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- 01 Sep 2018
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A Growing Array of Engagement Opportunities
Last spring, for example, hundreds of graduates engaged with MBA students as part of the first-year capstone experience and many were involved with the new January-term Short Intensive Programs(SIPs) offered to all MBAs. Alumni around the...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
into this business from the time I was thirteen, when I was given a couple of shares of stock," says the quietly intense Kingdon. "Even though the market nose-dived soon thereafter, I was taken with the idea that you could buy something...
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Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
deal with adversity and overcome challenges. I try to create sources of discomfort for my three children. They've been learning Mandarin intensively since the age of two and going to competitions. It's not a situation where everyone gets...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
The newly hired president and CEO of a local medical center faces a daunting task: Under intense public scrutiny, he must save a complex, rapidly failing organization whose culture is marred by indecision and distrust — and do so in an...
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- 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a...
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entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
vocation Prieto started taking intensive conducting courses at the Pierre Monteux School in Maine and lessons at the Tanglewood Music Center in western Massachusetts. The technical material, the mastering of scores—that came easy to...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
2018) Short Intensive Programs Ramana Nanda, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, taught the HBS Startup Bootcamp SIP in January. Ramana Nanda, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, taught the HBS Startup...
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- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
phone. Through the entrepreneurship program, Sounouvou received training, mentorship, networking, and $5,000 in seed funding, among other benefits. “The training helped me greatly in improving our business plan and understanding the business and our industry better,”...
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April White
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
elective that looks at changes in the ways products and services -- both new and traditional -- will be bought and sold in the emerging universe of electronic commerce. Associate Professor Gary W. Loveman studies service management through the lens of global labor...
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
cohort, the Foundations course for incoming MBA students, and a greater emphasis on group projects requiring intensive faculty involvement. Concurrently, the overall MBA class size has increased by 10 percent, while section size has...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Cassidy: At Google, a more intense and frenetic experience than launching his own companies. Art by Joe Ciardiello Related Links Watch a video of Mike Cassidy explaining his approach to rapid product...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Up to the Highest Heights
multivariate equation in real time, all the time, in a super intense situation. The kite has enough power to change your direction from going horizontal across the water at 20 miles an hour to 40 feet in the air in a tenth of a second....
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April White
- 01 Jun 2003
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Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
misconduct due to a few bad apples (wayward individuals), or is malfeasance enabled by the barrel itself (business’s framework of governance, practice, and rules)? The answer, Clark asserted, is that bad apples and barrel flaws were involved, exacerbated by an View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit...
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Jennifer Meyers
- 01 Mar 2012
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Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
Narayanan, the Thomas D. Casserly Jr. Professor of Business Administration and chair of the Accounting and Management Unit. Called the Balanced Scorecard Game, the complex simulation was the result of intensive research, development, and...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
in intensive care for four months and rehab for another six. I’m fully recovered now, but it was lonely and eye-opening; I realized I’m going to die someday, and decided to start a company to cure loneliness, which became Reveal.” Why do...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience
different times, in dissimilar styles and moods. "None of these individually captures me, but together they do," explains Walling, a quietly intense man who has been painting full-time for just a year. A history major at Stanford, Walling...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2016
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Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
electricity grid are associated with carbon emissions. But an electric vehicle is less carbon intense (in terms of pounds of CO2 per mile) than a 25-mile-per-gallon internal combustion engine vehicle—even if the electricity grid that...
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- 01 Jan 2005
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
company's long-term viability. The strategy paid off, with sales jumping well over 50 percent in the first year alone. Under intense scrutiny, Gerstner then reversed a plan to split IBM into independently operated "Baby Blues," choosing...
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