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- 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising
full-time in 2005, spent seven years developing a deep network of contacts, then set up CET in 2012 to offer travel services to school groups and political think tanks alike. Three years later, in 2015, Michael Laverty—Gordon’s...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity
that the new companies’ high labor costs undercut their ability to compete. A second example would be the Australians’ creation of eleven incubator centers to provide financing and advice to information technology start-ups. Much of the...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the...
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- 18 Apr 2011
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Capitalism Meets Conservation
provide Patagonia’s isolated inhabitants with English education, preventative medical care, conservation and conservation education, and sustainable economic development. The for-profit company also sells carbon offsets—reductions in...
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- 21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
which was facing numerous challenges: a rapidly decreasing market share, falling revenues, and cratering investor faith. Heins went about cutting costs—including the layoff of more than 5,000 workers in May 2012—scrapped plans to make the popular BlackBerry Messenger...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Private Equity under Investigation
underwriting public corporate offerings. Nor is this unique to the United States. Britain’s Financial Services Authority has an-nounced that it is increasing its scrutiny of private-equity firms. Among the problems or risks attributed to...
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- 22 Apr 2021
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Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
Tierney (MBA 1980) from The Bridgespan Group, which provides leadership development consulting services to nonprofits. The panel, The Quest for Racial Justice: Making This a Movement, Not a Moment, moderator...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning
anticipation of international students' needs as they enter HBS. The School offers a comprehensive array of services for internationals, from help with class participation and exam preparation skills, to support and advisory View Details
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2018
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After the Fall
would help. “There are elements of credit outside those in regulatory focus, and that data is not easily available,” she says, pointing to lenders in the shadow bank system. These entities provide services...
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- 17 Mar 2015
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The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
pursue new careers. “That mission is also the most challenging. The goal of higher education should be nothing less than to provide people with a better life. Students put a lot of faith in us to deliver on that promise; they quit their...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
authors have helped scale hundreds of hypergrowth Internet sites through their consulting practice. Drawing on their experience, they present 50 clear, proven, and up-to-date scalability rules and practical guidance for applying them....
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
facilities detect and control outbreaks of health care–associated infections. Lee notes that services like epiXact are not DZD’s primary objective, but they are critical to “developing customer instincts and building commercial muscle”...
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
California, several professors, including an HBS alumnus, encouraged him to apply to HBS. Darden hoped an MBA would help further his interest in a career focused on service and academia. DARDEN: The environment that I found myself in at...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
panel discussing AI in financial services. “My objective as a founder of an AI-driven company was to ground how we actually use it,” says Salas. “I wanted to give concrete examples of how AI is enabling us to provide financial View Details
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April White
- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
Mariner (MBA '78), CFO of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins, traces baseball's major turning point to the mid-1970s when several players, supported by a Supreme Court ruling, established their legal claim to "free agency" and the right to sell their View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2009
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Social Enterprise Visionary
strengthening leadership and management in the social sector.” “What he did went well beyond just providing funding,” emphasizes Robert Burakoff, who worked with Austin and Rangan as the initiative’s first executive director. “There was a...
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- 05 Apr 2018
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A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
firm that provides strategic consulting services for private equity and venture funds. Also a former member of the Obama administration’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, she serves as a trustee of the...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2020
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New News
different outlets. Instead of saying we’re the outlet that is the best at political news or at financial news, we provide access to the best and most unbiased reporting for any given subject material. We want to make fact-first news easy...
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- 15 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project
in really powerful, and helpful and constructive ways. Hanna: And I'm guessing sunscreen too, right? Raiser: Lots of sunscreen. Lots of hats with a chin strap for the wind. A gallon and a half of water a day. All the food you need, plus a little to share. There's...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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HIV/AIDS and Business
she continues — even a small bicycle shop in China could rent or loan bicycles to deliver medication. “My sense is that people are innately sympathetic. If you provide specific tools, it makes it easier for them to act in a responsible...
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