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- 01 Dec 2001
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Steven Rogers
anything. My mother only had a tenth-grade education, but she was a voracious reader who taught herself the jewelry and antiques business," he says. Inspired by his mother — "an eccentric entrepreneur" — and her perseverance, the...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an...
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- 01 Jan 2013
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Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
Ocean Hall opens at National Museum of Natural History As a Mormon missionary in Wisconsin, Roger Sant enjoyed working with Native Americans. Innately curious, he liked spending time with the people, getting to know them, and helping them...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
Can white-collar corporate America do business with “green” environmentalists? Roger Ullman (MBA ’89) thinks so. Ullman, who worked in the mergers and acquisitions division of Merrill Lynch for twelve years, retired from his post as a...
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- 13 May 2013
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Tied Together by the Times
Under the leadership of Roger Yanow, the Class of 1954 has set multiple dollar and participation records. Yanow, who serves as fundraising chair for the class, says there is no magic formula for 1954's success. “I depend on my fundraising...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Marquis Jet Takes Off
uniquely positioned to broaden the customer base for private-jet travel to their former clients: young, highly paid athletes and performers. By contrast, their research showed that the typical private-jet customer was a highly successful...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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The MBA at a Crossroads
It’s not often that a speech by an academic generates optimism in a room full of educational leaders facing significant challenges. But that’s what happened back in February when HBS professor Srikant Datar addressed business school deans...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Cracks in the Foundation
actions to boost America's competitive standing-one decision at a time. That call to action lies at the heart of the School's new US Competitiveness Project, chaired by Porter and Rivkin and involving a team of HBS faculty and thought...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Rogers In a self-indulgent moment in his late 20s, Gary Rogers (MBA ’68) bought a Porsche, a flashy status symbol befitting his standing at the time as a well-paid McKinsey consultant. It turned out to be...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Home Sweet (Modular) Home
we need.” With almost three years of operational experience, the ten-person company has adapted and survived. A pending project for 42 multifamily affordable-housing units would cause the firm to triple in size by year’s end. While...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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An Authentic Leader
highly successful CEOs basked in near celebrity status conferred by the media, George dodged the limelight and steadfastly insisted that he didn’t create anything. He just made it possible for others to do so. George also believed in...
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- 28 Jan 2011
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HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
Required Curriculum reflects an institutional philosophy that all first-year students need a common knowledge base, the Elective Curriculum presents students with "an incredible marketplace of ideas from the best faculty in the world," said Moon. View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
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Back to Glass-Steagall?
President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would prohibit banks that take customers...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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The MBA Turns 100
customers — all voice concerns about the programs, according to recent research by HBS professors Srikant Datar and David Garvin. They presented their findings to participants in two separate Centennial colloquia on the future of the MBA...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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The Path to Economic Revival
becomes more and more problematic. We see the symptoms of decline, which are driven by things like labor arbitrage and industries moving assembly overseas, followed by more and more sophisticated work. The...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
performance by the English National Ballet Company of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo & Juliet at the Royal Albert Hall. It seemed fitting that the last collective act of the alumni and guests gathered for the 2005 GLF was a thunderous round of...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
The commercial real estate business was in a shambles fifteen years ago, but just look at it now. After a complete rehab, the industry has become the darling of investors eager for alternatives to lackluster stocks and bonds. But will the good times last? Illustration...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel Partners. He figured he’d stay a...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Making History, Starting Over
British government to declare a state of emergency and place businesses on a three-day workweek to conserve electricity. It would take more than luck to grow a business in such conditions. By 1977, two of the founding partners had moved...
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- 02 Jul 2008
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No Pulp Fiction Allowed
theories blaming managers for the nation's economic malaise. The ideas stuck, and managers became, and remain, "hired hands" reduced to working for stockholders — and their own financial self-interest — at the expense of all other stakeholders. It's a mess Khurana...
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