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01 Mar 2017
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Case Study: Moment in the Sun

Above: The Ario Lamp parallels the sun’s schedule. (Courtesy Ario) Ario is a smart lighting company in the Bay Area whose lamp changes light direction and color dynamically throughout the day, promoting better health. The shifts in... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Apr 1998
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New Releases

improvement will they be able to take full advantage of the cost management potential of their new systems." Presenting a blueprint for the design of systems that promote both learning and better decision-making, the authors highlight... View Details

21 Jun 2022
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Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead

Weinstein says the HBSLAA has produced a series of events this year to promote and increase Latino representation, engagement, and leadership in the tech industry. The Latinx Technologists Initiative (LTI), spearheaded by Raysana Hurtado... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2000
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Laura Scher of Working Assets

the company also donates a percentage of online customer purchases. And, most recently, Working Assets created a similar donation mechanism through the long-distance telephone and Internet services it now offers on Sprint PCS Web-enabled cellular phones in select... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 2001
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Steven Rogers

nonprofit boards (including that of ABC). While serving as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, he created the Entrepreneur Internship Program. Rogers is devoted to promoting entrepreneurship among... View Details

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

13 May 2025
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If I Knew Then

have to get there. And there actually is a very clear framework that senior management teams and the executive search firms that advise them and help them with talent, that they use to evaluate candidates relative to that hiring and View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

01 Oct 1997
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Doing Something Real

a number of cities to promote My Vast Fortune, which has received rave reviews from readers. Says one, music industry mogul David Geffen, "If you don't think finance, politics, or real estate can be funny, read Andy's book." View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)

01 Oct 1999
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The View from the Pit

"Today's students have a more pragmatic perspective. They don't merely focus on the theory of the case, and they tend to promote more global considerations." Because his students demand substantial real-world relevance alongside theory,... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Nov 2012
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First and Goal

rejected. As a result, he resigned from the board of the organization he had founded to promote the sport that he loved. Today, Swearengin, an attorney who for 14 years has represented companies facing class action litigation and... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade

companies touted cleanliness as good for health and success, but also for beauty. Hair washing, long unfashionable, was also a 20th-century phenomenon. This 1905 German advertisement promotes one of the first shampoos. Image Courtesy... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

first time I got it under way I was out for a week. Coming back, I crashed it into a buoy. It took me about 11 years to recover from that, professionally.” Moving up: “If after 21 years the Navy had said to me, ‘You’ve commanded three ships, and you’re not going to be... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Christensen and Vernon Remembered

highest honors bestowed on a foreigner. In 1952, while acting director of the Office of Economic Defense and Trade Policy, he was in charge of controlling the trade of the Soviet-bloc countries and promoting trade in the free world. In... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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Clark Bids Farewell to HBS

problem aside and turn it off. If you can’t do that, you really won’t be able to do this job. What was toughest part of the job? It always comes down to people. The hardest decisions are about who to promote and who not to. The toughest... View Details

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

08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

grown up in the business all of my career, and when I finished college and came back I was a full-time employee for the first time. After a year or so I was promoted to work under my dad as one of the department managers. And within a few... View Details

19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit

conversation with Coupounas immediately senses that she’s wide open to new ideas. These days, in fact, her Colorado-based activities are all about promoting new ideas. Coupounas is director of the first fully staffed field office of B... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations

01 Dec 2004
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The Future of Stem Cells

the research has been far slower than it should be.” Van Etten is committed to improving the process on the business and management side. He is promoting the concept of “team science” and trying to increase the sharing of data and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit

of Antares is to harness the power of private enterprise to promote public health." As part of its research and educational activity, Antares deploys joint HBS and HSPH student field-study teams around the world to work with health... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman

professional growth? An artist may start out as an artist. Then do I promote them and properly train them to be head of story? The next position could be to become co-director and eventually to the director of a movie. So in the case of... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

08 Nov 2024
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Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection

Wambui Maina (MBA 2007) Lisa Gunther (MBA 2000), and Aaliyah Shafiq (MBA 2007) As a direct result of her participation in the Harvard program, Rally became involved in advocacy work promoting childhood cancer research. To date, that... View Details