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- 29 Jan 2021
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Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985) was an analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston. Among her investments was Albertsons, a rapidly expanding...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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The Path out of Polarization
true, which sounds a lot like the moment through which we’re living, but they managed to get there without Twitter and Facebook and YouTube. I do have a certain kind of hope for generational change in two ways. Enough mayhem was created...
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- 06 May 2019
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Startup Talk in Chicago
Entrepreneurship Council within the club in 2006, and has led a dedicated team of alumni in developing a robust network connecting entrepreneurs with mentors, investors, and industry leaders. “The Distinguished Speaker Series has brought...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Where Are They Now?
Merchant When Ken Merchant arrived to begin teaching at HBS in 1978, he knew there was no other place he wanted to be. “At the time, HBS was the Mecca for the subject area about which I wanted to do research — management control systems,”...
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- 29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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What I Do: Philippe Hellich (MBA 1996)
colleagues to become risk-aware entrepreneurs.” “To support the business, I have a team of 45 direct reports leading 1,200 people around the world who work to identify and mitigate risks throughout the organization. We work across nine...
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- 25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
prof always managed to call on a student from the country involved, we figured that our French sectionmate was bound to weigh in at some point. In preparation, we tape-recorded a brief version of the Marseillaise and handed out miniature...
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- 26 Jan 2016
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The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
She shared the same germy fears and so we teamed up to launch Spruce & Co—our consumer goods startup focused on simple products for everyday healthy routines.” What have been some of the most enjoyable and most challenging parts of...
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- 26 May 2022
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Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
combination of technology, psychology, and human coaching, Noom is backed by more than a decade of user research and product development. Its platform includes two core programs: Noom Weight for weight management and Noom Mood for stress...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
the insistence of the venture capital community, former Intel executive Mike Markkula joined the team. “So in that way,” Sahlman continues, “it’s different from real estate. It’s about, how do I create experiments that reveal to me, and to people outside the View Details
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward
clinics.” That month-long assignment ultimately evolved into the full-time role she has today. In her capacity as director of continuous improvement, Leger works with salauno’s management team to determine...
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Jennifer Myers
- 18 Nov 2020
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Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
worldwide, the two-day event opened with a special interactive presentation by HBS professors Joseph Fuller and William Kerr called The Future of Work—And Managing the Impact of COVID-19. Fuller and Kerr serve as co-directors of the...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
with the office's January inauguration. By bringing together nearly sixty business and management academics and about twenty CEOs and managers from across Asia, the forum provided an opportunity for HBS...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Feb 2001
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Books
the world as an economic miracle driven by better approaches to management and a seemingly superior form of capitalism. As HBS professor Michael Porter and his coauthors Hirotaka Takeuchi and Mariko Sakakibara state in their new book,...
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- 30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been...
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- 22 Sep 2020
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Balancing Act
In a snapshot of the PresenceLearning leadership taken this spring, CEO Kate Eberle Walker (MBA 2005) stands, smiling, just right of center. She’s flanked by three other women and four men—the gender-balanced executive team she had been...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
success put them in a group even more exclusive than the approximately 7,000 companies worldwide that received a venture investment in 2010. Birchbox was among the just 823 companies—11.8 percent—that had at least one woman founder. The number with a woman of color on...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
teams are supplementing the traditional study groups which, the School felt, too often consisted of like-minded students with similar life and professional experiences. “We’re taking advantage of our fantastic student body to enrich the...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
proven approach to analyzing and solving challenges and provides a common language anyone can understand. Teams That Work: The Six Characteristics of High Performing Teams by Cliff Chirls (MBA 1979), George...
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- 08 Apr 2021
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Real Talk
Standard Bank, the largest bank in South Africa with a conservative culture of white Afrikaner managers. The management team had already been through this with another consultant, and they had walked out on...
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