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- 01 Sep 2017
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Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
in business and public policy thanks to the many generous fellowships she received, Kyarisiima has returned to East Africa, where instead of focusing on infrastructure she is helping to build businesses in the region. “I’m passionate...
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- 30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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The Spangler Effect
as president of the University of North Carolina system. While deeply committed to advancing public education in his home state, Spangler always felt a strong connection with HBS that extends beyond his own campus experience. During his...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Making Change
continue to thank us for the information we provide, which confirms there is a real need out there. What's been most surprising? Even with a good idea, it's hard to figure out how to make money. What's the biggest takeaway? There's never...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
on KLM airline’s use of the Facebook Messenger platform for customer care, says Levine, and Walmart’s employee training program, which features Oculus Go’s virtual reality headsets. No stranger to the Facebook family, Levine came to the company in 2010 as its first...
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Julia Hanna
- 29 May 2019
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HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
partisanship, increasing inequality, and staggering bureaucracy. “But complexity is not in our DNA. The United States Constitution is a perfect example of simplicity,” says Deffarges, who also serves on the Executive Council at the Harvard School of View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 05 Sep 2017
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Living the Quantitative Life
tracking a handful of things, I enjoyed it. And it was entirely a singular thing, I didn't really even share it with friends, I wasn't making public statements of, I promise my Facebook friends I will hit X metric by Y date. But then I...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
industrial capitalism has produced the greatest per capita output of goods ever recorded. And, in direct contravention of the Marxian forecast that workers’ share of income will steadily fall, Schumpeter repeats that “relative shares have...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
move forward. The Dad Advice Project: Words of Wisdom from Guys Who Love Being Dads By Craig Kessler (MBA 2014) Savio Republic In early 2019, while in search of parenting advice, father of three young boys and author Craig Kessler asked a handful of friends to write...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way
many cases drifting from their original intent of making management a profession, with a commitment to using a body of knowledge for the good of society. “The university-based business school of today is a troubled institution, one that...
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- 04 Sep 2014
- News
Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS
could convince them that ALS is a good investment, market forces will do more than all the ALS foundations worldwide can do.” In 2011 and 2012, Prize4Life awarded million-dollar prizes for tests that measure the disease’s progression...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
WILCOX: “At the height of the boom, all venture-capital funds had LPs begging to get in. Today, the really good funds are back competing for the very best deals.” With roughly half of the nation’s venture-capital firms and scores of...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
departments. The fact is, we are a magazine for practicing managers, and practicing managers need good ideas more than six times a year. What are HBR’s goals? As the Economist says, HBR single-handedly sets the agenda for business in the...
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- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
final exams, received a scholarship, and left for college." Parija attended BJB College, a state school with low fees, where he majored in economics and political science, graduating in 1974. He took a clerical job at a local Indian bank and enrolled in a master's...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Just Breathe
Just as you might take ibuprofen to ease a fever, mindfulness can help settle awareness in the midst of challenging situations—whether at home, at work, or in any setting where people of color experience racism. That’s the premise of Black People Breathe: A Mindfulness...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
climate and energy that are highly relevant to the current public debate.” The Brand IDEA: Managing Nonprofit Brands with Integrity, Democracy, and Affinity by Nathalie Laidler-Kylander and Julia Shepard Stenzel (both MBA 1992)...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
noting that these leaders were acting on what they believed to be true, rather than taking irresponsible risks, not seeing they were in any real danger until it was too late. Public pension funds, on the other hand, were the victims of...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk
often hear that devaluing the US dollar would make America more competitive. But if we devalue the dollar, America’s standard of living goes down. We’ll have to pay more for all the goods that we import, and we’ll have to sell our...
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- 14 Dec 2015
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A Leader’s Call to Action
management role at the Wisconsin Public Service Corporation that included a team of 42 union and administrative workers spanning four counties. At 34, she was assigned line responsibility for electric line crews and gas technicians. “I...
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Margie Kelley
- 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change
company Fawry's IPO was oversubscribed by 30 times, generating $100 million. Significantly, a cultural shift occurred after the 2011 revolution when, suddenly, anything seemed possible. [music] Amal Enan (MBA 2014) witnessed these transformations firsthand, from roles...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance