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02 Mar 2016
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On Credit

the papers of influential business leaders and the records of innovative companies in the late 20th- and 21st-century global business world,” says Laura Linard, Baker Library’s director of special collections. More recently, that focus has led to relationships with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

for investing are going to asset managers and portfolio companies that are cognizant of their broader societal impact. April White: There are three topics covered in the pledge: biased policing, ballot access, and economic inclusion.... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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The Accidental Pioneers

Sherwood came to HBS with the aim of being a securities analyst on Wall Street, but she graduated without a job offer. "I guess I picked the stodgiest firms to interview with, and Wall Street wasn't very open to women at the time," she says. A family friend in View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

01 Sep 2003
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These Are the Good Old Days

made their mark in the media and entertainment realm — be it publications, television, movies, theater, or the arts. At graduation, investment banking and consulting ranked as top career choices. But over the years, she’s seen her fellow... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2017
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Yoga Inc.

was more physical. A former triathlete, he was invited by his investment firm’s partners to a hot yoga class. “I could not believe how I felt afterward,” he recalls. “That halo effect after a good sweat—it opened up my chest, and I got... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Halber

01 Sep 2016
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Code name: Miesiąc

consulting, he founded Warsaw-based investment firm Metropolitan Capital Solutions in 2009. Now, with his back to the former Communist headquarters, Maj strides across a newly established public plaza. Embedded in the sidewalk at his feet... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top

that when you are the first to enter a market, it's important to build continually on that first-mover advantage. In my field, investment banking, you can't coast, not even for a minute. You constantly have to come up with the next idea."... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out

to reduce our costs through lean manufacturing and automation so we could get investors to buy into the business. It also required salesmanship to get people interested in the equine business, which is not at the top of everyone’s list as an View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

the heart once you’ve gone and assessed those types of things. When I get calls from like venture capitalists or other people who might want to invest in some of my alumni, the easiest reference checks that I find that I can make, the... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA

teaching hospitals, so when it offers small-group teaching and tutorials, the school draws on doctors in the affiliated hospitals,” says Garvin. “We may need to consider a similar model where faculty are heavily invested in the design of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

representing pharma, energy, and investment discussed their responses, and those of other corporations, and the critical roles that partnerships and collaboration with US and other non-Ukrainian companies can play in supporting their... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

of liquidity, the economy will come back, he said. The nation faces an even more formidable long-term challenge in climate change, where all panelists agreed that leadership currently is in short supply. Doerr, whose Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

strengths. "The work we are doing in technology right now is intended to open up a host of opportunities," explains Dean Clark. "Yes, we are making an extraordinary investment in hardware and software, but the real success of our endeavor... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

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