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- 01 Jun 2011
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Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
have serious ailments unnoticed during primary care exams. White learned the lesson early on. As a young medical student in Memphis, he watched a black woman being operated on for uterine cancer, a procedure botched by the white surgeon...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Joel Bines
Joel Bines has a knack for inspiring others to take a chance on him. Time and again this hard-driving member of a close-knit Boston family has found himself succeeding in jobs for which he's had no prior experience. In each instance, he has drawn strength from the...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Apr 2000
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Marketing Muscle
Edwards's role in making Yahoo! one of the most recognized names in the Internet economy taught the industry a lesson in the importance of brand-name recognition. Shunned no longer, marketers are "the new rock stars of the Internet,"...
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- 11 Jul 2013
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Making Lives Better
motivated. You have to understand how and why people are motivated so that you, as a leader, can help them do their best work," she says. The lesson has translated profoundly at the research-focused AFS, where Tepper Singer manages a...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Northern California Initiative Reaches Out to Women, Girls
have been sharing their business expertise with local girls by giving career-skills workshops, holding mock job interviews, and serving as judges on scholarship panels. One particularly successful event was a stock market lesson designed...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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One-on-One with Robert McNamara
exposition of his own role in, and the cautionary lessons of, recent history. One such lesson would seem to be that citizens must demand — and government and corporations must create systems that allow for —...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2017
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The End of the Noncompete Clause
Dell EMC merger deal closed in September, the company’s president suggested that they would be more “thoughtful and careful” in their use of noncompetes. EARN’s efforts against Dell EMC are ongoing, and Johnson plans to use the lessons...
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Janelle Nanos
- 01 Dec 2005
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Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
shared certain traits. Panelists recalled difficult situations from their own careers, trying to stay on course while adjusting to particular circumstances. As the action went back and forth, the audience listened and questioned the pros, absorbing View Details
- 30 Mar 2022
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Giving Hope and Comfort
also leading the charge for transformative solutions through technological innovation in distribution, state and federal legislation, and corporate commitments to ending hygiene insecurity nationwide. “A solution isn’t a solution unless it’s the solution at the scale...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
important,” she says. Eighteen years later, Greenpac counts Fortune 500 companies among its industrial clients. The company is on the verge of international expansion, but Chong, who received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2014, still draws on...
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April White;
entrepreneurship;
sustainability;
packaging;
leadership;
women;
Manufacturing
- 01 Apr 2001
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The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
that MySoftware became a division of a new entity called ClickAction, which specializes in e-mail marketing programs for both small and large companies. What, Bowen asked the audience, are some of the lessons to be drawn from Slayton’s...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Navigating Success in Volatile Times
that forces us to reinvent ourselves," he said. Throughout the day, panelists shared valuable strategies and lessons from a wide range of career paths and industries. The distinguished list of presenters included Paula Banks (AMP:ISMP...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words
and Kosovo, where we’ve also effectively tried to put countries back together, or create countries. One of the important lessons is that this is hard, long work; it takes patience .We’re not going to fix a country that was rundown over a...
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- 24 Jul 2020
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Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
without having to create individualized lesson plans for each of the 1,000 students enrolled at Intrinsic. The data can tell the staff, for example, to group the students one way if they’re teaching statistics, but another way if they’re...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
States. The real lesson of this experience is that investing directly in corporate assets is a very different experience, and creates a distinct return profile, than investing as a portfolio investor. In the absence of a unique capability...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Alumni Books
have distilled six counterintuitive practices these organizations use to improve the world. They offer lessons for readers interested in creating significant social change, including nonprofit managers, donors, and volunteers. The...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
seniors' money by offering a caregiver-managed debit card account with personalized spending controls and extra protection from fraud and scams. Johnston likens the growing opportunities in aging to the old high school science lesson of...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION University of Sydney, 1954 B.A., Economics, Music University of Sydney, 1957 LL.B. LESSONS FROM HBS “The School gave me the opportunity...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth by Michael J. Silverstein (MBA 1980), Dylan Bolden, Rune Jacobsen, and Rohan Sajdeb (McGraw-Hill Education) This book offers the latest techniques for knowing customers’ desires and...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Letters to the Editor
Made in America: Lessons from the Front Lines of Global Commerce,” piqued my interest, so I ended up reading the entire magazine, not just the Class Notes. Imagine my shock when I saw the “The Scene” photo of twelve singing tycoons in...
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