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- 01 Oct 2002
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Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
its board of directors — a quirky but powerful 23-member group that includes 11 annually elected Harvard and MIT students — on a restructuring plan that eliminated most nonbook merchandise. Barnes & Noble's college division was invited to...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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The American Dream
LAWSON: Campaigning for Congress, a probusiness entrepreneur who advocates for the middle class. An IBM engineer, Stacey Lawson (MBA 1996) noticed that a number of her colleagues, though surrounded by technology, still used pencil and paper for designing standard...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Making Democracy Work
A democratically elected government is essential to free-market capitalism—a strong democracy provides the foundation necessary for capitalism to benefit all, rather than only a few. Today, democracy is in decline around the world, and...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Snapping Up Voters
Illustration by Chris Gash When Rob Saliterman (MBA 2011) started selling online political ads at Google, they were almost all destined for people already seeking political content, placed either on specific networks or in response to user searches. Over nearly four...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Sep 2008
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Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s Impact on Europe The article about General Georges Doriot in the June issue is quite informative about his great accomplishments. Left without mention, however, was the first venture capital firm in Europe, called European Enterprises Development (EED)....
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- 18 May 2020
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Joe O’Donnell Named Harvard Medal Recipient
areas, such as teaching, fundraising, leadership, and innovation.” O’Donnell’s Harvard contributions highlighted in the Gazette include his service as a member of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, as elected director of...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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A Growing Drumbeat
is just one entrepreneurship elective that has seen a jump in enrollment. When HBS associate professor Noam Wasserman initially offered Founders’ Dilemmas in 2009, 42 second-year MBAs signed up. Two years later, Wasserman and Senior...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
translational catalyst that will drive the successful adoption and application of AI in companies, nonprofits, and government.” As part of the School’s Short Intensive Programs (SIP) in January 2019, Lakhani and Iansiti taught the four-day View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Entrepreneurial Finance elective in the MBA curriculum. In the Executive Education Program, he has developed materials for and served as codirector of courses in Conflict and Evolution in Private Equity, Corporate Venture Capital, and...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Building New Connections
papers on investment, capital structure, working capital management, dividend policy, joint ventures, intellectual property, and corporate tax policy. He currently teaches Corporate Financial Operations, a second-year MBA elective course...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
A few years ago, H. Kent Bowen, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration, undertook a study of smaller companies (firms in the $5 million to $50 million range) in order to develop cases and teaching materials for the View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Two Decades of Social Progress
research and teaching. More than 500 students have enrolled in social enterprise electives this year, and more than 300 are currently involved in the Social Enterprise Club—one of the largest clubs on campus. Alumni, too, continue to...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Gregg Petersmeyer
C. Gregg Petersmeyer learned about giving back from his parents. He observed in them and their contemporaries a tremendous empathy for their fellow citizens going through the shared hard times of the Depression and World War II. “Today,” he says, “we must revive that...
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- 14 Sep 2012
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Former premier's death stirs emotions of Canadians
- 01 Mar 2003
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Fighting Back from a Knockout
Politics can be a thankless game — to the victor go the spoils, but so too the headaches. Consider the case of Steve Laffey (MBA 1986), the newly elected Republican mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island. Last November, three days after winning...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
three-week Foundations program, which provides a few courses to give students a better foundation for the curriculum and a very important acculturation experience. The end result is that we can now go into more depth in the required curriculum. Are there any new...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Constant Inspiration
Harvard overall, in many other ways, too. For example, she was a section and class fundraising volunteer for two decades, and was a member and a VP of the HBS Alumni Board. She is a new member of the HBS Latin America Advisory Board and is an View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
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A Voice for Women Leaders
role is to make sure we get all the women who have been elected as members, and to create events and ways to create dialogue amongst women, and, again, to create that sense of voice for women.” (Published January 2017)
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Touching All the Bases: Stephen A. Greyser
commentator; a current board member of four marketing-related corporations; formerly an editor and later board chairman of the Harvard Business Review; and former executive director of the Marketing Science Institute. He was elected a...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2006
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HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered
wars” and aggressive global expansion. Pearson left PepsiCo to join the HBS faculty in 1985. He taught the first-year course Competition and Strategy and the elective Management Policy and Practice. “Andy brought an extraordinary amount...
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