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- 01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top
corporate officers in Fortune 500 companies are women, such an opportunity is indeed rare for female executives, most of whom have always worked in male-dominated workplaces. "While they're able to perform very well in predominantly male environments," says HBS...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977
commission rates. Strategic planning was the newest and the best management tool. A young HBS professor named Michael Porter was giving fascinating lectures on competitiveness. In those days before the kinder and gentler CEO came into...
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Desmond Wong
- 01 Dec 2007
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A View from the Top
The Alumni Achievement Award is the School’s highest honor, first established in 1968 and bestowed upon only a handful of HBS graduates each year. That distinction, however, didn’t protect this year’s five winners from some tough questioning by HBS View Details
- 13 Mar 2015
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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow
- 09 Jan 2023
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The Pursuit of Profit with Purpose Requires Patience
- 01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
diagnose the problem and treat it. The rescue bill calls for the government to auction banks’ distressed mortgage assets to “try to restore the price discovery process so we can figure out what these things are actually worth.” Light...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
real-world problems." Roth, the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration, is currently on leave of absence from Harvard and HBS and is teaching at Stanford University, whose faculty he...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Downtime
books? Outside of Shakespeare’s plays and the King James Bible, I would say George Eliot’s Middlemarch. I’ve read it twenty times now. Rohit Deshpandé is the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing and a...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Book Review: The Old West
disruptive ideas are likely to fail." —Mark Hurst and Phil Terry (MBA 1998) in Customers Included: How to Transform Products, Companies, and the World—with a Single Step What I'm Reading Photo courtesy of Bill Dunaway "He had a profound...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Oct 2000
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MBA Cohorts Will Merge Next Year
After a scheduled review of the five-year-old practice of admitting both September and January cohorts of each MBA class, the School has decided to admit all new MBA candidates in a single September entry date, beginning with students entering the Class of 2003. In...
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- 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 make money...
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- 19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire
Authentic Leadership course, that Foster met Bill George, who's taught leadership at the School since 2004 and is now an executive fellow. Foster describes the experience of meeting George and reading his...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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African-American Alumni Conference Considers Success and the Bottom Line
entrepreneurial finance professor at Northwestern's Kellogg School. In view of this year's conference theme, HBSAAAA president Kenneth A. Powell (MBA '74) notes that Chicago was chosen "in part because of its history as a primary...
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Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
on people. After all, according to Bill Elfers, one of the firm's founding partners, "The principal reason for accomplishment is dedicated and competent management." Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Howard E. Cox, Jr., MBA...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Principles Guide You by Bill Barnett (MBA 1971) (Stanford Business Books) Barnett approaches the construction of a long-term career plan by looking at the main challenges professionals will face: developing and reaching long-term targets,...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Screen Saver
Born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico, Gerardo "Gerry" Lopez fondly recalls the first movie he saw in the United States, in 1977: Star Wars. "Wow, the special effects and flying through space—it was great!" says Lopez (MBA 1984), summarizing his reaction as a...
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- 06 Jun 2017
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Will Business Fill the Paris Void?
- 26 Oct 2020
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A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
in partnership with HBS Alumni Programs, the HBS Business and Environment Initiative (BEI), and the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), the virtual event was held on two different dates to accommodate a combined global audience of close to 1,400 alumni. HBS View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Eduardo Recife Professor Nancy Koehn uses the perspective of time to tell the stories of ordinary people who, despite the odds, achieved extraordinary things. As these moments from her new book,...
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