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01 Dec 2018
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Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa

Harvard Law School. During Elkins’s visit, the idea for the course began to germinate. Professor Caroline Elkins, Vice President of Nigeria Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo, and Hakeem Belo-Osagie (MBA 1980) (photo by Russ Campbell) “We thought... 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 Dec 1997
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1997 Placement Data Reflect January Cohort's Success

As with any new endeavor, the School's recent introduction of a year-round calendar - with two entry dates, September and January, for each MBA class - posed some unique challenges and uncertainties. One issue View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Terence P. Stewart

working with his father, Eugene, at the firm the elder Stewart had founded in 1958. Now under Terry Stewart's leadership, the firm operates globally, with a special interest in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. "Unfortunately,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2014
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Feedback

the testing that has to be repeated is enormous. There was a very interesting book published in the early 1990s called Competing Against Time. The central hypothesis is that about 90 percent of the time it... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

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

01 Jun 1999
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Spangler Center Groundbreaking

office. Robert A.M. Stern Architects is designing the building, which will be in the Georgian style, similar to many other buildings on campus. What's in a Building? During a day of events surrounding the groundbreaking for the Spangler... View Details

22 Jan 2018
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

your field? Guram: “If you’re interested in health care, take all the HBS health care courses. There are, I think, two schools of thought on this: 1) Don’t take any health care classes because you’ll be in... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

06 Jun 2017
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Many Rivers to Cross

other interested parties at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, to consider his proposal to create a transcontinental waterway that would comprise six major South American rivers (Amazon, Orinoco,... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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From the Editors

popular demand and voiced the hope that "no alumnus will be so overwhelmed with modesty that he will fail to send in items of interest about himself." Further changes were announced in 1941 when Assistant... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

21 Oct 2020
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Cold Calculations

could have a large impact on global climate. When Payne signed on for the project, he didn’t realize how important his volunteer effort would become. The Arctic Ice Project has sparked the interest of such... View Details

Keywords: April White

19 Feb 2020
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Running a Decathlon

Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert Peterson, who was unsuccessfully... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Oct 2002
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Pearson Hunt Remembered

also contributed to the theory of capital budgeting and to the development of a more realistic application of the cost of capital to investment... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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How Do I Get Your Job?

student-run Entertainment & Media Club, worked as an assistant to John Davis (MBA 1981) of Davis Entertainment and at Creative Artists Agency before coming to HBS. MB: What sparked your interest in the film... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting

students who have expressed an interest in their field." "We moved interviewing forward this year in response to recruiters' requests and to align our recruiting calendar with those of other MBA programs."... View Details

31 Oct 2019
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Finding an Audience

we have a problem of what to do to get more people interested in the cultural expression of such a great importance as music, which is completely unpolitical and is available... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Oct 2000
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Books

information technology capped an eighty-year trend in which decision rights moved mostly downward within business hierarchies," McCraw concludes, highlighting factors such as increased consumer power, intensified competition, and the... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference

Kong, the United States, and Europe. The strength of the conference, Teo stresses, will come from “the intellectual value of the leading research from HBS, combined with the power View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Ask the Expert: Star Search

Above: photo by Getty/Bloomberg Nobody, says Kate Gulliver (MBA 2009), chooses to work somewhere just because they offer a free lunch. “I think people care far more about being excited about the content of the work they’re doing,” says... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Oct 1997
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After 27 Years at HBS, Shapiro Shifts Professional Focus

Benson P. ("Ben") Shapiro, the School's former Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, has left full-time teaching at HBS to concentrate on research, writing, public speaking, and consulting. A well-known authority on marketing strategy... View Details

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