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- 02 Mar 2023
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A Century of Birthday Candles
resident. “The View From 100” recounts how Duff was 6 years old at the beginning of the Great Depression and just finishing high school when the United States entered World War II. Most of the boys in her...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Distinct Yet of a Piece
calculus in a high-school classroom. Distinct individuals, distinctive careers. Yet with their varied backgrounds, interpersonal skills, HBS education, and sterling records of business and community achievement, one feels that the eight...
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- 22 Sep 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
“My work is about making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes,’” wrote Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) in a Class Notes post announcing his 2013 career move, from private development consultant to lead...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
1.4 taxis for every 1,000 people in Jakarta compared with 10.2 in Bangkok, and most of those were concentrated in the downtown area where the office jobs and wealthier residents congregate, despite the fact that taxis were often seen as a...
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- 07 Jun 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
Condo says, “but they also learn about business plans, seed money, and marketing.” All 100 students in each undergraduate class create and operate sustainable agribusiness ventures during their first three years View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
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The Business of Social Justice
Committee. “You are only a student at HBS for a couple of years, but you are an alum for the rest of your life,” Brooks says. “Our class was very special; we were there...
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Jennifer Myers
- 10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman
you like about that work? Do you think it's particularly well suited to MBAs? Do you use your MBA skills in what you do? Lin: Yeah, I mean, it depends on which part of the process. There's so many different parts View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
Collaboration Leads to New Programs for Business and Education Two new programs developed and led by HBS faculty in collaboration with colleagues from across Harvard University—one in business analytics and another in school leadership—are demonstrating the real-world...
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- 23 Apr 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
socially responsible development projects in economically challenged communities. Students come from 48 countries, predominately in Latin America and Africa. The admissions team and faculty personally conduct up to 1,000 interviews in prospective students’ home...
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Deborah Blagg
- 23 Jan 2019
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The Promise of Personalized Medicine
has risen significantly. The productivity out of the pipelines has decreased significantly over time and so that begs the question of where do we go next for treating mankind’s diseases. One View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action
HBS student clubs. The trek brought 150 second-year students to the Valley to explore career opportunities during winter break. Darwall, who notes that fewer than twenty members of her class moved to...
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2000
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Stevenson Named Director of External Relations
In his recent appointment as senior associate dean and director of External Relations, Professor Howard H. Stevenson assumes the responsibility of serving as a liaison between HBS and its alumni. "I am...
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- 20 Dec 2019
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The 19 Musts of 2019
work on signaling and persuasion can help enact urgently needed change.” —Laura Huang, MBA Class of 1954 Associate Professor of Business Administration and author View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
sales forces, and phone-based payment services using power from car batteries, because often they have no electricity,” says Duch, who once described his job in a Class Notes update as “making competitive businesses out View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2017
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The Shape of Things to Come
used to be that you looked at the fraction of foreign students to get a sense of how global the class is. Today, students may say “I have an American passport,” but they’ve...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life
With the 15th Reunion for the Class of 1984 just around the corner, the Bulletin revisits five members of the class we've been keeping tabs on...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Case Study: The Speed of Light
man! — Rindge Leaphart (MBA 1997) I am a partner at a small but rapidly growing executive search firm. Back in the spring of 2010 we conducted a client survey that clearly pointed out a strategic imperative...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Reflections on the “Artistry” of Teaching
Christensen’s wisdom is remembered and often quoted by former students and colleagues from HBS. At least one chairman of a major national conglomerate still carries with him a copy of the yellowed notes he...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
put it mildly, this was an overly rich valuation—Parker’s entire investment up to that point had been an Apple II and 10 used diskettes. With Parker’s enthusiastic assent, Sahlman used the TDC business plan as the focus of his very first...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)