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- 11 Aug 2011
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Heard on the Street and the She-E-Os
After its first a cappella group, The Tycoons, disbanded ca. 1970-71, HBS had to wait almost 20 years before two new a cappella groups, Heard on the Street (HOTS) and the She-E-Os, were founded in the late 1980s: HOTS in 1987 by Bill...
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- 19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that would ultimately leave him...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest
other resources but found no definitive answer there either. An article from the previous month’s National Geographic hinted that another mountain in western China, which the magazine called Amnyi Machen, might also rival Everest. It was...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top
worked for fourteen years in human resources at Chemical Bank in New York. For her part, Busch, who has been with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter since graduating from HBS, observed a salient business lesson unfolding across centuries. "What I View Details
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Women & Enterprise, founded by Andrea Silbert (MBA 1991/MPA 1992)—an experience Ndidi says directly inspired her pre-AACE work launching several Nigerian nonprofits devoted to social entrepreneurship. During his time at HBS, Mezuo served...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Ink: Your Best Self
cofounder of Paravis Partners, Su strived to bring her best self to the executive coaching firm every day but found the pressures of modern business were a constant challenge. “There’s a velocity and ferocity that is increasingly...
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April White
- 04 May 2017
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How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
another tech giant: Sandberg contends that she’s almost an accidental prophet of openness in the workplace. A decade ago, as an executive at Google Inc., she always worked from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Then her first child was born, and she found...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World
One afternoon in 1997, while World Bank senior financial analyst Margaret Hanson Costan was in Paris discussing donations to the Bank, her husband, Jay, got a phone call. The social worker with whom they had been working to adopt a baby had View Details
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Young, Susan
- 01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.
leadership positions at her daughters' school, where she is a trustee and a past president of the Parents Association. "I haven't had a paycheck in more than a decade, but I've found volunteer work to be just as meaningful, fulfilling,...
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- 27 Oct 2017
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The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
is really to simplify everything. One of my bosses founded probably one of the most successful investment companies in the world based in China, growing from $30 million in assets to $25 billion in 11 years largely through organic...
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- 08 Mar 2018
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HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
Clubs News Clubs News Harvard Business School is in the midst of a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the African American Student Union (AASU50), with a wide range of events and activities underway to...
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Margie Kelley
- 18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit
that type of work.” But he wasn’t comfortable with the way that particular developer was doing it. “I thought I could do it in a way that I could sleep at night,” he says. So he founded Pioneer Group in 1997. The firm started out doing...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 27 Oct 2016
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Paying It Forward
saved the lives of hundreds of children since it was first established nearly 30 years ago. “It’s an amazing story,” says Kundu. “A man named Balaram Karan was working in a village one day when he found an abandoned baby on the road....
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2000
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Books
about helping executives to get beyond these misconceptions by opening their eyes to new vistas." e-Leadership is also available as an electronic version that can be downloaded and customized at the reader's discretion. More information on the electronic version can be...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
Authority.) Eighteen months after the near-miss deal, after an eruption of hostilities, the two leaders found their political fortunes reversed. Sharon's poll numbers were way down (due to suicide bombers and insecurity inside Israel)...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Faculty Research Symposium
and the other focused on cardiac surgery teams. She found that differences in psychological safety indeed predicted a team's ability to learn and cope with change effectively — a consistent result across very different organizational...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. The authors found four distinct types of highly successful “business builder” personalities―the Driver, the Explorer, the Crusader, and the Captain―and analyze how each type...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
matching the entire US division in revenues. “After that I was hit up by Motorola to run their GSM [Global System for Mobile communications] operation in Pakistan, which is where I discovered mobile—and the rest, as they say, is history.” After landing in Kabul in...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2018
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Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa
also chairs the advisory board of Harvard’s Center for African Studies. “As alumni, we need to give students the benefit of our judgment so that they aren’t always reinventing the wheel.” That meeting Belo-Osagie had with Faust two years ago led to his connection with...
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