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- 01 Oct 2002
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Banishing Balkan Ghosts
exists a unique opportunity to bring lasting stability to southeastern Europe. Generous international aid and investment in the region, he contends, will benefit the West geopolitically and reward it financially. “We are living a historic moment,” says Djelic. “That's...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2003
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James E. Burke, MBA 1949
almost forty years with J&J, he quickly found a new mission as chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA), a coalition of communications professionals dedicated to persuading children to reject substance abuse. The result...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
colleges to develop programs to meet specific needs. There is still some distrust on both sides: Higher education institutions see their mission as instilling skills for lifelong learning, not to pursue a good salary, and businesses can...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
leader in technology,” he says. “Somehow, over the years, we had become the nation’s technology broker to outside companies.” The 2011 shuttering of the shuttle program—and its $600 million per launch costs—left them without a high-profile pursuit. “We began thinking...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2020
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AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
medicine as: ‘If we can see it, then we can kill it.’” Tantawy says that precision medicine leads to better care and saves the patient’s time, money, and effort. An Ongoing Mission See more from the online-only December Alumni Bulletin...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
of it as a place for cats playing the piano. But I gave it a shot, and the videos took on a life of their own.” The plunge: “Soon, tens of thousands of people were using the videos every month. In 2009, I left my job and set up Khan Academy as a nonprofit organization,...
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- 15 Apr 2017
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Bringing Markets to Myanmar
It's going to involve tough, gutsy, courageous decisions. You're going to be taking some big risks. And it's going to be the most challenging mission ahead. How do you feel about that? Are you up for it? Are you willing to belly up to...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Fıelds of Gold
Growth Market: Afghan saffron has also attracted the attention of MBA classmates Ben Bines, Kimberly Jung, KinYan Chew, and Emily Miller (all HBS 2015), who founded Rumi Spice with a mission similar to Earth2Globe’s. (©Majid...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Fostering financial freedom for low-income individuals
1998, and the “Love Our Local Business” program, which encourages growth for small businesses by giving grants to entrepreneurs. In India, Intuit’s free mobile application, Fasal, has connected 1.5 million farmers with agents to get fair-market prices for their...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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From Das’s Desk
traveled the world meeting alumni leaders and worked with the team in External Relations to support and strengthen the alumni community. I have been humbled by the countless stories of how you, our alumni, have truly lived up to the View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
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Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
Management Leadership for Tomorrow, says the initiative touches on all aspects of the mission of the HBSLAA, by “empowering capable alumni to serve in this valuable capacity, connecting recent and more experienced alumni to each other and...
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Margie Kelley
- 21 Dec 2018
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Bridging the Gap
college experience is by changing the inputs. If we can deliver a set of hungry, purposeful learners who are on a mission to chase down their own goals with their education, everything changes from there. And, frankly, it’s the best way...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Delivering HBS-style training for teachers
Inspired by an HBS lecturer who asked why there wasn’t a service academy for teachers, Tony Klemmer (MBA 1983) founded the National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education (NAATE) in Newport, Rhode Island, in 2010. The academy’s mission is...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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RallyPoint a Winner
In military parlance, a rally point is where soldiers scattered on a mission are to meet up. So when Iraq veterans Yinon Weiss (MBA 2011) and Aaron Kletzing (HBS 2013) launched a start-up to help veterans network and land civilian jobs,...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Ali Allawi
acknowledge that the overthrow of the regime opened up really deep fissures in Iraqi society. So I would say around October 2003 it began to be clear that the American-led mission was going to go awry. You write that the insurgency wasn’t...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Transforming the IRS
over the next five years transformed almost every aspect of the sprawling agency, from its antiquated IT systems to its internal management structures. Many Unhappy Returns (HBS Press, 2005) is his insider account of a mission that seemed...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Dan Fenn
If I had not been given a deadline, I'd still be poring over the written record of the people and highlights of those eventful years. I'd be reading about Dean Stan Teele, a thoughtful, high-minded leader who saw the mission of the School...
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Dan Fenn
- 06 Sep 2016
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Connecting Past and Present
the decorative-ceiling business when he began what would ultimately become JRI-Poland—a mission that has never felt like work. “People have found family they were never were able to locate,” he says, “or never knew existed.” (Published...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Using storytelling to transform the retail experience
consultant and private equity investor, who lives in Toronto. BRIKA, which opened for business in late 2012, features nearly 300 “makers” and thousands of their carefully crafted wares. Consumers get a connection to a “maker” along with the conversation piece, plus...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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When being a good neighbor means economic development
projects in America, Mission Rock will be developed on land owned by the Port of San Francisco. Team officials plan to break ground in 2015. In addition to construction jobs, the project is expected to support more than 7,000 permanent...
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