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26 Jun 2025
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The Vinyl Revival

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life

the company, from light bulbs to medical systems to financial services. It was a very valuable time for me because I gained hands-on experience applying 'quality' principles to the environmental health and safety arena. I worked with wonderfully View Details

06 Mar 2017
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Leading in the Community and the Boardroom

for you,” says Wiley, who served for 15 years as president and CEO of the Partnership, a nonprofit talent management organization for minority professionals in greater Boston. “I want to grow and contribute to a professional organization,... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top

world of the HBS classroom, a dynamic environment where faculty display their talent not only for presenting new ideas and breathing fresh life into traditional academics, but also for drawing out the wisdom and experience of everyone... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit

with the company’s president one day, the man suggested that Ross go to HBS. “It was an unbelievable experience,” Freeman recalls. “Competing against such a talented group of people, at that level, really helped me gain self-confidence... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Jun 2000
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Books

today's top executives must build organizations in which the new can constructively displace the old and where talented employees are encouraged to help formulate company strategy. "Successful e-leaders focus on two things: a new approach... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

'religion.' To me, spirituality is simply having a sense of inner calm and a willingness to reflect carefully on yourself and the world around you. Integrating spirituality into the workplace means creating a place where it's all right for people to bring their whole... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

cash if you wanted to buy a house,” he says. “Today, there is a huge market for ten- or fifteen-year mortgages. These markets are being created as we speak. It’s phenomenal.” If money isn’t an obstacle, management talent and experience... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

29 Apr 2025
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Challenge Accepted

marketing at Merrill became one of our first major investors and has invested in every single one of our funds since. So there’s a silver lining to most things. JH: In his second year at HBS, John Rice (MBA 1992) conducted a field study showing that many View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA

hire roughly two-thirds of all graduates from top-ranked MBA programs, increasingly have in-house programs for developing and promoting talented employees who have only undergraduate degrees. One anecdote drove the point home. When Datar... View Details

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

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

Solana reflects. Ruwende notes that for most Africans, "it is extremely difficult, given earning levels, inflation, interest rates, and currency devaluation" to save the amounts necessary to matriculate at HBS. "I think the sheer financial requirements deter many View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Jun 2004
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Letters

or, better yet, leadership and ethics. David Moffat (MBA ’02) Goffstown, New Hampshire Talented Alumni The March issue articles “Café Society,” “Bad Boy’s Good Man,” “New Horizons for Iraq,” and “Toy Story” are excellent and demonstrate... View Details

Keywords: letters; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

consequences for the company as well as the laid-off employees. Her research has found that poorly handled layoffs can result in a reduction in work quality, a slowdown in innovation, poor service to customers, damage to the company’s reputation, and the departure of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

19 May 2021
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Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online

says, was a very modest time investment with a big payoff. “It was exciting to meet a variety of fellow HBS alumni from all over the world who you might never get a chance to meet in the real world,” he says. “I’m always blown away by the depth of View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Aug 1998
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Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

stint running his own consulting firm, Baron left the business world. He wrote and sold four screenplays (as yet unproduced) and numerous television episodes before turning his talents to writing for the theater. Baron's hit play Visiting... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

18 Apr 2022
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Home Grown

was about 15 years ago, maybe 20 years ago, from a technology perspective, from a startup perspective—where the domestic market actually was sufficient enough to essentially allow for creation of these companies. And therefore what you see here today is, you know, the... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

shrinking labor pool of talented people," Thomas continues, "today's companies are courting and working with diverse constituencies that were all but invisible to firms even a couple of decades ago. It is now widely accepted that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions

were misdirected illusions of ways to become rich. It would take Gallatin well over a decade to realize that his gifts lay not in dealing with land and agriculture, but rather in managing money and other financial instruments—liquid capital, not illiquid land. His... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Innovation Takes Center Stage

can also be a difficult place for these groups to do their best work, said Nohria. “This has to be a place in which the best talent from all over the world can come and fully thrive,” he added. “In my own personal experience,” he... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Entrepreneurial Acquisitions: The Roadmap for Buying a Business and Leading It to the Next Level By Jan Simon (AMP 199) TellWell Talent In the mid-1980s, a group of enterprising and industrious MBA students at Harvard Business School and... View Details

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