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- 01 Apr 1997
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A Conversation with Dean Clark
running teaching programs, and conducting research. Most of these activities have had a very important component: developing our own faculty. I'm sure that whatever we do in the future in the global arena will have that same goal of... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Leadership in Motion
Activities such as building a community playground, running neighborhood associations, chairing the Scarsdale planning board, and serving locally as president of the League of Women Voters—all while starting and View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Giving business tools to small farmers so they can compete and succeed
Sylvia Wachsner (PMD 35, 1978), director of Sociedade Nacional de Agricultura, runs business training programs for small organic and sustainable farmers in Brazil. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 18 May 2015
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Helping others succeed
For Joan Schneider (OPM 16, 1990), the most satisfying aspect of running her own PR firm comes from helping her clients achieve their goals. (Published May 2015) View Details
- 25 May 2016
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FIELD 3: Taking Down Barriers
Biederman, who now runs HourlyNerd with two cofounders. Today, the Boston-based firm has raised three rounds of venture funding, has 45 full-time employees, and works with some 14,000 “nerds”—MBA graduates from a variety of top... View Details
- 23 May 2018
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Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
president’s office at the University of Oklahoma. “My mantra was that I wanted to lead, to serve, to grow,” he says. Running a university met all three criteria, so in 2009 he took the helm of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, and after... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
how the animals move — the humorous strut of the ostrich, the clumsy run of the hippo, the scamper of the mongoose. Leopards, buffalo, hyenas, rhinos, warthogs, monkeys, baboons, crocodiles, waterbucks, impalas, and pink flamingos also... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
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Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
encourages others to "be passionate," and to "collect good people around you." The words gain credence through Kraft because he is a living example of his playbook. The Kraft Group is a family business run by Kraft and sons Jonathan (MBA... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
Just try to convert someone weaned on ERA—earned run average, a calculation of how many runs a pitcher allows per nine innings, and a long-favored way to evaluate efficacy—to FIP (fielding independent... View Details
- 20 May 2016
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The Most Creative People in Business 2016
Illustration by Peter Arkle for Fast Company Illustration by Peter Arkle for Fast Company Fast Company recently released its Most Creative People in Business 2016 list, and HBS alumni claim 5 of the 100 spots. They run the gamut, ranging... View Details
- 07 May 2016
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Retail in the Blood
As a boy, Simon Belsham (MBA 2007) hung out on the shop floor of Scally Wags Fun Factory, the toy shop his parents ran in the English town of Ashford. The shop closed with the arrival of Toys R Us, but “it gave me an insight into the highs and lows of View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Trusty Board
Field's board, worked with McCarter on numerous civic projects when McCarter was at Booz-Allen and later recruited him to run the Field. Similarly, the Smithsonian's Bob Fri joined the natural history museum at the request of board... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
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Outsider-Insider Named CEO of Amazon Web Services
CEO of cloud data company Tableau; before that, he spent 11 years working alongside Jassy, running sales, marketing, and support at AWS. As reported by CNN, Jassy cited that experience, as well as Selipsky’s many skills—including... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
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Mom Corps
it has expanded into four additional cities and has drawn favorable coverage in a variety of national and regional publications. O’Kelly, who recently won an entrepreneurship award from Working Mother (September 11, 2006), told the magazine that “it’s very empowering... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
campaign managers generally choose one of two strategies. One is to prod radio stations to run a hit single from an album as many times a day as possible - what's known as creating "push" in the marketplace. The other is to drum up fan... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 25 Jun 2019
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After the Storm
disasters, like hurricanes, are predictable. Others, such as earthquakes, are not. “I will get a text from the guy who runs international response for us, 9 p.m. on a Friday night, saying there was just an earthquake and that we should do... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
should it start: at the grassroots with the student groups with which they are familiar, but which often have small budgets, or at the top with the university administration, where the company will face more bureaucratic hurdles but potentially find a larger audience?... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
a family business, her team spoke to more than 1,100 CEOs, eventually finding striking differences in managerial styles and productivity in firms run by family members relative to their external counterparts. Over the past several years,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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Case Study: Sneak Peak
school districts and vending machine operators to reclaim vending space made vacant by the new federal guidelines against unhealthy, sugary beverages. The profit margin may be slimmer, but it could be made up by volume. —Stefano Falconi (MBA 1987) Most beverage... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
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Road Work
your travels? Ken: Yeah. I think they are manifold quite frankly, from running out of gas in very remote areas to what do you do? I was in Bolivia. This was probably my longest, most challenging day. So I was literally riding through the... View Details