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01 Sep 2011
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Capitalism’s False Mantra

of hedge funds, and encourage companies to contribute positively to society. The National Football League is Martin’s exemplar because it does all it can do to improve the customer experience while ensuring... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management

01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons

composed of “propaganda written in white-hot anger with words tumbling and stumbling all over the page.” ...Several chemical companies threatened legal action. Velsicol Chemical Company, maker of chlordane and heptachlor, tried to prevent... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

enables us to participate more by sharing real non-U.S. experiences while enriching community learning." Solana says he and other international students would like the curriculum to include an even more extensive base of cases on View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Sep 2014
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Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

that will make anonymity an afterthought. I think the Bitcoin public ledger will eventually hold so much valuable information that some very interesting analytics companies are going to emerge to make sense of the data. Has there ever... View Details

Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Jun 2025
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Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward

educating leaders who make a difference in the world. As I have said before, business is a powerful force for good in society. As one example: a recent Pitchbook survey found that between 2014 and 2024, nearly 1,900 HBS alumni founded View Details

01 Sep 2020
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Righting the Ship

any card, to save his men. Right now, we don’t see anything like that kind of imagination and thoughtful improvisation, rapid-fire experimentation, and pivoting from many of our national and state leaders. This is a huge failure because... View Details

26 Nov 2018
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New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change

(MBA 2002), President, CBJ Energy; and Jackson Lehr (MBA 2007), Director, Distributed Energy Ventures, National Grid. “Climate change is such a controversial topic,” says Kiernan. “So this event was a big deal, especially with Professor... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; clubs; alumni clubs

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

nationality or which culture,” says Natarajan. “It’s not really a textbook leadership style,” he concedes. “When David Garvin first presented the case and talked about how we run a company through love, the... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

financial products or institutions, rather than look at product or company names, we should look at what functions they perform. In the classroom, we study four functions: payments, movements of money from today to tomorrow (savings and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

01 Dec 1996
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New Releases

noncompetitive technology development while contributing to national economic growth and global competitiveness. In Technology Fountainheads: The Management Challenge of R&D; Consortia, Professor Emeritus Ray Corey examines the... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out

of at least 51 people in Panama after they ingested medicine made with diethylene glycol, an industrial chemical similar to antifreeze that a Chinese company used as a substitute for pharmaceutical-grade syrup. In June, officials at the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Oct 2001
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Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming

Photo courtesy of Barbara Bry The words connection and communication define Barbara Bry's career, from her student days to her current position as vice president for business development at Proflowers.com, the largest direct-from-the-grower flower View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick; Arts, Entertainment

01 Oct 2001
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Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual

U.S. Court of Appeals; made partner at Latham & Watkins, where he specialized in corporate finance; founded (with his father) a company that published an English version of the Russian newspaper Pravda; was appointed senior associate... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

12 May 2022
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Turning a Moment into a Movement

first seat on a public board at Altimeter Growth Corporation, a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Since launching in September 2020, the Board Challenge’s singular mission has been to increase the representation of Black... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Aug 2001
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Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)

companies and countries worldwide and, before retiring in 1997, had taught some seven thousand Harvard MBA students and ten thousand Executive Education participants. Most recently, Goldberg has focused on the impact that advances in... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; John H. Davis; Agriculture; Scientific Research and Development Services

15 Sep 2020
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How To Make Diversity a Reality

their Competition and Strategy professor Michael Porter. The group thought it would be a good opportunity to take some of Porter’s ideas about what makes a nation competitive and apply those on a city level. Two organizations spun out of... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Action Plan: Casting Call

generation to run Tension Envelope, the company (now Tension Corporation) founded by Berkley’s grandfather in 1886. Berkley became CEO in 1962; his son Bill was the fourth generation to step into the role, in 1988, with Berkley staying on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 1999
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From the Editors

president - McKinsey & Company's Marvin Bower (MBA '30) reported on the effort to "streamline Bulletin make-up and typography." Content of the quarterly magazine was dominated by the School's involvement in wartime training courses, essays on the role of business in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2006
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One-on-One with Carter Roberts

improved governance by engaging both local people and national governments is a fundamental issue. The second challenge is the impact of globalization. Whether you’re trying to save rain forests in Borneo or the Amazon, or save the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

explain the crisis in Ukraine Q&A with Paul Krobe, director of the Intelligence Project at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. COMMUNITY UPDATES DECEMBER 20 Faculty-founded Company Donates... View Details

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