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- 10 Mar 2021
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Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
company. “There’s a large, addressable market for sales engagement software that modernizes the workflow of customer-facing reps,” she says. “And with intelligent data in our solution, you have the potential for a winner-takes-all outcome.” Medina has grand View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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Empowering women to lead
women come to my class wanting to be leaders, but feeling like maybe they don't have what it takes. I try to get them to affirm their ambitions and understand that leadership is within their grasp," she says. Hood's approach served her...
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- 07 May 2018
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What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
want to travel to all 54 countries in Africa? What was the sort of motivation for this undertaking? Tapon: I had never been to Africa before, and I had this grand ambition to visit all the countries in the world. There's 193 countries....
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- 15 Nov 2011
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750 World Wonders and counting
my briefcase in one hand and my camera in the other,” he recalls. “After I did the AMP program, my ambitions really came to the fore. It was a watershed time for building confidence and creating big ideas for the future.” For Main Wilson,...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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The Campaign for Harvard Business School
we need to help them focus on their ambitions and aspirations rather than on the repayment of heavy debt.” Campaign Regional Events Once again this year, HBS will be hosting events throughout the country to showcase the School’s...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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In Brief
professional stories embody all that make HBS such an enriching community. Their ambition and integrity hint at the contributions these remarkable young people will make as the School’s newest alumni. Mission Possible. In social...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Books
interested in running a business -- either experienced managers or students -- will benefit from understanding these new concepts and approaches to implementing strategy." The Arc of Ambition by James Champy and Nitin Nohria (Perseus...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
ambition and applied to HBS. “I was almost 30 when I realized that there were people called ‘entrepreneurs’ who get paid to start new things,” says Gardner of what inspired him to earn an MBA. “It sounded like the coolest thing in the...
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Susan Young
- 21 Sep 2015
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Helping Japan Build a Strong Economic Future
1980s, a time when Asian nations began integrating among themselves through trade and investment. In her current role as director-general of Japan’s Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, Munakata’s portfolio includes development assistance, trade insurance, and export...
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- 27 Jun 2016
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Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
the company since 1922. A piece in Fortune notes that the appointment “could trigger a series of acquisitions by the Swiss food giant to further its ambitions in nutrition and medical foods.” Schneider comes to the foodmaker from...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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A Binary Formula
530,000-square-foot Allston Science Complex — four multistory buildings, due for completion in 2011 — the centerpiece of the initial phase of Harvard’s 300-acre development on the Boston side of the Charles River. Both in the scale and scope of Harvard’s View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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Breaking Free from Fear of Change
research on high-need-for-achievement professionals — people with an insatiable need to keep achieving at all costs — DeLong took stock of the ways in which he and other driven executives can become victims of their own ambitions and...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas
2012 HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Selected from a competitive process that attracted 19 applicants, Jena will receive a $25,000 grant from HBS to advance his work. Trained as a biomedical engineer, Jena says his ambition is “to...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
and develop leadership and ambition for a career by practicing real science in an inspiring natural environment. Evaluations to date show that students who complete Connections modules have a better grasp of academic principles; and...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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The Hard Way
the right questions and how to process the answers. I acquired a thirst for knowledge and an instinct for reading human nature. And I developed a driving ambition to build something that would give me and my family financial...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
afterwards,” she says, “that sacrificing personal ambition and achievement for the good of the group is something leaders must be prepared to do.” Ehrenberg met her husband, John Wong, a surgeon of Chinese-Australian heritage, in Hong...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Going Against the Flow
bullish on Brazil as a place for foreign companies to set up shop. "Brazil is one of the world's biggest domestic markets," he says. "If you're a company with global ambitions and are seeking global economies of scale, you must be in...
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Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
What’s Next for You?
managing people who are motivated by passion and commitment, not ambition or money. It’s an environment that can be hugely rewarding, but you need to be prepared to do your own typing.” — Deborah Blagg Visit the Alumni Career Services Web...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Innovation Takes Center Stage
activities and help them to translate knowing into doing and develop a deeper sense of their purpose as leaders. “We need to take the wide range of pedagogical experiments our faculty have been piloting up a notch,” said Nohria. 2. Intellectual View Details
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Roger Thompson
- 11 May 2011
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In a Good Place
raised an estimated $7 million over the years for the five schools in its immediate area. No, Gehrke didn’t describe a burning ambition to run a flea market in her HBS admissions essay. “The path you start out on is certainly not always...
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