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- 01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
a regular basis. Every six weeks my backyard changes." John McCarter remembers visiting the Field Museum as a youth, and this is something he wants every child in the Chicago area to be able to experience....
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- 05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans
allowed his cousins to pause, rewind, and absorb the material at their own pace. Before long, he was hearing from complete strangers that the videos had made a real difference in their ability to master...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Escape from Alcatraz
Conquer: To escape from the first room of the Spook House, team members have to divide up tasks, each taking responsibility for observing and reporting on a different part of the room. Fail to Succeed: What...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2005
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When No News Isn’t Good News
make midcourse corrections that might save your job or enhance your organization’s success.” McKay notes that regular performance check-ins are particularly important when embarking on a new job or tackling...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient
Tom Stemberg (MBA ’73), founder and former CEO of Staples, which had received start-up backing from Romney’s Bain Capital, urged him to make universal health-care coverage a priority. Certainly the stars...
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- 26 Jul 2011
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An Entrepreneur of the Arts
Efimova: Inspiring a love of the arts in young children. Photo courtesy Aleksandra Ekimova Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, Aleksandra Efimova (OPM 39, 2010) attended the renowned Art School at the Hermitage State Art Museum and...
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- 17 Nov 2015
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Carbon Neutral
that message, and is currently in discussion with a number of Fortune 500 companies to sign on publicly. If they can get all the pieces in place, they hope to make a major push...
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Michael Blanding
- 01 Feb 2001
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The Doctor Is In
the hallways, patients and their families mingle with physicians in loose-fitting scrubs making their rounds, earnest administrators with armfuls of files, busy nurses, and other hospital personnel who team up to View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
ACCION's helm in 1994. You left Wall Street for ACCION. Why? During 4 a.m. leveraged-buyout marathons at KKR, I'd occasionally wonder if I might be doing something else, however small, that could help make the world View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
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“Culture Is Everything”
application of technology. “We were able to define a strategic path that made sense,” said Gerstner, who then added a caveat: “You don’t win with strategy. Execution is a hell...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Where Conservation Means Business
plantations and company towns. Making the 10,400 photos ready for viewing requires that Anderson free each from its taped confines. Afterward, she places them in transparent Mylar sleeves to protect against dirt and handling. On View Details
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Roger thompson
- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Green Revolution has indeed begun," he said at the launch. From the beginning, Notore focused on Nigeria's smallholder farmers, who use about a tenth of the fertilizer of their peers elsewhere. Because farmers View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
structures and systems as well as reconciling the varying speeds at which divisions within a company may develop. Merson explores these different aspects of growth and outlines strategies and tactics to...
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- 27 Nov 2013
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No Bologna, Please
into Panera," he told the HBS Alumni Bulletin in 2004. "As we went through a year-and-a-half of divestitures, our stock sank to a split-adjusted $3 a share. Those were not...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Pamela Thomas Graham
strikingly different than it was five years - or even one year - ago. "During the '90s, CNBC was the voice of the bull market," she observes. "When I took the reins here in July, we were in a much View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
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The Value of Valleys
So the experience in a lot of ways was really great. I thought as far as a professional setback goes, I think at the time I was hoping it would be the launch pad to a very...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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The Simplest Taste
After combining two names, one from each side of his family, Stanley Marcus (MBA '27) went on to make "Neiman Marcus" a household name. It was a pairing that would prove as...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)
search, digital, print, radio, and television that I would have used for Guinness or Captain Morgan when I was at Diageo. The only real difference between the Postal Service and any of the other brands I’ve worked on is that we are...
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Julia Hanna
- 10 Feb 2014
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King of His Castle
APPLING George Appling (MBA 1998) has become king of his castle. The Texas native turned an "enduring passion" for Renaissance fairs into a successful business owning one. "What sets our fair apart is that we didn't build it to View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
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Taylor R. M. Keen
master," he says admiringly. After college, Keen served as a management trainee for Bath Iron Works, the Maine shipbuilding firm. Guided by the Native American philosophy that "any decision you make should...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso