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- 07 Nov 2022
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Victoria’s Secret Buys Alumni-Founded Adore Me
Morgan Hermand Waiche Morgan Hermand Waiche The Wall Street Journal reported last week that startup lingerie retailer Adore Me was bought by Victoria’s Secret for $400 million. Launched soon after Hermand Waiche graduated, Adore Me aimed to upend the industry. "My...
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- 04 Apr 2024
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The Making of a Medical Milestone
On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in animal-to-human transplant, or...
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Margie Kelley
- 22 Sep 2023
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Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty
numerous book, television, and movie deals, along with several marriage proposals, all of which she has turned down. Six months after the accident, Crotty returned to the United States to become an assistant principal at St. Mark's School...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
Bower, the Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration, in his 1986 book, When Markets Quake, documented the problem as it affects the petrochemical industry. He has also observed it in other sectors over the years. "In one industry after another," Bower...
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Garry Emmons
- 26 Jan 2022
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Making Peace with Anger
46 employees, and an estimated value of $25 million. Today, Walker & Dunlop is a publicly traded company with a market cap close to $5 billion. While Walker has led massive growth at the company, he realized several years ago that the way...
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- 26 Nov 2019
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The Ritual Effect
Source: Norton Source: Norton Professor Michael Norton studies the ways in which rituals can influence human behavior. In his research, he has found that people establish rituals to enhance their enjoyment of something or to improve their...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team
“Here’s a smart guy who had an actual home inspection, so why didn’t he have visibility that these systems were about to fail on him?” It’s standard practice in commercial transactions, and there also are capital reserve requirements for such situations. There must be...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap
United Way, and Scott Wilson of Volkswagen led the rollout of a program emphasizing five interventions (including “talk, sing, and point”; “count, group, and compare”; and “read and discuss stories”) that positively affect the swiftly...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results
employment in the United States without dipping into the twelve-month employment limit of most student visas. “I learned so much about the School and how much integrity and honesty there is in everyone here,” she observes of the process....
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- 01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
Culinary Group the largest ski area operator in the United States. O'Donnell is happy to list the ingredients of his success. "I follow the golden rule in treating my customers and employees the way I want...
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- 31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients....
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- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
themselves, shifting both professional and personal priorities in profound ways. Indeed, far beyond a deep understanding of business, industry, and leadership, the reflections below highlight the ways in which cases have also revealed,...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Remix
tore down the whole infrastructure that I’d created to keep myself safe from my demons, and then it never ended.” What she could not have anticipated is that, when her world cracked wide open, it would also create a path for her to find her View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
Chairman and CEO, Rakuten, Inc. Download Mikitani profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Kobe, Japan 1972 Family moves to United States for two years 1988 Earns commerce degree, Hitotsubashi...
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