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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong When Mary Lindley Burton (MBA 1976) came to HBS in the mid-1970s, the Smith College religion major “felt like a fish out of water.” What saved her, she says, was a...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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A Class All His Own
dedicated, long-serving volunteers. In typical fashion, Brigham says little about himself, instead focusing on his classmates. “There was a fellow from North Dakota whose father was president of the local bank,” he recalls. “The bank went broke during the Depression,...
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- 10 Aug 2015
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Giving Kids Tech Tools to Make an Impact
some of that pixie dust—kids learn about 3-D printers, sustainable technology, and robotics—amazing things can happen.” Kadomatsu, who was cochair of the first class at HBS to organize Tech Club Treks, says...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
Latin America's woes and achievements — from the Argentine economic crisis to a host of business success stories — were the focus of “Sources of Competitive Advantage in Latin America,” held March 2 at HBS. The eighth annual Latin American Business Conference,...
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- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
contention in the family because my brother, Chuck, being one year younger, kept getting left out of these things. He never had a job. Well, later on, he would sack at the grocery store with me. I still have out here, a nice set of MacGregor golf View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Janet Kraus doesn’t wear a hoodie. She doesn’t live in Silicon Valley. She doesn’t write code. And she isn’t, perhaps most significantly, a straight, white, 20-something man. “I have built tech-enabled businesses,” says the HBS...
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- 28 May 2019
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Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
Mehta saw them everywhere, piled along the roadsides to dry—or rot—as prices for fresh tomatoes plummeted. She came to HBS with an idea for addressing the problem she had witnessed: Nigeria needed a functional tomato processing plant. A...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
Finding a job can be a challenge in the best of times — so why go it alone? Members of the HBS Club of Greater New York gathered in November to benefit from the expertise of Kate Wendleton, president of The...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Fellowships Have Impact
with Children Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship Program for Not-for-Profit Management Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York Financial Aid Fund George and Edith Weed Willman Fund “It would have been difficult for me to attend View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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A United Front
Sustaining peak performance over not just years but decades may be the single most difficult challenge for executives, which makes Sir Alex Ferguson's 26-year run as manager of England's legendary Manchester United soccer club so...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Start-Ups "R" Us
aspirations of the School’s graduates. The inaugural year for the Alumni New Venture Contest attracted more than seventy teams representing HBS Clubs in the United States and abroad. The seven finalists made...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
their start-up pitches to a panel of judges in late April. To his surprise, Mahesh, representing the HBS Club of India, took top honors and was awarded a $25,000 cash prize for his plan to manufacture...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way
(VIS '79), director of the Graduate Institute of Management and Technology in Johannesburg and longtime president of the HBS Club of South Africa, recalls how during the apartheid era, View Details
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Aug 1998
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A Roaring Success in the Windy City
Club of Chicago, the School's faculty, and the event's corporate sponsors, the 1998 Global Alumni Conference was hailed as a roaring success. In the words of Mary Monnet (AMP 149): "It was a phenomenal opportunity to learn from the...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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Managing a Master
that city. An avid jazz fan, he dropped into a local club to check out a young trumpeter he'd heard about. Arrendell remembers, "I was impressed - Wynton was hot. Since we were the only two black guys in the place, he came up to me after...
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Jeff Lazar
- 22 Jun 2021
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Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada
equity.” That one, daunting statistic became the impetus for Stark and the HBS Club of Toronto to present a virtual panel discussion, “The Impact of the Pandemic on Gender Equity: Can We Regain the Lost...
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- 15 Nov 2020
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
debuted its Alumni on Air series of monthly webinars, cohosted with the HBS Club of India, in April. Through these virtual convenings, South Asian alumni are sharing their perspectives about the current...
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- 18 Jan 2012
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Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem
Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin presented the findings at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Porter and Rivkin designed and conducted the survey, sent to some 50,000 HBS alumni last fall. The survey is...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future
Building on the success of last year's inaugural conference, the HBS European Club hosted the second annual Europe Business Conference on the HBS campus November 2-3. The event...
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- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
and HBS senior lecturer Jim Matheson READ MORE [Sound of golf club hitting ball] In 2020, Aaron Sabin was working as a mechanical engineer at the golfing equipment company TaylorMade. Aaron Sabin: What I...
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