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01 Dec 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

30 Aug 2018
Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

I started believing that entrepreneurship might be the path for me. After graduating, I joined up with Tim to build and launch ZipBooks—modern accounting software for small businesses. While Tim and I haven’t built a lunch-time soccer... View Details

20 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

candidates. Such actions are not without consequences. The Challenger space shuttle explosion, steroid use in major league baseball, and the financial crash are all results of unethical decision-making, even... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 1

majority sexual orientations in organizations. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Shifting%20Landscape%20of%20LGBT%20Org%20Research_0d247765-4372-49ed-9aae-dce41aef12b7.pdf August 2013 Foreign Affairs... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

Herndon returned to Atlanta to oversee the growth of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company (today the Atlanta Life Financial Group), founded by his father Alonzo. Herndon continued his family's tradition of philanthropy with major financial... View Details

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Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis

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Current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, and... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press

On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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Faculty & Advisors - MBA

(acquired by Walmart), Rebag, Major League Hacking, and Workflow (acquired by Apple). In addition to his work at GC, Peter also co-founded & leads Rough Draft Ventures: a program to support technology... View Details

03 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business

All over the world, people in pain turn to rituals in the face of loss—no matter if it's the death of a loved one (dressing in black, for example), the end of a relationship (burning old love letters), or the crushing defeat in a Little View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

the Executive Committee for TN. Andy was integral in the sale to MBNA of a major operating division, TNFS, one of the largest credit card origination companies in the United States. Earlier, Andy worked in the Corporate Development... View Details

Portrait Project

Arpit Agrawal

did not care. I just wanted to play. I just wanted my shot in this major league of teenagers. They agreed. In the next one hour, I gave it everything I had. I chased every ball down. I dived to save every... View Details

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

University, the Atlanta Conferences addressed pressing economic issues that the Black community faced. The fourth annual conference was entitled "The Negro in Business." In 1900, Booker T. Washington founded the National Negro Business View Details

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Harvard Business School

appointed chief investment officer of Major League Baseball in 2014, where he manages the industry's Baseball Endowment fund, its pension assets, and potential new strategic investments. Previously, Mariner... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score

(NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), and the National Hockey League (NHL), television, both national and local, has been a boon as well. Television provides significant direct... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

04 May 2021
Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

special or amiss in reading Shakespeare and writing Chinese poems in school, eating Indian and Malay food at school canteens, and watching the English Premier League at Irish pubs. Most of my friends spoke another language apart from... View Details

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

soccer is something he would mock." Another familiar part of the household was the clack of the typewriter coming from Levitt's upstairs office. From the moment he emigrated from Vollmerz, Germany, at age 10, Levitt seems to have... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

her move from Bursa, Turkey, to play in a more competitive volleyball league in Istanbul. There was a trade-off, however: The athletics were great, but her new high school was not. "I was frustrated that I couldn't get a good academic... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2024
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Net Positive

At LOVB, designing a “community-up” volleyball ecosystem, from youth teams to a professional league. (photo by Melissa Golden) Volleyball is the number-one sport for girls in the United States by participation, yet unlike soccer and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2003
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Portraits from the Class of 2003

Systems, Atlanta Previous Job: associate, A.T. Kearney, Cambridge, corporate strategy and operations improvement Captain: runner-up team in Boston soccer league After HBS: moving to Washington, D.C., with... View Details

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