Growth And Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered

interest in food marketing, and spoke often of his conversations with Salmon. At that time, grocers were offering generic labels on their lower cost items: yellow bags with brown block letters identifying the contents only as coffee,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2013
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Who Are We?

in Asia but in the Middle East that really got Kondo excited about social media. After a stint as a World Fellow at Yale (where he developed Table for Two, a nonprofit he cofounded to fight both hunger and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

01 Dec 2003
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Alumni Author: Thomas H. Fischgrund (MBA ’80)

true. They are curious and read everything they can get their hands on. Family and friends are more important to them than their studies. What’s your advice to students preparing for the exam? My short-term... View Details

Keywords: SATs; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo

trucks and working in a machine shop at a U.S. early-warning ballistic missile detection site. There he discovered that nothing whiled away the cold, dark, and tedium like a good book. By the time he was... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

25 Mar 2016
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New Head of MBA Admissions Is 2013 Grad

and economics for managers. In addition, he worked with HBS professor Clayton Christensen to develop an HBX course on Disruptive Strategy, an offering designed for executives around the world. Losee also... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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Management Update Launched

position, in 1994. Following that assignment, he became editor for business development at the parent company, Time Inc., identifying and assessing magazines and other media... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Apr 1996
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

jobs or embarking on new careers. Working with local club career advisors, the Office of Alumni Career Services, and the MBA Career Development Office, this group is looking at a variety of services that... View Details

Keywords: Cathy Connett

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch

into serious trouble," says Karch, whose father was a retailer. "We helped them look beyond next season's fashions to see the importance of understanding how their economics worked, how their inventory flowed, and where their cost... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

24 May 2023
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Balancing Acts

mentees, the number of those whom I've been able to sponsor, whose lives I've been able to impact in a way that put them on the right trajectory. JH: As CEO and president of Boston-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Reshma Kewalramani (GMP 18,... View Details

Keywords: work-life balance; happiness; family

01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story

the two set about the tasks of renting suitable manufacturing space, scrounging defunct factories for affordable machinery, developing recipes, and building a business from the ground up. It was a slow... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

22 Sep 2015
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Redesigning Schools for Today’s Learners

Through the NewSchools Venture Fund, Stacey Childress (MBA 2000) is bringing together teams of innovators and educators to reinvent the way schools work for today’s learners, to help the current generation of students gain access to what... View Details

28 May 2019
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Tech for the People

about ways that tech companies can develop products and services that both benefit the public and align with their business model,” he observes. Tsai says courses such as... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

26 May 2016
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2016 Alumni Achievement Awards

businesses develop products, expand into new markets, and create jobs. If we can be the port in the storm where people come when they need us most—that’s a really great place to work.” Alan Horn (MBA 1971)... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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A Message to Our Readers

available to graduates at a cost of ten cents each; and, of course, class notes—then called ”personal items“—for the classes MBA ’14 through MBA ’24. Plans are under way for a special issue this December celebrating the Bulletin’s long View Details

23 Oct 2019
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Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method

Don’t let the fact that first-year MBA students immerse themselves in the beer industry fool you—they are learning about product development by participating in an online simulation. In fact, the use and... View Details

Keywords: Educational Innovation

01 Oct 1996
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The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson

it can shorten the time an individual needs to develop some of the traits we look for in a manager. It's often an indicator of a strong desire to learn and grow, because in most cases people have interrupted... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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New Releases

the characteristics of distinct types of property - apartment, office, hotel, industrial, and retail. Noting that this book is designed to help people spot risks, develop strategies for coping with risks,... View Details

29 Nov 2017
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Inbox: From Das’s Desk

learning opportunities, and that led to development of a pilot, three-day program of introspection and peer interaction called The Reflective Leader. + ONLINE web-only content... View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

24 Mar 2017
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Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named

and prepared meals designed just for kids. Alumnus: David Parker, MBA 2009 Region: Northeastern US/New York Pluma: Pluma is a mobile professional development and executive... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Feedback

bulletin@hbs.edu. Write us a letter. This is your magazine. It needs your voice. Gene Williams, featured in the December 2013 HBS Alumni Bulletin Top Story The story of Gene Williams (MBA 1987) and his new drug View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

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