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15 Nov 2020
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Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard

joint-degree candidates from HBS, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)—to set up a foundation alongside their company to maximize their... View Details

20 May 2020
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Keeping Families Connected

content on their respective screens. Launched in 2016 as a story app for young children, Caribu has since expanded to offer a variety of activities for kids up to age 13. The platform was named one of TIME magazine’s best inventions of... View Details

19 Oct 2012
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Past and Present

world.” Sullivan offers some words of wisdom to young businesspeople. “You want to find a company that will help you continue to learn, because I can almost guarantee that 95 percent of HBS’s next graduating... View Details

Keywords: genealogy; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Jun 2022
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Closing the 'Network Gap'

alma mater and the companies I’ve worked at, I was only exacerbating the network gap.” Schrier, who is white, had met Hu virtually through the HBS network prior to their first year, and although they had been pursuing independent startups... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 2001
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Making a World of Difference

collaborative — mirrors that which he strives to create through his philanthropic activities. "I believe that in today's world, the corporate executive cannot be of major value unless he or she has the capacity to coexist with difference," says Slifka. "Coexistence in... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

10 Jul 2024
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Next Level

Gina Joseph (GMP 29, 2020), chief strategy officer for the technology media company VentureBeat, was recently honored by the San Francisco Business Times in their “40 Under 40” issue. Joseph is thriving in the media, tech, and gaming... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace

01 Jun 2024
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Turning Point: On the Line

Nobody below the level of showrunner (head writer/CEO) being kept on for production, denying junior writers on-set experience. Another critical issue: the disappearance of the money paid for reruns, or residuals, as companies kept series... View Details

Keywords: labor strike; television; media; unions

01 Oct 1998
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A Zest to Invest

A young currency trader knocks politely on a conference room door at Kingdon Capital Management Corp. (KCMC), a Manhattan-based hedge fund. Her boss, KCMC's founder and president Mark Kingdon, invites her in with a friendly nod. "The... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.

01 Jun 2015
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Rebooting Europe

how to reignite that flame. The former Goldman Sachs banker and Portuguese secretary of state has his work cut out for him. The EU’s 2012 Community Innovation Survey found that while nearly half of European companies claimed innovation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; European Union; Government; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)

both my business and my teaching. Entrepreneurs are often solely focused on trying to sell as little of their company as possible to an investor. If you take that logic to the extreme, it means you're probably going to end up selling to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 1998
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Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship

marketing skills, I felt the company could become the 'shark' that ate all its smaller competitors in the saturated European lawn-mower market." Andresen says that he "thoroughly enjoyed" his role as general manager at SABO. "The... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Offshore Learning

the New England power industry, where he played a key role in building a start-up company into a $300 million energy marketing enterprise. Seeds of Success When he rejoined Outward Bound full time at Thompson Island in 2005, Pearson... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Outward Bound; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2001
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Steven Rogers

tutor in the ABC house in Williamstown, and as a senior, he gained custody of his younger sister, Laura, because his mother could no longer take care of her. The night before graduation, he married his college classmate, Michele Johnson. Both accepted positions with... View Details

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

01 Jan 2003
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Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969

and great-grandmothers in the African-American community have always taught young people to help others in need. That's the sort of wisdom that anyone would do well to follow." Lillian Lincoln Lambert, the first African-American woman to... View Details

19 Feb 2021
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A Playbook for Progress

challenge leadership as we know it today. We have coined the phrase generational diversity to distinguish the complexity that's surfacing right now in the workplace. By 2027, people of color ages 18 to 29—and that's your gen Z and young... View Details

26 Jul 2011
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An Entrepreneur of the Arts

Efimova: Inspiring a love of the arts in young children. Photo courtesy Aleksandra Ekimova Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, Aleksandra Efimova (OPM 39, 2010) attended the renowned Art School at the Hermitage State Art Museum and... View Details

Keywords: ballet; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

As it happened, many of the young men and women returning home from war were in complete agreement with Slichter. By one measure - a series of Air Force outprocessing interviews conducted in 1945 - the number of veterans intending to join... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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School Ties

When Jan Rivkin talks about what the US educational system must deliver, he lays out the challenge in stark terms. "For young Americans to succeed in today's workforce, they must out-innovate and out-produce the world's best," declares... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

20 Feb 2019
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Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship Programme in 2014 with a $100 million endowment to empower 10,000 young African entrepreneurs over 10 years. In 2018, the foundation received more than 150,000 applications for 1,000 available spots. The program is... View Details