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- 16 Sep 2024
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Life Preserver
each year because they don’t have access to an organ transplant. Worldwide, the World Health Organization estimates, only 10 percent of the need for organ transplantation is being met. But the issue isn’t a supply of organs; rather, it's...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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Remembering Dick Spangler
Carolina’s Board of Education from 1982 to 1986. As president of the University of North Carolina (based at its Chapel Hill campus) from 1986 to 1997, he increased enrollment and faculty funding while prioritizing educational quality and...
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- 25 Aug 2016
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Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
File photo by Jon Chase - Harvard Staff Photographer File photo by Jon Chase - Harvard Staff Photographer Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard University have announced the launch of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. View Details
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- 14 Nov 2019
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Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
joined the Monterey Bay Seafood Watch program. We've actually partnering with Worldwide Wildlife Fund on fishery improvement projects. We've had we've actually had NGOs audit our supply chain which was which...
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- 23 Jan 2019
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The Promise of Personalized Medicine
approaching it in two different ways. Horgan: So I guess, taking a step back, there’s—at least in the biotech realm of the world —there’s two ways you can cut the cake, so to speak. The first way is, I have a really cool technology that I...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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America the Difficult
has been 12.1 percent. Second, this remarkable return differential doesn’t reflect a more general differential in investment returns. During this same period, the equity markets in the United States outperformed the rest of the world in...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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In Service of Others
Mike Zak (MBA 1981) After studying engineering at Cornell and serving four years in the Marine Corps, Mike Zak (MBA 1981) arrived at HBS in 1979, one of only a handful of military veterans in his class. The transition was not easy. “I came from a View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
it happens), they often see dollar signs first and foremost. Salaries are soaring - even a journeyman player can earn in a few seasons what the average fan makes in a lifetime - and ever-increasing revenues are required to fund expanding...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest
sitting next to him: Allen Carpé. Carpé was a World War I veteran and an accomplished research engineer with Bell Telephone Laboratories whose exploits included the stormy first ascent of Mount Logan, Canada’s highest peak. The two men...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
Cohen is considering a career transition into health care. "I'd like to apply my skills in marketing and communications to health and medical services. In particular, the e-health world is exploding with incredible opportunity." This...
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Morgan Baker
- 01 Mar 2013
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Commitment to Leadership
innovation. What I am finding is that time and again people who have built organizations that innovate see leadership as less about providing vision and more about shaping context—as one leader put it, "building a world to which people...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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The Next Lessons
Khan Academy began in 2004 as a family favor: To help his teenaged cousins understand a few math concepts, hedge fund analyst Salman Khan (MBA 2003) offered after-school math tutoring via phone calls and explainer videos. A decade later,...
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William Weber
- 01 Sep 2020
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Road Work
small-business loan market was being mispriced and underserved,” says Sean, who serves as CEO (Kenny is COO). It’s an assumption that required finding early stage funding partners willing to take the risk necessary to validate the...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop
simplified the application process, asking business owners for only a bank statement as part of their mobile-based loan application, and delivering funds to successful applicants within 48 hours. “The joke we crack is that with most...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2016
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Case Study: Sweat the Technique
The company has raised about $500,000 in funding so far and is readying a Series A round. The Question: Unger and her team at Nix built the biosenser as an analog system, differentiated from the growing wearables market by its thin,...
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Dan Morrell
- 28 Jun 2024
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Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
are trying to make the world a better place.” HBSNY Board Chair Deborah Farrington and HBSNY President Clare Peeters HBSNY Board Chair Deborah Farrington and HBSNY President Clare Peeters Clare E. Peeters (MBA 2000),outgoing president of...
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Margie Kelley
- 24 Mar 2023
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Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
other Harvard University alumni have established the Harvard Alumni for Turkey Earthquake Relief Fund and are asking their classmates and colleagues for support. The fund is part of the Bridge to Turkey...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters
returning to the familiar. Rejected by every Formula One team he pursued, Varma chose the “familiar” option after HBS and initially returned to work in London with Ziff Brothers Investments before joining one of Europe’s leading hedge funds, The Children’s Investment...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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The Well-Healed Athlete
preventing injuries through the study of the healthy body and optimal performance. It’s an area that hasn’t been well funded in the past, despite widespread interest from scientists, says Wu Tsai. Through the Joe and Clara Tsai...
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- 22 Feb 2018
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My First Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Everyone remembers their first real job—in part, because it’s everyone’s first experience with a new and foreign world of work. But it’s also because those first jobs can...
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