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- 01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do
depends on a scientific breakthrough: a time machine. It’s his only hope to regain the full life intended for him. When the film was made, Fox was a boyish 24-year-old, vigorous, athletic, and graceful. Six years later, in 1991, he...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend
next two decades, Christensen’s academic career progressed under the influence of a number of distinguished HBS professors and mentors, including Fritz J. Roethlisberger, Richard Meriam, and Edmund P. Learned. After earning his Doctor of Commercial View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
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Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
year later, she met Sheila Marcelo (MBA 1998), who was also attending with her husband, Ron Marcelo (MBA 1998), and a friendship blossomed as the two women bonded in the experience of being married students. (Marcelo would go on to launch and run Care.com.) “HBS...
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Jill Radsken
- 10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
of it as a place for cats playing the piano. But I gave it a shot, and the videos took on a life of their own.” The plunge: “Soon, tens of thousands of people were using the videos every month. In 2009, I left my job and set up Khan...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
with a team of fellow alums to create a $2.5 billion technology company. Today, Langford’s focus falls under an entirely different category of urgency: As executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP), he leads a nonprofit...
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- 25 Apr 2016
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Trail Blazer
asphalt-paved path, with unpaved shoulders for runners) with neighboring winemakers, who donated initial funds to memorialize Tom Shelton, a fellow vintner and vine trail leader who had lost his life to cancer. “We recruited the Land...
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- 16 Jan 2014
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Learning from Helping Others
GARRETT Ashley Garrett's 20 years as director of All Souls Soup Kitchen fed her soul. Raised and educated as a Quaker, Garrett (MBA 1987) says her family's values—consensus, equality, service, and integrity—provided her a solid foundation for a View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
Fischer I am happy to report that the HBSAA Board of Directors is off to another great start. This dynamic group of more than forty alumni — including class secretaries, club presidents, and other devoted volunteers — has outlined a number of goals and View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
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Competing Against Luck
companies, which at one point were widely regarded as unassailably successful-- a decade or two later, you find them in the middle of the pack, or often at the bottom of the heap. Why is it that success is so hard to sustain? And that was a puzzle. And the result of...
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- 03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City
tightly to volatile gas prices and the faltering auto industry. From a resident’s point of view, life in a city with inconsistent municipal services and simmering racial tensions could be even more tenuous. While many suburbs prospered,...
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- 17 Nov 2016
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Wired for Innovation
network of long-distance transmission lines, and we have to establish all kinds of precedents as we move our projects along.” A Patient Entrepreneur In addition to its Plains & Eastern Project, Clean Line Energy Partners is involved in...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
kiosks stationed here and there; almost every one I pass has a student logged on. I find my way to my first class, Assistant Professor Andrew McAfee’s Operating an E-Business. Right off the bat, McAfee sets up a presentation on a classroom computer linked to a video...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
business. These essential insights for enduring and optimizing the middle miles will outfit managers to find their way through the messy middle of any bold project or new venture. Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism...
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- 16 Jul 2019
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The Making of a Movement
making decisions that could advance treatment options for patients with rare cancers. Neither of the Linns worked in science or medicine. A few years earlier, rare cancers had not even been on their radar. Now it was possible their...
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- 12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan
gives deep meaning to a life that couldn’t be more different from the one she chose after graduating from HBS in 2014. Working at Goldman Sachs, living in the West Village, enjoying all that New York had to offer—she had a View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
thing—especially for kids who need to start making money sooner. If you think about online as a place where you learn in an even more personalized way, then you have this other aspect of your life where you create a rich experience. You...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
Alumni Books Love Coming Home: Transform Your Environment. Transform Your Life by Jennifer Adams (OPM 51) Beyond Words Publishing Rather than sacrificing to save enough for an eventual dream home, Adams recommends looking for the...
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- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
out-of-office message on, and take time for reflection. And I was very privileged to do that, and it's been very helpful in my life and in my career. And the second thing is, when you do that and you listen to your inner voice, you listen...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Innovation Takes Center Stage
note. Nohria explained his belief that people’s life stories deeply influence the way they conduct themselves as leaders. In his own case, he described the profound effect his father, the CEO of a large electrical equipment manufacturing...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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50 Years & Counting
Bias Trap Max Bazerman "The project...taps into earlier work I've done on how joint evaluation leads to better and more ethical decisions." - MAX BAZERMAN In a research project conducted with colleagues at the Harvard Kennedy School, HBS...
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