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25 Aug 2021
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Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

Chicago high-rise in the fall of 2019, giving even more of the city’s students the chance to experience a tailored high school public education. For Zaikos, the mission is personal, having spent most of her life in Chicago and raised her own kids there. She’s... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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New HBS Alumni Board Members

Mortgage & Realty and Michigan Heritage Bancorp. He has led several community organizations, such as the Lansing Symphony, Capital Area United Fund, and the Voluntary Action Center in Lansing. Born in New York City and raised in Wilmette,... View Details

26 Jul 2011
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An Entrepreneur of the Arts

Sister Cities International. “Most importantly,” she says, “the OPM program inspired me to look for opportunities to grow and expand while leveraging my existing brand. My OPM classmates gave me a lot of inspiration and ideas as I was... View Details

Keywords: ballet; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Apr 1998
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Booting Up

SELLING SHOES on the Internet was pretty far from Barbara Thornton's mind when she enrolled at HBS at the age of 45. The city planner and international consultant figured that opening power plants in Southeast Asia would best challenge... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Sep 2013
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Three Decades of Change and Counting

Curtis-Bey Photo courtesy of Sarah Curtis-Bey Sarah Curtis-Bey (SVMP 1997, MBA 2006) Executive Director, Clinique Global Marketing New York City "SVMP was a major driver of my decision to pursue a career in business and an MBA at Harvard.... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2003
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Portraits from the Class of 2003

Stacy Sonnenberg “I want to be brave enough to face failure with a shrug of the shoulder and a desire to try again.” Raised: suburban Chicago Calls Home: New York City Undergrad: MIT, civil engineering In High School and College: swing... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Jun 2008
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Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work

(SPNM) program. Each year, more than sixteen clubs send upward of fifty participants to this program. The Windy City club also annually sponsors eight Chicago Public School leaders to attend the joint HBS/Harvard Graduate School of... View Details

Keywords: alumni clubs; Centennial; Educational Services

01 Dec 1999
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

extraordinary city reestablishing itself at the tenth anniversary of its reunification? This will be a historic conference, one you will not want to miss. In addition to the formal program, the organizers have arranged for some truly... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged

free license plates—no small inducement when plates for internal combustion vehicles are awarded by lottery in cities like Shanghai and Beijing, and can fetch more than $14,000. But government largesse has its limits. China has already... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

history. The excitement traditionally generated by these annual events was further heightened this year as participants gathered in Hong Kong, the gateway city to China, which on July 1 will revert from British rule to Chinese... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

06 Feb 2020
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HBS Alumni Join Forces on Virus Outbreak in China

in Wuhan and other parts of the country are facing a severe shortage of medical supplies,” says Dai. “This puts medical professionals and people at severe risk.” The Wuhan Task Force is also coordinating with the International Committee of the Red Cross, View Details

28 May 2019
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From Das’s Desk

Boston for a few days of learning, alumni are eager to connect with HBS when faculty and others from the School visit their city or region. Women continue to have unique needs for professional development, and HBS alumnae see the School... View Details

23 Oct 2019
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Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea

required course designed to develop students’ global and cultural intelligence. In the course, students tackle a real product or service challenge for a partner organization and complete an immersion in their partner’s city. Seoul was among a roster of 16 View Details

Keywords: Global Understanding; Internationalization; Educational Innovation

28 May 2019
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Action Plan: Border Crossing

my husband’s German grandparents lived as refugees during and after World War II. We were able to walk the streets they walked. It wasn’t a part of the city you would normally visit as a tourist, but it had a profound impact on us.” Check... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

25 Jul 2013
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An Engine of Education Innovation

says he owes to his immigrant background—he moved to the States from Denmark at age 9—as well as a yearlong experience he had as a teacher and assistant principal at an inner-city school in New York City just before coming to Harvard. "It... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

15 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project

self-expression, it is also a carefully and thoughtfully organized pop up city of 70,000 people with a $36 million budget. Jennifer Raiser (MBA 1990) is the woman who controls that budget, serving as Burning Man's treasure. And in this... View Details

03 Oct 2017
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Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?

North Reading’s Kiva Systems, founded by Mick Mountz (MBA 1996). Regarding the headquarters decision, Russ Wilcox (MBA 1995), who cofounded E Ink–which would become a key supplier for the Amazon Kindle—says the Bezos might be employing a tactic he often used with... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade

01 Oct 1996
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Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)

movie business. It was perspective he needed this past year, in particular, as Castle Rock, suffering through a string of financially disappointing pictures (including City Hall and even the critically acclaimed The Shawshank Redemption),... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Oct 1997
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Cathy A. Nichols

Hollywood theme park, home of the highly acclaimed City Walk, Back to the Future, and Jurassic Park attractions. Named chairman and CEO of Universal Studios Recreation Group in June, Nichols is back in Los Angeles on a July afternoon... View Details