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- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
will prove vastly superior to classical computers at complex, resource-intensive tasks like training AI systems, optimizing supply chains, or designing airplanes and automobiles. According to Kumar, many financial services firms are...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty
meager supply of life jackets, neglecting to keep one for herself. When the boat sank, she used her skills as a former lifeguard to save people in the shark-infested waters, but hundreds of others drowned. Fashioning a flotation device...
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2024
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Leading Businesses in a Web3 World
Illustration by Daniel Hertzberg Web3 is poised to transform everything we do online by decentralizing and democratizing the internet. That transformation is already underway in the business world: built on blockchain technology that offers increased security and...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation
As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
temporary glut, but one that is a result of progress, which is good for the overall economy. Furthermore, when overcapacity produces a drop in demand, production usually slackens, excess supply is gradually drawn down, and, over time,...
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Garry Emmons
- 21 May 2024
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A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one...
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- 31 Oct 2023
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
Sijh Diagne (photo by Michael Bucher) In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) was asked to serve as an advisor to Senegal’s minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. He was charged with leading the country’s private-sector development; but just as became the case...
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- 19 Apr 2023
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A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. Even so, they were...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories
in my case, that’s probably the largest influence. He had everything from a wrecking yard where they salvaged parts from cars to a machine shop where they rebuilt engines to a distribution supply business. He did lots of things and he did...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Turkish Delight
BYFORD: Changing careers is well worth the effort. Grenville Byford (MBA ’79) was practical when he decided to pursue his interest in international relations. “Unless your name is Kissinger, you have to specialize in a particular area of the world,” he says. “As a...
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- 01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
publisher in Lowell whose products included Gideon Bibles. Another—which came his way via an Executive Education participant who was president of the Boston Bruins—was from a small company with about a million dollars in sales that View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
effort, he mobilized Rakuten’s merchants in the south to help disaster victims in the north. The Rakuten Eagles, whose crimson uniforms symbolize the role that Harvard has played in Mikitani’s life, are based in the region hit hard by the disaster, and the team helped...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
Highway As cities reshape themselves and populations increase, demand for goods will rise. And if the pandemic taught us anything about supply and demand, it’s that the trucking system—once largely unnoticed—can become a real bottleneck....
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- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
supply officer who was an HBS alumnus and who lent him copies of the Harvard Business Review. With a wife and children to support, Dunn decided that HBS would be a good choice when his tour of duty ended in 1959. Admitted to the Class of...
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- 01 Jan 2004
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D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
graduated from HBS and was finishing a three-and-a-half-year stint as an officer in the U.S. Navy Supply Corps, in charge of a select group that used early models of giant IBM computers to manage inventory for the Navy's airplanes. About...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
That is why we introduced pep+ (PepsiCo Positive), our strategic end-to-end transformation, with sustainability at the center of how we will create value for our shareholders and all our stakeholders. Climate action across our supply...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
Ferdinand Stockmann (MBA 2021), who previously worked at Boston Consulting Group and has a background in the technical side of supply chain management, created Syrup Tech, a predictive software that drives inventory excellence, powered by...
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April White
- 01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
working in the public sector to be extremely rewarding and is deeply committed to helping small US manufacturers who operate in large corporate supply chains. "We cannot lose their expertise," she emphasizes. "If we do, we'll lose even...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
corridor of Southwest Baltimore. Factories and warehouses supplied the city with everything from furniture to gelato, and people flocked to the strip’s shops, theaters, and saloons. Just to the south, a series of elegant row houses earned...
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