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- 01 Oct 2013
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Banking on Africa's Future
Tope Lawani Tope Lawani (MBA 1995) is a man on a mission—make that two missions, actually. The cofounder and managing partner of London-based Helios Investments, Lawani says his firm aims to reward investors with "attractive,...
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- 07 Nov 2014
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In partnership to support a mission
Meredith Jenkins (MBA 1999) serves as vice president and cochief investment officer of Carnegie Corporation of New York, the foundation established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. With business partner Kim Lew (MBA 1992), she manages $3.2...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Salter New Head of External Relations
In his new role as senior associate dean for External Relations, Professor Malcolm S. (“Mal”) Salter is ready and eager to shift his focus from the classroom to the global community of 65,000 HBS alumni. “The alumni community is an...
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- 21 Oct 2021
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DraftKings Backs New VC Firm
Photo courtesy Drive By DraftKings A recent article in the Boston Globe reported that the venture capital firm Drive by DraftKings, led by Meredith McPherron (MBA 1993), had raised its first venture fund. Called Drive by DraftKings, McPherron tells the newspaper that...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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The Art and Science of Teaching
Doug Lemov (MBA ’04), a charter-schools consultant and managing director of True North Public Schools, a network of schools in upstate New York, is a former teacher, principal, and charter-school founder. After years of trying to analyze...
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- 11 Oct 2019
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Balancing Act
person who is qualified for this job and also has these other diverse attributes we want.’ That person is out there.” But that’s not the last step, she says. “You can’t set one goal and call victory, which is something I did in the early rounds.” Eberle Walker admits...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices
Business schools have sometimes taught that shareholder-value maximization is the holy grail, the sole proper focus of corporate managements. So I ask, should managements be focused solely on a company’s...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2001
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Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
different could things be?” It’s only been thirteen years since I graduated from HBS, and we in the Class of 1988 were remarkably forward-thinking about technology. Ours was the first class to have a subject called Management Information...
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- 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,...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Rating Better
associate professor Joshua Coval, and Lubos Pastor of the University of Chicago’s business school, conclude that a manager’s ability can best be detected by comparing his or her portfolio with those of other fund managers with stellar...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
market and exit opportunity? Or should NextGen Jane choose the tool most likely to be adopted by ob-gyns to manage their patient populations? The Answers: The idealistic answer is to focus on the...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2008
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The $4 Billion Question
clear you can raise $4 billion for your next fund instead of the planned $1 billion. Professor of Management Practice Nabil N. El-Hage coauthored the case with HBS professor and Finance unit head Richard Ruback. “The case highlights some...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
Committee’s work in context. The HBS global community includes more than 25,000 alumni who have completed residential Comprehensive General Management or Owner/President Management Executive Education...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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School Ties
largest school districts in the country, the survey found that business is involved in 95 percent of America's school districts, but mostly in a fragmented array of efforts that focus on short-term benefits for students (e.g., donating...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Righting the Ship
When Ross Stuckey (PLDA 21, 2016) joined the headquarters of the NAVSEA Warfare Centers as their capital improvement program (CIP) manager in 2016, he was charged with leading divisional managers at each of the NAVSEA WC’s 10 subsidiaries. He also was responsible for...
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Maureen Harmon
- 12 Sep 2019
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Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
gonna brainstorm, or I'm just gonna write, or I'm just gonna think about just one problem. So I put on the noise canceling headphones, set a timer, close the email app and just am able to focus in—just on that one thing. Lindsay Ronga:...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Charting the Year Ahead
succession, competing for volunteers’ and members’ scarce time, and maintaining their distinctive connection to the School. Fifty club leaders convened at HBS in June at the annual Clubs Officers Leadership Conference and offered insightful input to View Details
- 22 Sep 2020
- News
Balancing Act
and also has these other diverse attributes we want.’ That person is out there.” But that’s not the last step, she says. “You can’t set one goal and call victory, which is something I did in the early rounds.” Eberle Walker admits that she started with a View Details
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April White
- 04 Sep 2019
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Accelerating Scientific Discovery
day, where it is the focus of Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. “The world is now very excited about the possibility of curative medicines originating from CRISPR-Cas9 technologies invented at the Broad Institute,...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2014
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Screen Saver
the consumer.'" Odd as it sounds, the customer has not been a historical focus for the movie theater industry. As Ramsey points out, the business got going in the 1930s and 1940s, when it was typical for one print of a movie to be...
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