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- 01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella
this one played out brilliantly. Within a decade, Dr. Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) rocketed through the ranks of Sandoz and in 1996 led the firm’s merger with Ciba-Geigy, emerging as CEO of the new company called Novartis, based in...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
appearing in major news magazines. Then came a state visit from U.S. President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) in March, the same month HBS inaugurated its global research center in Mumbai (see sidebar, page 29). “Everything you hear about India...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2011
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A Man without a Pause
reason for my life.” Wolfensohn emerges from these engaging pages as thoughtful, compassionate, hugely entrepreneurial, and very well-connected. But you don’t want to get on his wrong side, as his description of a blowup with an...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
Education, a project is under way to examine the portfolio of offerings to foster what Light calls “a reconception” of thinking about business education for managers at different points in their careers. One new offering still in the pilot phase, the Program for View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
agencies focused on development projects and private-sector growth in emerging economies often seen as too risky for most investors. But this new assignment was something else entirely. “I have a phenomenal job and I’m living in a safe...
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Julia Hanna
- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
two-parent families in the United States with children reported both parents working full-time in 2015—up from less than a third in 1970. For some, there has been a tangible impact on their professional lives, with 30 percent of the Pew...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech
business and commercial development at Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "It will revolutionize how medicine is practiced," he states simply. "Right now the doctor listens to your heart with a stethoscope and maybe...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2013
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Alumni News | Book Briefs
to provide the resources needed to change the world. Boards That Lead: When to Take Charge, When to Partner, and When to Stay Out of the Way by Ram Charan (MBA 1965, DBA 1967), Dennis Carey, and Michael Useem (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors see an View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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Letters to the Editor
Doriot's course and the emergence of the angel/VC industry. I was fortunate to launch my venture in 1965 with $50,000 in angel funds. Charles Morrissey (MBA '62) Irvine, CA Lessons That Paid Dividends I'll presume to speak for the...
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- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
relentlessly. The learning curves point to improvements of 20% every time the globally installed capacity doubles. And already, in many parts of the United States and beyond, wind energy and even, solar energy, is now more cost effective...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Rescue & Recovery
twice annually.) High among those items was the hiring of Steve Linick. A former federal prosecutor who served as an inspector general at the State Department until he was ousted by President Trump, he started at Mercy Corps on the same...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Exploring Global Business Practices
today’s classrooms reflect our global society. In the MBA Program, all students in the first year get hands-on exposure to organizations in emerging markets through the January module of the FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
lost not only its ability to develop and manufacture high-tech products like televisions, memory chips, and laptops, but also the expertise to produce emerging “hot products” such as the Kindle e-reader, high-end servers, solar panels,...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser to corporations and...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
"Harvard 'B' for Peace." It was an extraordinary introduction to student life at the B-School, and as events such as the student killings at Kent State and Jackson State, the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, and the trial of the Chicago Seven...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
owned slaves and accepted Black people as full citizens. Thanks to the efforts of Creek leaders like Cow Tom, a Black Creek citizen who rose to become chief, the United States government recognized Creek citizenship in 1866 for its Black...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977
included fax numbers. Cell phones did exist, but they were rare, heavy as a brick, and available only to a privileged few. States — and in some cases entire U.S. regions — had just one area code. Numbers-crunching was done by hand with an...
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Desmond Wong
- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
emerging markets. With trophies hoisted and handshakes all around, another contest comes to a close. A winning participant bounds up the stairs of Burden before the crowd has even dispersed — for him, and others, the next chapter begins...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Looking back; looking forward
business to private equity and the future of business education. This is truly a remarkable time in the School’s history, and an exciting time to be part of the HBS community. The Centennial offers us all an opportunity to engage with each other, and with the ideas...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
policy, the development of investment theory, and the emergence of new investment structures. The authors map these trends and profile the battle between low-cost index and exchange-traded funds, on the one hand, and the higher-fee hedge...
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