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- 01 Jun 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
new, for big, and that’s what the United States embodied to me.” As a college student majoring in economics and finance at Bentley University, outside Boston, she interned and later worked full-time at Merrill Lynch. “They said, ‘Sometimes we don’t understand your...
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- 26 Feb 2019
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
An experiment in real estate investing is underway in Philadelphia, where Steinbridge Group CEO Tawan Davis (MBA 2006) has made a long-term commitment to less-affluent renters in the city’s most rapidly gentrifying communities. “You want to see positive economic...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
civil disobedience. This really matters—as Erica Chenworth’s research has shown, no government can withstand a challenge of 3.5 percent of its population without either accommodating the movement or (in extreme cases) disintegrating. How could View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
an executive who understood technology, knew how to market it, and had the leadership skills to take on difficult challenges, she also focused on paving the way for more women. “I see it as a virtuous circle,” she says. “People help you, View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2023
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Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people...
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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
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 2000, she spent a year in the company's home insecticides joint venture with US-based Sara Lee and another in human resources before shifting to the Group's inaugural attempt to market tea. "It was a big...
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- 20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits
Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her glass to take a sip and, with the flavors of the drink...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
organizational behavior. "I love the intellectual hunt behind research," he says. "It's a process of trying to understand elements that initially don't seem to have any relation to one another. When they come together, it's a big aha.' View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
Walking around the Cynthiana, Kentucky, manufacturing plant of E.D. Bullard Company, the firm's chairman, Jed Bullard, is in his element. "This is Sandy, she's been here a hundred years," he jokes with a woman affixing decals to hard hats. "I want View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
Gbadegesin has lived more than half of his life in the United States and speaks perfect English with a slight Midwestern accent, he is still at heart a Nigerian. Armed with his MBA, he will return home to launch an identification system...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave
children in Middle American suburbia, his businessmen protagonists acquired the extroversion “necessary to be at home in a smiling rotarian world.” But like MacDonald, who admitted that he himself had done “miserably in the business...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
trucking routes that offer faster point-to-point service, a reduced carbon footprint, and useful analytics. “The long haul is the most challenging for drivers and has the largest shortage of drivers,” explains Lu. “If you can help...
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- 26 Mar 2014
- News
The Power of Education
had to make two trips from our home in New Jersey, but we didn’t want to miss either event.” The couple’s belief in the power of a Harvard education has inspired their generous and thoughtful support of both Harvard College and HBS. At...
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- 25 Feb 2021
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Building Hope
prescribed antidepressants, which can take weeks to have an effect, ketamine’s impact is almost immediate. It also seems to have particular potential as a counter to suicidal ideation. “That’s the Western medicine approach that people need,” Zapolin says. In a View Details
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Daniel Morrell
- 26 Jul 2018
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Running the Numbers
she recalls. “I remember participating in clinics where I was the only girl on the court and vowing I would start a clinic just for girls someday.” She kept that promise while she was working in New York,...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
The Birds and Bees in China
information seemed to be pornography or very clinical information on reproductive health from the government." Shunning risqué material, Kenny's Hong Kong-based Dotlove.com Web site features a wholesome mix of online polls, quizzes, and...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Research Brief: The Best Medicine
only about 5 percent of participants in clinical drug trials. In the working paper, “Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials,” coauthors Marcella Alsan, Maya Durvasula, Harsh Gupta,...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Experience," HBS professor Clay Christensen analogized that just as the computer industry evolved from massive mainframes to customer-friendly personal devices, "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' View Details
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Health, Social Assistance