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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
photography by Susan Young See full profiles and more photographs here. In August, five HBS alumni returned to campus to accept the School's highest honor. This year's award recipients have contributed significantly to their companies and...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
15 moratorium that shut down universities across the country to protest the Vietnam War. That demonstration brought Harvard University economist John Kenneth Galbraith to the HBS campus for a speech against the war, followed by a...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Advance Racial Equity in the Office
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong Can you name a handful of measurable initiatives that your organization is actively pursuing to address racial inequities? If not,...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction
Class of '99 Profile Number of applicants 7,467 Total size of class 880 September cohort 560 January cohort 320 Median age 26 Women 30% Minorities 17% International 26% Married 20% Have children 4% Undergraduate Majors Engineering and...
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- 28 Mar 2016
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Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
Photography by Benjamin Parks/GPA Business and art can both be viewed as aspirational activities. Business aims to improve people’s circumstances. Art, on the other hand, tries for something less tangible by...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
1998, and he decided to live his dream. He cofounded and then bought majority control of an independent minor league baseball team. At Swarthmore, I was captain of the baseball team and wanted nothing more in life than to play baseball...
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- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture
opportunities to leverage technology to help people experience their healthcare in a better way. Driven by her own personal health experiences in where she constantly used a guess and check methodology to improve her health, she sought to...
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Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade
gardens, and aviaries. The good life enjoyed by American traders became possible through cheap Chinese labor and servants, who usually lived in the poor districts bordering on the wealthy areas. The politics of empire and imperialism...
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Paul Lenehan
In high school, Paul Lenehan was impressed by the way economics "explained events behind the news. It gave me a lens for understanding how the world works." An attraction to business plans led to an interest in consulting....
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Julio Cedeno
"And I realized that advancing at Chevron would mean even more long-distance." Julio continued exploring his options by participating in Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a nonprofit that helps underrepresented View Details
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Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
exceed analyst expectations. Businesses do not grow that way. If they’re managed well, they grow incrementally, with minor setbacks. The model that we have come to rely on — that companies’ earnings grow smoothly — is just not right. Do...
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Corporate Services
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
with me. They wanted some advice on setting up a small business that they were doing. These women were all widows and rape survivors from the war. Their children had been abducted, they had been raped by soldiers, their husbands had been...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
selected professional managers to run them, and given them more financial autonomy, which has reduced many agency problems commonly faced by SOEs, but not the temptation for governments to intervene in the operation of large strategic...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
Beginning in late January, the School's student clubs host a series of annual conferences that explore a wide variety of specialized business issues. Organized and staffed by hundreds of hardworking HBS student volunteers, the conferences...
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Harvard Business School
self–determined, moral act in organizing ourselves to address such societal issues of racism, poverty, neglect, exclusion and tokenism," AASU co–founder A. Leroy Willis (MBA '69) wrote. 21 In December 1969, AASU students voiced their concerns about the hiring of View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
Illustration by Jon Krause Eric Gastfriend (MBA 2015) had watched friends and family members struggle with addiction. He’d seen some of them go to treatment, and he’d seen many of them relapse. He didn’t understand why the field of...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
in the growth of retail medical centers, too. If they are conveniently located, people will take care of minor medical issues, such as an ache, or a mole that might be cancerous. Most people also prefer them to hospitals overwhelmed with...
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April White
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Board Diversity: Pressure Leads to Action - Blog: RGE Report
the process into the open and hold boards more accountable for who serves on them. This period of transition may mark the beginning of a new era that’s defined by accountability and inclusivity in the highest levels of authority. Colleen...
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- 15 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5
I’m angry. I’m angry about more things than I care to list, but with the hope that this may land with some of you, I’ll try. I’d like to start this letter with an example. This e-mail was sent by “Schultz.staffel” (Schultz.staffel = SS,...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy...
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Jen McFarland Flint