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- 01 Jun 2015
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In My Humble Opinion: Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999)
When Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999) returned home to India after graduating from Wellesley College in 1988, her father suggested she try working at one of the family holding company’s three hotels. Two years later, when her father died...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2001
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The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
The first in a series of occasional articles on HBS graduates who have taken a leave from their careers to explore personally enriching projects off the beaten track. For some busy executives, spending quality time with the family means dinner at View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 31 Mar 2011
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Building an Online Swap Shop
labels and schedules home pickups. The Times called thredUP an example of how “shopping is changing in the wake of the Great Recession,” with Americans burnt out by their decades-long spending spree. In a phone interview in early January,...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
Video Embed Eight months after the levees broke, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra returned to New Orleans to play a concert. They weren’t home yet, though. Their usual venue, the 87-year-old Orpheum Theater downtown, was in ruins,...
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- 25 Mar 2015
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The Greening of Houston
which has helped transform 160 acres of land around the Houston Ship Channel into an expansive green space, with hiking and biking trails, a bat sanctuary, a skate park, and an amphitheater that is home to the city’s Fourth of July...
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- 21 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Evelyne White (MBA 2010)
in my kitchen, it's great to have more space in a great location where the team can collaborate. Other milestones include taking home the runner-up prize at HBS's New Venture Competition in 2013 and closing our first seed round in...
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- 20 Nov 2019
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From the Ground Up
children would come to school, but not have lunches with them, so they wouldn't have proper nutrition during school. They were often just embarrassed to come to school. And school supplies––in addition to being required to have a uniform, View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
a Work Lyft with 5G wireless connectivity and swivel desks, allowing you to do conference calls. Others might be optimized for entertainment or even meditation. Recently my home state revoked my privilege to...
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- 27 Apr 2017
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Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation
says: “My first act was all about GE, where I worked for 30 years, and my family. My second act is about the next generation. Fellowships are a great way of giving back, helping students, and supporting the industries you love.” Liu...
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- 13 Jul 2011
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China Boot Camp
organized by C.B. Sung (MBA ’50), a Chinese native who, upon graduation, found himself unable to go home after his country’s fall to Communist forces in 1949. With the gradual opening of China, Sung, a career executive at Motorola, made...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
(Baldini & Castoldi) Forchielli offers sardonic advice to Italians, as seen in the book’s blurb in the Italian Amazon: If you are young, quick, just emigrate. Read a lot, especially the foreign press. If you...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over
As it happened, many of the young men and women returning home from war were in complete agreement with Slichter. By one measure - a series of Air Force outprocessing interviews conducted in 1945 - the number of veterans intending to join...
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- 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,...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Join in the Centennial
You don’t have to be on campus to tap into HBS Centennial events. The School’s yearlong celebration now has a Web home — www.hbs.edu/centennial/. The site gives the Centennial 21st-century global reach...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Dot-Mom
of Mrs. Mom. She has written a self-help book based on her own transitional experience called Chapters: Create a Life of Exhilaration and Accomplishment in the Face of Change. Olson is well aware that her embrace of home and hearth may...
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- 11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code
you know, at the most basic level, what we've built is an application process that works on a mobile phone and takes eight minutes to complete, and it helps people stay enrolled by sending them a text message as opposed to sending a...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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In My Humble Opinion: Ian Calhoun (MBA 2010)
Administration and Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Calhoun currently is co-owner and general manager of 80 Thoreau, a contemporary American fine-dining restaurant in Concord, Massachusetts. "Restaurants are a mix of art and science," he says of the notoriously risky business....
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom
professional note, people will tell you what products, services, and goals are important to them; you just have to constantly, tirelessly listen to them.” Sunday night, we say goodbye to our host village...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Booting Up
cater properly to larger-footed women. One day a shoe manufacturer finally said to me, 'Why don't you do something about that?'" Intrigued by the challenge, Thornton interviewed shoe retailers and manufacturers and even took a $6-an-hour...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2013
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A Mission in Motion
"bridge" year of service learning and leadership training in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Related Links Sizing Up Social Impact A Healthy Profit Making Change Bringing It Back Home Opening the Door Change begins in the classroom, too,...
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