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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
more of an expert on indigenous populations than the people themselves. Keen says Walker was before his time in using his research to partner with, and help, the tribes he studied. “I said, ‘Corn? What are you talking about, Deward?’ And in typical fashion, he got a...
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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 by temporary road...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
life in the early 21st century. This book is a collection of easy-reading stories with some interesting life lessons, often from the same characters. The chapters are short and make for good bedside reading,...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
sprints. The alumni and practitioners joined virtually, from what Professor Karim R. Lakhani has taken to calling “the universe deck.” In the classroom and in the online chat for this short intensive program (SIP), participants debated...
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April White
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
than 300 oil rigs, Kovatch became an engineer recruiter in North America for Schlumberger, visiting more than 40 colleges and universities a year. “I loved the adventure, telling the stories from the oil patch and being the face of the...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
became the first women MBA graduates of HBS. One would have hoped that these first women to receive an MBA degree from HBS would have been both identified and recognized for their pioneering accomplishment. Judith S. Gibson (HRPBA 1959, MBA ’65) View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
offered this year. In addition, two new offerings are being introduced: an immersive field course that will take students to visit renewable energy and sustainable production sites in Denmark and the Netherlands, and a short intensive...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Elevator Pitch: Forget Me Not
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Charlie Greene (MBA 2021) Cofounder and CEO, Remento Concept: Remento helps families collect and preserve the stories of loved ones. An annual subscription allows users to upload...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
want to write this book? Stacey and I realized we’d overcome all sorts of obstacles to eventually build ventures that scale, and we wanted to use our story to help level the playing field for other small businesses. They are the source of...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Apr 2020
- News
Launching in a World in Limbo
launch, the New York Times chronicled Whitman and Katzenberg’s challenging third act in a story called, “Two Veteran C.E.O.s Risk $1.8 Billion on a Streaming App. In a Pandemic.” Both led some of the biggest companies in the U.S. before...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
the captains then got a bunch of crew. Morrell: Take the example of the Essex, the whaling boat whose story became the inspiration for Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. The principal owners of the Essex invested in some repairs in the aging...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
Illustrations by Greg Clarke Tom DeLong is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice in the Organizational Behavior and Entrepreneurial Management Units. What’s on your list? A biography of Raymond Carver and some of his View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
lives cut short by either race-based violence or fatal encounters with law enforcement. So if I'm being candid, my initial response was a tragically resigned, here we are again. You develop over the decades a certain veneer that allows...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
Above: photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images On a late summer day in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in a large carpeted room with a colorful cloth tacked over a dropped fiberboard ceiling, Bob Vaccaro (MBA 1970), short white hair, eyes crinkled...
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Deborah Halber
- 20 May 2020
- News
Keeping Families Connected
content on their respective screens. Launched in 2016 as a story app for young children, Caribu has since expanded to offer a variety of activities for kids up to age 13. The platform was named one of TIME magazine’s best inventions of...
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- 16 Jan 2020
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Hitting the High Notes
Angeles Philharmonic and two short films by Emmy-winning Los Angeles filmmaker Ty Kim (MBA 2000). The program took place at the Colburn School, a performing arts school in downtown Los Angeles. “We opened with my film about Ben Hong, who...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
with a ring of empty seats above, below, and to either side of her own. "It was a lesson in the emotional and intellectual challenges of being a true minority," Lack says. "One of the wonderful things is that isolation lasted such a short...
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
Excerpt: Sweet Returns Jeffrey Chokel’s (MBA 1970) new book, Lessons Learned After Harvard Business School: Wisdom Shared by the Class of 1970, includes the stories of 132 of his classmates, which the former Harbus editor collected over...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
what does that reality look like? To further understand the families behind the statistics, we asked alumni to offer stories from their successes and struggles—their doubts, their decisions, and their daily routines. “I returned at Booz...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
supplements correct dosages for each horse. You can probably picture what happened next: the hasty return trip to SmartPak’s offices and the tears and bad feelings that come from cutting short a visit to the Magic Kingdom when you have...
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