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- 01 Oct 1997
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William K.L. Fung
open-minded about what I could do," says Fung. "He was a visionary." So William took on the challenge and went to work. Six months later, he presented a plan to professionalize Li & Fung's management by severing ties between the...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2003
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Respond to a Worthy Cause
national and international artists, expand the marketing efforts, and make a bigger impact in the battle against domestic violence.” Brown and Dietz signed on, and HBS faculty members Michael Watkins and Max Bazerman agreed to be their advisors. The three women crafted...
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- 17 Nov 2022
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Blockchain for Good
As the Nigeria-Biafra war raged around them, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994), her mother, and her brother made a dangerous dash for a better life. Huddled in the belly of a Portuguese cargo plane returning from delivering arms to the Biafran forces, Dyer remembers Nigerian...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 24 Jun 2016
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Reinventing Pharma
and commercial operations before becoming the firm's head of operations and planning in 2014. In a recent interview, Donaldson told the industry website eyeforpharma.com that she credits Professor Clay Christensen and his work on...
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- 12 May 2016
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Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
Doug Duda (MBA 1985) cooked his way through his undergraduate degree in Miami. He cooked his way through his law degree in Boston and through his MBA at HBS. When he graduated, “my family thought, ‘Hurray, he won’t see a kitchen again!’”...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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The Birds and Bees in China
and other youth-oriented entertainment. It's all designed to create a friendly, nonthreatening environment in which to explore a generally taboo subject. The Chinese Family Planning Association has even...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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On the National Stage
lot of music out of her ears,” Heinz told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (June 17, 2004). “John Kerry brought that back.” On leave from Jacobson Partners, a New York private equity firm, Heinz has seen his own future become the subject of much Kennedyesque speculation. “I...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers
Zone (HCZ) and Youth Villages. The HCZ started modestly in the early 1990s with the idea of providing a range of support services to address the problems of poor families living in a single block of New York City. As one of Bridgespan’s...
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- 21 Sep 2015
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Funding Progress Back Home
global and sovereign institutional investors Homestrings, launched in 2011, draws on lessons learned in those roles, plus Guichard’s own awareness that “those of us who have found success far from family and friends are looking for...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
Knudsen Cowles: building for the future at the family vineyard in Oregon’s Willamette Valley (photo by Hilary Bobel Cronon) When they inherited the family vineyard a decade ago, Page Knudsen Cowles (MBA...
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Ryan Jones
- 01 Feb 2001
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The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
Simon cautions, "First, recognize that this is a family trip, not just a trip for you and your spouse. It has to be oriented toward everyone. If you plan to have a great time with your kids, then it will...
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Margie Kelley
- 07 Aug 2019
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“The Star of the North”
The leaders of Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, know the strength of the area in which they sit. They aren’t looking for portfolio businesses with a Manhattan financial district vibe or a go-global...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2012
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Taking Time to Make Time
goal is a great marketing plan or a brilliant idea for a software system, it doesn't matter if it took 2 hours or 20 hours. The client is paying for the quality of the solution. What do you think about the issue of flexible work hours?...
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Time management
- 01 Jun 2004
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John Dearden Remembered
more than forty articles for academic and professional journals. Born in 1919 in Lancashire, England, Dearden immigrated with his family to western Massachusetts in 1924. He received a bachelor’s degree from American International College...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Answering the Call
church was the right move. On a typical day, the warm, affable minister might meet with a couple planning to be married, deliver communion to a housebound parishioner, help prepare a meal at a soup kitchen, and work on his weekly sermon....
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Susan Young
- 25 Jun 2019
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After the Storm
wanted to work with nonprofits, and Habitat offered a way to begin learning on-the-ground skills like transporting cement blocks over crumbling roads in time to build a house. The plan after graduating from HBS was to work in the...
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Paul Flannery
- 17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
me, this meant not doing as much extracurricular activities as many other students—and being very selective about what I did do (I was one of the writers for the ‘HBS Show’ in my second year and worked on a business plan for a nonprofit)....
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2016
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Fellowships Have Impact
San Francisco Frist (MBA 1997, MBA 2001) Family Financial Aid Fund “I received a small grant from a planned gift, and I’ve often thought how inspired it was so many years ago that somebody thought to...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
development. Berglund, now 50, is finishing his pediatrics internship and plans further training in psychiatry, which will require another three years. "The first thing you confront is the question 'Can you do it?' At 45, you wonder if...
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Thomas Frick
- 01 Mar 2006
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A New Path for Alumnae
responsibility, but also insisted on autonomy and flexibility. Is on-ramping predominantly a women’s issue? Fewer of our male alums, less than 10 percent, take time out from their full-time careers to deal with family issues. I believe...
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