Growth And Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

full-time in 2005, spent seven years developing a deep network of contacts, then set up CET in 2012 to offer travel services to school groups and political think tanks alike. Three years later, in 2015,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

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

08 Apr 2021
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Real Talk

education through the development of case studies. “And that type of vulnerability at the highest level opens the door for the larger workforce to feel comfortable being vulnerable, sharing their own stories, View Details

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

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

23 May 2019
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Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1967 Born, Mexico City 1990 Receives Gold and Silver Medals, Rowing, Central American Games 1991 Earns BS, Economics, Instituto Technológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) 1995 Earns MBA... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop

sure signs of stability, and Lidya’s in-house, Portugal-based engineering team developed an algorithm that can quickly assess more than 100 data points. “We don’t do consumer loans. We’re not the best for... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

coincided with both the rise of the home computer, marketed mainly as a toy for boys, and the rise of the male tech geek. This stereotype of a so-called brogrammer played an important role in the development... View Details

Keywords: April White

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

01 Dec 1997
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A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)

L. John Doerr (MBA '76) is widely recognized as one of the country's preeminent venture capitalists. A partner in the California VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers (KPCB), he is known for backing startups that presaged entire industries in computing, software,... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information

Two years ago, Thomas J. Michalak, executive director of Baker Library, got a phone call from a Boston-area HBS alumnus. The graduate was researching a management project and wanted online access to the School's extensive range of... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Putting on the Wheels

the development of new economies and profoundly improve the prospects for those countries. "By starting fresh in Eisenach," Hughes explains, "we were able to introduce lean manufacturing processes to workers... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

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