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11 Dec 2019
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A Righteous Path

tremendous violence—not just poverty, but also narco-terrorism, notorious corruption, high murder rates. These children make their own way from Central America through Mexico and they arrive at the southern border of United States alone.”... View Details

Keywords: April White; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2002
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

whose lives have been affected by HBS and its alumni. This moving production was developed for the capital campaign, which will be rolled out across the country and abroad over... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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September 2021 Alumni Books

focus on large-scale beverage technology, sections cover starter cultures, regulatory challenges, genetic engineering, quality, and safety. From practical issues of developing probiotic beverages, to the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

26 Sep 2018
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Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

called the Katy Prairie Conservancy, in collaboration with the Houston Flood Control District, local governments, and area developers on what he calls a sponge credit. The credit would allow, for instance, a... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jan 2012
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Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952

headquarters is named after him, for instance—attest to his many contributions to the world of business, as do his outside activities, including presenting papers on entrepreneurship, venture capital, and democracy throughout the world... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics

2002 Alumni Achievement Awards Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68) Chairman, President, and CEO, Merck & Co. Since June 1994, when Gilmartin became its president and CEO, Merck has launched seventeen new drugs... View Details

23 Oct 2018
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Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart

speech, standing on the stage. So I've come a long way from that, obviously. But on the flip side, I think what the book and what this process of writing, it really helped me to work through, was that so many of the gifts that I had come... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads

front: Bob Moesta’s Demand-Side Sales 101. On the personal development side: Dan Harris’s 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Case Study: The Credit Bureau

Illustration by Brown Bird Design Walk the streets of New York City around the first of the month, and you’ll see the symptoms: orphaned couches, credenzas, and swivel chairs that were left behind after a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending

decision to help the company’s cross-functional teams, which can speak slightly different dialects, develop a common language. Similarly, when the staff outgrew one floor of office space and expanded to a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

01 Jan 2005
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Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992

Retired President, Consumer Sales & Services, Verizon Communications Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Briarcliff College, 1968 B.A., International Relations LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "Leadership matters. As I reflect on all the HBS... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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Where Conservation Means Business

state-of-the-art conservation lab; hired Anderson and a conservation technician, Lisa Clark; and developed an ambitious conservation program. Complementing that effort, the... View Details

Keywords: Roger thompson

01 Apr 1997
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Manager's Notebook

Professor Jeffrey F. Rayport and John Hagel III (MBA '77, JD '78), a principal in McKinsey & Company's Silicon Valley office, detail how managers will resolve the upcoming tug-of-war over this valuable information asset. Until recently,... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

01 Jan 2002
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Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)

The blind man depicted in the sculpture suffers from river blindness, a disease that ravaged countless lives in the developing world until Merck researchers discovered the breakthrough drug Mectizan. The company's decision to donate the... View Details

16 Jan 2018
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Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits

participants develop a network of support for their organizations, the reunion at the Social Enterprise Greenhouse in Providence included a social hour and a panel featuring the club’s four 2017 SPNM... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

characterized the conference as "a community-wide call to action" and an opportunity to explore the role of HBS graduates in contributing to development in the African-American community. On the opening day... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

29 Apr 2016
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The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

it. My preferred artistic medium is music—I played the piano and violin and sang competitively from age five through high school. I don’t have as much time for it anymore, but, growing up, it helped me to... View Details

01 Mar 2007
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Letters to the Editor

Chuck Porter and the type of work he wanted to do, I think this may have been an intentional and very smart strategy. Advertising campaigns for products with strong points of differentiation are much more... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action

able to greatly increase our knowledge of the region and develop a deep understanding of business practices that cut across functional boundaries, from finance to human resource management to strategy," says... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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