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- 01 Jan 2008
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John Doerr, MBA 1976
a dramatic impact on life in the 21st century, from online retail giant Amazon.com to Internet behemoth Google to synthetic biology leader Amyris. Doerr has become a leading advocate of innovation and...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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From Bytes to Bites
restaurants. Things went well, until — as is so often true in the mercurial world of restaurants — they didn’t. Thomas put her expertise in operations and management to work, helping to sort out some View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
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Haven for the Homeless
Harms. He likens the shelter, with a staff of 35 and more than 2,000 volunteers, to a small business: “You’ve got to meet payroll, raise money, all those things other business-people do.” The shelter is in...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Avon CEO Jung on Leadership
Jung Andrea Jung, chairman and CEO of Avon Products, Inc., knows a thing or two about reinvention. After taking over the venerable beauty-products firm in 1999, she helped it shed the last vestiges View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
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See You There
2013). Launched in 2012, Peek "curates and sells travel activities online," employing professional photographers and writers, as well as postings from celebrities, to supply content about a wide range of View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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Where Are They Now?
counts,” says Zaleznik, the School’s Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus. “I tried to impart that in the courses I taught and in the things I’ve written. It’s an idea that has developed...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Organic Matter
upside through the sale of methane for vehicle fuel or as electricity. “We want agriculture to financially benefit while acting as environmental stewards,” says Black, who sees California Bioenergy as a good example View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
platforms like Khan Academy and others are part of the solution, but not everybody can access these. SK: In the past 10 years, schools have done a pretty good job of getting View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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Truth in Lending
across different cultures,” says DiDonna. In other words, many of the things that make an entrepreneur successful are constant from Boston to Nairobi and from Bogotá to Jakarta.
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April White
- 01 Dec 2011
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A Light Moment
On the occasion of the unveiling of his portrait in the main lobby of Baker | Bloomberg in October, former HBS Dean Jay Light spoke to a gathering View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Crisis and Creativity
talent pool. Many Web 2.0 developments, including blogs and social networking, grew out of the large number of talented Web-literate workers who lost their jobs after the collapse View Details
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Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 21 Sep 2015
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Funding Progress Back Home
“Harvard gives you powerful tools for getting things done in the world,” observes Eric-Vincent Guichard (MBA 1990). “Over time, you more fully appreciate the responsibility that goes with that education.” Guichard, who grew up in rural...
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- 16 Jan 2014
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Learning from Helping Others
things happen to people and they are forced to live off of food stamps or go to soup kitchens and food pantries to get their meals," she says. The New Jersey native recalled that her own earliest altruistic...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Case Study: Sound Check
secured funding, built the platform, and ran a series of paid pilots; all of the participants signed on as clients. Looking to the future, the co-CEOs see opportunities as wide as the web itself: “We think...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good
you’re not going to believe this — the damn thing needed diesel for fuel. My Joey got a big frown on his face because the damn thing won’t go. I said to John, ‘Where the hell are we going to get diesel? It’s...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Campaign Hosts Events in Washington and Seattle
the time to seize the moment: to do things that are central to the mission and that must be done if we are to preserve and enhance our ability to pursue the mission with excellence in a turbulent, complex world,” said Clark. As View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Head Games
either from the run of play or impact with the playing surface. Improvements in equipment and rule changes can make things better but probably not eliminate the longer-term danger View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
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On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)
After nearly nine years in a series of marketing and strategy roles at Samsung—where he logged approximately 2.5 million air miles and earned status as a “permanent resident” of Korea—Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008) made the leap to Electrolux Group Chief Marketing...
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- 22 Sep 2015
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Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda
community. Starting in local government, one thing led to another and I ran for the state legislature in 2008 and now serve as a state senator in Massachusetts. “I chair the public health committee for the state legislature, so a lot...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
1991): to provide continuous Internet access to the planet’s unconnected billions through, in Cassidy’s words, a “complex choreography where thousands of balloons are being steered and programmed all in an...
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