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- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
study about Specialisterne, an organization that was introducing people with autism spectrum disorders into the labor force. “I started thinking, why not let HPE and our clients benefit from these talented people as well?” Fieldhouse says. “We were potentially View Details
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
wake up to find oneself deeply enmeshed in a large company, a parent or a dog owner, or the proprietor of a stately home in a suspiciously green and leafy neighborhood. But we have followed our own paths to this latest milestone, and odds...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
emotional difficulty of attending the faraway university, Ranadivé persevered, and in 1975 he arrived in Cambridge with fifty dollars in his pocket. He credits his parents for their support of his plans. "My family comes from a tradition...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
Traill’s story about leaving Macquarie Bank “to become the founding CEO of Social Ventures Australia, a nonprofit that provides evidence-based funding, investment, and advice to support its cross-sector partners.” The Crown Maple Guide to...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
(MBA 1972) has parlayed a lifelong interest in the field of organizational behavior into two careers. Encouraged by HBS professors Jay Lorsch and Paul Lawrence, Nadler pursued a PhD in the subject at the University of Michigan and taught at Columbia Business School for...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
equity. Firmly established in the business world, in the late 1980s, Tierney set out to find a way to fight poverty in Latin America and Africa. “I had been involved in various efforts since my Peace Corps days, but I knew it was time to get serious,” explains Tierney,...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
complete profile. As Yahoo! president, entrepreneur Sue Decker led the company’s global business operations, including sales, product, product marketing, and distribution. Since leaving Yahoo! in April 2009, she spent the past academic...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
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 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
vanishingly small. “If the people writing the checks are more reflective of the population, the people receiving the checks will become more representative of the population.” —Hayley Barna (MBA 2010), general partner, First Round Capital Today Barna sits on the other...
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- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
given me freedom, but I've had to leave behind my family, friends, and home.'" Undaunted, she enrolled at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, where she earned a master's degree, and later worked as a consultant for three years at Bain. She...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
developed more than sixty cases for the course, Stevenson and Poorvu also began articulation of a conceptual framework still in use today in entrepreneurial management courses. Leaving the School in 1978, Stevenson went on to manage a...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
Global Business Book Award in 1997, and The Innovator’s Solution (2003). His latest book, Seeing What’s Next, will be published this month. Christensen has been active in church and community affairs throughout his career. He and his wife, Christine, are the View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that would ultimately View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
pleased with her dual role as a parent and a key player in getting this particular dot-com off to a running start. "I can't imagine a better place to understand the dynamics of the Internet," she says. "We've built a fairly complex site...
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Julia Hanna
- 27 Mar 2012
- News
One School at a Time
back on a test.” Frock was working as a high-level executive at Corning when she decided to scale back her involvement to spend more time at home with her children, then 7 and 8 years old. After becoming more involved in the local public schools, she and a group of...
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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
discovers a top-secret parenting manual, it’s kids versus grownups in this kooky, illustrated middle-grade thriller with nonstop, seat-of-your-pants action that will delight fans of Jarrett Lerner and Stuart Gibbs. When tween boy FP...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
and experience, hopes and aspirations. Some students arrived two years ago directly from college. A significant number had served in the military. Many brought years of on-the-job experience with private-sector and nonprofit organizations. Whatever their paths to HBS,...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
to rich. One trillion dollars of illicitly generated money leaves developing countries annually through this system: Ten corrupt dollars go out for every one dollar of development assistance that goes in. The resulting poverty,...
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