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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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- 09 Mar 2021
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Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
exploration of how business and school leaders are addressing inequities in education. BRIDGING THE GAP Some of the best moments of my day are when I’m talking to students and hearing about their experiences, but what drives me to do this...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 06 Jun 2012
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Fellowship Funder
communicate complex and at times dry subject matter clearly, simply, and with homespun charm,” recalls Mencoff, who went on to become a founding partner and co-CEO of Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm with...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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3-Minute Briefing: Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. (MBA 1988)
between hard work and good luck. Leading us through the pivot into the digital era has been gut-wrenching at times. People didn’t care about the 50 years of work that had come before. It was a process of...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
in her hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana; that she graduated cum laude from Dartmouth; or the fact that she garnered several sales and marketing awards at Merck & Company, Inc., where she worked for five years before coming to HBS....
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Deborah Blagg
- 13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground
Death Star,’” recalls Crespin, the founder of CollaborateUp, a consulting firm that specializes in tackling big societal problems and bridging difficult, cross-sector relationships. He adds, “The environmental people had their arms...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 24 Apr 2014
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Positive impact that hits home
Kiné Seck Mercier (MBA 2014), co-president of the Harvard Islamic Society, recalls a first-year HBS case study set in Saudi Arabia: “There was a lot of discussion about Islam, and there was a lot of misunderstanding about the difference...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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Lone Star Star
guest of honor at the Dallas Figure Skating Club's sixtieth anniversary celebration last September, according to the Dallas Morning News (September 23, 2001). At the event, Wylie recalled numerous 4:30 a.m. sessions of skating and hockey...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors has just completed its winter meeting on campus, the second of three such gatherings we have each year. While January in Boston might not be everyone's idea of a good time, I can assure you that the Board took full...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
have a strong team and had already developed a recall procedure in the event that something like the melamine incident happened,” says Gisholt. “It’s one of those instances that’s challenging as a parent and as an entrepreneur — you don’t...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Robots to the Rescue
wrote in third grade about wanting to make a machine that would do all my homework,” recalls Mountz, the affable founder and CEO of Kiva Systems, a Massachusetts-based company that is revolutionizing the way e-commerce retailers such as...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
addition to the discouraging share price, one other thing from that day sticks in Petitti’s mind: A classmate noted she had explored a similar business model before concluding it wouldn’t work. “What makes you different?” he recalls her...
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April White
- 01 Oct 1997
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Cathy A. Nichols
When Air Force brat Cathy Nichols turned ten, her father left the military and moved the family to a house without electricity in rural Maine. Nichols grew up in semipoverty, working every summer to earn money for clothes and knowing that...
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Thomas Frick
- 01 Sep 2010
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A CEO Goes Undercover
had agreed to work at different jobs in my company. But I would not appear as myself, the president and CEO of Herschend Family Entertainment (HFE), one of America’s premier, privately held theme-park operators. Instead, I would be “John...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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The Accidental Pioneers
FIRST OF THE FIRST: In 1959, HRPBA graduates Roberta (Moniz) Lasley, Sara Wilkinson, and Diana Greer enrolled in the second year of the MBA Program. BEFORE SHE ARRIVED AT HBS IN the fall of 1963, Lynne Sherwood (MBA 1965) recalls having...
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Mar 2008
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Class of 2007 Fellowship Awarded
business solutions to poverty. “One day we were talking to villagers who live on $2 a day, and the next day we were meeting with business and government leaders,” recalls Kim. Last summer he built on this experience View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
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The Good Writer
one-hour world,” recalls Dick, who was then invited to write for Lost in its first two seasons, work that earned him a Writers Guild of America Award as well as an Emmy for best drama. “You’re a nomad, a...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
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Screen Saver
Born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico, Gerardo "Gerry" Lopez fondly recalls the first movie he saw in the United States, in 1977: Star Wars. "Wow, the special effects and flying through space—it was great!" says Lopez (MBA 1984),...
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- 27 Apr 2023
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Life Preserver
three-month program, held at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, was designed to move entrepreneurs out of their silos and encourage them to work together to identify a worldwide problem and a high-impact solution. Through...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2003
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Bottom-Line Discrepancies
Desai, who is studying the gap between book income — what companies report to shareholders — and tax income — what companies report to the IRS. In a paper titled “The Divergence between Book and Tax Income” published in the forthcoming...
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