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- 05 Oct 2023
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On the Move: Massimo (Max) Magni (MBA 2003)
Our “On the Move” series highlights HBS alumni who are taking on new roles and responsibilities. Here we speak with Massimo (Max) Magni (MBA 2003), who has been named Macy’s new chief customer and digital officer. In this role, Magni will take charge of Macy’s digital...
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Retail Trade
- 28 Mar 2024
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Rooms with a View
Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Understanding the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard
impact of its research labs is broad, the Institute has built four common platforms for external engagement that will enable rapid innovation and continual refinements as information flows between the labs...
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- 19 Apr 2023
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A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. Even so, they were...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Oct 1997
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W. Hall Wendel, Jr.
At an altitude of more than 29,000 feet, on a bright May morning in 1994, Hall Wendel gazed down at the mountainous panorama beneath him. To the north lay China; to the south, Nepal. Wendel's view was not from the pressurized comfort...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision
Illustration by PJ Loughron Illustration by PJ Loughron How has your experience as Dean of the School differed from your experience as a member of the faculty? Being on campus and engaging with faculty, staff, and students is something I have done for many years, and...
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- 27 Oct 2015
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Sweet Success
stunning—completely untouched,” says Turner. They named the property Madava Farms after daughters Maddie and Ava. “There were no roads, no houses; just forest, trout streams, and wildlife,” he notes. “We’d walk in the woods and think how amazing it was that this kind...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2023
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End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded...
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- 15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1997
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L.E. Simmons
the money that oil companies spend flows through these businesses." Riding out the sometimes stomach-churning ups-and-downs of the oil business, for fifteen years L.E. and Matt Simmons have been an...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
dispose of waste in a landfill. By mandating recycling, as some states have done, you’re guaranteeing a certain volume will flow into processing facilities. There’s a return on investment.” One piece View Details
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
even just stay out of trouble, your organizations need to bake sustainability into the core of what you do. You don’t have far to look to see where growth will come from in the coming decades. Year to date,...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Working the Street
to kill us,” he says. Support and Suppress Back in the flow of traffic, Timken explains that “our job is to both support and suppress — give help to the people who need it, while getting the hard-core bad...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
If your idea of a Ph.D. in business conjures up visions of spectacled scholars toiling in solitude in the library's darkest, dustiest corners, think again. At HBS, students in the School's Doctoral Programs...
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- 01 Jan 2002
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Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
executive's salary that flows into the firm's coffers. According to Zehnder, that practice-as widespread as it may be-is incompatible with the role of a professional, whose only focus should be on what's...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave...
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- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
billion; and reducing employee turnover to 7 percent. Fortune magazine consistently ranked USAA first among the country's most admired insurers. Upon retirement, McDermott, summarizing his philosophy, asserted that success had flowed from...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
says, but “when policies are shifting all the time, it’s not helpful.” Geoffrey Jones, “Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy,” in Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Welcome to the Future
Rose. The highly configurable hives and other areas employ state-of-the-art computer and video technology to enhance learning. Moreover, the building’s carefully crafted lighting, design, and music encourage an outside-the-box mind-set. All these features combine to...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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Strategists analyze market forces—great strategists also look beyond the market
Traditionally, corporate strategists define industry structure, competitive positions, resources, and knowledge flows as the key sources of competitive advantage. Within these sources, they look for areas...
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