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- 04 Feb 2020
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In Harmony
to go to a good college (Carleton); you get a good job (General Mills); you go to a great MBA program (HBS); you take the highest-paying job you can get in the ‘hot’ field (consulting). That was the first time I actually thought about...
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Maureen Harmon
- 13 Jul 2017
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Making Friends with Mother Nature
the boards of Sarah Lawrence College (his late wife, Mary Lawrence Clifford, was Sarah Lawrence’s great-great-granddaughter) and the American Museum of Natural History, where, as a member of the Executive Committee and cochairman of the...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2009
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Up on the Green Roof
green roof at Simmons College in Boston shows what the Shad roof will look like by the summer of 2011. Photograph courtesy Apex Green Roofs In Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Japan, laws require green roofs on buildings with roofs of...
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- 04 Nov 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
sense here that, if there is a problem, you don’t just complain and wait for government to step in,” he continues. “It’s on your conscience to solve it. That’s something we want our children to embrace. One of our daughters is in college...
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Deborah Blagg
- 16 Jul 2013
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Embracing Chaos
Cummins, he helped establish India's first college of engineering for women, and at Microsoft, he helped create a computer literacy program that has trained 35 million children and nearly a million teachers in India to use computers. He's...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Andrea Silbert
Harvard College freshman when she got a job working for the catering arm of Harvard Student Agencies. “I absolutely loved it,” she recalls. “It was a fantastic experience that helped me realize how much I enjoy working hard.” By her...
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- 19 Jun 2017
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How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
is a big misconception a lot of people have. People assume that because, the United States, we have high school, college basketball, then it leads to the pros, that the same system is in effect pretty much throughout the world. Well,...
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- 13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
shared interests.” In time, those interests included raising the couple’s two daughters, who are now college graduates. “There’s nothing more motivating to me than doing right by my wife and daughters,” he affirms. At HBS, Blum says he...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2004
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American Dream
your gun. You have to run your rabbits down and choke ’em to death.’” After proving himself, Hustead became “choker,” then “old chokey.” He eventually took a one-year sabbatical from the oil fields to return to college and graduated from...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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The Prophet of Start-Ups
impeccably turned out in a suit and tie, he required all of his students in his class at HBS to dress accordingly. “Sport coats are for newspaper boys and college boys,” he would chide his pupils. The more I researched Doriot’s life, my...
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- 24 Aug 2017
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Unlocking Potential
prison. Studies by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics show that nearly seven out of 10 former inmates reoffend and return to prison within three years. The Reset Foundation tries to break that cycle by diverting people from the penal system to an educational setting...
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
Jennings was reduced to ending the show by acknowledging “our new computer overlords.” At IBM, the mood was euphoric, but Ferrucci had always had an ulterior motive for developing Watson. “I actually was pre-med in college and aspiring to...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
preferred me to be more academic—which was a long shot.” Continental drift: “After college I taught physical education at a school in Oxford, and some Rhodes Scholars who lived in my building encouraged me to go to the United States. I...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
hippie just out of college, borrowed $5,000 to open a photocopy shop near the University of California, Santa Barbara, campus. He called it "Kinko's" after the nickname given to him by his college buddies because of his curly, reddish...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, Harvard’s MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, and the Harvard College Technology Innovation Fellows HBS introduced into the curriculum the Startup Bootcamp to give students the opportunity to...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk
responsibility in enhancing US competitiveness. When businesses build partnerships with community colleges to train workers, they are enhancing American competitiveness and improving the business environment. When a number of businesses...
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- 22 Feb 2018
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My First Job
School. And I guess I was in the wrong place. Bruce Lockenhauer, 1987, section F. My first job out of college was being a sales rep for IBM, and they taught me a lot. I came in as an Econ major. They taught me about business. The most...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
exercises, and practices that have helped managers gain the skills, courage, and confidence to lead. College Sports Traditions: Picking Up Butch, Silent Night, and Hundreds of Others by Stan Beck (PMD 64, 1992) and Jack Wilkinson...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest
20-year-old college senior with a blond cowlick, he was ready to climb the mountain. The sky was cloudless and the temperatures near zero as Moore and his friend Lewis Thorne skied through the heavy forest. At the tree line, they...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Lighten Up
attorney, put up seed money and became a silent partner. (Jardine is no longer involved in the company; his ideals soon clashed with the realities of a commercial venture.) Soon after, Coup and Kim moved to Boulder, the laid-back college...
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