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- 01 Dec 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last 40 years, and of the men most responsible...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Going For The Summit
to make high-stakes decisions that affect a lot of people, and you have to act quickly or you're in trouble," Carpenter explains. "Managing an Internet firm is just like that." Despite the challenge, under...
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Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years
graduates, international alumni, and the HBS Fund Investors Society. We ask our peers to join us in making leadership gifts to the HBS Fund and introduced a new fundraising...
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- 24 Oct 2013
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Engineering a More Secure World
Anthony Harris Photo courtesy of Anthony Harris by Francis Storrs On April 14, 2013, a sheriff's deputy pulled over a truck cruising down Interstate 55 in Mississippi. What started as a routine traffic stop became more serious when the deputy noticed scratches around...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father...
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- 17 Dec 2015
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Examining Global Workforce Management
in Brazil. Furloughs as an alternative to layoffs are used less frequently in the United States than in the rest of the world. Sucher’s case on Honeywell reveals how the firm—the only one of its US peers...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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What I Do: Clare Reichenbach (AMP 185, 2013)
Foundation. Operating “at the intersection of pleasure and purpose,” in the words of CEO Clare Reichenbach (AMP 185, 2013), the nonprofit oversees annual industry awards (considered by many to be the Oscars of the food world), an ongoing...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
At HBS Workshop, New CEOs Tune Up for the Top
large, complex corporations. According to Porter, "The program has been a tremendous success. The workshop gives all participants a unique opportunity to talk with peers about...
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Jon Prestage
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
From a course comes a movement. When the first Women on Boards (WOB) Executive Education program wrapped up in 2016, the cohort of 67 women from 17 countries, who had studied with HBS faculty how boards worked and the skills needed to...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 1999
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Ian Walsh
Ian Walsh was like many other students at Hamilton College - he majored in English and biology and played hockey and lacrosse. But he and his twin brother, Eric, were in a class by themselves when it came to career plans. While their...
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James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
complex, it is clear that a new model based on collaboration and deeper integration is essential to the University’s ability to sustain its impact in the 21st century. Harvard President Drew Faust has...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong
corporations who will identify common pitfalls for foreigners trying to conduct business in Greater China. "Connection" known in the West as networking is an important part of HBS alumni conferences. There will be ample opportunity View Details
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Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
Australian-born Leach notes, "Even if you've traveled extensively, going to a country for a short period of time, working with peers you have not selected, for an organization you know little about, is...
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- 21 Jun 2020
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Rooting out Racism
John Rice (MBA 1992) John Rice (MBA 1992) Will the weeks of protest and statements of support for racial equity lead to lasting change for the country—or will we once again lose steam and move on to the next...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Books
(subtitled How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership) includes new material intended to guide fledgling managers through specific operational issues, such as dealing with organizational politics, influencing View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
elements in life that drive you away from working on something you're passionate about. It can be peer pressure (e.g., 'you should do consulting or finance'); money (e.g., 'a hedge fund is the job with the highest odds of making good...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Jeff Cruikshank
I was hired as the HBS Bulletin editor only about six months after John McArthur took over as the new Dean of the School. He was young - 46, younger than I am now, which I find sobering - but boy, I was really young. My local champion hid my bicycle and backpack every...
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Jeff Cruikshank
- 19 May 2020
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Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
forum since it was first launched in 2011. She relocated to Buffalo a few years ago, but stuck with her forum by participating remotely if she couldn’t get to Boston in person. “Given how our lives and...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2004
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The Future of Stem Cells
traditionally has been closely held during the lengthy peer review and publishing process. He is also encouraging more collaboration among individual funding sectors to avoid funding duplication and View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2011
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Alumni Books
succeed. They investigate the stories of a number of women whose vision improved their companies, although they often had to struggle against unresponsive organizations and peers and even their own personal...
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