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- 01 Feb 1998
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Short Takes
altruistic reasons for serving, many also reported that such participation allowed them to practice business skills and make professional contacts not always possible through their everyday duties. "One focus group of top-level View Details
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2004
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Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
last year for a Social Enterprise Initiative event. Sitting at a table with several women who were current MBA students, I was surprised when they introduced themselves to each other. When I was at HBS, there were only fifty women on campus, and we all knew each other....
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- 28 May 2019
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Cure All
Raffaella Sadun: I would add that their lack of focus might be the reason why it’s so hard for them to actually excel in implementation. The hospital is a complex, multiproduct organization, and spreading your resources everywhere might...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
get competitive intelligence, how to determine if their brand or company is at risk, how to blunt competitors' efforts, and much more. Managing Global Innovation: Frameworks for Integrating Capabilities around the World by Yves L. Doz...
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- 19 Oct 2021
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In the Contest for Content
to other major buyers like BMG and Hipgnosis Songs Fund, which has spent about $2 billion on the catalogs of Neil Young and Shakira. Clarke Soares, the former CEO of Tempo Music Investments and a managing director at Morgan Stanley before...
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- 16 Jul 2020
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Accounting for Real Change
independent auditors. The COVID pandemic has revealed a similar problem, Cohen writes. “This time, it is the measurement of companies’ social and environmental impacts that must be made transparent.” One-third of the world’s professionally View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
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Year-End Roundup: Dean's Award, Other Honors Conferred as Class of '98 Graduates
Rubin, shared his experiences and lessons learned from his many years of service with Goldman Sachs and in government. He encouraged students "to do your best with the utmost focus but at the same time reach out for opportunities to...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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EMC's Ruettgers Finds Gold in Data Storage
"Strategy counts for only about 10 percent," he said. "We focus on execution." Not surprisingly, therefore, EMC demands topflight performance: some five hundred of its managers are paid according to their...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Ann M. Fudge
When Ann Fudge was pursuing her MBA at HBS, she used her one-hour commute to Soldiers Field to shift gears from being the busy mother of two toddlers to a focused student handling cold calls with aplomb. Fudge managed her roles as wife,...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
School's commitment to provide lifelong learning opportunities that address the needs of all HBS graduates. In recent years, both Hart and Dean Kim B. Clark have said that they often meet HBS alumnae who have left the workforce to focus...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
market and exit opportunity? Or should NextGen Jane choose the tool most likely to be adopted by ob-gyns to manage their patient populations? The Answers: The idealistic answer is to focus on the...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2004
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Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
Committee’s work in context. The HBS global community includes more than 25,000 alumni who have completed residential Comprehensive General Management or Owner/President Management Executive Education...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
obliterates all competitors, fall so precipitously? Other minicomputer firms were suddenly failing too. How could good managers seemingly turn bad so fast? That was the puzzle. Colleagues suggested exploring the disk-drive industry...
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- 02 Dec 2019
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A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
executive of the Rockefeller family’s global investment company. Intent on narrowing his international focus and extending his impact, Barry founded Zephyr Management in 1994. The firm invests in small and...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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A Wider Net
putting his ideas into action. At a high level, he has led a restructuring of the organization’s all-volunteer board, creating technical and commercial committees to focus on strategy and better involve the board members in the goal of...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Family Matters
obstacle.” The experience helped shape her focus as she later pursued her career. “Being able to help my community—that’s what I’ve always wanted to do.” Engineering was the first step for Thompson-Woode. A first-generation college...
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April White
- 01 Dec 1997
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Short Takes
white-collar employment is structured," he says. Gathering data from four temporary staffing agencies that focus on managerial and professional talent, Bradach interviewed 26 skilled temporary workers serving as independent contractors...
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Judith Ross
- 01 Jun 2004
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Alumni Author
on skills or education or experience. It is based on personal attributes and approaches to life. Specifically, I have divided the book into four sections: gaining perspective, managing yourself, leading others, and building values. Were...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Health Care’s New Frontier
consultants in the managed care practice of Booz Allen Hamilton, acquired an obstetrics practice in San Diego with $1.6 million in seed capital. The concept of a clinic where midwives and nurses provided quality care for healthy women...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
technocrats, I found plenty of talent and resolve to do things better. But the status quo has many allies, and the culture of management is inherently conservative. Liberia is making enormous progress, but it will need two generations of...
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