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01 Dec 2020
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In Review

just as the School celebrated its 100th birthday, affect your aspirations? The financial crisis was a sober moment for the School. It made us reflect more deeply during our centennial, not only on the areas where we had made progress and... View Details

30 Mar 2017
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Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest

the future of BC’s forests for decades and had grown bitter, and there was little hope of resolution. But within four years, Wally and his fellow negotiators hashed out a tentative way forward, and—a decade later—the agreement was finalized and then View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door

difficulty getting access to start-up capital. When you have to meet a payroll, the issue of fulfilling both personal and professional responsibilities still looms large. Cynthia Montgomery I recently talked about the School's celebration... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Sep 2016
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Code name: Miesiąc

dorms. “Mikrus” would become synonymous with “protest” when its residents strung a sign across the building to mark the occasion of Pope John Paul II’s arrival in Warsaw in June 1979. The sign, believed to be the only one in the censored city to View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

managers--that possibility becomes more real for Africa. Journeys: An American Story by Andrew Tisch (MBA 1977) and Mary Skafidas RosettaBooks Every family has a story of how they arrived in America, whether it was a few months, years, decades, or centuries ago. This... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

Left to right: Feeley, Belkin, O'Donnell, Mathias, and Benton It was, in the words of one MBA '71 yearbook scribe, "a trying two years" at HBS. The class that celebrates its 25th Reunion this year came to Soldiers Field in September 1969,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

harming my ability to get to something I’m going to celebrate at the end and it’s going to spark a lesser regret, whereas taking the right fork might be able to go and enable something a lot better for me, given my motivations and my... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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John McArthur

walks of life. He generously thanked people for their efforts on behalf of the School, sending handwritten notes in distinctive longhand. McArthur also was there for members of the HBS community in good and bad times. He often appeared unannounced in hospital rooms and... View Details

Keywords: Dean

01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

these tasks are going to require leadership.” Light declared that the School and its alumni “need to be part of the solution to these problems.” Addressing alumni on Tuesday, Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust recalled the words of HBS Dean Wallace Donham at the... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

and food habits to marriage and old age, from music and language to celebrities and censorship, he looks at over a hundred ads to study how the Indian consumer has changed over the past five decades and how advertising and society have... View Details

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

cash to pay suppliers. I felt stupid for failing within a year, but performed a detailed post-mortem analysis and identified the reasons for my failure as poor business capitalization and lack of a well-defined business strategy. Bill Gates once said, “It is fine to... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

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