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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
occasional Saturday soccer game with cell phone at the ready. But for Dick Simon (MBA '80) , his wife, and three children, last year quality time meant — among other memorable adventures — camping together at 12,000 feet under a full moon...
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Margie Kelley
- 16 Nov 2020
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Moderna Announces Promising Vaccine Trial Results
this year, when it developed a treatment that went concept to clinical-trial-ready in a record-breaking 42 days. The article lays out just how radically fast the Moderna development timeline has been relative to previous vaccines—which have taken View Details
- 12 Sep 2018
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Game-Changing Analytics
at multiple contact points, including ticket sales, retail transactions, digital communications, and social media,” notes Gelman, a former Crimson basketball star who also played professionally in Europe. She cites the Patriots’ launch a few View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
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Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
delivered, and ignited a renewed urgency to support community organizations. “The past year was a big challenge,” says Steven Phillips (MBA 1983), co-chair of the board for Community Partners of the HBS Club of Connecticut. The program,...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2007
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Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
Business School got a big break in 1928. That story is revealed in “The Human Relations Movement: Harvard Business School and the Hawthorne Experiments (1924–1933),” the first of several exhibitions in Baker Library marking the Centennial View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
Lydia Marshall is more comfortable talking about the impact that CARE -- the international relief and development organization -- has had on her than what she has done for it. If pressed, however, Marshall, a CARE board member for fourteen View Details
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Susan Young
- 31 Jul 2016
- News
You Rang?
venture capital—to ask how they were doing it. Their answer? Help. So the pair hired a woman from Craigslist to assist with chores like grocery shopping and picking up the dry cleaning, splitting the expense. Intrigued neighbors asked if...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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Cathy A. Nichols
When Air Force brat Cathy Nichols turned ten, her father left the military and moved the family to a house without electricity in rural Maine. Nichols grew up in semipoverty, working every summer to earn money for clothes and knowing that...
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Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
Last year, Echoing Green, which invests in social entrepreneurs, chose SHE as one of the most innovative social change organizations worldwide, providing it with seed money and technical support. It has been a fast-paced two years since...
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- 27 Nov 2012
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The Beauty of the Network
Pao: A beauty business veteran leverages the HBS network to launch her own skincare line. Photo courtesy Patti Pao Patti Pao (MBA 1987) describes her two years at HBS as “spectacularly unsuccessful,” thanks in part to a culture clash with...
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- 12 Feb 2019
- News
A View of the Valley
Photo via Wired, courtesy of Kathy Wang Photo via Wired, courtesy of Kathy Wang When Kathy Wang (MBA 2011) sat down to write her first work of fiction, after years of working as a product manager at big tech companies, the California...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company required more time on-site in North Carolina, she’s managed to scale...
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Manufacturing
- 19 Jun 2013
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Ann Moore, MBA 1978
30 years, they wanted to give me a gift, and I thought it appropriate to set up a fellowship to help women at HBS. On my desk for 30 years was a single sheet of paper that was from a women's organization in...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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After the Fall
Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the collapse of major banks...
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- 07 May 2018
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What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
left the corporate world to pursue that passion full-time. His long list of travels include hiking the Appalachian Trail, walking from Mexico to Canada and back on the Continental Divide, and completing two three-year tours of all 25 Eastern European countries. We...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
percent of the proposals get NIH funding. A researcher receiving his or her first major NIH grant is over 40 years old, on average. Lab leaders spend a great deal of their energy recruiting the right people for their lab, nurturing a...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
Sasha Novakovich (MBA ’99) was in her second year at HBS when she and classmate Tracy Lawrence got the idea for what would become GetConnected, a company that processes voice, data, and video services transactions for retailers. Despite...
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- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
participate in this event with our Entrepreneurship Council,” says Wasko. “What was apparent to me was Penny’s persistence and willingness to step up to challenges, which is the hallmark of the successful entrepreneur. She has had great...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
that can't tell you exactly how much our customers have on deposit. We have 35-year-old systems for maintaining records on tape files. Our collection process and compliance examinations are months or years behind, largely due to...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2013
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Three Decades of Change and Counting
MIT, where I was an engineering undergrad. I thought, 'Hey, I don't need this minority stuff. I'm doing fine on my own.' I already knew for sure that I wanted to go to business school, so I wondered if I should even apply. Years later, I...
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