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- 01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
(PMD 41, 1981) (F.X. Biasi Jr.) This novel tells a story of illegal drugs, murder, and a 150-year-old rivalry between two of North Coast California’s most powerful and affluent family dynasties. Dragons: 10 Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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A Place in the Sun
about where we are, who we are, and what happened yesterday. We discuss each guest's enjoyment levels: Did George and Mary have a good time yesterday? Did they have a life experience? What are George and Mary planning to do today?"...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 04 Nov 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
international markets, they’re developing ambitious plans for their producers.” Lack of infrastructure makes follow-through on those plans challenging in Haiti, the third-poorest country in the world and the...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2002
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Steven C. Watson
things.” Until he adjusted to the daily grind of preparing lesson plans and correcting tests and homework, Watson regularly found himself logging ninety-hour workweeks — after taking a 90 percent pay cut from the consulting job he held...
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- 20 Jul 2017
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Pushing the Next Generation Forward
stories of the families we work with are not unlike my story,” says Owusu-Kesse. The son of Ghanaian immigrants, he was raised by his mother in a distressed Worcester, Massachusetts, neighborhood. “I experienced firsthand the sacrifices...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2003
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A Casual Approach to Success
advantage at Lehman was that I knew I wouldn’t stay there. I was planning to go back to San Francisco and work for my dad,” he explains. Hellman seemed to have a natural ability — he calls it genetic, given the legacy of banking in his...
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Susan Young
- 19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world....
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
family members and stakeholders. Wellthy launched nationwide in September 2015 as a private-pay, direct-to-consumer subscription service, with plans ranging in price from $100 a week for those who need help...
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- 26 Jan 2015
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The Ingredients for Success
something in a different way.” Markowitz was surrounded by creative types recently as she presented NOCHI’s plans to a group that included restaurant owners, tourism officials, chefs, and food business entrepreneurs. Ti Martin stood up to...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
people of Texas first learned of their freedom. That became a day of remembrance and celebration. In this book, readers learn about the events that led to emancipation and why it took so long for the enslaved people in Texas to hear the news. The first Juneteenth began...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
depends on the ability to deliver great service. The Low Cholesterol Cookbook and Action Plan by Karen Swanson (MBA 1990) (Rockridge Press) Getting serious about heart health can be overwhelming. That’s why cardiac dietitian Jennifer...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
in the School's intellectual agenda. I urge you to make plans now for the next Global Alumni Conference in Chicago on June 17Ð19, 1998, which will focus on entrepreneurship, a topic of great interest to us all. As we reach the end of...
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- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
path for criminal justice. A family dinner-table conversation about the concept of recidivism eventually led Anderson to pursue a business education, jobs working on private-sector approaches to the problem, and ultimately to found her...
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- 26 Oct 2017
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Can Farming Save the Planet?
consequence,” he says. “Our yields are comparable to conventional crop yields. We can prove it. These guys have done this for seven to eight years.” Wiviott and his partners plan on doing a series of partnerships and funds, and are hoping...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters
favorably if they decided to visit his office to verify where he worked.” Nothing in their polished business plan prepared the partners for the reality they faced from Day One. In the Beginning The friendship that blossomed into a...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
in his path. Langford, 65, is far too genteel and affable for that, as anyone who knows him will tell you—and plenty of people in Georgia know Jim Langford (MBA 1984), whose family roots in the state stretch back to 1853. But those same...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
with comical tales are perceptive looks at things as different as family Christmas rituals, and the impact of 40 years of communism on society. When Climate Change Hits Home by Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012) (Amazon Digital Services LLC)...
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- 11 Jul 2012
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A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
built his family’s New Jersey–based industrial distribution business over 15 years (to sell to a Fortune 50 company), and then as a consultant to family businesses and international investors. “We’ve witnessed countries mount concerted...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
the years my research has been increasingly focused on consumer finance, combining case studies, empirical projects, and experiments — the latter often in conjunction with Commonwealth, a nonprofit I cofounded that is an R&D lab for new financial products for...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient
But questions remain: How much of this is a Massachusetts miracle, and how much is mirage? The outlines of the plan are simple: According to what’s known as the “individual mandate,” nearly all residents over 18 are required to obtain...
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