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31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders

was stunning. It was all new to her—she’d never known anyone who’d had an eating disorder, and hadn’t thought much about it before. It just wasn’t on her radar. But as she’d discover, eating disorders are a pervasive form of mental... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop

photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

23 May 2019
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Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

passion for rowing and a desire to make a difference in Mexico. “Rowing is my meditation,” says the Pan American Games medalist who continues to participate in international rowing competitions. He returned to Mexico for college and has lived there since, excluding... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2020
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Well Matched

or job descriptions. Every day, new opportunities are coming up at Serena Ventures; we’re thinking of multiple timelines and different lines of business. I might get a text from Serena about a deal we haven’t talked about in a while, but... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; venture capital; diversity; inclusion; tennis; leadership; women; Finance

28 May 2019
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Broken Link

If the internet was this poor at a private K–8 school in the heart of Silicon Valley, Marwell wondered, what was it like at other schools across the United States? Not much better, he soon found out. One Federal Communications Commission survey released at the View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

Photographs by Christopher Brown/Redux Pro Not even a nighttime arrival in Mumbai, India’s bustling commercial capital of nearly 13 million people, can mask the collision of old and new that now grips the world’s largest democracy. Planes... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Aug 1998
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A Roaring Success in the Windy City

technology. He emphasized that while the School remains firmly rooted in its traditional mission - to educate leaders by building knowledge - new strategies will be needed to meet the challenges of today's dynamic world. Clark used... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way

In recent years, trends toward economic growth, decreased financial regulation, and broad political change have led to more democratic societies, creating conditions for what some have called an African renaissance. READ MORE Mandela in Triumph at Harvard View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

30 Sep 2016
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Competing Against Luck

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Welcome to the inaugural episode of Skydeck, the Harvard Business School alumni podcast. I'm Dan Morrell, editor of the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and I'll be your host. We're very lucky to start our View Details

01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know

of the 1930s, because it’s the economic crisis against which all others are typically compared. Importantly, one of the most striking things about the Depression, according to observers both at the time and since, is that economic... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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One-on-One with Robert McNamara

to recognize responsibility.” A Conflicted Warrior Only weeks after being named Ford president, McNamara was tapped by the newly elected Kennedy administration to be Secretary of Defense. The early years at the Pentagon were among the best of his career: It was a View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

government and investor capital in just the last few years. MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast But the scope of the problem is massive and growing, which means that all of these... View Details

14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details

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