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- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
General” This was the case that hammered home the number-one marketing mistake that is all too common in every type of business: Never assume you are the customer. First-year students fall into that trap...
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- 31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
took me to his personal dentist, and we put the fruit flies in the dentist’s chair.” Kidney love: “In medical school, renal medicine seemed to scare other students away. It’s about acid-based imbalances. Electrolyte abnormalities. You...
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- 05 Feb 2019
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The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
makes you anxious or defensive, approach and learn. Nothing is worth prolonged misery, but learning can be painful. Are you chasing the rabbit are you dodging the stretch?...
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- 09 Feb 2021
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Investing in Entrepreneurship
donation to the Harvard Innovation Labs (i-lab). “I regard HBS as a national treasure that should be preserved and enhanced,” said Crisp from his home in Florida when reflecting on his leadership gift that will establish an endowment in...
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Susan Young
- 25 Aug 2014
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Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
Boston University, and Boston Medical Center. In Mumbai, the Dahod family helped build Saifee Hospital, a state-of-the-art facility that offers subsidized care for people in need, and they are involved in an “upliftment” project to provide new View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2023
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Step Change
her. “Magda kept joking, saying, ‘What is it? What do you want?’ ” Enan recalls. “Until one day, she said, ‘Well, since you’re always asking, I just met two cofounders, and we’re going to start the Starbucks of health View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit
ringside. “I just asked them to dim the lights a bit more, to put focus on the cage,” he says, eyes restlessly sweeping the venue. “It’s similar to creating the atmosphere of a rock concert.” In just a few minutes, ONE FC will be transmitted live to 1 billion View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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Working the Street
Stripped to the waist in a clinic examining room, Mike, a burly white guy in his late 30s, is an illustrated man. His arms, chest, and neck are a tattooed maze of letters, numbers, and designs signaling his allegiance to the Aryan Nation...
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- 23 May 2018
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Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987
included,” she says. “How is that so hard?” “If you have the opportunity to be successful, it is your responsibility to let somebody else stand on your shoulders.” “If you have the opportunity to be...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2022
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My First Job
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Simmons Family Endows Professorship
The only way to truly appreciate what you have is to work for it," says Roy W. Simmons, the 82-year-old chairman of Utah-based Zions Bancorporation, one of the most successful bank holding companies in the country. Simmons speaks from...
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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 Apr 2000
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Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani
it to the top." But this key financial strategist ("When She Talks, Stocks Move" a New York Times headline recently proclaimed) has other things on her mind. "Do you think you could get me the recipe for...
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Julia Hanna
- 30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded...
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- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he...
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- 22 Sep 2022
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The Beauty Guide
Courtesy Michelle Freyre Courtesy Michelle Freyre When Michelle Freyre (MBA 1997) was a brand manager at Neutrogena, Michael McNamara, global president of the beauty brand at the time, asked what she wanted to do with her career. She answered, “I want to be you. I want...
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Maureen Harmon
- 24 May 2017
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David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
knack for recruiting and retaining the right people. And just as he does in all aspects of his life, he brings his natural bias for information-gathering to the task of hiring. “I don’t believe in 51/49 decisions,” he says. “You want to wait until View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press
sports. “But what struck me was how much people hungered for something to lift their spirits in the middle of sitting at home in various stages of lockdown and how impactful sports was to driving that sense of psychological and mental...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2001
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Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
national training program geared toward recent college graduates. He was eventually placed as a mathematics teacher at Jersey City, New Jersey’s Liberty High, an ethnically diverse high school for students who have struggled in traditional academic environments. The...
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