management education began to grow in popularity over the next three decades, so did HBR. The magazine began to feature new depart-ments on business topics of current View Details

16 Nov 2011
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Are Humans Cost-Effective?

On Halloween, before a raucous audience in Burden Hall, Watson, the IBM game-playing computer, took on student teams from HBS and MIT in a friendly game of Jeopardy! During the match, a slimmed-down, traveling version View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2020
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Staying the Course

Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) In early March 2020, DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) could point proudly to the growth of the online math company. In the last nine years, since the... View Details

Keywords: April White; online education

27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward

for high school followed by a summer in Spain. By her senior year of high school, the family had moved again, this time to Vancouver, Canada. It was the fourteenth school of her youth. That nomadic spirit... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

of risk and released me from a personal prison of achievement. Some context: In 1999, I joined a large-scale startup providing a new consumer phone service in Brazil. We raised... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Dec 2014
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Innovation: Frozen Assets

knew she was onto something when her son started snagging Luvo meals from the freezer after school. “This is a space where the consumer is actually ahead of the food industry,” Day says. “We have the... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

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