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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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- 01 Jun 2013
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Harvest Time
Morgan Stanley and after launching an adventure-tour start-up, Ransom cofounded Wildfire, a social media marketing company acquired last year by Google for a reported $350 million. Discussing her thoughts on leadership and the culture at Wildfire (where she remains...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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What’s On?
KILAR After working at Amazon.com for nine years, in 2007 Jason Kilar (MBA ’97) became CEO of Hulu, the service that brings popular television programming and movies to computers via high-quality streaming video. Hulu, free and...
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- 09 Sep 2011
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Remembering 9/11 at HBS
As the world recalls the events of 9/11 this week, we are reminded of two articles from the Bulletin that offered contemporaneous accounts of that historic moment. Read how the School reacted to the tragedy and memorialized members of the...
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- 09 Sep 2011
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Ten Years Ago: HBS and 9/11
As the world recalls the events of 9/11 this week, we are reminded of two articles from the Bulletin that offered contemporaneous accounts of that historic moment. Read how the School reacted to the tragedy and memorialized members of the...
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- 22 Nov 2013
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A Passion for Film
Management (TOM) Unit, which still resonates in the work he does today. "I bring some of the stuff I learned in that class to the majority of my days," he says, recalling a case study of Krups, the coffee...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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The path to philanthropic entrepreneurship
Sherry Coutu (MBA 1993) recalls that one of the things she liked most about attending HBS was that it empowered its graduates to continually strive to have increased impact in their endeavors. This has guided her View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
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Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)
times, and I had given the finest presentation he had ever heard,” recalls Murphy. “That cold call—and HBS—set me on a path to building my self-confidence and developing the skills to succeed in business.” After graduating as a Baker...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
Skills”—has generated much interest nationally in the role of business in closing the skills gap. The Walmart Foundation, for example, cited the research in its recent decision to grant $100 million over the next five years to not-for-profits View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Chandler Donates Papers to Baker Library
was hosted by HBS professor Geoff Jones, who observed that Chandler’s work has been distinguished by “its historical rigor and for thinking big.” After several fellow historians had praised him, Chandler rose to thank the gathering. In...
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- 11 Mar 2020
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America’s Hottest New Dating Sites: Business School Campuses
share life experiences, fears and failures, Ms. Richard said. Getting to know each other in a business-school group seemed easier than dating someone off campus, she said. Neither planned to date. Ms. Richard said something sparked when Mr. Richard talked about View Details
- 10 Dec 2015
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Leveraging Curiosity to Broaden the Impact
Jose Arche (MBA 2016) has had a lifelong curiosity about how things work. “There were always family stories being told about my taking everything apart,” recalls the former engineer at the Boeing Company. Arche’s experience at Boeing made...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
Jeff Immelt’s night table—Railway Age, Aviation Week, Broadcasting & Cable—represents just a few of the industries encompassed by General Electric, the company founded by Thomas Edison where Immelt is entering his ninth year as chairman and CEO. “I’m a voracious...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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2020 Vision
When it comes to setting personal goals, Lara O’Connor Hodgson (MBA ’98) aims high: Her ambition is to become, like another notable HBS alum, President of the United States, most likely in 2020. (For those with a similar aspiration and timetable, View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
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A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
River. The people were watching a German shepherd dog out in the water, in a hole in the ice, struggling to get some traction to get up onto solid ice. Fred and I continued on our way to I cannot recall where, and when we returned it was...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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The Meaning of Ramadi
Campbell (MBA '07) Courtesy Donovan Campbell One day in April 2007, my phone started ringing during a customer analytics class at HBS. I kept hitting silence, but the phone kept ringing. Thirteen calls and one very annoyed professor later, I got the hard news: The...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Protecting against the Erosion of Brand Value
and sell books.” What’s at work here is commoditization, a process that results in companies being unable to profitably differentiate their products and services. “The specter of commoditization sends chills down every executive’s spine —...
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- 09 Nov 2017
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A Chance to Lead
John Brennan (MBA 1980) is chairman emeritus, the Vanguard Group. In this interview he recalls his early time at the business and the opportunity presented to him to lead. “In the summer of 1982, I moved out to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,...
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- 18 Apr 2018
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Into the Light
Energicity. “Modern life, as we know it, is impossible.” Poindexter has seen the human and economic costs of “energy poverty” firsthand in rural Ghana. There, her startup is working to bring solar power to communities where highly...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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Case Study: A Place at the Table
several professors who never called on a woman in class "unless it was a discussion of a 'woman's product.'" A Class of 1973 alumna recalls professors "who, in the middle of a class, would look at the women and the African Americans and...
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