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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
they’re different,” says Lang, now a Catalyst Honorary Director since retiring as president and CEO. But why? “In Hebrew school, I was told that because I was a girl I could not be a leader. I think I became a feminist when I was about...
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- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
give rice to feed the children. That’s how he fed them at first. He’s really amazing, a hero.” With help from his parents, who retired and moved back to India, Kundu’s foundation took on major support for the orphanage, which, at the...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
skeptics who figured he would sidestep company policy that requires retirement by age 60. “I’m not really retiring,” Cohen pointedly explains in an interview at Apax’s Portland Place headquarters, a stately townhouse on a tree-lined...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Books
Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen (Harvard Business School Press) Were it not for the years HBS assistant professor Rakesh Khurana spent In The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations, retired...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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The Levitt Brand
will notice it soon enough.” Levitt in his element. When he retired in 1990, Levitt was considered one of the School’s living legends, a seminal scholar who had radically altered marketing both as a practice and as a field of study. “Ted...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good
retired Dean of the Harvard Business School. John Hector McArthur was born in 1934 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up somewhere between the right side of the tracks and the wrong side of the tracks in a suburb called Burnaby,...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth and our increasing...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Jay Light, the School’s ninth dean, retires in June after a distinguished forty-year career at HBS. As a young mission analyst at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California,...
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- 05 Feb 2019
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Protecting the Power Grid
US Army War College was having a three-day workshop on critical infrastructure threats. He wangled an invitation from a retired general and drove seven hours from his home in New Hampshire to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he listened to...
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- 17 May 2018
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Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
in New York, working with inner-city at-risk youth. He saw a presentation by then-NFTE president Steve Mariotti and was impressed by the organization’s practical curriculum for teaching entrepreneurship. Bhargava and his wife, Aruna, a View Details
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Jennifer Myers
- 26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past
says he “wanted to warn other members of the family whom I knew, and those I had yet to find” about their chance of inheriting the serious blood disorder. Diamond had been retired only a few years after a successful career in the global...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
taxes. This strategy was implemented by a handful of men over those fifty years, most important among them John Cowperthwaite, who ran the trade and industry department after the war and then spent twenty years as deputy and then actual financial secretary before his...
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- 10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
aware of it, the more likely it is they can talk about it openly and can make efforts to overcome it,” she says. In 1999, The Diana Project, cofounded by retired MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice Myra Hart to study women...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
believed a fiber-optics revolution was coming. His hunch proved right, the company flourished, and Houghton retired after a successful 13-year tenure. But then came perhaps an even greater challenge. With the telecom meltdown and the...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Eric Schiffer
lost a third of their retirement funds. Saving is on everyone’s minds these days. It’s one of the factors that spurred people to come into our stores in Texas, where we initially had some difficulties when we entered the market in 2003....
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- 12 Nov 2019
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Seismic Shift
as a formal advisor), and board members Tyson Clark (MBA 2009), general partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures), Guy Primus (MBA 2000), CEO and cofounder of the Virtual Reality Company, and Reggie Van Lee (MBA 1984), a retired executive...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
long before she had exhausted her retirement savings. “I never thought I’d be on the needing end,” says Rhenisch. “I was living a good, solid, confident middle-class life until I got sick. Then the foundation of everything I had built...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
Wiley Stock investing is more prevalent than ever, whether directly or indirectly through brokerage accounts, exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, or retirement plans. Despite this, the vast majority of individual investors have no...
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- 04 May 2017
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Going the Distance
turned to his first love—the ocean—for his next adventures, inspired in no small part by his daughter Lily, who was born in 2009 with a rare genetic disorder that has left her severely disabled. “My original idea of a typical retirement...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment
Goldman, Sachs & Co. before starting his own California-based investment management firm in 1978. Since his retirement in1995, Clark has added more hands-on involvement to his longtime financial support of nonprofits. His efforts have...
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