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- 01 Dec 2004
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The Future of Stem Cells
cardiovascular disease. In addition, apart from any possible therapeutic benefits, embryonic stem-cell research could play a central role in helping to understand the nature and development of disease generally. Spar, the Spangler Family...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit
Matrix allows users—health officials, for example—to assign weights to traditional measures that define the scale of health problems, the impact of diseases on household income, the medical and social spillovers of disease onto other View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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Alumni Author: Thomas H. Fischgrund (MBA ’80)
distinguishing thing about these kids was their attitude and their habits — they were proactive and passionate. Their goal was not to ace the SATs but to succeed in life. More specifically, in my sample of 160 students with perfect scores, 60 percent were male, more...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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The Wise Men
Harvard College because I planned to return home to run the family business, a small chain of seed and feed operations in the Red River Valley, in North Dakota and Minnesota. But John Black, who taught...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment
extensive involvement with a San Diego-based organization that develops aid programs for the poor in Mexico, and the establishment of a family foundation that gives grants in the areas of poverty, education, and religion. "There came a...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
families we served, and the pleasure and developmental benefit we brought to our customers. My original plan was to gain expertise and brand with the Martha's Vineyard store, then expand to sites in the...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Alumni Books Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking by Paul Butler, John F. Manfredi, and Peter Klein (MBA 1971) (McGraw-Hill Education) The authors provide a proven plan for making strategic thinking part of any...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
would be fifteen minutes late for an appointment with your CEO?" A cautious few raised their hands. "Now, how many of you would be fifteen minutes late for an appointment with a friend or family member?" she inquired. About half of the...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
entrepreneurship, for example, nine courses will be offered this year, including four that are new or substantially revised: Starting New Ventures, Running and Growing a Small Business, Entrepreneurial Marketing, and Management of the View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Cutting Edge
took over the family company in 1867, William and Andrew, the firm's bearded, fraternal namesakes, were familiar faces to generations of sniffling, wheezing Americans. But in recent decades, due to a series of indifferent owners and some...
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- 01 Aug 2001
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Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
for running the family business. With MBA in hand, however, Goldberg put off his return home in order to attend the University of Minnesota, where he completed a Ph.D. in agricultural economics in just two years. From 1952 to 1955,...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
Sanchez perfected this approach during his two SEAL platoon commands, working with each platoon to develop and execute plans for strategic reconnaissance and training missions in Africa and elsewhere. He is especially proud of his service...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2013
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Accelerating Therapies
BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Len Blavatnik Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989) The Blavatnik Family Foundation is catalyzing Harvard's efforts to translate basic scientific discoveries into new therapies and cures. The Foundation, led by American...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Khoja, now 56, never planned to go to Afghanistan. A veteran telecom executive responsible for launching service in developing countries around the world, he was working for Deutsche Telekom in Croatia in January 2002 when a...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2006
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MBA vs. MBA
mixed success, to make immigration a hot-button issue, accusing Edwards of being soft on illegal immigrants. Talking tough, Taylor vows to fight any amnesty plan and favors deporting illegals. “I’m for zero penetration on the border,” he...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
wonderful businessmen who were very good role models. I loved the idea of marketing and serving customers, and I planned to go to business school right after college. My father talked me into going to law school first, but after I...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
profitability. He notes that Xerox Corporation, for example, is currently implementing a plan to reclaim its equipment, refurbish it, and resell it - without having any waste leave the plant in the process. "They not only hope to achieve...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
(PMD 41, 1981) (F.X. Biasi Jr.) This novel tells a story of illegal drugs, murder, and a 150-year-old rivalry between two of North Coast California’s most powerful and affluent family dynasties. Dragons: 10 Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest
Alaska Fairbanks; descriptions from his family and other climbers; and other historical sources. I. The first time Terris Moore (MBA 1933, DCS 1937) saw the magnificent Minya Konka was in March 1930. He was sitting in the cozy library of...
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