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01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

night and day, / towers rise as if to say / Pollution can be beautiful.” Bach’s final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds “Demagogues are View Details

27 Apr 2017
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Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience

impact people’s lives on a large scale,” he explains. “I’m excited about improving access to affordable health care globally and especially in South Asia, where I’m from.” As an undergraduate at the Birla Institute View Details

01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

customers will use the product. Is this a marketing issue more than one of technology? Absolutely. Most marketers are deeply skilled in listening to customers and then translating View Details

01 Jan 2003
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James E. Burke, MBA 1949

concerned about what I should do with my life. I knew I wanted a career in business, but it wasn't until I was at HBS that I grasped that business could be a force for good in society. We were constantly reminded of View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Ensuring success through education

Educating a nation of children is Hüsnü Özyeğin’s (MBA 1969) investment in Turkey’s future. The successful self-made businessman and philanthropist is focused on eliminating disparities in education. He has... View Details

16 Sep 2015
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Thinking deeply about how to have an impact

Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), director of the Social Enterprise Initiative, is helping the next generation of leaders across all sectors—public,... View Details

30 Jun 2019
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Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo

trip was a treat and they really valued the visit. It was very gratifying.” HBS Club of France Honors Self-Made Entrepreneurs The HBS Club View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

13 Oct 2020
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Running a Decathlon

Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Networked Computers behind IT Payoff

Investments in information technology (IT) are finally beginning to pay off, thanks to the era of the networked computer. So says HBS assistant... View Details

25 Jun 2020
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Covering All Corners

of ensuring the timely availability and accessibility of life-saving medicine for those whom everyone else has forgotten therefore falls upon us and our short list View Details

12 Mar 2013
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New Thinking for China

Chen. The son of a scientist and a brain surgeon, Chen learned the value of education at an early age, graduating... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; higher education, teaching, china, social entrepreneurship

01 Dec 2017
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Yoga Inc.

chain YogaWorks went public in August, valued at about $40 million; and Wanderlust’s yoga-focused festivals have attracted major crowds and major sponsors. But the bigger the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Halber

01 Sep 2016
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Feedback

issue: A talk with Clay Christensen about how his business theory has affected his home life, Jennifer Raiser on the business of Burning Man, and Bill Tai on his accidental ascent to kiteboarding... View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

intranet. Clark outlined what he sees as the four aspects of leadership: strong values and high standards, a global perspective, an entrepreneurial spirit, and literacy in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2025
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Heartland

Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

11 Feb 2021
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Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce

Many of the low-income employees who lost their jobs when white-collar workers stopped commuting may never get those jobs back, according to some economists, who point to COVID’s lasting impacts on View Details

25 Jun 2020
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Former Professor and Associate Dean Vernon Alden Passes Away

Vernon Alden (MBA 1950), has passed away at age 97. A former associate dean and faculty member at HBS, Alden would go on to become the president of Ohio University at age 38. He would later help support... View Details

22 Nov 2022
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Merlin Entertainments Taps Scott O’Neil as CEO

episode of the HBS Alumni podcast Skydeck, O’Neil spoke about how he set and scaled his organizational values of mind, body, and soul while... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain

diagnosis -- a "road map" or "operating guide" for breast cancer patients. While Just Get Me Through This! includes medical information from her coauthor, Dr. Robert M. Gelfand, its primary intent is to help women manage View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

22 May 2016
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An Evangelist for Entrepreneurs

As former chief secretary to the British Treasury under Prime Minister Gordon Brown, MP and former entrepreneur Liam Byrne (MBA 2010) has had plenty of opportunity for success, failure, and reflection. Asked... View Details

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