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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
as chairman of Millennium Promise (MP), he helps lead an organization with the vision of ending extreme poverty worldwide by 2025. Despite this shift, Walker sees more similarities than differences between his careers in the private and... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
were rare. The Better Chance program that offered students in poor neighborhoods a chance to attend public schools in more wealthy suburbs. There were real financial investments in these programs that were required to do the hard work of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning
"They must also develop a working knowledge of what our educational environment is about and what the norms and expectations are." Help on Arrival Intensive coaching sessions, such as those offered through... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
Illustration by John Kachik Depending on which business school ranking you consult, the best MBA program in 2010 was at the University of Chicago, HBS, the London Business School, or Stanford University. Among the five leading media... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
traditional gap-year experience for high school graduates, focused on leadership development and featuring experiential, community-level project work in Asia, Africa, or Latin America. Global Citizen Year has now supported almost 1,000... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative
First and foremost, innovators are good at associational thinking, or simply associating. They make connections between seemingly unrelated problems and ideas and synthesize new ideas. I would frame associational thinking by asking this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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The Hard Way
Russo at home in her Brisbane apartment. She credits her domineering Sicilian father with teaching her the street smarts to succeed in business. PHOTO BY PATRICK HAMILTON /NEWSPIX/NEWS LTD. Every successful entrepreneur can look back and,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History
lot of what is taught by our finance faculty — I’m thinking here of André Perold’s work — is in fact historically focused. His cases on Long-Term Capital Management are the best things written on that... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered
at my new employer, I found myself “between jobs.” I happened to meet Walt by accident one evening walking on the street where I lived. We exchanged greetings and chatted for only a few minutes. I told him I was temporarily out of View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
in the Boston area, Clover serves an always-changing, all-vegetarian menu to a 90 percent non-vegetarian customer base. In this episode of Skydeck, associate editor Julia Hanna takes listeners behind the scenes at a Clover food... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
16 million internet properties pass through the company’s network, which acts like a neighborhood watch for the internet—spotting potential threats but also helping websites run faster and better. It was named one of the world’s most innovative companies View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
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Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
scenario that seemed unlikely just a few decades ago — affect what we teach and how we carry out our research. We must test our ideas against a broader range of experience and bring work informed by this... View Details
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
of manufacturing, against the background of the evolving U.S.-China trade challenges. The talk was followed by a Q & A session and reception. Shih shared his expertise in manufacturing and product development across multiple industries to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1997
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A Message from Dean Clark
distinguished group of people: this year's 25th Reunion class. Over the last two years I have had the opportunity to meet and speak with hundreds of alumni, and I have been deeply impressed by and grateful for our graduates' leadership... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
That’s a huge amount of work.” Bohmer has firsthand knowledge of the issues faced by MHCD participants. A physician, he practiced medicine in New Zealand and England, helped establish a surgical hospital in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
by Garry Emmons It's December, and outside the weather is frightful in many of America's 32 National Football League cities as teams gear up for the playoff season. But no matter how adverse conditions may get both on and off the field,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis
Image by John Ritter Back in January, the leadership at Massachusetts General Hospital, including President Dr. Peter Slavin (MBA 1990) (pictured above, right), took note of a virus that was spreading in China. They decided to activate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
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Case Study: The Speed of Light
(Photo courtesy of KDC Solar) Launched in 2011, QE solar is an operations and maintenance company focused on servicing large-scale, commercial solar energy structures—the kind typically owned by large utility companies. The company is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
outlook. Since its inception in 2001, 89 MBAs have taken part in the program, working at 43 organizations as diverse as the City of Boston Mayor’s Office, Teach For America, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Mercy Corps. Fellows... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
skills tied to specific disciplinary knowledge that are increasingly vacuous and superfluous.” And HBS professor Rakesh Khurana contends that many business schools have been complicit in creating recent corporate scandals View Details