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01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged

This year is shaping up to be a critical one for electric vehicles—or EVs—say HBS alumni in the auto industry, with the newly released Chevy Bolt and Tesla’s own soon-to-be-released Model 3 promising to make EVs as affordable as... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

School's education and research mission. "Today's general manager is operating in an information-inundated world," Clark elaborated recently. "We need to prepare our students to meet that challenge. We also need to take full advantage of... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of management skill as athletic prowess. Four HBS View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

intriguing. That experience planted the seed for a 50-plus-year career at Stanford exploring new auction designs and formats—work recognized in 2020 with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the View Details

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

get in a small country with a robust alumni club.) But Macridis says his optimism is rooted in the rational: “Kyriakos understands what makes the economy tick and what investors need. He has introduced a new political style that is more... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

early December, the board fired Wallace as CEO. A few weeks later, the company closed for good. It isn’t the sort of story that alumni like to trumpet when they return to their alma mater. But today, that is why Christina Wallace is back... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

join York Street, a winner in the 2014 alumni New Venture Competition.) Years earlier, Embuldeniya and Mawilmada bonded at HBS over their Sri Lankan roots, a tie further strengthened by the December 2004 tsunami that struck the country... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

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