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- 01 Jun 2017
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Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
be part of GE just as it’s relocating its headquarters to Boston.” Graham Fairbairn (MBA 2018) Hometown: Sydney, Australia Destination: General Mills, Minneapolis “I come from a consumer packaged goods background and have had the...
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Julia Hanna
- 25 Feb 2020
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The Past Informs the Future of Work
changes in corporate culture needed to embrace innovation, and management of its 100,000-plus workforce, from retraining or relocating workers, to using AI to find candidates for newly created technology jobs. Balanced against these...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future
memory of war on one's home soil. We know how tragic history can be, and we understand the fragility of society." A native of France who relocated to New York last summer, Hannezo recalled John F. Kennedy's famous declaration, "Ich bin...
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- 19 May 2020
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Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
forum since it was first launched in 2011. She relocated to Buffalo a few years ago, but stuck with her forum by participating remotely if she couldn’t get to Boston in person. “Given how our lives and identities are shaped so much by our...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2011
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Two Kinds of Green
when single mom Roxanne Quimby met Burt Shavitz, a bearded beekeeper living in a renovated turkey coop in rural Maine. The pair teamed up to sell beeswax candles at craft fairs before branching out into a few personal care products, including its (still) best-selling...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
entrepreneur Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) concerning her qualitative research on the American electorate. In late September, the HBS Association of Boston hosted a fireside chat with General Electric’s Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) and HBS professor emeritus Ben Shapiro. Immelt,...
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- 12 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
Bollywood to the masses. In California, Mayuri was teaching a wildly popular Bollywood fitness class at UC Berkeley, packing the school gym with 150 students every class. I had a gut feeling that we were the right team sitting on a potentially incredible opportunity....
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Case Study: Let’s Dance
partnerships such as with dance studios to jump-start her user base in the new markets. Second, she may want to recruit full- or part-time individuals with relevant networks in the new markets to support the expansions. Third, she could have one of her team members (or...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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John Read
first nine months of his tenure commuting from Minneapolis to Outward Bound’s Garrison, New York, headquarters, Read and his wife finally relocated to that scenic community in January. He now spends about half of his time fundraising,...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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They Call Him Mr. China
management gap he both anticipated and greatly underestimated. Against all odds, and the advice of many, Perkowski ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to chase his entrepreneurial dreams. A...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology
You've just been asked to relocate from New York City to work on your firm's new operation in Singapore. You have less than a month before the assignment starts, and part of your job will be to acquire suitable permanent office space. In...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Baker’s back
trickiest aspects of the project, allowed workers to relocate the stacks underground. This move made it possible to open up the main floor, add a new entrance, and increase capacity by about 41,000 square feet for office and gathering...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
dual-career families face when one spouse relocates and the other also has to find a new job.” Temporary work visa programs, with relatively low barriers to entry—in countries ranging from Estonia to Indonesia to Portugal, for example—are...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Road Work
restaurants in the Los Angeles area. But after 25 years, the business went bust, and she relocated the family to her native Mexico when the Salas brothers were 12 years old. It’s a fitting origin story for Camino Financial, an online...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
revisit the paradigm of what work is about, as well as expectations in terms of hours, offsite work, career paths, and the ability to relocate geographically. Speaking of demographics, why is global talent access and utilization a key...
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- 27 Oct 2017
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The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
from MBA class, 2002. So after I graduated from 2002, then I stayed in Boston for a year, working here. Then my husband graduated from 2003. So when he graduated, he found a job with United Health Care in Minneapolis. And I said, OK, so we're View Details
- 18 May 2011
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U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
going to scale back in the U.S. to keep their options open by continuing to operate a plant in America,” he noted. But the damage done by offshoring high-tech manufacturing may be irreversible, he warned. Once factories relocate abroad,...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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She’s Got Your Back
Bill Corbin (MBA 1968). After relocating to Columbus, Ohio, Oesterle bought another old house and ran into the same problem. In 1995 he convinced Hicks (who had worked for him as a college intern) to move to Columbus to start their own...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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The Spangler Effect
have more requests for meeting rooms and the auditorium than we can possibly accommodate.” Not on the approved list of uses, despite frequent inquiries, are weddings, funerals, and bar mitzvahs, she adds. “Spangler is a very special place,” says Steve Nelson. “It View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
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Analyzing Homelessness
his company relocated to a site near a shelter and soup kitchen on the city’s west side, where many Cicero employees volunteer or work pro bono on strategy development. He finds cause for optimism in his work with city and state task...
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