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- 01 Jan 2004
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Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
had been suspended for several years. One of the first women to graduate from HBS, Franklin is used to breaking down barriers. She has worked with five Presidents of the United States, founded an international trade consulting and...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation
government-funded pensions and health insurance). And Detroit’s troubles magnify — and perhaps exacerbate — the fact that across industries, traditional understandings and loyalties between employers and employees are breaking down....
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- 15 Nov 2016
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Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing (ESM), a field course that debuted in spring 2016. “To a greater degree than in established firms, marketing and selling in entrepreneurial ventures are linked to product development and strategy decisions that can make or View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
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Escape from Alcatraz
people navigate groups of mental and physical challenges with names like Alcatraz, Superbanan, and the Jungle. If you break a rule—and there is no rule book—or run out of time, you have to start over. The Boda Borg experience is often...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf
cooperation from a powerful person. How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things: Breaking the 8 Hidden Barriers That Plague Even the Best Businesses by Neil Smith (MBA 1984) with Patricia O'Connell (Palgrave Macmillan) The author identifies...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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OPM Reunion Snapshots
"HBS has become more international. It is wonderful to be able to speak freely about issues of common concern with colleagues from other countries. The frank exchange of views on business, beyond being interesting and instructive, builds bonds and helps to avoid...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
partner of Rheal Capital Management, a New York-based investment management firm. Among its first investments was a codevelopment deal for a mixed-use project in Detroit’s Brush Park neighborhood north of downtown. Scheduled to break...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2006
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HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
spring break to help create an economic redevelopment plan for the Broadmoor neighborhood, which was badly flooded when the levees gave way. He says he and his classmates are also trying to find investors for a venture-capital fund that...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
The 2010 January Term break at HBS was no time to kick back for the 403 first- and second-year MBA students who signed up for the Immersion Experience Program (IXP). In search of the kind of deep understanding that can come only from...
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- 15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
on the most important (and expensive) asset of any business: its people. The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy by Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter, Bishop William...
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- 21 Nov 2017
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Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
“The energy industry could be a tremendously exciting place to be. It’s going to play a central role that will help make or break the future of the planet in a relatively short time.”
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- 01 Mar 2003
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All in a Day's Work
trying to understand past histories, who is involved in what, and how that affects current and future deals,” she observes. The meeting breaks up and it’s off to Somerville for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for 42 units of affordable rental...
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- 06 Jan 2017
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Mental Illness and the Workplace
the first time I had a psychotic break in my second year at Harvard Business School. When I looked back after that, I realized that I had actually had symptoms as early as fourth grade, but it really wasn't until I had that break, that I...
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- 24 Feb 2011
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Show Time
Hollywood,” details some of that unique culture, as does the 2006 article “The Producers,” which looks at several HBS alums (including Eric D’Arbeloff) who are independent producers. A Harbus article about a 2007 student trek to Hollywood offers some valuable pointers...
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Garry Emmons
- 18 Sep 2019
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Level Up
sports market? The evolving fan. Ruggiero breaks fandom into eras: First came the Age of the Local Fan, which lasted until the mid-1950s and saw geography as a determining factor. The Age of the Global Fan, which takes us up to today, saw...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
needs of the countries in that market." Brier sees more hard work ahead, with only occasional breaks for golf, another passion. But he's not complaining. "Ideally, you hope you'll be able to do something with your life that will make a...
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James E. Aisner
- 01 Mar 2008
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Negotiating with Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, sold $315.6 billion worth of goods in 2006. With its single-minded focus on “EDLP” (everyday low prices) and the power to make or break suppliers, a partnership with Wal-Mart is either the Holy...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak
and 47 minutes—29 minutes faster than any woman before her. The record she hasn’t broken—yet: The original objective was to break the speed record from the park entrance to the Aconcagua summit as part of an all-woman team. “I’m going to...
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April White
- 01 Apr 1997
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Learning from the Past
case study, as relevant today as it was then, of society breaking down under the brutalizing effects of war. For many subjects, from history to philosophy, from ethics to aesthetics, our intellectual inheritance from the ancient Greeks is...
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James E. Aisner
- 01 Mar 2018
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Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
comes to preparing for a disaster, what percentage of time should be spent on proactive vs. reactive activities? —Maxeme Tuchman (MBA 2012) BEER: It’s difficult to break it down in terms of percentage, because it’s so dependent on the...
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Julia Hanna