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- 01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count
that don’t turn up in their financial reports. So how is a consumer—or an investor or board of directors, for that matter—to know how well a purpose-driven company is really doing on any of these metrics? “The fact of the matter is that...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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A Class Act
Bulletin), perhaps it is time to proclaim the success of Dean Wallace B. Donham's "experiment" in keeping alumni in contact with each other and with HBS. Donham would have been pleased to know that the School's "barest start in discovering and building View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
know is high and very lucky because we're in the same approximate area. But if I add up that one day every two weeks I see my parents, that's 26 days a year. Actually, takes 13 years to see them for what...
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- 19 Jun 2018
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Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
Michael McGarry (AMP 169 2005), Chairman and CEO of PPG, at the Association's Annual Meeting. The HBS Association of Pittsburgh wrapped up the year with its Annual Meeting on May 15. Michael McGarry (AMP...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2017
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The Shape of Things to Come
do, and they just want to move up in their careers. They want to use the time to think, to explore, to imagine what lives they might lead. The summer experience ends up being very important. And the second...
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- 02 Nov 2017
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Making Friends with Mother Nature
Performance: How America’s High-Growth Midsize Companies Succeed, encountered the idea for the center in a local newspaper and ran with it. Now the center educates more than 150,000 visitors a year and includes a unique network of...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
The business of business education produced another year of strong results for HBS during fiscal 2008, which ended last June. Applications for the core MBA Program reached a five-year high of 8,661, and the percentage of admitted students...
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- 15 Oct 2019
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Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa
five years of completing their MBAs to pursue full-time jobs on the continent by supplementing their income when their total compensation is less than $100,000. The maximum award is $50,000 per year. The first four GO: Africa recipients...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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3-Minute Briefing: Leslie Hale (MBA 2001)
I was born into an entrepreneurial family. My parents owned a small business in the day care industry, so I have been working since I was seven years old. But I didn’t start getting paid until I got out of college. Growing View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams
hotels and apartment buildings split the city’s skyline. “You will see visible, visible change,” he says. “Fifteen years from now, this is where you take that one shot of Colombo.” As a teenager growing up...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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3-Minute Briefing: Kruti Patel Goyal (MBA 2004)
My parents were in the hospitality business. They owned a motel, so we grew up working at the business as well as living at the business. I remember vividly some moments of really intense stress. And it was because my parents took a lot of risk to build the business....
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Sarah Wyman
- 08 Jun 2011
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George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees
Singapore’s Business Times (April 9, 2011). “At that time, the civil service did not want me to do an MBA. There was always the fear that those who do MBAs will end up leaving the service. The system reacted against it; they said: ‘You do...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Security Chief
anniversary last year and joyously welcoming the arrival of their first child, a son, fourteen years after agreeing to start a family. “We never gave up hope,” says Parker, who...
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- 12 May 2015
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A Flash of Insight
what they should be doing with their lives. Louis B. Cooper (MBA 1988) was among them. Until earlier in the year, he had been managing partner at Anvil Capital Management, a hedge fund he had launched a year prior following a successful...
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- 03 Dec 2019
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Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
Clubs News Clubs News Building Bridges, One Meal at a Time Like most HBS alumni clubs, the HBS Club of Toronto is always on the lookout for new ways to engage its members to connect with each other. So when the club realized about a year...
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Margie Kelley
- 07 Mar 2017
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From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World
(via INSEAD.edu) In a wide-ranging interview for the St. Gallen’s Symposium, published by the Huffington Post, Dr. Olivier Giscard D’Estaing (MBA 1951) talks about the deep roots of HBS within the foundation of INSEAD, the European business school where he served many...
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- 17 Feb 2016
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The Power of Art
in San Francisco. ArtLifting’s chief operating officer Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015) told the Times that the company is gearing up for dramatic growth: “We have the funding right now, but it isn’t going to be here forever This is a critical...
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- 01 Apr 2020
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Happy Because He’s Blind
Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was just three years old when his vision began to fail; diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, he was legally blind by his early 20s. “It was really a difficult period for me trying to figure out what I was going...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Turning Point: Sparking Change
years kept pointing in that direction, and both of my parents had been teachers during their careers. When I felt I had the time and space to turn to something new, I sent out letters to colleges and universities in the Chicago area and...
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