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- 01 Jun 2015
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The Giving Tree
When he established an MBA student fellowship in 1979, William H. Draper III (MBA 1954) probably didn’t imagine the head count of student beneficiaries would eventually climb to 78—a number large enough to lose track View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2011
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Reimagining the MBA
Ask The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track Related Links Watch Professor Joshua Margolis on teaching business ethics to MBA students Watch Dean Nohria's TED Talk on practicing moral humility The sense View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
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The Story Behind the Stories
assistant, where I was going because they would have thought it was entirely insane, to go from Newport Beach to Kabul. Who would do that on their vacation? When I was reporting Dressmaker, things really were blowing up. In seven week...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices
right to decide that their business exists solely to maximize profits. But let’s stop to examine what that even means. What are those things that cause profits to be maximized? And should we be aiming to maximize them this year, or next...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 22 Aug 2019
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Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
think the first thing I realized was, "This is huge." Lagos is very populated. If you're commuting back and forth to places you don't get to really experience it sometimes. Being in Paris, being on the train, and just literally being in...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
world of possibilities open up. An option is a fundamental security now - whether linked to interest rates, stock indexes, currencies, commodities, or real estate. But that's only part of it. There are other...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do
preserved, Bailey believes, because it is the right thing to do. And done right, it will be transformational. “Ultimately the tourist is the agent of change,” says Bailey. “When a tourist decides that a...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes
way of stating the VC mantra, “I’d rather back an A team with a B plan than a B team with an A plan.” A plan is a basis for change, and thus navigating and persevering through that change is where the value is created. Navigating the...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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What You Know Depends on Where You Go
world, though the words used for the numbers differ. If you're a chemistry instructor, whether in Beijing, Beirut, or the Bay Area, you can be confident that water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen. In business, however, View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
another significant advance. For if the mutual fund first empowered the "little guy" by encouraging him to visit Wall Street, the Internet has captured the Street and placed it at his disposal, inside his personal computer. A Nation View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2023
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The Latest Model
Prysm Group Cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging technologies Prysm Group cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging...
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- 08 Mar 2017
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Helping vets become resident landlords
thing called the VA Loan Guarantee. That’s a no-money-down home-buying power, which was a result of the GI Bill after World War II. And what they particularly don’t know is that you can use this up to a...
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- 08 Mar 2017
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Energy Efficiency as a Common Purpose
business enterprise. As an engineer by training, I tended to look at things pretty limited and pretty linear. The AMP program has helped me look at this from an enterprise-wide perspective, and has really helped me, as CEO View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
Above: Rickards on Jamaica’s sense of community: “It’s good to live in a place where the people are expressive and vibrant.” (photo by Marina Burnel) I had a strong sense when I was at HBS that the skills I learned there would have a...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1999
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Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
look to us as a source of information to help them with that. They can be seventy years old and care about how they look, or they can be seventeen. How have your product lines evolved? We started with a core brand definition View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
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Bridging the Gap
for people who don’t otherwise have them. There’s a savvy to how she’s approaching what she’s learned and how she’s contributing, and a clear sense of a north star. She’s driven not by checking things off...
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- 23 Jan 2020
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Bringing Education Back Home
Edgar Kelly-Garcia (MBA 1998) is founder and dean of Universidad of San Sebastian in Mexico. In this interview from June 2018 he discusses the origins of the idea to launch a...
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Educational Services
- 01 Apr 1999
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WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals
centerpiece event of the WSA, a fifteen-year-old organization whose mission is to foster a supportive environment for women at the Business School and to provide services that help them to succeed as students and in their careers. The...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 25 Feb 2020
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Ink: Your Best Self
impatience rising, or I hear myself starting to use a horrible tone with somebody on my team—that’s when it’s time for me to take a deep breath and literally step away from the situation. And a lot of times I grab a sheet View Details
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April White
- 19 Oct 2012
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Past and Present
Sullivan: Fulfilling an age-old human curiosity. Photo courtesy Ancestry.com For Tim Sullivan (MBA 1991), the case method was the perfect way to learn. Sullivan, who is president and CEO of Ancestry.com—the world’s largest online...
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