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25 Jan 2016
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Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

companies to recruit qualified managers. “We help people who are looking to return to the continent because they’ve heard about the economic growth, View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting

business team needing to travel from Boston to Syracuse, New York, for example, could simply phone in the night before and book a nonstop sixty-minute flight for not much more than View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

platter, often by pretending to be someone they’re not. Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned over a Beer or Two by Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) (Flatiron Books) The founder of View Details

22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery

PPP’s forgivable loans were a lifeline for many small businesses. But banks often prioritized larger, established clients, while the smallest and most vulnerable businesses had trouble accessing funds. “Fintech View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2007
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A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968

the company puts a premium on new product development and innovation, while providing help and hope to people of all ages with disabilities. Mal Mixon takes his guest on a tour of View Details

05 May 2023
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Fail Better

president of Lazard and former vice chairman of Citigroup. As the longest tenured head of an investment banking group in the history of Wall Street, he became one of its most prominent Black executives,... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

rising leaders in 120 companies and how they dealt with them. The challenges included handling rising pressure and recovering from mistakes; dealing with office villains; taking uncomfortable risks; and... View Details

30 Jul 2025
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Play with Purpose

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi. This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Born in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Josh Harris (MBA 1990) attended NFL games at the old RFK Stadium in D.C. as a young child, and recalls being stunned by the... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Short Takes

recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, HBS assistant professor Charles King III investigates whether, indeed, cigarette companies advertise to... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

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

know, so I think sometimes people will be a little bit too much in a hurry to say, oh, here's what I want to do long-term, and so I got to jump in and do that right now. But to have the opportunity to work for a really well-established... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Life in Lockdown

sharks, looking for potential customers. Kate, a musician from New York in Boston for a gig, at first says she doesn’t need an app to tell her what to wear because she doesn’t care about fashion. As the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill

25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

hired hand who shot the boy, grows as the meatpackers' muscle. The close of World War I ends the monopoly, and the... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment

newspapers on campus: room by room, to vending machines, and to executive programs. Dressed in blue jeans, a chamois shirt, track shoes, and my college jacket, I moved quickly through campus. I cannot tell you how cold Boston got in those... View Details

Keywords: Walter Frese; Martin V. Marshall; C. Roland Christensen; Lawrence Fouraker; Educational Services

01 Jun 2017
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Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

day I took over. I told [the host] Miss Jean to sit down, that I would run the show for her.” Case method prep: “The exercise of being a decision-maker in a pretend environment 15 times a week teed me up to do it in a real environment.”... View Details

31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders

in the period of your life just before business school. Can you talk a little bit about the circumstances of your life at that time? And how did they lead you to this moment of discovery that you were... View Details

13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot

model, to pick the right market to innovate in, will determine to great extent my success. The Bolden story is all about community. He probably couldn't have been successful in View Details

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

explain the crisis in Ukraine Q&A with Paul Krobe, director of the Intelligence Project at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. COMMUNITY UPDATES DECEMBER 20... View Details

18 Nov 2020
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Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

and Joseph Fuller The live, virtual presentation—offered twice to accommodate alumni across the globe—explored how companies can address three forces that are changing how and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

professional development and visibility of executives of color in the not-for-profit sector.” Contributions from individuals and corporations are welcomed. With seed money from its founders and multiyear pledges from View Details