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- 01 Mar 2009
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Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
students, and in the outside world as well. Said Gergen, “Let’s encourage an intergenerational dialogue about the world.” For its part, he noted, the older generation is ready and eager “to move from success to significance.” Fellow Dr....
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
1997), she took the initiative and organized a successful event. By creating awareness and encouraging participation through flyers, telephone calls, and e-mails, Kwiker quickly established herself as the driving force behind the HBS Club...
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Elena N. Berg
- 01 Sep 2013
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A Focus on You
numbers don't tell the whole story. So, we need you to do your part to make this information better. And that starts with each of you updating your profile. We can't encourage you strongly enough. YOUR VIEW: Build a network of alumni...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Finding a Balance
government has been unresponsive to date. With Western companies such as Microsoft, GE, and IBM making significant investment in IT outsourcing in India, the pressure is on for the government to toe the legal line. “None of these companies wants to work with a...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Green House
received multiple bids when she put it on the market in early June, selling within three days. “I had no idea of the true market demand for this type of product,” says Harper. “I’m very encouraged that home buyers are educating themselves...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office
be, “How do we make remote work more strategic and long-term, and what does that mean in terms of how we communicate, socialize, and hire?” Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar on how he encourages his remote teams to separate from...
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- 27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward
Leger’s manager at the World Bank encouraged her to apply to Harvard Business School and earn her MBA. “I found my time at HBS to be incredibly fulfilling—academically, intellectually, and socially,” she recalls. “My best memories of HBS...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
managing a New Jersey regional operation. Eleven years ticked by, and Parker grew restless at work, a sentiment encouraged by his wife, Alita. “Even though I had a successful career at IBM, she thought I could do more,” Parker recalls....
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Road to Recovery
Illustration by Jon Krause Eric Gastfriend (MBA 2015) had watched friends and family members struggle with addiction. He’d seen some of them go to treatment, and he’d seen many of them relapse. He didn’t understand why the field of addiction psychiatry had been unable...
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- 13 Nov 2020
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Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
more than I thought possible about cutting-edge technology. I couldn’t have asked for a better summer.” —Elizabeth Powers (MBA 2021) The School also reached out to all alumni, encouraging them to post open full-time jobs and internships...
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- 18 Nov 2013
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Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
My dad was an artist, so there was art everywhere when we were growing up. We were always encouraged to try things, to fail, and just be creative. How did the company start? I dragged my sister with me. My sister was still a senior in...
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- 15 Dec 2011
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An HBS gift guide
Endline’s candy dreams. Previous Next Safe water for millions Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) Founder, S’well Bottle “My dream with S’well is to allow those without options to be provided clean drinking water, while at the same time encourage...
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- 30 Apr 2019
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Founder of Hinge Has Some Thoughts on Your Dating Profile
on-again/off-again relationship with the woman who eventually became his wife a few months ago, inspired the development and unique features of Hinge. “My experience with Kate taught me the importance of being vulnerable,” McLeod told Vogue. “Hinge View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
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Running a Decathlon
conjunction with the Olympics. Peterson had created a small academic competition in Orange County called Academic Decathlon, in which teams of high school students with a range of academic skills would participate in 10 events—including essay writing, speech, sciences,...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Feb 1997
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Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
a series established by Dean Kim B. Clark to increase awareness of HBS faculty research and to encourage cross-unit collaboration and discussion at the School. Roberto de Mendoza (MBA '74), vice chairman and director of J.P. Morgan & Co.,...
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Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Mar 2009
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Alumni Books
Publishing) The most dangerous problems are those you don’t know about. Roberto presents seven skill sets useful for uncovering such problems: how to get past dangerous information “filtering”; watch how people behave, not what they say; pick meaningful patterns out of...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
Educational Clubs of America, he developed the award-winning "Learn and Earn" program, which introduces high-school students to business through hands-on economic education. As an HBS alumnus, he was the founding chairman of the Harvard Business School African-American...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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All For One
employee focus encouraged workers to recast themselves as leaders responsible for change, and they began offering innovative ideas for how to turn the company around. Within six months, HCL had secured a new $330 million contract, and by...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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The State of Play
If the category of offerings known as “immersive experiences” were a soup, it would probably have to be a gumbo—a saucy and colorful assemblage of potentially disparate things. And while it’s rooted in familiar traditions, it’s also open to whatever bright new ideas or...
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- 01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
involved, for example, in a corporate program in one region of China where we work to encourage children to go to school-a campaign that also subsidizes the cost of books and transportation." As part of her commitment to quality, Yang has...
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