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- 25 Aug 2022
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A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
foray into building the Learning Network, one of four engagement platforms that represent an important component of the new Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3). “We want to create a two-way street between our alumni and the School,” says Lakhani, who...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers
Zone (HCZ) and Youth Villages. The HCZ started modestly in the early 1990s with the idea of providing a range of support services to address the problems of poor families living in a single block of New York City. As one of Bridgespan’s early clients, HCZ needed help...
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- 22 Sep 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
“My work is about making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes,’” wrote Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) in a Class Notes post announcing his 2013 career move, from private development consultant to lead View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan Illustration by Vahram Muradyan With one quarter of all renters spending more than half their income on housing in the United States, as Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found in 2017, about 11 million Americans are one View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots
intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Mara Aspinall
pharmaceutical companies focused their R&D on treatments for common illnesses — such as diabetes and high cholesterol — an approach that resulted in the development of blockbuster drugs. We now recognize that diseases are far more complex...
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- 22 Jul 2019
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A Way Forward for Women
cohort. They were great for education, she recalls, but progress was slow as far as gaining seats. So, Hagemann, CEO of Executive Development Associates, created a directory of the 2016 and 2017 WOB participants so the women could connect...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters
are common in the United States, “no other company in India is working on this model, and it represents a huge channel innovation,” he explains. To hone iTrust’s credentials as a thought leader in financial advice, the firm quickly View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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Eight Join HBS Faculty
England, that develops payment systems for handheld devices. Torfason received his doctoral training from Columbia Business School. Gwen Yu, an assistant professor in the Accounting & Management Unit, teaches the first-year course View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
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…and They Will Come
At HBS this spring, the world-renowned architect A. Eugene Kohn is teaching Design, Construction & Development Risk in Commercial Construction, an MBA elective. Kohn is the founder and chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), a...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
sustainability. “We strongly believe in the appeal of a strategy that achieves the goals of both purely financial investors and mission-driven investors, as it allows us to access more capital and have a greater impact,” explains Hoffer....
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2008
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Entrepreneurship Program in Fourth Year
Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning (EECPCL) immerses participants in an eight-day program that focuses on fine-tuning teaching techniques, developing courses, and honing strategies to engage students in discussion. Since its...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Déjà Vu All Over Again
Financial Crises, 1830s–1930s” uses letters, photos, cartoons, old money, and legislative documents to chart four economic implosions that occurred in 1837, 1873, 1907, and 1929. While offering a fascinating glimpse into the unique...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Portraits from the Class of 2003
Srivatsa Krishna "I believe my life will have value only if it can add value to the lives of others." Currently: on sabbatical from the Indian Administrative Service, India's elite top management civil service cadre Hometown: New Delhi Occasional Columnist: Business...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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The power of storytelling can be a catalyst in advocating for the rights of women
Khana and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women and Foreign Policy program, Lemmon uses this power to make the case that investing in women is an economic, security and development imperative. “I want to reshape the...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Short Takes
HBS professor Michael Beer and Harvard University doctoral candidate Nancy Katz report on a survey of 205 executives from 30 countries in industries such as manufacturing, retail, and financial and professional services. The survey...
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Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Oct 2002
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Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
careers that are less financially rewarding. We need to find ways to help them focus on their ambitions rather than on the repayment of heavy debt. For all these reasons, it is crucial that we develop more...
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- 04 Nov 2016
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No Grand Plan, but a Clear Mission
been that person who has had it all planned out from the beginning,” Levine recently told The Australian Financial Review. Last year, Levine moved over to Instagram to serve as COO of the photo- and video-sharing social media site that...
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