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09 Jan 2020
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Your Whole Self

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Amy Jen Su (MBA 1997) is managing director at executive coaching firm Paravis Partners, and she’s been hearing some consistent themes in the trenches these... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

disappointed. I said, “Oh my gosh, another segregated situation.” I thought that Harvard had run an unfair game of projecting itself as being so liberal. I associated the School with the Kennedy brothers and what they were trying to... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

groups such as Boko Haram, which at least promise something to eat. Kola Masha Managing Director, Doreo Partners Masha's Babban Gona system turns subsistence farmers into commercial growers using a franchise model that provides everything... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

with one of my coworkers, a manager from a different department. He and I had had a wonderful relationship as I was growing up in the business, but now that I had come back and joined the business and had been promoted to manager, I felt... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

senior management is especially necessary, Coote said, in managing the partnerships that now often result from changed business models and corporate restructurings. Senior View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

Olympic bids in their own cities. Act from Choice: Simple Tools for Managing Your Habits, Your Emotions and Yourself, to Be How You Mean to Be by Robert Goldmann (MBA 1961) (Clarity Publications Inc.) With the goal of training your brain... View Details

01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

players to the table, none driven by purely economic rationale, says Lee Sandwen (MBA ’77, JD ’78), the former head of real estate for Fidelity Management & Research Company in Boston who now handles special View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters

of strategic space configurations, is an illustration of the value of face time. “This project would very much not exist were we not literally next door to each other,” says Wu, an associate professor. In the following conversation with... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity

11 trainees, chosen through the Specialisterne Assessment process, in Adelaide. During the assessment, candidates completed individual and team projects using Lego Mindstorms, as well as undergoing psychometric testing for... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

brown-led nonprofits closely tied to the people and problems in under-resourced Massachusetts communities. Shell, a managing director at Bain Capital, says George Floyd’s brutal killing, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a pandemic... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2017
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The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)

computer. I know a lot of people think everyone should learn how to code, but let's be honest, going from an online tutorial about coding to building an app that works at scale, with many users, is extremely hard. For many of our customers, Bubble is the enabler that... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

even apply through our many events, outreach at fairs, office hours, blogs, and other digital channels. In addition, we’re working with groups such as Management Leadership for Tomorrow, an organization John Rice (MBA 1992) founded, which... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2007
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The Wise Men

to think through it yourself. When I taught in a management program in Turin in 1953, an Italian assistant of mine commented that lecture courses had the impact of water over marble: very smooth, leaving little trace. The B-School was... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

22 Jul 2021
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Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

networks, and support the local community. “I decided to participate in the project to help our community of entrepreneurs,” says War Room mentor Jasper Camacho (MBA 2006), who was able to share his experience in sustainability. “I work... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2020
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Well Matched

working on an independent project with NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony, an investor in Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund. “Chris Lyons, who oversees the fund, told me, ‘The number of people who understand how to work with talent... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; venture capital; diversity; inclusion; tennis; leadership; women; Finance

01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall

affairs. Enron’s approach to compensation and incentives included many perverse features, such as encouraging growth over profitability and rewarding employees for closing commodity deals and power-generation projects without concrete... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Sep 2005
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One-on-One with Thomas Riley

regional issues. I tried to get better informed on general world issues and solicited suggestions from former ambassadors. When it came time to leave, the President gave me a nice send-off. What do you do during a typical week? My day usually starts with a View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Government

07 Sep 2021
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September 2021 Alumni Books

These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct-selling... View Details