by Melissa Raffoni - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

(my first), and we enjoy reading it to him, along with the Little Blue Truck. Construction Site on Christmas Night is definitely on our Christmas wish list. —Jeremy Schreiber (MBA 2013) Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit & the Making of the College Admissions Scandal,... View Details

27 May 2014
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Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma

discussion of "The Capitalist's Dilemma"—the challenges of innovating for long-term growth and job creation—in the Harvard Business Review. The team of more than 150 people (see below) collaborated using the OI Engine platform developed View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

Growth Fund, run by CEO Kevin Hall (MBA 1996), to raise a $30 million fund dedicated to starting and growing new charter organizations in Tennessee. One of the Growth Fund's grantees is Melissa... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

04 Mar 2008
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HBS Blogs

Blogs have long since come into their own. After all, they’ve been around since 1994, and just recently a blogger received the George Polk Award for excellence in journalism. So it seems a good time to recognize blogs by HBS alums and... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

08 Nov 2024
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Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection

HBS LASO. The panel, moderated by HBSLAA Co-President Alfonso Alanis-Cue (MBA 2009) focused on Latino voices across the media landscape, and featured HBSLAA co-founder Gabriel J. Esparza (MBA 2000), Trustee of the Central Piedmont... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out

the company’s revenues have increased by leaps and bounds. But the melamine pet food scare last spring could have ruined everything. The bad news came to a place it shouldn’t: Disney World. It was during one of the few vacations that Paal... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life

London, traveling to the Continent several times a week to help launch MTV Europe. By the following year she had left MTV, married a Frenchman, and moved to Paris, where she consulted briefly for HBO. After the birth of her first child,... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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New Ways to Stay Connected

For more information on any of the programs featured here, please contact us at alumni@hbs.edu. Alumni Dinner Series John Power (MBA 1974) and Todd Doersch (MBA 1983) hosted second-year MBA students at Remington’s restaurant in Chicago in July. Through casual, informal... View Details

10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat

Photographed by Melissa Golden David Bradley was painting a picture with words. The owner and chairman of Atlantic Media had gathered about 400 staffers in a small Kennedy Center theater near the company’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

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