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- 01 Jun 2004
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Teaching and Learning Center Established, Honors Christensen’s Legacy
will also help faculty in their efforts to develop case-writing skills and design new courses. As part of its capital campaign, the School is in the process of building an endowment for the center. A number of important gifts have been received, and the center is well...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
launched two years ago. The original intent of the research project was to begin to collect data that would contribute to a “canon of business leadership” — a compendium of business leaders who have defined the way we live, work, and...
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- 10 Dec 2010
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Notes from the Trenches
Executive Director Mike Roberts, the lineup lost no time in getting down to brass tacks with the SRO student crowd of would-be entrepreneurs. Paris Wallace (MBA ’07) of Good Start Genetics noted that the BPC is an effective way to meet...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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A Janus-Faced Reflection
way of mirroring what's going on among graduates. It seems unlikely that we will just walk away from the new economy, which many in the class helped create. As Dave Frost wrote in a 1998 class note, "Have you noticed how many of us are...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
parenting popular in the United States and Europe. She also offers a few clever tips, such as how Russian babies are potty trained well before the age of two, and how Russian mothers easily get their young children to eat healthy,...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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A Chapter in US–China Trade Relations
foreigners were allowed to live and to do business with the Chinese. (Peabody Essex Museum) The old Shanghai customshouse, ca. 1869. It was demolished in 1925 to make way for the current customshouse. (Harvard-Yenching Library) A bill of...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method
team would generate options for implementation and then define what would need to be true for each option to prevail. Through identification of barriers and tests to see how they might be overcome, the team determines which strategy is most likely to succeed. In...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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A Man without a Pause
locales with his family. So it was jarring to read a third of the way through his recent autobiography, A Global Life (PublicAffairs), that Wolfensohn was in despair on his 40th birthday. “I used my birthdays to reflect on my life, and at...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Committed To HBS’s Success
who participate in them. “The School faces tough competitors,” says Tukman, president of Tukman Grossman Capital Management Inc. “Great as it is, HBS is only as good as its faculty and its students. If one wishes to help ensure the School’s ongoing success, what better...
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- 23 Feb 2015
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Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
figures of Dominican bachata. “I loved Latin music. I loved Cuban music especially, but I had never heard traditional Dominican music,” recalls de Menil, whose own background is French and American. “When I heard the way that Edilio...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
from outside the United States last year, proving the company’s standing as a truly global entity. And Immelt has made it a priority to ensure that the ranks of upper management reflect this new reality. “The View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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Alumni Books
transplant, or a joint replacement in the United States, here's the key to getting the very best medical care: be a straight, white, middle-class male. White, a pioneering black surgeon, and his coauthor make sense of the unconscious bias...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Running faster to compete
his own wells to cool machinery. “The way you compete is to run faster, so that’s what we’re doing,” Knott said. (Published April 2014; updated August 2018)
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Global Outreach Program Planned for HBS Centennial
of nonprofit managers to HBS Executive Education programs. “Social enterprise is one of the common threads that connect HBS alumni clubs, regardless of size or geographic location,” notes Goff. “The Global Outreach Program provides a unique opportunity for alumni to...
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- 05 Jan 2022
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Untapped Potential
there for the water sector,” he says. Ferguson understands why investment in the sector has been slower to develop. “Very few people understand water, because it is an esoteric market,” he explains. Consider the desegregated water sector in the View Details
- 25 Mar 2018
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Modernizing Infrastructure Management
there's been 45 major fire hydrant recalls the United States. Only half of those have actually been addressed and fixed. “The reason why the other half haven't been fixed is because cities don't know where their fire hydrants are. Our...
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- 15 Jan 2015
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Asia Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Campaign is about more than raising money,” he noted. “It provides an opportunity to inspire and engage the next generation of leaders at the School—to better connect alumni with each other and with HBS in powerful ways as a School, as a...
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- 19 Aug 2013
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Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
black rights offers a firsthand view of the debates, boycotts, marches, and negotiations that would change the face of race relations in Chicago and the United States at large. Think Inside the Box: Discover the Exceptional Business...
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- 17 Nov 2016
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Wired for Innovation
challenges. In his latest role, as founder and president of Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners, he hopes to push the United States closer to what he considers an attainable national goal: a 30 percent reliance on renewable energy....
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