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- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
walked the sidewalk squares perfectly, only put one foot inside each sidewalk square and never stepped on the cracks between, never put two feet in the same sidewalk square, that my mother would sort of...
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- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
mark and was good-naturedly sheepish about the comment, there would be an immediate cheer of “Loop,” with one of our tallest sectionmates making an L with one long arm pointing straight up, the other pointing at the student. It was done good-naturedly, and everyone...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
because you shouldn’t be doing something that you haven’t done a hundred times before, that you could probably do in your sleep. That’s what’s best for the patient. Then COVID happened. For the first time in decades, we were figuring things out from View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
indispensable tale that belongs on the bookshelves of anyone with an interest in American or financial history, The Panic of 1907 is an expert retelling of one of the most important, but least well-known crises of the last 200 years....
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
governance models, and their integrity.” Immelt, CEO of GE, described his outlook as generally optimistic. Once the crisis is resolved (and, he remarked, “the government always wins” in these situations), the United States can expect at View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
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The Value of Difficult Conversations
residents were killed and homes and businesses along 35 square blocks of the city were destroyed at the hands of a white mob over the course of 18 hours. Unfounded accusations that a young Black shoe shiner had assaulted a white woman...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
all the involved constituencies, with victims' families first and foremost, Whitehead says. "We will try to meld all those views together into a plan for the memorial site," he explains. "Some of the 25 million square feet of office space...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
15 moratorium that shut down universities across the country to protest the Vietnam War. That demonstration brought Harvard University economist John Kenneth Galbraith to the HBS campus for a speech against the war, followed by a three-hundred-person march to Harvard...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
digital divide brought to light by the rapid transformation of the classroom experience from in-person to remote learning. ASHISH DHAWAN (MBA 1997) Founder and chairperson of Central Square Foundation, a nonprofit working to transform...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
the Intel 8086 to the world’s largest and most sophisticated information processing organization, the International Business Machines Corporation. IBM epitomized the computer industry as it had been for at least two decades: vertically...
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- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
their meeting and they tell me, we’ve all talked and we think you should help her figure out what to do with this business. I was close to coming off of my last board, so at least that freed up some time, and it was in north Minneapolis,...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
only ended up with a greener product, we also had one that was cheaper and performed better." He notes that in Europe his company now markets an aerosol product propelled by ordinary compressed air. Johnson's environmental activism...
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- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
had a long career in sports management, including an earlier stint running the business side of the Knicks, the WNBA's Liberty and the NHL's Rangers as the president of Madison Square Garden sports. But as inherent as competition is to...
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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
block, is clad in marble, some 325,000 square feet of it. More than 40 types of the stone were imported from around the world for the facade and the building’s vaulted three-story lobby. The windows—1,800 of them—are rimmed in bronze. Its...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
Bingo, using cards with each square filled out with a sectionmate's name. When that person spoke in class, the square was checked off. Once someone got “bingo,” they had to be called on by the professor and,...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
lose their lives in their quest to reach the world’s pinnacle. Inside the compact submersible, Vescovo was as comfortable as anyone on a long-haul flight in coach. But he knew that just 90 millimeters of titanium protected him from 12,000 pounds per View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking
one-year-old son’s giggles when you kiss his neck, and seeing a new bird in my backyard. I will focus on...writing the rough draft for the speech I have next week. We’re awake 1,000 minutes a day on average. Most of us work at least 500...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters