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- 01 Apr 1999
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Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities
The Africa Business Club hosted its first-ever conference at the School on January 30. The relatively new club, founded in 1997 to help increase awareness at HBS of business and career opportunities on the African continent, chose...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Myra Hart Named to Professorship
firmly rooted in practice. She was one of four founding officers of Staples, the office supplies superstore. She subsequently served as the company's vice president of operations and group vice president of growth and development. Prior...
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- 25 Mar 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education
Edify has assisted 1,100 private faith-based schools, loaning each a minimum $5,000. Founded and run largely by locals who grew up in these disadvantaged communities, these schools use the money for improvements (such as a computer lab)...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work
Alberto Cavallo’s paper, “The International Price of Remote Work.” Using a data set from 2019 to 2021 from one of the largest web platforms, Cavallo and coauthors Agostina Brinatti, Javier Cravino, and Andres Drenik found that a country’s...
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- 03 Jan 2018
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Candy That Is Good for You
we knew there was room to really get in there and disrupt and innovate. “The response has been overwhelmingly positive. Consumers are thrilled to have finally found an alternative to the artificial gums they've been having up until now....
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- 01 Jun 2006
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A New Day for Fellowships
discussed the strong community she found at HBS and her own personal transformation. In closing remarks, Dean Jay Light noted that “financial debts can be settled, but the gifts of fellowships endure.” Evidence of that could be heard as...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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EnTRIPreneurs
their insights about grassroots entrepreneurship to America's larger entrepreneurial community. Two stops on the itinerary: 1. Red Ants Pants (White Sulphur Springs, MT) RAP sells USA-made work clothes designed for women, including 70 sizes of pants. View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
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Student Snapshot
Second-year student Carlin (“Carly”) Janson divides her time between studying at HBS and managing the Catalyst Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship (Catalyst Alliance), the Cambridgebased social enterprise consultancy she founded while...
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- 25 Sep 2009
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Are You Being Served?
Recently, I successfully appealed and overturned a ruling handed down against me by the State of Massachusetts. After being found at fault for a minor, non-injury traffic accident, I challenged the decision, hoping to reverse it and...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
powerful, secretive corporation founded in 1975 that revolutionized the entertainment industry and, over the next several decades, spread its influence aggressively throughout the worlds of movies, television, music, advertising, and...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari I found myself frequently searching Google for things I read about in the book, which extended the time it took to read it, but I always view this as a great sign. Among the highlights for me: We all share...
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- 23 May 2018
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Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1969 Born, Mt. Pleasant, Texas 1991 Earns BS, Political Science, US Air Force Academy 1995 Awarded Doctorate, Politics, Oxford University 1996 Completes Flight School as a helicopter pilot 1998 View Details
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- 01 Jan 2011
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Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
Founder, Chairman and CEO, The Kraft Group Download Kraft profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1941 Born, Brookline, Massachusetts 1965 Joins Rand-Whitney 1972 Founds International Forest Products 1994 Buys...
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- 24 Aug 2017
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Unlocking Potential
path for criminal justice. A family dinner-table conversation about the concept of recidivism eventually led Anderson to pursue a business education, jobs working on private-sector approaches to the problem, and ultimately to found her...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas
developing world.” The panel of judges also awarded honorable mention to Esther Hsu Wang (MBA 2009/MPA 2010) and Paul Wang (MBA/MPA 2011), founding partners of IDinsight, a start-up that helps client organizations in India and Africa...
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- 30 Jan 2021
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Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
many finish at half that number.” Simon, who earned a degree in engineering and worked in the manufacturing arm of a family business after his MBA, calls dry cleaning “the most challenging industry I have been involved in.” The full story, located behind the Washington...
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- 18 Jul 2018
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Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community
together,” she remembers. That interest led her to study finance and accounting at the University of Pennsylvania. After college, she joined Morgan Stanley as an analyst. “I found investment banking to be exciting and fast-paced,” says...
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- 10 Jan 2017
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A Voice for Women Leaders
mission and goals of the high-level women leaders who make up the organization, which was founded in 1996. “The mission of the Council of Women World Leaders had actually started with a question that I had, which was, what would it be...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Small Club, Big Impact
entrepreneur who founded an IT solutions company before coming to HBS, will return to Nigeria after graduation and hopes to launch a business there. The decision of whether or not to return is complicated and deeply personal, Osawaye...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
public, somebody is always opposed. But that’s the exception. On other occasions, consensus is worth striving for.” Asked by a student about moving from the private to public sector, Whitehead said, “I found the transition much easier...
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