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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
A Man of Influence
native would have relished every whistle-stop appearance of his book tour. Ambitious, inquisitive, and brimming with gusto for life’s adventures, it’s easy to imagine Valenti sitting down with Charlie Rose or holding forth at a book reading. Instead, his View Details
- 09 Feb 2015
- News
Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)
his death to the HBS community, Dean Nitin Nohria said, “John Whitehead has been an alumnus we have held up as exemplifying the competence and character we associate with true leadership. It is with deep sadness, as a community, that we...
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- 22 Jan 2019
- News
Remembering Walter Shipley
endorsing employee well-being and diversity long before those topics became fashionable. Beginning in 1996, the Financial Times reports, he asked business units to submit plans on diversity, including the advancement of women. When JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982)...
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- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
one reason: a death in the customer's family. A look at the number of waivers showed double-digit growth for the past three years. Either there was a death epidemic, or customers had figured out they could...
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- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
the visceral state passes, and they make different judgments and decisions.” Source: Deepak Malhotra, Michael Luca, and Christopher Poliquin To investigate the effects of waiting periods, the researchers did two analyses. First, they studied data about waiting period...
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- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
well-documented. They are the generation that will probably preside over and witness the death of newspapers in their lifetime. So here’s a question, especially for those Bulletin readers with international experience or business...
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Phillip Jones
deacon, but by President Obama. Clementa was one of nine, killed in the Mother Emmanuel church shooting, and his death changed my worldview forever. Hours after the President serenaded the arena with a teary Amazing Grace, we buried my...
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Jodi Yang
Boston is where I come to die and be reborn. At seventeen I came to mourn the death of my first love — music — and my grandfather, a hero who proudly led thousands into battle for his country, though he had little formal education. I...
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- 04 May 2017
- News
How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, which deals in part with Sandberg’s coming to terms with the death of her husband David Goldberg in 2015. After her loss, the article notes, Sandberg felt “isolated” at...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
become destinations for “medical tourists” from the West. Meanwhile, the country’s infant and maternal death rates are high, and diseases such as cholera, dysentery, and malaria are still far too prevalent. Chidambaram concluded by...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
Shames and Peter Barton (MBA 1982) “This book is about a man on his deathbed (Barton) looking back at his life and appreciating the energy and enthusiasm with which he has lived it, and another man (Shames) comparing his own as he chronicles Barton’s life and View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
Barron continued to rise through the ranks of the Xerox Corporation, earning kudos in 1993 as a Business Week "Executive to Watch." Three years ago, she was named president of Xerox engineering systems. But a string of personal events occurring in the last few years -...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
improve teaching across the faculty. The center is named after C. Roland (“Chris”) Christensen (MBA 3/’43, DCS ’53), a much-loved HBS faculty member who had a powerful impact on HBS students and faculty as well as educators around the world during his years at the...
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- 21 Jan 2022
- News
Real Talk
Courtesy Equitas Advisory Group In the months after the death of George Floyd, Susan Harmeling (MBA 1991) and Charles Henderson (MBA 1991) came together to form Equitas Advisory Group, an evidence-based consultancy geared toward helping...
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- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
has made all the difference. “The hardest part of the job has been coping with the death of patients. On an abstract level, I understand that death is part of this line of work, but at the individual level,...
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- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
unaddressed. In Puerto Rico, fewer than 100 people died during the storm itself, but the death toll was later revised upward to 2,975 to include those whose deaths were attributable to the aftermath of the...
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Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025) - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas
Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the developing world, affecting nearly 250 million people worldwide. Yet most can’t afford the blood glucose monitoring needed to manage their condition. For a target group...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Faculty Books
use — among them, death by delay, confusion, fearmongering, and character assassination — and then engage them with tactics tailored to each strategy. By “inviting in the lions” to critique an idea and being prepared for them, managers...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
manufacturing practices documented in their book, the authors are optimistic about the future of U.S. apparel and textile firms. "This important sector of our economy is more advanced and productive than ever," concludes Hammond. "As Mark Twain might have put it, any...
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