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- 01 Jun 2006
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Profiles from the Class of 2006
venture-capital firm founded by Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69). Grateful for the Red Cross’s assistance to her own family after Hurricane Gilbert ravaged Jamaica in 1988, Brown has volunteered for years in various Red Cross programs. At HBS,...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Luxe Redux
edge and attract new devotees without losing its core following? “We can still accommodate the traditional customer because our styling is classic,” says Matthew McEvoy (MBA 1989), strategic planning director at Burberry. Founded in 1856,...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
institution; a number of volunteer student organizations were formed to reach out to the surrounding community; and the term "social responsibility" found its way into case discussions with some degree of regularity. "Looking back, those...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2011
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Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
management.” — HBS professor Tom Eisenmann “One of the amazing and enduring characteristics of Howard over the years has been his incredible energy level, and his determination to make a difference in his teaching, in writing his many books, in producing new cases and...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
infrastructure, and team. So many of my conversations with Reese, Lauren [Neustadter, Head of Film and Television] and other members of our team focus on: Is this the highest and best use of our time? We’ve found a model of collaborative...
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- 15 Nov 2013
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Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
school in the village of one of his former business partners. Also while at HBS Laguë met Charlene Li (MBA 1993), who today is founder and managing partner of the Altimeter Group, a technology consulting firm. Both played in the HBS Show band (he the trumpet, she...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and HBS professor and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole at the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History at HBS. Professor Myles Mace, back from military service in the Pacific where he found GIs eager to...
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- 02 Jun 2021
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On the Road Less Traveled
a hotel room at age 11, and among the challenges that something like that poses is that it doesn't give you any real grounding. And this is one line from the book. You say, “Having bounced around as much as I did, I had to set my moral compass by taking the measure of...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
choice: accept an attractive offer from the Boston Consulting Group or take on the task of turning around Union Corrugating Company (UCC), a corrugated steel roof-ing and siding manufacturer founded in 1946 by Union’s grandfather. Eleven...
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- 15 Jun 2018
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Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
people. There was a study that was done on Fortune 500 executives, trying to figure out why some of them got promoted fastest. And the only commonality that could be found is that executives who tended to succeed faster than their peers,...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Entrepreneurship at HBS
read in this special Bulletin issue, our alumni have founded or helped to transform many important companies over the years. They have shaped the evolution of industries as diverse as cable television, microcomputer software, publishing,...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
a caregiver, Jurist-Rosner found both to be grossly insufficient and outdated. The Question: Early results of working with employers have been positive—with increased employee productivity, decreased absenteeism, and reduced costs. But as...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Not Your Typical Business Conference
don't let work supersede the important things in your children's lives. Alumnae who have created unique careers shared their experiences during the second morning panel. Mary L. Burton (MBA '76) talked about the "soul-satisfying" work she has View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
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A Roaring Success in the Windy City
In 1943 John H. Johnson sent a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt inviting her to write for Negro Digest, a fledgling magazine that he had recently founded with a $500 loan. The First Lady politely replied that she was too busy at the time....
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- 02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
challenging, painful at times, and really satisfying. I knew I always loved business, but it gave me the toughness and confidence to know I could go out and perform at a higher level.” At HBS, Royster also found his entrepreneurial...
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Jill Radsken
- 26 Jan 2015
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The Ingredients for Success
cost of her much-smaller condo in Los Angeles. Markowitz, now 39, believes she’s found her true passion as NOCHI’s executive director. “I’m attracted to creative people,” she says. “I think sequentially and logically. I’m bottom-line...
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- 01 Jan 2004
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A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Lafley is proud of the fiscal year that Procter & Gamble recently completed. It's his fourth year on the job as CEO, and P&G's sales topped $50 billion—the best results in the history of the company, which was founded in 1837. "I'm...
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- 21 Jun 2022
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Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
impactful roles in tech, while creating a network of Latino innovators who make a difference in the world.” The effort is in response to the very low percentage of people of color working in tech while demand is rising. A 2019 survey by Morgan Stanley, for instance,...
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Margie Kelley
- 26 Jan 2021
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Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
them to forgo returns at all.” An Inside Look at Leading the UK and US Response to COVID As the US and the UK raced to develop a COVID vaccine this year, two HBS alums found themselves at the forefront of the effort. How they grappled...
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Margie Kelley
- 05 Jun 2017
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Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
panel discussions, and industry networking, to help participants navigate the board selection process. “Women on Boards was the only course I found that addressed and connected all the components in a holistic way.” Martinez was one of 67...
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Margaret Kelley