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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
acquired by Amazon for nearly $1 billion. The acquisition was viewed with amazement by those unfamiliar with the young and rapidly growing sector. But a year later esports...
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- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
Picture a dog. The image you have in your mind probably has a long history. It likely started when you were very young and came across a dog for the first time: Maybe you pet the dog, maybe it licked your hand. You met a few other dogs,...
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- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
Hunt, based on Mohammed Al Samawi’s autobiography about how four Facebook friends managed to extract a young peace activist from war-torn Yemen. Who, not what: “One of my favorite assignments at McKinsey was working on a synthetic fabric...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
tracked by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. For voters between the ages of 18 and 29, the picture was even worse, with a 40 percent turnout. Less than 20 percent of Americans have faith in the democratic...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
of the 21st century. by Deborah Blagg and Susan Young Name: John Kotter, Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership Director: HBS Global Leadership Initiative Most recent book: John P. Kotter on What...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
sitting in his Baker Library office amidst drifting piles of correspondence - much of it from bright, young HBS grads describing their hopeful new business ideas. As he considers what the hottest fields for entrepreneurs have been these...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
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...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when...
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- 31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients....
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- 30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
Health Care Organizations by David W. Young (DBA ’77) (Jossey-Bass) Young, a member of the faculty at Boston University’s School of Management who will teach next semester at...
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- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
educate young people about the game, get them to play and enjoy it. We’re building future fans and players, so we invest in that.” The panel also shared some trends in Africa that bode well for companies and investors considering...
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Margie Kelley
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Jobs and the Worker, challenged management theories then in vogue by suggesting that jobs should be designed around people's needs, an idea that has gained popularity in recent years. Turner's greatest rewards, however, have come from...
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- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
Rosenberg: I actually had a transformational moment. I was reading David Halberstam’s The Best and the Brightest, which was a story about the Kennedy and Johnson's administration of the Vietnamese war. Basically Halberstam’s contention...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights: The Escalating Battle over Who Decides What We Eat by David E. Gumpert (OPM 5, 1981) (Chelsea Green Publishing) Do Americans have the right to get their food...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened View Details
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Dan Morrell
- 22 Jun 2023
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Book Smart
David Risher (MBA 1991) was on a family trip to Ecuador in the spring of 2009, volunteering and touring a local orphanage in Guayaquil, when he noticed a padlock on a nearby building. It turned out it was the local library—and no one was...
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- 20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits
Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her glass to take a sip and, with the flavors of the drink...
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