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- 02 Dec 2021
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Learning Curve
University of Houston professor, and Shara Bumgarner, a Houston elementary school teacher. Melcher located some classroom space and then watched as her daughter began to acquire social and communication skills in the new environment. Within three months, Melcher had...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Bower Associate Professor Harvard University Press In the first decades after World War II, many newly-independent Asian and African countries and established Latin American states pursued a socialist development model. These states sought paths to socialism without...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Turning Point: Tell Me More
boards, formalized my angel investing, and was off and running. In 2017, I launched a new online panel of 500 voters from all points along the political spectrum, of every age and ethnicity, and from every state in the union. For the next...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Looking back; looking forward
campus, we have planned several special activities. Our Centennial celebration formally began on October 1 when we dedicated the new Centennial Bell hung in Baker Library’s cupola and a half-sized replica installed on Baker’s Lawn (see...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Short Takes
Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2000
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Of Dugouts and Sweatshops
In 1993, as President Clinton's newly sworn-in Secretary of Labor, Robert B. Reich had hoped his first formal public policy decision would be a veritable home run. Instead, he found himself dealing with what appeared to be a no-win...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2015
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Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
fact that the whole of Harvard has the potential to be much greater than the sum of its parts. The benefits of One Harvard are easily apparent throughout the University, which has seen an increase in the faculty working together, both View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way
to a conceptual distinction that has proven both popular and enduring. Eventually business schools began responding to the clarion call for developing leaders, not managers. In the early 1990s, for example, Harvard Business School View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
by his example. He grew up in a very small village in India and was one of the first people in his family to attend college, where he studied engineering. He then went to England to get a diploma in management from Manchester Business School. View Details
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Building Your Own Dream Team
personal and career success and emotional development. Think of them as your personal board of directors with a heart. You meet with each other regularly with a formal agenda, call on each other’s expertise as needed, share emotions,...
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- 12 Feb 2016
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Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Mendhro grew up with a desire to learn and experience the world, she had no formal opportunities to do so. “My brother and I would wake up in the morning and explore. It was self-learning,” she says. “Education became a personal goal and...
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Jill Radsken
- 14 May 2014
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(Re)moving the Needle
early to commercialize it," says Anquetil. "The company was not a great success." He knew he was missing something: formal business training. "I had picked up some knowledge along the way, but I wanted the right knowledge," he says. "HBS...
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- 01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
10.” In Peru, Anglo American recently reached agreement with local communities and government to establish a development fund and water infrastructure as part of the company’s Quellaveco copper mine project. This was achieved through a View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
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Trust Me
trust. “The aspect of a contract that hurts the building of trust is its binding nature. When I know that you are forced to cooperate, it takes away all of the risk. If I leave some element of risk in, by using a contract that isn’t completely binding — like a verbal...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
what it takes to build intellectual and human capital and prepared me for the processes we are now engaged in with our own faculty. What are some of the cultural differences between doing business in the West and in Asia? The West tends toward litigation and View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
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Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
determined. It started out of her dorm room. We joined a tech accelerator and that really propelled us forward. Our formal launch was in May of this year, but we had been working on it for five months before that. And my sister still...
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- 20 Dec 2022
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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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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
the kingdom allocate their time and their capital. What’s more, there is no formal training for how to do their work. So how do these influential leaders practice their craft? What skills do CIOs require? What frameworks do they employ?...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
extraordinary city reestablishing itself at the tenth anniversary of its reunification? This will be a historic conference, one you will not want to miss. In addition to the formal program, the organizers have arranged for some truly...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS
Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education W. Earl Sasser, Jr., who oversaw the formal development and implementation of EDP, calls it "the most ambitious customized executive education program the School has ever undertaken." The...
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Garry Emmons