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- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
smile talks about her experience tutoring a single mother on welfare as a volunteer in Boston City Hospital's Adult Literacy Program. "This woman was smart, motivated, and capable," recalls Hubert, who met with her student twice a week,...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2001
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Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
Graduating magna cum laude in 1996, Akinola was accepted at HBS but deferred admission while she returned to Africa, this time to the city of Accra, Ghana. “In Benin, we had talked about the possibility of reaching street kids in their...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Orleans had been breached? Our employees had evacuated New Orleans, as they had in advance of previous storms. I left my home with only three changes of clothes. And when I heard that the city was filling with water, I thought, “OK,...
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- 11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code
What are some similarities and differences between local government and between the tech sector that we can really leverage to learn more about government services, and how to provide them more efficiently? Ingersoll: A lot of times what we see in View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
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The Winning Season
and office space. “It’s our lake view,” jokes DeWitt’s eldest son, William III (MBA ’95), the Cardinals’ senior vice president of business development. “But we won’t have it for long.” He adds that an agreement in principle for the project was reached with the View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
1,000 people in 180 cities around the world. In this episode of Skydeck, Associate Editor Jen Flint talks to two of Cloudflare’s founders, Michelle Zatlyn (MBA 2009) and Matthew Prince (MBA 2009), about how the business began 10 years ago...
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- 18 Jul 2014
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Team Players
city or region wins the rights to host a Super Bowl, it is required to form a host committee, Blumkin explains. "The NFL controls the game and all surrounding events. Our responsibility was to welcome guests into the region, help people...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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One-on-One with Edwin Reed
committed to finding solutions that enable current residents to live and prosper here. What’s ahead for Allen and for you? We will continue to implement our strategic plan in this area, but more of my time will be allocated to taking the Allen model of faith-based...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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All in a Day's Work
on the third floor of Palladio Hall, a handsomely renovated Renaissance-style building located in the inner-city neighborhood of Roxbury. Mardie Oakes sits in a cubicle near high windows that let in the noise of sirens and city buses...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
20,000 SIM cards at an average of $100 each. (Roshan was second to enter the market after Afghan Wireless; it now has four providers nipping at its heels in a highly competitive market.) Today, the company connects all of Afghanistan’s major View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.
City and San Francisco, the School has a number of other efforts related to women and work. Women Leading Business: An Executive Forum -an Executive Education program designed for influential business executives that gives participants a...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good
days as a city councilman. Menino was surprised, one day in the early 1980s, to receive an invitation to lunch at Harvard Business School with someone named Dean McArthur, in a building called the Dean’s House. He was also surprised to...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
What New York City attraction brings in more tourists each year than the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty? Why, it's FAO Schwarz, the famous toy store, of course. It's not hard to understand the draw. The flagship emporium...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 23 Jul 2013
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Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
high school alma mater, Portsmouth Abbey in Rhode Island, he accepted the post of assistant principal. Then, during Klemmer's four-year tenure at Portsmouth Abbey, a visit to a charter school in a tough New York City neighborhood further...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
differences and beckons all who dare to envision lives unshackled by present realities. Steel City: A Story of Pittsburgh By William J. Miller, Jr. (PMD 56, 1988) Lyons Press Steel City is the story of the 1890s golden age of Pittsburgh,...
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- 19 May 2021
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Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
time zones, the event was held in the morning in the U.S., giving alumni in London and India a chance to join later in their day. “The format was speed-networking, where seven HBS alumni met every seven minutes with alumni from seven View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 1998
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Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
Theatre, first starring Eli Wallach and now Hal Linden. After successful runs this year in Johannesburg and Stuttgart, the play will open within a year in eight other cities around the globe. The play draws on Baron's real-life...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2020
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Lesson Plans
Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin Last summer, HBS Online asked the market research firm City Square Associates to poll 1,000...
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Jen Mele
- 01 Oct 1997
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Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
environment, however, was not familiar to the typical MBA. Based in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha, Lu spent half of her time in an office on a street she shared with roving chickens and cows and the other half traveling to field...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
fifteen students devoted considerable effort to ensuring that conference speakers and panelists represented the region's diversity. “There's a tendency to think of Latin America as one big pie, when in fact it's made up of many slices,” he said, noting that speakers...
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