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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
payment of $1,” Baer laughs. “It was probably the first and last single-figure contract in broadcast history.” After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Berkeley, Baer parlayed the experience, contacts, and notoriety he gained during his...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
Flavr Savr tomato, introduced more than 20 years ago. The decision was driven by the economics of bringing a value-added product to consumers, Baker says of the marketing of the White Russet. The fresh market would place the most value on...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
while I was making the decisions. Let’s just say,” he notes, “I’m a big believer in serendipity.” Murphy went to Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer after graduating from Georgetown University with a degree in business and working briefly...
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- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
helped him focus. After high school, Simmons majored in political science at Yale, then went to work on Wall Street. “I wasn’t as thoughtful about the kind of career I wanted when I graduated as I should have been,” he says of his first...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
departure of more than 200,000 Huguenots at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes was a well-documented economic disaster for the kingdom of France, but the importance of these refugees to the countries where they settled is less known....
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- 22 Aug 2019
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Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
really helped me to also begin to integrate more and more, and feel like I could actually just be one of them. Hanna: And you went on to Northwestern and to HBS, and yet after you graduated you came back to Nigeria. And I just wondered if...
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- 24 Mar 2022
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Well Said
accent coaching for non-English speakers. And in this episode of Skydeck, Lakra and I talk about the light bulb moment behind her startup, the economic value of being understood, and the unique powers of immigrants. Courtesy Anada Lakra...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
friends and family members to end discrimination. I graduated from Harvard feeling privileged for having received an incredible education. But unlike most of my classmates, I wasn't a full citizen of this country. Just for being gay, I...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
serial transformers like Amazon leverage business model innovation so successfully. Redefining Success in America: A New Theory of Happiness and Human Development by Michael Kaufman (MBA 1994) Univ. of Chicago Press Work hard in school, View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Torras (MBA '50) established Preco Corp., a pulp and paper operation, creating more than one thousand jobs. In consumer services, David S. Paresky (MBA '65) opened Crimson Travel Service in Harvard Square a few months after graduation and...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
its economic decline. Austin's case series "Leadership in Action: The Cleveland Turnaround" serves as a backdrop for discussion. The cases introduce students to the Cleveland of the 1960s and 1970s - a city besieged by riots, political...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
student-focused initiative has collectively raised more than $30,000 in less than 3 weeks, has mentored more than 350 prospective business school and graduate students, and started a fundraiser to procure oxygen concentrators and channel...
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- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
people have been brought into the circle of economic inclusion—but there are still billions more waiting, in America and around the world. Business leaders have a vital role to play in helping to widen this circle of inclusion. Together,...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
and asked what they were.The driver proudly identified the place as Harvard Business School. He said that the best and brightest young men came there from all over the world to study business.He commented that HBS guaranteed every View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
a global institution devoted to expanding low-income women's economic access, participation, and power. The second half of her summer was devoted to fieldwork with ImpactPartners, a venture philanthropy organization that assists...
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- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
resources. We found martial arts to be the best avenue because of both the lessons learned and the fact that it is available to individuals of all shapes and sizes. There is certainly an economic barrier to participate in martial arts, so...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
navigate their work environments and reach their full potential. Including advice and anecdotes from 30 successful Black leaders who have worked across Africa, Europe, and North America, Intelligence Isn't Enough aims to empower young Black View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
turn has contributed to rising health care costs. According to a study published by the RAND Corporation, health care spending from 1999 to 2009 wiped out the economic gains of the typical American middle-class family. “If we solve our...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2022
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What We’re Reading
parts that I like most is when Elizabeth Bennet rejects the wealthy Mr. Darcy’s proclamation of love and marriage because he treated her as an inferior. For the 19th century, Jane Austen takes a truly radical approach to economic and...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
entrepreneur," Wheelwright says. But until then, notes Bhide, "you're going to see more and more HBS graduates creating companies around them, rather than going into companies that already exist. For many," he says, "it will be perceived...
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