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- 01 Oct 1996
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Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)
dealmaker but something of a kingmaker as well. "When I graduated from college with an engineering degree, I knew nothing about politics and less about investment banking," the tall, trim Brody recalls with a chuckle. "My best friend, an HBS graduate, urged me to...
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Garry Emmons
- 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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- 23 May 2024
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HBS After October 7
can also say is that this team and our community are dedicated to learning and improving. Even with our focus on short-term actions, we are looking ahead to the fall and beyond to ensure we follow through on...
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- 20 Apr 2023
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On the Move: Anand Kini (MBA 1997)
Photo courtesy Anand Kini Our “On the Move” series highlights HBS alumni who are taking on new roles and responsibilities. In this inaugural post, we speak with Anand Kini (MBA 1997), who in March was named executive vice president of corporate strategy at Comcast in...
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- 11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart
basically to impress her. So I learned how to sing. I learned how to play music and martial arts and many of those things basically just to make sure that she was attracted to me and she found me to be a...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
COO and began a major restructuring of the 5,000-employee company. “It was hard,” he admits. “There were people who had been working at the company almost as long as I’d been alive. But I think I was able to gain their support because I went in with a View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
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Dwight Raiford
Raiford Photo courtesy Dwight Raiford Growing up in a North Carolina mill town, W. Dwight Raiford learned from his father, an insurance agent, that a black man can be successful in business and from his uncle, a janitor, to “be of service...
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- 01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
that has delivered millions of loans, loan guarantees, contracts, counseling sessions, and other forms of assistance to small businesses. She leads a team of 3,000 employees who help small businesses across the country. The agency also...
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- 01 Jan 2013
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Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
throughout Jacobson's life. At the University of Pennsylvania, Jacobson studied international relations with a specialization in China. After college, she worked in operations at Greenwich Associates and was soon promoted to run the department. "I View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
to remove a cancerous tumor in his throat. Stripped of his voice box and vocal cords, he had to learn to speak using his esophagus. Batten, an entrepreneur who thrives on difficult challenges, says that coping with cancer was one of the...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
Ferdinand Stockmann (MBA 2021), who previously worked at Boston Consulting Group and has a background in the technical side of supply chain management, created Syrup Tech, a predictive software that drives inventory excellence, powered by machine View Details
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April White
- 05 Feb 2019
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The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
fashion quotient quickly!” How do you use what you learned at HBS in your work at PCL? “Given that my role involves working extensively in strategy and growth, what I learned in my classes on finance,...
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- 15 Oct 2019
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Bridging Business and Engineering
team leader. Perelson was especially pleased to learn about HBS’s new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, which would enable him to bridge the worlds of business and engineering by developing insights...
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- 25 Aug 2014
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Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
the time, Deng Xiaoping was beginning to modernize the Chinese economy. “I was there about 30 years too early,” says Nelson, who left in 1980 to move to Sweden, where he married his girlfriend. Nelson came to HBS to gain the tools to transition into the industry now...
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Susan Young
- 12 Feb 2021
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
He recalls this moment in his new book, Around the Corner to Around the World: A Dozen Lessons I Learned Running Dunkin’ Donuts. “Up until that point,” he writes, “the only thing I had managed were a couple of donut shops—replacing...
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- 22 Sep 2022
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The Beauty Guide
gave her some advice: Leave the comfort of marketing and join sales; learn the business from the inside out. The suggestion made little sense to Freyre, who considered herself a marketer and a brand strategist at her core. But she trusted...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2023
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Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
generated an operational loss. "My feedback was, 'You're in trouble,'" recalls Kahn. By the spring, Kahn was in Mumbai, part of a team tasked with turning Agrovet around—the first foreigner the Godrej Group had ever hired in a leadership...
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- 05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check
public and the government, it was considered an after-school activity for privileged children. So he teamed up with David MacEnulty, president of the David MacEnulty Chess Foundation and inspiration for the 2005 TV film Knights of the...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
was a good inside fighter,” Keen says later. “I could take a lot of stomach hits. You get me up against the ropes and I can fight.” He also was a punter and placekicker on the football team his first year at Dartmouth, before moving over...
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