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- 01 Oct 1997
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Cathy A. Nichols
22 years there, becoming the first woman senior partner in the firm's history. But Nichols had always known that she wanted to run a business herself. And, as McKinsey had expanded, she no longer had the same sense of building a firm that... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
and as a member of a small group that helps run its $8 billion endowment. My work at HBS on the Visiting Committee and in other capacities has also been fulfilling. Currently reading Business plans. Biggest disappointment When a company... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
manufacturing workers on a computer system used for data reconciliation. The assignment proved challenging. “I was a total outsider running a class designed to change the work patterns of an experienced manufacturing team,” she grimaces.... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 01 Jun 2005
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Full Circle
a support network to help you attain some clarity — sometimes what you’re feeling and thinking runs counter to the flow of your life. It can be hard to tune out the noise.” Anderson says that the business skills he acquired at HBS are... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
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An Educational Start-Up
others? Are there any entrepreneurs (or would-be entrepreneurs) who’d care to weigh in on this matter? Do some aspects of running a business defy a classroom education, even if the school in question is HBS? View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes
we had stayed with the old model, we would have run out of money. I distinctly remember advice I heard from investors and founders who had been through another crisis, the 2008 recession: Whatever you did in the past, forget it. That's... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
handle anything.” “It’s important to learn how to balance IQ with EQ, emotional quotient. There is humanity in EQ. There is leadership in EQ. You can’t run a business for a long time if you don’t have both, and EQ is critical to having... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
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Road Work
your travels? Ken: Yeah. I think they are manifold quite frankly, from running out of gas in very remote areas to what do you do? I was in Bolivia. This was probably my longest, most challenging day. So I was literally riding through the... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
running out. The old low-cost manufacturing-for-export strategy had run out of steam. They were developing a new economic formula based on stimulating consumer consumption. More recently, there was an... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Illustrations by Istvan Banyai By the standards of the algorithmic, instant-judgment online dating age, Jess Kushner (MBA 2008) and Ken Deckinger have a story fit for an old-fashioned romantic comedy. In 2003, Deckinger was running a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Jun 2019
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After the Storm
disasters, like hurricanes, are predictable. Others, such as earthquakes, are not. “I will get a text from the guy who runs international response for us, 9 p.m. on a Friday night, saying there was just an earthquake and that we should do... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
should it start: at the grassroots with the student groups with which they are familiar, but which often have small budgets, or at the top with the university administration, where the company will face more bureaucratic hurdles but potentially find a larger audience?... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
a family business, her team spoke to more than 1,100 CEOs, eventually finding striking differences in managerial styles and productivity in firms run by family members relative to their external counterparts. Over the past several years,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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Case Study: Sneak Peak
school districts and vending machine operators to reclaim vending space made vacant by the new federal guidelines against unhealthy, sugary beverages. The profit margin may be slimmer, but it could be made up by volume. —Stefano Falconi (MBA 1987) Most beverage... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
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New Thinking for China
run institution outside of Shanghai that is modeled after American liberal arts colleges, with classes taught by American professors. “We want students who have the courage to pursue their desires, to know what they really want; that’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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Baker Library Photo Exhibit
PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS A special exhibit, “The Human Factor: Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at Baker Library,” opened at Baker in October and will run through March 7, 2007. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom
it's a challenge that we've seen managers approach intuitively. It's definitely one of the questions I'm looking at in my research. Your work seems to run across so many fields. You're collaborating with NASA, for example, and researchers... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Powering on wireless electricity
award underlines the fact that our technology is capable of enormous positive economic and environmental impact,” says Giler, whose entrepreneurial spirit extends to other areas of interest. He is the cofounder of Scratch Wireless, which is developing the nation’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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Who, Me?
online, specifically to Tickle.com, a social interaction Web site founded and run by James Currier (MBA ’99). “Tickle is an interpersonal media company about everyone’s favorite subject: themselves,” Currier explained to the New York... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
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Eyeing the Dominoes?
parties, one politician who some experts believe could make a strong run as a centrist alternative is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA ’66), according to the Associated Press (December 20, 2006). Bloomberg’s strengths are that... View Details