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- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
global emergencies. His work included the planning and delivery of humanitarian aid during the war in Afghanistan—an experience he found both powerful and frustrating. When a US town raised money to donate an ambulance to the Afghan...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
goods are becoming more, not less, concentrated. What about someone like Lady Gaga, whose quick rise to fame came with no previously established brand? What did her management team do right? It's hard to imagine that only 18 months before...
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- 23 May 2019
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Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff 2011 Launches MGM Consulting 2012 Appointed Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton 17th Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen believes in the power of leadership. He thinks that the best...
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1999
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Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
and Fortune ranked her among the 50 most powerful women in American business. Business Week said you had "worked magic" at Banana Republic. What has your strategy been? I would love to take the credit for it, but I can't. The changes at...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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A Better Way to Go on Strike
the fund was ultimately divided, both sides would be better off than after an ordinary strike. In sharp contrast to a cool-down period, jawboning, or arbitration, a financial strike would not disturb the balance of power between the...
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- 19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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What Fellowships Make Possible
the salary, sector, or location. The impact of the fellowship program is hard to overstate. In addition to the significant benefits to the recipients themselves, there are countless indirect beneficiaries, including other HBS students,...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Bright Future for Green Business
panelists were collectively bullish on solar energy, electric drive technology that powers hybrid and electric cars, and biofuels (including ethanol). By contrast, they were cautiously optimistic about clean coal, nuclear power, and...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
others, you’ll create a self-perpetuating culture.” “My parents were the first in their families to attend high school, never mind college,” says Jack Brennan (MBA 1980), former chairman and CEO of the Vanguard Group. Brennan cites the View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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Starting Off on the Right Foot
Waldroop, the former codirector of MBA Career Development Programs at HBS who is a principal and cofounder of Peregrine Partners of Brookline, Massachusetts. “You need to familiarize yourself with the hierarchy. Who has the power and...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 23 May 2019
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Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
for cosmetics needed to be more customer focused, so in 1999 she launched Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products. Perhaps the most obvious evidence that Beck’s thoughtful strategy and hard work have disrupted the beauty...
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Susan Young
- 09 Jan 2020
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Advancing Change
Outside the Building, Kanter profiles many such people, including Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981), the president and CEO of Sesame Workshop who brought the power of Sesame Street to refugee children, and offers a roadmap for others preparing to...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
in the social enterprise area,” Austin explains. “SEKN is about knowledge generation and institution building. We are harnessing the power of a learning network that can engage in crosscountry comparative research, which is very View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
material wealth, but we believe it also leads to a powerful contribution to familial wealth, country wealth, and ultimately, wealth for the continent,” says Royster, cofounder of Maarifa Education, a pan-African education holding company....
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Jill Radsken
- 19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit
Photos by Scott Clark Kim Riether Coupounas (MBA/MPA 1995) has an easy laugh. It erupts when the opera-trained singer and accomplished martial artist is asked whether hitting a high C helps power her fist through a stack of boards. “I...
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- 14 Nov 2012
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Remembering His Roots
invest in the educational and professional potential of men and women whose young lives were spent as migrant farm workers. Living by the cycle of fruit harvests, a basic education for these kids was often out of reach or incomplete, and dreams were deferred. Curiel...
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- 29 Apr 2016
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The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
Why is the mission of ArtLifting so important? “We’re demonstrating how something as simple as optimism can change lives and create jobs. This is very powerful and very personal to me. My older brother has a rare metabolic disorder that...
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- 30 Mar 2017
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Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
with their hands. Part of it is how they turn away and they will tend to hunker with those who are with them. Part of it is blame-- I know I'm right, I know I'm trying hard to be reasonable, and you don't agree. That must mean you truly...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Ink: Talking Shop
used to reside only with the retailers. There was an information asymmetry that created a power dynamic in retail, but that is gone. Consumers have stormed the castle, and the hard work for many companies is...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
facing new and terrifying challenges, is torn apart more than ever, increasingly unstable and adrift. Creating Mindful Leaders: How to Power Down, Power Up, and Power Forward...
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