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- 01 Jun 2005
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Profiles from the Class of 2005
her analytical skills to the social sector, she returned to Washington as director of program strategy and development at Teach For America. At HBS, Abramson has left her mark on a range of activities, from serving on the University...
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- 02 Aug 2018
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Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: In 2008, Jim Langford (MBA 1984) became the executive director of the Georgia Meth Project, a nonprofit that blanketed his native state with a graphic,...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq
bullet hole in his car Courtesy David Horgan David J. Horgan (MBA ’86) is the managing director of the oil companies Petrel Resources and Pan Andean, based in Dublin, Ireland. Baghdad last June was a crazy scene of damage and destruction...
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
will only increase as hospitals learn all it can do. Once they learn, they tend to incorporate Watson quickly. For instance, at the University of North Carolina’s teaching hospital, Watson moved from a novelty assisting doctors to the standard of care in six months,...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
look at its purpose and what it was giving back to the public,” says Lewis Braxton III (PMD 66, 1993), who recently retired as deputy director of NASA’s Ames Research Center and is now pursuing a position with a space startup. Over the...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot
into an innovation team or innovation community and everyone in that community makes a different kind of contribution that elevates the entire thing. The director was Tommy Kail. He creates structure. He creates deadlines. He becomes an...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
companies." C. Bruce Johnstone (MBA '66), managing director of Fidelity Investments, the Boston-based mutual fund giant, observes that mutual funds have played a significant role as the middleman that makes capitalism work. "They are a...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
Duffy (MBA 1977), then administrative director of External Relations. Nearly a third of the survey’s respondents said they were self-employed, while almost half described themselves as “entrepreneurs.” (This cohort also reported greater...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
system of support services for Navy families, from her perspective as the first director of the Family Support Program. A portion of the proceeds Launching the Navy Family Support Program will go to selected organizations that benefit...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
has considerable power to forestall any merger that doesn't appeal to him." Sometimes, however, Lorsch adds, reluctant CEOs do come under such intense pressure from boards that they are forced to accept offers, or directors recognize that...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
director Maureen Harrington (MBA 2001)—around how to respond to the government's insistent request, relatively late in the planning process, for increased community services in areas such as education, water and sanitation, and...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
capital, and because many smallholders don't have clear title to their land—and therefore no collateral—banks are loath to lend them the funds they need. To unlock financing for his initiative, Masha turned to his friend Ladi Balogun (MBA 2000), CEO and group managing...
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- 28 Jun 2021
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“Where the Dead Lie Thicker”
- 15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity
director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging to transform HBS internally, nurture relationships with the University and our neighbors, and foster a shared vision for racial equity. The CDIO will have a key role in influencing the...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
Harvard Business Review, Anand Mahindra is vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M), a Mumbai-based “confederation” of almost 100 companies with revenues of $6.6 billion and 60,000 employees. A film major at...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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MBA vs. MBA
Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business. “Chet Edwards has not always had a great record with us on pro-enterprise votes,” notes Pete Hovel, regional director of congressional and public affairs in the U.S....
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
Commercializing Science and included members with medical, science, public health, and business backgrounds from HBS, MIT, and across Harvard University. The realization that DFA’s product had the power to impact the health of millions rallied the team, recalls Jon Puz...
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- 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
expensive than traditional automobiles. Understanding the implications of the energy transition will prepare us for the many changes ahead. This book is a primer for readers of all levels on the coming energy transition and its global consequences. Usher, a professor...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
in the organizations they lead. " Fostering creativity in others is what former student Jeffrey H. Flemings (MBA '96) does for a living. Flemings, associate director of the Consumer Insight Group at Arnold Communications, a regional...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers
although from the beginning it has been closely affiliated and supported by Bain & Company, where Tierney was worldwide managing director before leaving in 2000 to cofound Bridgespan. Over the years, Bain’s support has been instrumental...
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