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- 01 Oct 2000
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Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
the production line in just three days. While the unassuming Bullard, who recently stepped down from his duties as president, is reluctant to take credit for the company's progress, he is happy to brag about its working conditions. Unlike...
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1997
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Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend
business, community development, and philanthropic activities, recalled their early days as students at HBS. Initially leery of the gregarious Anderson, de Rothschild said that he soon became fascinated by his stories about starting...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 29 Nov 2023
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A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
is the club’s main fundraiser for the scholarships, Chen has been working with a volunteer committee of alumni including Sheila Sun (MBA 2013), the club’s VP of Events; Shari Gibbons (MBA 1990), Coordinator of the HBSASC Scholarship Fund;...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
family-run Indian conglomerate. Kahn, who worked for agrichemical giant Syngenta AG and knew the industry well, agreed to have a look. The subsidiary, Godrej Agrovet, had expanded beyond its core business of animal feed in recent years,...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
to HBS came with the caveat that he add another year of work experience to the two already listed on his résumé and complete some of the quantitative courses his transcript lacked. He spent the year in Omaha, View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
(AMS), an international business and IT consulting firm. "The impact the professors were having on my sectionmates and me made a deep impression." Wasserman recalled that one of the most enjoyable aspects of his View Details
- 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...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2008
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You Only Thought You Were Republican
party that’s worked so hard to stand up for the tobacco companies; that’s impeded stem cell research; that’s opposed the assault weapons ban (you hunt, but not with a machine gun) and that fights to keep the gun-show loophole open. No,...
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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...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes single moms View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
innovative solutions, especially Black female knowledge workers. We found that 42 percent of Gen Z Black women are “the first to know when something new or cutting-edge is released.” The gap with the other races was almost two-to-one. Jim...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Derek Ferguson
inside of the courtroom more than once), hip-hop is as much a lifestyle as a musical genre. Yet the company’s spare, functional Times Square offices don’t suggest any of these bad boy qualities — and neither does the genial, relaxed Ferguson. A Bronx native, Ferguson...
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- 12 Oct 2017
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Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
Photography by Craig Hall Like many people who work for change in struggling urban neighborhoods, John Majors (MBA 2000) believes that high-quality education for all children is a vital link to future success. He’s also convinced that...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2013
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Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
threat," recalls Jacobson, who also led the product development team. "It was an incredible turnaround. The team grew the company by $200 million." With Converse back on its feet, in 1994 Jacobson left to View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2023
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Step Change
City to work for the Egyptian-American Enterprise Fund (EAEF), a $300 million investment initiative focused on strengthening Egypt’s private sector. On a trip to Cairo to renew her work visa, she met...
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- 11 Oct 2022
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On Balance
Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) recalls a job interview early in her career in which the interviewer asked, “Why should I employ you? At your age, you’re just going to go off and have children.” At another position, she recruited a younger man...
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April White
- 15 Nov 2016
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Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
200 second-year MBA students signed up for ESM’s 60 available seats. “Student demand, as well as feedback from alumni entrepreneurs, identified a critical skill gap in this area,” says Eisenmann, who developed the course with HBS...
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- 01 Jan 2002
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Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
expected to work for a big company like Kodak for my entire career." Arthur D. Little, 1968-76 Becton, Dickinson and Co., 1976-94 Why HBS? "I learned that an engineer whose desk was close to mine at Kodak had been accepted by the School....
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- 02 Mar 2020
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Educating the Whole Student
witnessed the seemingly intractable achievement gap between white students and students of color. She saw teachers and administrators struggling to provide the support that communities needed beyond the classroom. Liu went on to study...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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MBAs take their business acumen on the road
and hit the road this summer. Alaoui recalls the work MBAxAmerica did for Sebastian Jackson, owner of the Detroit barbershop Social Club Grooming Co. Jackson wanted to donate hair shavings to accelerate...
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