Hub And Spoke - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2006
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Down the Memory Chute

why. Henry Kissinger spoke to us, as did at least one military adviser and one CIA officer. It preceded a big troop buildup and came a few months after all reserve military... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Feb 2001
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High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS

It could have passed for a sorority reunion, as a distinguished group of enthusiastic and motivated women assembled for a group photo. But the membership requirements for this sisterhood were stiff. The 28 entrepreneurs who came to HBS in... View Details

Keywords: Singleton, Laura; Springboard 2000

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

On a chilly November afternoon in Harlan County, a struggling former mining hub on the edge of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield, Geoff Marietta (MBA 2007) surveys the bustling village he has helped build. Marietta is executive director of... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

of consulting firm Ethical Ventures, recently spoke to CNBC’s “Squawk Box” about the Business of Racial Equity pledge developed to mobilize the business community to address inequality and injustice. Lewin... View Details

17 Dec 2017
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How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression

deciding to try and come home. White: Hunter, you met these women because you had the managerial skills they needed. But what was it about this music project that spoke to you personally? Heaney: I've loved... View Details

19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered

interest in food marketing, and spoke often of his conversations with Salmon. At that time, grocers were offering generic labels on their lower cost items: yellow bags with brown block letters identifying... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

14 Feb 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco

is business." This powerful idea paved the way for the new Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS), which he described as an interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for... View Details

07 Nov 2014
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Investing for the Long Term in Education

opportunity to be successful “Andrew Carnegie was an immigrant, so we continue to work on civic engagement and strengthening our democracy. And he also believed that, if people View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Speak English, Please!

spoke English at the time. Mikitani’s move was radical and divisive. He even coined a term for the conversion: “Englishnization.” “This issue is explosive,” says HBS assistant professor Tsedal Neeley, who... View Details

Keywords: Kim Girard; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life

would have done differently. When I look back at what I've accomplished, I see I've worked hard to get where I am, and I appreciate the rewards that have come in the form of a loving, healthy family and a... View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Moir Donelson

for the ticket, explaining to his friend: "This man has a business to run, and you are stealing from him." Similarly, during a pro-Reaganomics discussion in his BGIE class, Donelson spoke about the pain his... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

28 May 2019
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The Physical Campus in a Virtual World

winner of this contest, and it closely resembles the buildings that went into construction in 1925. I keep these drawings on display as a reminder that the institution we inhabit today is the result of a discrete series of choices made... View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

01 Sep 2003
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These Are the Good Old Days

it was the right decision. When she was appointed CEO of Time Inc. in 2002, the rest of the world knew too. “I’ve always had a long-term view,” notes Moore. “You’ve got to choose a career you’ll be happy growing old in because time goes by so quickly. You blink View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Dec 2016
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Inside Modern HR

many of them brought up the issue of talent when discussing big decisions. I found that fascinating, and as a management consultant I saw there could be a gulf between a strategy and the human dynamics... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

19 Feb 2008
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The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen

A bit of Hollywood came to HBS recently when Steven Samuels spoke at the invitation of the School’s Entertainment and Media Club. A former real estate developer, Samuels is an independent movie producer with... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Real Estate

08 Dec 2015
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Living the Legacy

When Ray Kusisto (MBA 1986) graduated from Harvard Business School, he knew he had been part of a unique experience. “I still feel that way,” says Kusisto, now CEO of Ortho NorthEast, the premier orthopedic clinic and specialty center in... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals

presentation on "Career Transition: Doing It All." She exhorted the world's future business leaders to consider that "you have a chance to become what you want to become." In an age of mass production and cost cutting, Helpern View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

On a blustery late-December afternoon, sixty students sit watching a video case presentation in a darkened Aldrich Hall classroom. Participants in a special HBS orientation program for new international students,* they hail from thirty different countries, among them... View Details