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Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program - MBA
Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering...
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- 16 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
A Day in the Life as a ‘Spreadsheet Ranger’
project. We had a great time visiting those parks and meeting their teams in the previous few weeks. It will be good to re-connect via phone. 3pm – One of our new friends, who is a Law Enforcement Ranger, comes into our office to say...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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‘Green’ Trailblazers
E-waste recycling Marcel Brenninkmeijer (AMP 155 1998) Good Energies Foundation London, New York, and Zug Foundation focused on poverty alleviation through sustainable access to renewable energy Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002) Serious...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Just Breathe
cause chronic stress. Chronic stress can contribute to high blood pressure, a weakened immune system, anxiety, depression, diabetes, obesity, gastrointestinal problems, and accelerated aging. There was also a study by a Harvard professor [David Williams, at the T.H....
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business
true. But this has really made me think more about the role that institutions and public policy play and about how vulnerable the system is unless we really do have checks and balances. In addition to formal controls, that also includes...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor
rationale as to why this union-backed legislation is needed and why it is good for employees. Alas, he didn’t. In my 20s and 30s, I directly supervised a total of several thousand hourly workers in at least a dozen departments in both New...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Q & A: Herb Kohl
As a boy growing up in Milwaukee, Herbert H. Kohl (MBA '58) spent afternoons and weekends restocking shelves in his immigrant parents' grocery store. It was good training for Kohl, who joined the family business after graduating from HBS...
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Susan Young
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
"Investing in Latin America, or in emerging markets, has simply not paid off," he said. Investors are also jittery over a lack of monitoring and transparency of public companies and the fact that in many countries, the rights of...
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by Julie Jette
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
guided by the invisible hand of the stock market. In Germany alone, some 2,500 companies that would qualify to go public are not listed on any exchange." In rectifying that problem, Europe must deal with another one of considerable...
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by James E. Aisner
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
Dynamic Advertising Effect of Collegiate Athletics, shows how on-field heroics can benefit schools by increasing both the quantity and the quality of students they can expect to attract. The paper has been accepted for publication by the...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
Careers in writing and business were foreshadowed early for T. A. (Tom) Barron (MBA '80). When he was nine years old, growing up in Harvard, Massachusetts, he produced a humor magazine, The Idiot's Odyssey, which he peddled to the public...
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Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 1998
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Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
have spurred Crozier's involvement with the Harvard Divinity School's Center for the Study of Values in Public Life. "The Center is a good forum for executives to share what's on their minds as they make...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
I admire other female colleagues like Sandy Moose of BCG and June Rokoff of Lotus. Best business advice My good friend and sectionmate Brigid Sullivan told me I should be involved with something that taps into my passion. Where the new...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
raised $95 million for fellowships, helped by the work of an alumni and friends Fellowship Advisory Board, formed in 2003. “When I was a student, it was assumed you would earn a good living when you graduated and quickly repay your...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
relatively pro-business government and an energetic young population and growing middle class that make no secret of aspiring to a better quality of life, complete with all the consumer goods such an existence entails. The downside,...
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Julia Hanna
- 12 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?
headquarters produce superior financial performance. We had expected that smaller, "lean and mean" headquarters would lead to better performance. In fact, the opposite is true—larger headquarters are associated with higher profitability. This does not mean...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A social...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Jun 2020
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Meal Plan
example, so people didn’t have to take public transit. We also invented some new product and business models. One brand in the Boston area is Life Alive Organic Café. It’s a plant-based, fast-casual concept that’s very health-oriented....
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Career Paths: From Finance to Social Enterprise - MBA
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- 22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery
suppliers—run with thin margins and minimal cash reserves, even in the best of times. “When COVID-19 hit, they felt the shock immediately,” Mills explains. Beginning in March 2020, the pandemic and unprecedented public health measures...
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Deborah Blagg