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- 24 May 2017
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David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
Counsel while earning a law degree at Georgetown, “so I was comfortable with research.” As he pitched his services to companies in need of legal advice, he refined and expanded his business plan to focus on research in the financial...
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Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
strategy look like? The financing that we were able to assemble for this acquisition is interim financing, which gives us five years to figure that out. Part of the process we’re engaged in now with our partners is to say, What’s the version of local ownership that...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
prepare, Gilbert has been refining teaching plans, writing cases, and getting advice from the eight faculty members in his teaching support group. Gilbert says that support is critical, since the case method requires intense preparation....
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- 01 Mar 2012
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FIELD 2: Global Intelligence
a new concept for a product or service for global partner organizations around the world. In January, they spent a week in the region conducting market research and meeting with the organization to refine their ideas before making a final...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
increases - instead, the institution will bear the risk. Corporations are also using contract technologies for strategic purposes. To illustrate, Merton cited a hypothetical example of a company with widespread crude-oil reserves and a major distribution system for...
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Elizabeth McNair
- 25 Apr 2014
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A defining global experience before college can unlock a lifetime of potential
involved in projects in Asia, Latin America, and Africa and another 200 alumni already making a difference as leaders on college campuses nationwide. Falik conceived the idea for Global Citizen Year after high school, when she moved to Latin America. She later View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
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HBS’s Oldest Class Secretary
are interesting and very cosmopolitan and keep my spirits high. I spent 36 years with what is now Exxon Mobil, the last 15 years in Venezuela, where I served as mgr. of its refining operations. My time at AMP was a treasure in developing...
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Keith Larson
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
them featured in the Bulletin’s “Last Look” photos), and serenades of professors in the last class. The most common game played during class was Bingo, called Section Bingo or Turkey Bingo. It was begun by 1972A in their first year and was still being played in 1990H....
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- 21 Sep 2018
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HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups
Clubs News Clubs News In an effort to bolster entrepreneurial activity and increase participation in the HBS New Venture Competition (NVC) among alumni in the region, the HBS Association of Southern California has launched a series of workshops to help new startups...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2012
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FIELD 3 Tests Students
FIELD course. FIELD 3, the final module, thrust students into experiencing the real-world roles of entrepreneur, analyst, marketer, and investor. It challenged them to refine the leadership and teamwork skills they learned in FIELD 1 last...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
consumers to access core components. Take circuit boards, for example. The process would begin with grinding up the circuit boards and would end with a yield of refined commodity-grade metals.” Modeled after the School’s student Business...
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- 13 Nov 2020
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New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
upcoming programs,” notes Nancy DellaRocco, executive director of Executive Education. “We could not have reopened our doors virtually so quickly without the new classrooms. The timing was fortuitous.” In recent years, Chandler explains, HBS has been experimenting with...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Strategic Networking
“By the time they zero in on those final few names, they’ll have refined their information even further.” That makes it easier to ask more specific questions, and the bank of knowledge accumulated from earlier conversations increases a...
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- 01 May 2013
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Scott M. Sperling, MBA 1981 & Laurene M. Sperling, MBA 1982
Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Advisory Board. "This is a wonderful institution, and there is a great community of alumni involved," Scott adds. Summarizing the motivation for their support, Laurene says, "I hope our fellowship will inspire individuals who have...
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- 01 May 2013
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Trevor Fetter, MBA 1986
“I invest in HBS because I learned to make better decisions at HBS. The School helped me refine my ability to analyze business problems. As my career has evolved through different jobs in unrelated industries, the core skills in...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
of Cambridge and Boston, approaching any independent business owner who might have a business problem the “nerds” could help them address. They also convinced Professor Lynda M. Applegate to allow them to pitch the idea to her Executive Education class, an exercise...
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April White
- 01 Oct 1997
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Cathy A. Nichols
and several other potential sites in Asia and Europe are being investigated. For Nichols, who is responsible for 8,000 employees and capital expansion projects exceeding $4 billion, overseeing this phenomenal growth, continually refining...
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Thomas Frick
- 26 Oct 2015
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Sal Khan Goes Back to School
learning that can be disseminated to other schools around the world, the Khan Lab team is tracking every conceivable piece of data about students’ academic and social progress and sharing that information with parents, school staff, and students themselves, making...
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- 02 Sep 2014
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Visionary leadership won’t get you to innovation
own, willingness is not enough; leaders also must foster specific capabilities—the ability to generate a marketplace of ideas through discourse and debate, to test and refine ideas through quick experiments, and to make decisions that...
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- 08 May 2019
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Lessons from the Ashes
really where it all began. Dan: I wonder, you have these four pillars refine, design, vision, and reality. How would you apply those four pillars to your own experience? Warwick: Yeah, certainly in terms of refine it was the take over and...
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