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- 20 Sep 2013
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Connections Add Up
lessons about choices and tradeoffs are about more than money—and even more powerful. "An economist in my network in Memphis was asking kids what they had learned, and one said, 'I learned not to join a gang.'" Her passion needed a math-minded chief View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
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Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
States with food banks and distribution networks. For its part, H-E-B realized its corporate values of contributing to the communities in which it operates and generated goodwill and brand enhancement in this new market. Other case...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall
"...But the good news is your old Enron stock has become a high-priced collectible." © 2008 www.cartoonstock.com Nearly seven years after its collapse, Enron continues to fascinate those interested in corporate leadership and governance. The latest chapter of the Enron...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots
Tech, an engineering campus established by Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan. Construction won’t be complete until 2037, but the doors are already open on the first phase; and once it is View Details
- 05 Jan 2023
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6 Business Skills Every Engineer Needs
- 23 Aug 2017
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Developing Leaders Behind Bars
Chris Michel (MBA 1998) has taken photographs all over the world. He recently had the opportunity to visit the Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California to document the graduation ceremony of a unique business program for inmates of the only supermax prison...
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Robert Bochnak
- 01 Mar 2014
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The New Venture Competition's Digital Democracy
The annual alumni New Venture Competition (NVC) is giving the power to the people. As in past years, the HBS regional alumni clubs held local qualifying rounds, producing a dozen or more NVC finalists. But instead of traveling to Boston to make their case in front of a...
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New Venture Competition
- 01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind
other, and we’d bang out some pushups together,” recalls Fisher. “We complement each other well. Tim operates with a combination of vision, passion, and gut instinct. I’m more analytical and process-oriented.” Photos by Vance Jacob Photos...
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Julia Hanna
- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Jules Kortenhorst (MBA 1986) is CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a leading think tank focused on sustainability and energy use. It has become a go-to source of analysis from the transformation from...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Online Entrepreneur
In September, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce announced that its 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year is Diane Hessan (MBA ’77), president and CEO of Communispace Corporation, a firm that helps companies generate customer insights via online communities. The chamber...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and advance faculty research that...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 13 Jul 2016
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From Money to Ministry
we served and to see all of the day-to-day stuff.” Quainton’s dream job was interrupted in 1964 when he was drafted. After training at the Naval Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, he was sent to the Panama Canal to serve as an View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1998
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Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
a large company. Fortunately for SABO, in 1975 he accepted the company owner's offer to make him a major shareholder if he returned. Over the next decade, Andresen's leadership transformed the company. By 1987, SABO had grown to a 200-million deutsche mark,...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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The View from the Pit
Illustration by Steve Bjorkman When the Class of 1974 returns to campus to celebrate its 25th Reunion, at least three of its members won't have far to travel. From their base of operations at Soldiers Field, faculty members and classmates...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
ready-to-heat soups, shipping an average of thirty thousand gallons each week. Shafir - himself a study in constant motion - plans to move his operation to a roomier location in nearby Chelsea early this year. Despite adding a $2.5...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1997
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A Message from Dean Clark
Research and Course Development in California's Silicon Valley in order to provide a base of operations for our faculty who are studying and developing cases on the rapidly growing, dynamic enterprises in that region. In Chicago next...
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- 20 Apr 2016
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Steps to Success
The cashew trees growing into a beautiful shady forest in Fass Koffe, a two-acre community garden in Senegal, are a sight to behold. “Visitors can’t take a step without stepping on a plant,” says Louise Fenn Ruhr (MBA 1977), chief View Details
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Jill Radsken
- 25 Jan 2016
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Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
South Africa—are seeing the gap and saying, Why don’t I go improve my skill set and maybe in the long term I could go back.” The desire to improve his own skill set was what motivated Igun to apply to HBS. Before coming to Boston, he had a lot of experience on the...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2004
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A Market-Based Prescription
profitable, while areas such as emergency medicine and burn care are undervalued. In a consumer-driven system, market forces would operate to correct these disparities and create greater incentives for physicians to customize therapies...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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A U.S. Turnaround?
Wien In 1945, the United States was clearly the world’s leader militarily, economically, and politically. Its universities were preeminent, and its cultural life was enriched by the migration of Europeans during the previous decade. This position of leadership lasted...
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