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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
management tools for the city. He stayed on as an advisor to Menino, rebuilding the city’s 24-hour hotline and exploring how mobile apps could be utilized to make reporting issues more convenient for residents. In 2010, Osgood and Nigel...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
for hospitals in Pune and elsewhere. Dr. Natarajan’s Lighthouse Communities Foundation also “set up citizen help lines, organized food supplies for the needy, and collected money from all over the world to equip a new government COVID...
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- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
telecom provider. “I helped redesign the strategy for M-Paisa, the country’s first mobile money mechanism,” Keshavjee told the Harbus. “Given that 97 percent of Afghanistan’s population is unbanked, M-Paisa...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Open Market
efficiently, accelerating the business model, and building the leadership team.” Howard started at the mobile brokerage company Robinhood in 2019. Tapped to help it scale and manage its operations teams, she is responsible for everything...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Bringing It Back Home
globe for a weeklong intensive education in building strategic perspectives. And intensive it is: Participants address everything from establishing methods of fiscal accountability to assessing organizational performance to mobilizing...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
waited seven to ten years before setting up their own shops, today’s graduates are taking the plunge much sooner. In 1997, the first-ever HBS Business Plan Contest yielded a formidable number of participants and mobilized a strong...
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- 04 Nov 2020
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The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
Fienning, MBA Class of 1970, Section C. Five years after graduation, I was a partner in a mobile-home retailing company in Greensboro, North Carolina. I was a bachelor, living in a mobile home, and trying to create a manufactured housing...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Saving Grace
jobs an average of 11 times in the course of their careers, and beyond the potential to misplace all that paperwork, any number of things can happen before a person reaches retirement age, says Romina Savova (MBA 2012). “The institution managing your View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
physical intimidation, girls who were previously aspiring teachers or doctors become home-based entrepreneurs out of necessity. Kamila’s strength, persistence, and sense of duty to her family are heroically evident as she learns to sew in order to earn View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
have plenty of money in my pocket and healthy maize for my family to eat," Mustapha said then. "My children are already looking healthier—I can barely lift my eight-year-old. He's the fattest in the village." On a continent more likely to...
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- 01 Jan 2012
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Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
four children were old enough to do basic math, Tisch set up a fund for each of them that was to be used for charity. “Rather than spend money on another iPod,” says Charlotte, 17, Tisch’s youngest daughter, “my sister and I support AIDS...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
operators or planners. That's fine, but there is more demand for people who can get results and make money for an organization. Maintain professional involvement if you decide to reduce your work commitments due to family. Keeping up a...
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- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
Alvarez through a six-city tour, with the ultimate goal of finding fame and fortune in Los Angeles. Along the way, as Angel earns money dancing in competitions (and working a side job), users make decisions about budgeting for short- and...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects
fundraisers for relief operations, or offering free goods and services, there are countless instances of HBS graduates who mobilized to help. Henry M. ("Hank") Paulson, Jr. (MBA '70), chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, was one of the...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 28 Apr 2016
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New Venture Competition Winners Announced
audience who would be voting for the $2,000 “crowd favorite” prize at the School’s annual New Venture Competition Finale. “We’re building a telemedicine app for Africa . Half of all outpatient visits can be conducted over a mobile...
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- 21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
of BlackBerry’s problems were sown well before Heins took on the CEO role. BlackBerry’s system had its roots in a mobile data architecture that came out of paging networks. By developing complimentary software that connected to email...
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- 11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code
fixing the problems? And maybe my answer would have been different 15, 20 years ago, but I think increasingly I believe that the answer is no. There is a groundswell of great people who are working to solve our fundamental problems, and delaying the I'll do something...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Leadership in the Digital Age
the world. Many executives who joined the roundtable hosted by the Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Harvard Center Shanghai discussed the rapid pace of technological advancement and how to respond quickly to customer demand for frictionless View Details
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April White
- 18 Mar 2014
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The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Scott Howe Nineteenth-century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Nearly 150 years later, Scott Howe (MBA 1994), president and CEO...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
Stamford. "The headquarters was a dilapidated, pest-infested building in the heart of the local projects," he recalls. In 1988, O'Neill left the law firm to devote his full-time energy to mobilizing community support for reestablishing...
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Deborah Blagg