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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
billion in revenues. That’s a staggering 45 percent—but all was not lost. During the downtime, as the arrival halls echoed with emptiness and the baggage carousels sat idle, many airports used the time to reimagine the passenger...
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- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
midwife who turned to shea butter to help treat women and infants in her practice. Her mother, Eugenia, built shea-butter cooperatives and strengthened existing organizations; became president of the Global Shea Alliance; sat on the...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
community together in a common purpose. "I'm a big consensus builder," he says, "and I love helping to motivate people." In addition, Hughes served on the HBS Student Association and was production manager for the HBS Show, the School's annual student-produced,...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 20 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
In November of 2015 I sat in the upper deck of Faneuil Hall in Boston, looking on as300 people from 80 countries congregated to take their oath as the newest crop of US citizens. Among them was my girlfriend, now fiancé, who had navigated...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
sat there listening to the discussion, and it helped me,” Fung relates. “We benefit a lot from sharing our ideas. It reminded me of the good old days when I was a student.” But this time, it was Fung who had something to teach about how...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?
We’re bringing religion and some very personal terms into it. A whole series of fissures that have sat quiet in this country for a long time can be revived if there isn’t space for moderation. What can be done to bring the country...
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- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
yet donors are paid according to the desirability of their physical and mental qualities—at least $2,500, but sometimes much more. Spar showed an ad that appeared in Ivy League campus newspapers that offered $50,000 to women who were at least 5' 10" with 1400...
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- 09 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
Pursuing Meaning through an HBS/HKS Joint Degree
point during the spring semester of our first year, I realized that my section was having a long-term conversation. We weren’t just discussing the cases in each class, we were having a conversation that had begun the first day we sat...
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- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
happen.” “Deep foreboding” is the opposite. How could the present moment be both? The paradox exemplifies what we heard at these events. Speaker after speaker called this year “a crossroads,” an “inflection point,” a “precipice.” As I and hundreds of others View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
Currently all of the FTSE 100 companies have at least one woman on their boards, with 263 women holding director’s positions, 100 more than in 2011, according to a study by the Cranfield University School of Management. “We sat down and...
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- 18 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the Tech World Through WesTrek
participated in an intimate Q&A meeting with Allbird’s co-founder Joey Zwillenger (and his dog!) and sat down for coffee with Deeksha Hebbar, VP of Operations at Sonder. Other classmates watched 3D printers pop out cars at Zoox and...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ink: Q&A with Kathy Wang (MBA 2011)
would sleep for two hours, so I would aim to work for an hour to an hour and a half each day. If it didn’t happen, I’d make up for it at night. There was a period of about two weeks when he was waking up every half hour. I sat by his...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
I sat there silently screaming. Eyes flitting across the room at the faces sitting around the table gathered for a Brita leadership team meeting. They couldn’t possibly do it, I thought to myself, clutching my 3D-printed prototype like a...
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- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
basically sat down together and brainstormed creepy questions to ask," John says. The experiments tested the idea that downplaying privacy concerns would increase the likelihood of disclosure. For example, the researchers set up laptop...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
David A. Frankel
failures,” Frankel recalled. One success was Healthbridge, which grew into the largest independent healthcare data processing company in Africa. Despite his obvious entrepreneurial and investing skills, Frankel felt a relentless itch. The HBS acceptance View Details
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
social, cultural, and legal environment. Given the prospect for continued movement toward competition and the propagation of "best practice" management ideas on a global scale, is the question largely academic? What do you think? Original Article In recent...
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by James Heskett
- 21 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Articles of 2021
Managing Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, sat down with Cyril Straughn-Turner, second-year MBA student and Chief Admissions Ambassador, for a “Busting HBS Myths” event aimed at demystifying what business school is really like...
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- 21 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business
method sat on the opposite side of the pedagogical spectrum that I had experienced in my academic life, and I really didn’t know what to expect. My first year had provided a comfortable landing with the joint degree cohort, where I had...
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- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
quantity. Overall, athletic success has a significant long-term goodwill effect on future applications and quality. However, students with lower than average SAT scores tend to have a stronger preference for athletic success, while...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
Courtesy of Flatiron Books Courtesy of Flatiron Books When Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) sat down to write Quench Your Own Thirst, published this month, he realized he had told these stories many times before—usually over a beer, preferably a...
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