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- 01 Dec 2002
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Serving through TechnoServe
encourages its clients to “look at production as a business and figure out what their competitive advantage is,” Tierney explains. He has led efforts to modernize the organization, which was founded in 1968 and is based in Connecticut....
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend
years, numerous students and young faculty enjoyed dinner, lively conversation, and encouragement at the Christensens’ home in Lexington.) Christensen earned his MBA from Harvard in 1943 and shortly thereafter enlisted in the Army...
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- 01 May 2013
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Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979
over the world.” Lessons gained from the case study method, in particular, have stayed with her. “It’s a discipline that encourages you to step back and learn from many perspectives,” Thoman says, adding that her HBS experience has...
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- 01 Jan 2010
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Marvin S. Traub, MBA 1949
Former CEO and President, Bloomingdale’s Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: A.B., Harvard College, 1947 On Leadership: “Leadership is the ability to face up to change and encourage new ideas and concepts...
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- 02 Jul 2024
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The Beauty Guide
of their careers.” It’s a matter of nurturing empathy, notes Freyre, and encouraging others—men and women, leaders and coworkers—to do so as well, especially as the pandemic has blurred the line between personal and professional....
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- 01 Sep 2017
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Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
scale up globally, and the 1990s saw lasting social and policy shifts in Germany and Spain that encouraged their entry into the wind game. By 1996, the largest wind energy companies in the world included one US, two German, and five...
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- 13 Jun 2016
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Brenda Bence (MBA 1991)
Lafley (MBA 1977) convinced her to join the firm. “He saw something in me and encouraged me,” says Bence. “He became my mentor, and I never would have made that connection without HBS. The School changed everything for me.” She went on to...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Stevenson Named Director of External Relations
Conferences have augmented the traditional reunion programs and encouraged cross-class contacts," he notes. "In addition, we are now offering special courses tailored to our alumni. These initiatives, combined with the lifelong e-mail...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
country but to encourage it to be more competitive,” he explains. What Saeki is bringing to Japan is Nasdaq’s emphasis on good governance and transparency. “We force issuers to disclose accurate information quarterly,” he explains. Many...
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- 22 Sep 2016
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Words and Pictures
lives and encourages project participants to think of their reflections as a guidepost, not a prescription. “To put it in HBS terms, it is a balance sheet—i.e., a specific view of a snapshot in time; not an income statement, i.e. a view...
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- 07 Jun 2011
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Back to the Future
undergraduate, Alden did read economist Joseph Schumpeter on entrepreneurship and wrote his honors thesis on his father as an entrepreneur of the family company. At HBS, Alden notes that several courses were helpful to anyone starting or running small companies but...
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- 07 Aug 2012
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A Novel Approach
directly beneficial to the School because it trickles down in a lot of ways," says Lyle, the Section J cochair for the Class of 2012 Gift Campaign. She also recalls experiencing classes in which the professors encouraged students to...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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The Power of Philanthropy
encourage others to do the same” as President Drew Faust and her team “guide the University forward” (Boston Globe, March 20, 2012). Now head of Belmont Capital, O’Donnell is a former dean of students at HBS, a recipient of the HBS Alumni...
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- 27 Mar 2020
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CPD Taps Alumni Network to Help Students Navigate Crisis
again now,” she says. “There are so many ways people stay connected with the School and this is just one of them.” Fitzpatrick encourages alumni who know of employment or internship opportunities for students to email cpd@hbs.edu, and if...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Myra Hart Named to Professorship
Hart also serves as faculty director of the Marjorie Alfus/Committee of 200 initiative at HBS that was created to encourage the inclusion of more female protagonists in business cases. She is faculty coordinator of the Entrepreneurship...
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- 19 Mar 2019
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Mission Critical
donation and encouraged people to sign up. We have national registries where you can sign up. “I came to the GMP program in 2013. I was, at that point, wanting to move into executive leadership, and I knew that I needed to have a...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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HBS Collaboration Helps Management Education for Minority Students
began an "inside track" recruiting program, in which a faculty member from a minority school establishes a relationship with a particular company. He or she then identifies one or two high-potential students and encourages them to...
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Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Jun 2006
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Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
idea (no business plan necessary) in thirty seconds, with the two best ideas getting a second, longer hearing of two minutes. The winning concept was an online site that encourages teachers to share lesson plans and best practices. The...
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- 19 May 2015
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Getting Ready for Success
board chair of Valiente, while raising her children, sons who are 10 and 12, and a daughter who is 8. The powerful moments are many, and Huebner and her husband, Kyle (MBA 1997), chief financial officer of Stamps.com, encourage their...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations
classmates at section events. "These behaviors seriously interfered with the ability of other students to learn," the report stated. "The HBS classroom is a unique place where students exchange ideas and are encouraged to take risks as...
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