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- 01 Jan 2008
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Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
Chairman & CEO, GE Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Dartmouth College, 1978 B.A., Applied Mathematics LESSONS FROM HBS “Understanding the difference between knowledge and intelligence.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS...
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- 12 May 2021
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Aid from Afar
goal of $250,000. “Creating this fundraiser has been a lesson in the power of channeling despair into action and hope,” Badgaiyan says. “It’s been incredibly heartening to see this collective action materialize, albeit heartbreaking to...
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- 01 May 2013
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Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979
over the world.” Lessons gained from the case study method, in particular, have stayed with her. “It’s a discipline that encourages you to step back and learn from many perspectives,” Thoman says, adding that her HBS experience has...
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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
- 02 Dec 2018
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An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
different lessons from David Crane, formerly CEO of NRG, and Paul Polman of Unilever. Chan, of Citigroup, spoke of the enormous potential and necessity of greening every industry and called for taking personal responsibility--even if just...
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- 20 Sep 2013
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Connections Add Up
lessons about choices and tradeoffs are about more than money—and even more powerful. "An economist in my network in Memphis was asking kids what they had learned, and one said, 'I learned not to join a gang.'" Her passion needed a...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
the Beatles, Thomas Alva Edison, Michael Jordan, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the founders of Infosys, author Amish, and others have used rejections as a pivot to swing their careers and businesses around. Parameswaran brings his decades of experience to bear on perhaps the...
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Margie Kelley
- 17 Jan 2019
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
different backgrounds really helped give me a broader perspective on all that it takes for an organization to be effective.” Gandhi: “I find myself referencing lessons from my time at HBS almost every day, and sharing them with my...
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- 22 Feb 2018
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My First Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Everyone remembers their first real job—in part, because it’s everyone’s first experience with a new and foreign world of work. But it’s also because those first jobs can teach us valuable View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education
Peru, Rwanda, Liberia, and Burkina Faso, to help improve the learning environment. He hopes to scale Edify, from affecting nearly 400,000 children currently to 2 million children in the next decade. It’s an ambitious objective that draws from countless View Details
- 17 Apr 2023
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Alumni and Faculty books pages
2023: March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books A More Just Future 2022: December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts Ink: Comfort in Discomfort September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books Ink: The Three-Step Startup June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books Ink: Start Small,...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Leading Quietly
inconspicuously and without casualties." Badaracco believes that what drives society are millions of small yet consequential decisions that individuals make on a daily basis. He presents a series of situations describing quiet leaders at work and derives practical...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard
here.” In his own career, Immelt said, that has meant experiencing and learning more deeply the import of four lessons that he initially absorbed at HBS: focus and discipline (“Very few jobs have been beneath my dignity; every job has...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Batteries Included
then that makes a lot of sense.” James Morton Turner, an environmental scholar and author of Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future, adds that drawing power from LFP batteries is “a promising technology for...
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