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- 01 Oct 2002
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Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
There are outstanding international students from modest backgrounds who may not even consider applying here because of cost concerns. Similarly, there are students ready to come to HBS right out of or shortly after college who may lack...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
Malhotra. Pictured at lower right are this year’s Leadership Fellows. Photographs by Russ Campbell Every new day is a good day for Kathy Giusti (MBA ’85) since that morning in 1996 when her oncologist took her hand, looked her in the eye,...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
depends on the ability to deliver great service. The Low Cholesterol Cookbook and Action Plan by Karen Swanson (MBA 1990) (Rockridge Press) Getting serious about heart health can be overwhelming. That’s why cardiac dietitian Jennifer...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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3-Minute Briefing: Wick Moorman (MBA 1989)
I’m on a train right now. Obviously, I look at the experience in a slightly different way than I used to. I now spend almost all the time talking to people who are working on the train and to our customers. The story I tell, which is...
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- 14 Apr 2021
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The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
We work with two gyms currently, and we’re planning to partner with some after-school programs to bring instructors to them.” What are your short- and long-term goals for PowerUP? MGA: “We currently serve 100 kids, and we are aiming to...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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“Culture Is Everything”
continued, to get an organization on the right track if there is a sense of crisis. “You must convey the urgency of the current situation and the requirement of doing something different.” Gerstner admitted that earlier in his career, he...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face
I wanted to be president of a $500 million business, and I achieved that,” he says. “When I left at age 54, there was no great epiphany, although the fact that we sold our subsidiary businesses made it financially easier for me to ‘retire,’ in the old terminology.”...
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- 28 May 2019
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Leading Questions
teams of consultants who did extensive and time-consuming one-on-one interviews. Synthesis, launched in 2017, aims for a middle ground: a focused but customized evaluation. “We ask ourselves what are the things you need to know right now...
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- 13 Jul 2020
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The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
Player One. And recently it’s felt like the right time in terms of technological advancements, accessibility, and investment for a field like VR to really start taking off and I wanted to be there when it did.” What promise do you think...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
for prosperity and effective government for the following century. In addition to granting him his rightful place among British Prime Ministers on both domestic and foreign policy grounds, Hutchinson advances how a proper regard for...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
business; last October, he was named chairman and CEO of Marsh Crisis Consulting, a unit of Marsh & McLennan that provides a full range of services to corporate clients to help them avoid, plan for, and manage crises such as natural...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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New Releases
their new positions, while only 38 percent of those promoted from within leave their new posts within the same period. Outsiders don't fare as well as insiders because they don't adequately plan their transition into the new organization,...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
South Asian Women at Work
interviews. She was starting to get depressed and couldn’t figure out what she was doing wrong. Then an interviewer told her, “I think you’d be a wonderful fit for this company but I do have one quick question to ask you: Do you plan to...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Booth Gardner’s Night at the Oscars
leaving office. Although his own condition is not considered life-threatening, in 2006 he took on what has become known as the Death with Dignity campaign, believing that terminally ill people should have the right to make the choice of...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes
us for years—even before we raised any money—in part because Jana Care is a very mission-driven company. That was an important lesson for us: Money is not the only motivating factor in a small company. If you can build the right dynamics...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Taylor Gibbs chronicles more than 200 years of her paternal family’s history and highlights their contributions to the civil rights movement in the United States. The Human Element: The...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
argues that it is not the business plan but the personality behind it that counts. Behind the Mask: Embrace Risk and Dare to Be Better by Don Hastings (MBA 1953) and Leslie Anne Hastings (Xlibris) In this memoir, Hastings relates how, as...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
Valley. Knudsen blends its wines from the highest quality blocks of grapes. What makes a good grape? Elevation influences the fruit’s sugar content (measured in “brix”), notes Knudsen Cowles: Those with optimal sugar levels for the vineyard’s high-end pinot noir and...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
I was scared to death that everyone would be smarter than me. And they were. On the first day of class we were all anxious to talk and make a good first impression. I held my hand up until it had gangrene. Then Professor Ted Levitt ate me alive. I used some marketing...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door
neighborhood-based health plan for the city of Charlestown, and I became involved in building a system of benchmarks for the various services that were being offered—everything from dental care to drug and alcohol abuse counseling. I...
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