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- 26 Jan 2022
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Making Peace with Anger
separated and I want to get divorced,” what I was confronted with was not only the reality that the most important thing in my life was moving away from me, which was my nuclear family, but that I had no control to stop it. And so I think...
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- 21 May 2024
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A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Simmons Family Endows Professorship
important in shaping who we are as businesspeople," echoes David E. Simmons (MBA '85), president of Simmons Family, Inc., a firm established by Roy Simmons in 1978 that owns and operates radio stations in the western United States. "The...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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Donald J. Chiofaro
process, you shouldn't be in this business." Reflecting on his career, Chiofaro says: "I didn't think that real-estate development, which creates hard assets, would have so much volatility. I consider my-self lucky to still be in control...
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Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2024
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Competing in the Age of AI
to control it—is constantly improving, but AI will never solve all problems. And among those who are realistic about AI’s future potential, Lakhani often finds they misunderstand how to effectively implement the technology in a business....
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April White
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
generated an operational loss. "My feedback was, 'You're in trouble,'" recalls Kahn. By the spring, Kahn was in Mumbai, part of a team tasked with turning Agrovet around—the first foreigner the Godrej Group had ever hired in a leadership...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
as well as the witness of regular people whose lives are joyful despite setbacks and hardship. Equipped with the tools of emotional self-management and ready to build your four pillars, you can take control of your present and future...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Zone Defense
design a high-tech armored suit for a person when artificial intelligence could do the job with significantly less risk. “Why wouldn’t they just put in a computer to control the suit?” he wondered. “‘Good mission, but it sounds like a...
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- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
both teaching and research. —David Yermack (MBA 1989) Back to top “Heather Evans” Heather Evans is a second-year MBA student attempting to start a dress business. The case examines the business plan and the process of acquiring control...
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- 07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit
coincidentally, Chatri means “warrior” in the Thai language.) Franchise requests for Evolve have come in from across Asia and around the world, but Sityodtong has chosen a slower, more controlled path to growth. “If we’re committed to...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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A World of Difference
closest airport), he kept broadening his perspective. He asked a lot of questions. He checked in with the air traffic controller and the first officer; everybody’s perspective was brought in. He considered many alternatives when most of...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
business administration (DBA) in accounting and control, marketing, policy and management, or technology and operations management. Another option is a joint program with Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Infrastructure Is a Gateway to a ‘Resource Revolution’ BIO As business leaders, achieving stakeholder alignment is our license to operate and our best opportunity to halt the tragedy of the commons scenario playing out in climate change....
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
part of what’s driving consolidation across the country,” Hansen Shapiro observes. The National Trust used a leveraged buyout to acquire the titles, which will continue with their mission under a new public benefit corporation that is owned and View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
these redlined areas form the shape of a so-called Black butterfly, and they suffer the highest rates of poverty, crime, and chronic disease in the city. Studies show that investment is far lower in predominantly Black neighborhoods than in white ones. And developers...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Up by the Roots
When he graduated from high school in 1994, Will Hsu (MBA 2006) had no plans to take over his father’s ginseng farm—there just didn’t seem to be a future in it. Hsu’s Ginseng Enterprises Inc. was one of the largest operations in central...
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Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2011
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All in Good Time
operations is in Marietta, Georgia.) “When I started in 2005,” she says, “I went through all the usual growing pains of hiring too many people and spending too much on marketing. But I was able to do everything that I needed to do at home...
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