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18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, concluded that educators must help Black students “cultivate a sense of personal agency and convince them that their deliverance is determined more by their own actions than by the... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond

requirement when it came to recruiting: find the best person for the job. So when he needed to staff the Special Funds Branch, which would finance the organization’s clandestine activities, Donovan turned to Wall Street and the country’s... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

helpful to them going forward. They also start to build personal relationships with faculty and administrators who may be pivotal to their adaptation process during their two-year stay." The student government at HBS now includes... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

22 Jun 2023
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Finding Her Place

“everybody knows Uncle Billy here at Chapman Partnership,” she says. Hudson has brought both her personal experience with the plight of homelessness and her business knowledge to the organization. Those combined perspectives led her to... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Teaching kids lessons in making choices and tradeoffs

tradeoffs, and how her current role compares with her career expectations when she graduated from HBS. “I’m the CEO of the Council for Economic Education. We’re a national not-for-profit that teaches little kids about the real world through lessons in View Details

26 Mar 2025
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Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore

purpose, and relationships rather than solely focusing on career achievements or material success. The type of person I want to become—what is the purpose of my life—is too important to leave to chance. It needs to be deliberately... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2008
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The $4 Billion Question

this), he sticks to the original plan for a $1 billion fund, despite the fact that he is probably leaving behind millions of dollars of personal profit. An in-class poll indicates that about half the students would have made the same... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management

01 Apr 2000
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Strike Up the Broad(band)

telephone-television-Internet system." Given the success of the Internet, which the authors liken to "a kind of broadband on training wheels," they predict that as broadband technology evolves during the coming years, its power to... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

today goes to telecom, high tech, or software,” said Mahesh, founder and CEO of Sundaram Medical Devices in Chennai. Mahesh trained at Stanford as an engineer and worked for McKinsey and Toyota before attending HBS. He plans to apply... View Details

Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo

Manufacturing Gains Professor Richard H.K. Vietor A train carrying oil tank cars near Gladstone, North Dakota. “The gas from this shale revolution has made petrochemicals, cement—almost everything, really—cheaper in the United States than... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Sep 2005
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One-on-One with Thomas Riley

think is right.” How did you prepare for this assignment? I took a two-week ambassadorial training seminar and several weeks of refresher instruction in French. I read up on the history of Morocco and attended a number of State Department... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Government

09 Sep 2016
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MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

think about what is an Uber or what is an Airbnb, Uber is, sort of, a five-minute email of a car, from one person to another. Airbnb is, sort of, a week long email of a place to stay, from one person to... View Details

25 Mar 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education

needed someone with his business acumen to execute them. “I was a 50-year-old person when I got that call about social entrepreneurship, but I stepped onto the playing field,” says Crane, who is now 63. “My initial reluctance was overcome... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

30 Sep 2024
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The Making of a Streaming Sensation

keep Holly very involved creatively and in fact build the creative team around her. And sometimes, sadly, what often happens with Hollywood adaptations is the first person to get fired from the project is the author. And as a fellow... View Details

22 Feb 2018
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My First Job

assistant. At that time, they had a training program there. It was basically, your first job was very much training. I absolutely hated it because they took every person who came into the program, as... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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Racial Bias Pervades Health Care

cites a library full of studies (some his own) as well as his own personal experiences to document that minorities receive a lower standard of health care than do white men. For example, he writes, African Americans receive fewer... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup

example of Jobs and Wozniak at the birth of Apple Computer. “Were they the right guys to create a hand-assembled computer motherboard company in 1976?” he asks rhetorically. Answer: sure. But—were they the right guys to build a major View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

01 Jun 2000
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Q & A: Gustavo Herrero

gratifying: We will be helping HBS to collaborate with academics from the region. The first step in that direction is the Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning, which will take place at HBS July 16-28. We will convene sixty Latin American academics, who will be... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 1999
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Joel Bines

training in account management, Bines was picked for the vacant position. He lost no time demonstrating his abilities and was soon hired by Mont Blanc as promotions manager. When Mont Blanc's president left to take over the struggling... View Details