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- 14 Jan 2014
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Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
more than $1,000 from local citizens and businesses; it is taught only in and by local business venues; and it requires that each student start a business. The program also features a $100,000 venture fund, established by an anonymous...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Banishing Balkan Ghosts
It's past midnight and the Minister of Finance and Economy is home early from work, fumbling around in the kitchen of his spartan apartment, trying to find something to eat. He's two years into the job, but meals and sleep still occur...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2016
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Up by the Roots
its wine, but inferior product from Canada and China had begun flooding the market, driving down retail prices from $50 a pound that year to $12 a pound by 2006. Instead of joining the family business, Hsu went to work for General Mills...
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Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2008
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Nine MBAs Chosen for Leadership Fellows Program
Meredith Hamilton, Citizen Schools; Tim Nicolette, City of Boston Mayor’s Office; and Adrian Mucalov, Endeavor; (front row) John Kim, Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative; Mikaela Boyd, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Maura Marino,...
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- 25 Jun 2018
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An Unfinished Story
In 1961, at the age of eight, Elaine Chao (MBA 1979) traveled to the United States from Taiwan with her mother and two sisters aboard a cargo ship. It was a harrowing 37-day journey to reunite with her father, who had come to the country three View Details
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April White
- 16 Oct 2013
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Progress Through Preservation
Will Rogers by Maureen Harmon Every year, Will Rogers (MBA 1985) packages honey from his backyard beehive operation and doles it out to major supporters of the Trust for Public Land, where he serves as president and CEO. The hives, which he's kept for more than 40...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Yoga Inc.
spiritual pursuit so much as it is a $16 billion global brand, with a number of HBS alumni involved in that transformation. Once limited to the devotees of a handful of swamis and gurus who introduced the practice to the West in waves...
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Deborah Halber
- 01 Apr 2001
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Trek Talk
The tradition of the HBS “trek” continued this year with hundreds of future graduates pounding the pavement and working the HBS network to investigate career options near and far. In early January, while one group of Eurotrekkers crossed...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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One-on-One with Robert McNamara
war’s progress? In matters of the human spirit, numbers could be deceiving. After teaching accounting and control for three years at HBS, McNamara became a War Department consultant and later was inducted into the U.S. Army Air Corps. In...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
(January 26, 1958) THE QUEEN ELIZABETH, 1958: A staple of long-distance passenger travel as recently as fifty years ago, ocean liners were rendered obsolete by an exciting new development: air travel. But commercial shipping, in an...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Five Bright Ideas
ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Bright Idea #1 Training the Global Workforce, Gratis Mike Feerick (MBA 1993) FEERICK: At the grade school he attended in Ireland. "Knowledge and understanding," he says, "are being unleashed via the web...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
not have been easy to predict. Henry Ford, for example, started two companies that failed before he established the Ford Motor Company in 1903. He was 40 years old at the time. Watson was also 40 when he went to CTR in 1914; that company...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Students Serve as Consultants
Twelve HBS students spent their January Term as volunteer consultants to USAID projects in Bangladesh, Jordan, Morocco and Uganda. Only in its second year, the student-led Global Impact Experience program, the brainchild of Rich Chung...
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- 22 Jun 2021
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Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada
Michelle Banik, Heather Stark (MBA 1999), Penny Collenette, and Jen Lee Koss (MBA 2008) When the World Economic Forum’s 2021 Global Gender Gap Report came out at the end of March, the news was grim. The significant economic impact of the...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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James McNerney Jr.
McNerney: It’s all about being globally competitive and creating U.S. jobs. Illustration by Andy Friedman Related Links The Path to Economic Revival Making Their Way Squawk Box at HBS - Jim McNerney, Dean Nitin Nohria, and University...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100 years of war and dynamic social...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community
diversity issues, notes, "Even companies that once were mostly interested in hiring women and minorities either out of a sense of moral obligation or merely to comply with the law now see the value that comes from broadening the demographics of their workforce. "With...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2008
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In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
fourteen years later, Rwanda is looked to as a model for the rest of Africa, not the least for its successes with public health and health-care delivery. The goal of the Global Health Delivery Project is to...
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- 05 Dec 2016
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How to Start a Tech Company Without Tech Experience
(photo via Twitter) (photo via Twitter) Rob Biederman (MBA 2014) and his fellow HBS cofounders didn’t have any tech experience when they launched the online freelance marketplace HourlyNerd. Three years later the company, now known as...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Adventure in China
commitment there (asking her only to repay its tuition costs plus interest), she worked at McKinsey for two years after graduation. Growing restless, she spent six months backpacking on her own through three continents, an experience that...
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