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- 01 Sep 2004
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One-on-One with Robert McNamara
war’s progress? In matters of the human spirit, numbers could be deceiving. After teaching accounting and control for three years at HBS, McNamara became a War Department consultant and later was inducted into the U.S. Army Air Corps. In...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2013
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Five Bright Ideas
ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Bright Idea #1 Training the Global Workforce, Gratis Mike Feerick (MBA 1993) FEERICK: At the grade school he attended in Ireland. "Knowledge and understanding," he says, "are being unleashed via the web...
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- 01 Jun 2019
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Case Study: Mind the Gap
engine that ensures an optimal fit down to the level of soft skills. Berendt came to Talent Alpha after 18 years in the tech industry, most recently at the global IT service provider Luxoft. There he...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Letters
Corruption, Poverty, and Global Finance Thank you for your excellent article about global poverty in the March Bulletin. I’m delighted to see these issues getting more attention. This View Details
- 07 Jan 2016
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Real-World Learning for the Digital Generation
Marc Prensky (MBA 1980) is founder and executive director of the Global Future Education Foundation and Institute, which is promoting new educations goals for 21st-century learners. In this video, he explains the basis of his ideas for...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
(January 26, 1958) THE QUEEN ELIZABETH, 1958: A staple of long-distance passenger travel as recently as fifty years ago, ocean liners were rendered obsolete by an exciting new development: air travel. But commercial shipping, in an...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
can benefit from the 'cool' aura around our product," notes Grubman. "You don't have to play football to become a fan." But HBS associate professor Juan Alcacer, coauthor of a case titled "The Globalization of the NFL," forecasts...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
not have been easy to predict. Henry Ford, for example, started two companies that failed before he established the Ford Motor Company in 1903. He was 40 years old at the time. Watson was also 40 when he went to CTR in 1914; that company...
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- 05 Oct 2021
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Growing Latino Buying Power
trends. “I started looking at this market close to 20 years ago, when Hispanics were about 10 percent of the population,” Perez explained. Today that number is about 20 percent, he notes, “and if we believe the numbers from the...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the first of three visits to campus and the start of a very productive year of serving the School and their alumni constituents. This will be my first of two years as president of the Board, and I want to...
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- 01 Aug 2002
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Marilynn Davis (MBA '82)
framework, and confronting the realities of globalization.” In order to sharpen her focus on global business issues, Davis regularly attends the annual HBS Global Alumni Conferences, which also give her the...
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- 05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale
company started out in 1984 making teapot polish in western China, and through a succession of acquisitions, it is now the 234th-largest company in the world. ChemChina recently spent $43 billion to acquire the Swiss seed giant Syngenta, which would have been...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2001
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MBAs by the Numbers
percent, up 4 percent from last year — as well as HBS's global diversity, with 33 percent of the class hailing from 67 countries outside the United States. Statistics on the Class of 2001 show that 38...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
year and would be grateful for your input and suggestions; feel free to contact any of the committee chairs. In the meantime, our sights are set on South Africa in the spring. I hope you have made plans to attend the next View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
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An International Perspective
“I’ve been involved in international business ventures my entire career,” says Andrew L. Waite (MBA 1993), a generous supporter of global research at HBS. After majoring in civil engineering at England’s Loughborough University of...
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- 15 Oct 2019
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Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
on the rise in the MENA countries. The company was cofounded by a woman—women represent about 25 percent of entrepreneurs in MENA countries as compared with the global average of 10 percent—and it capitalizes on the region’s high digital...
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- 01 May 2013
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Muneer Satter, MBA 1987
“I invest in HBS because I care about leadership. My time at HBS was one of the best periods of my life. The intellectual stimulation was phenomenal. Professor Michael Porter’s work is the foundation of my investment philosophy, which has guided me during my entire...
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- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
engine manufacturing division of United Technologies, offered him a post managing a joint venture in Taipei, Taiwan. Keohane had chosen the company because its global operations presented many “right-sized” general management...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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Beantown as a Beacon
help boost America's performance in the global economy. The May event was part of a series of city-specific "Paths Forward" programs held across the country that brought together expert panels to weigh in on how the national business...
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