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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
has delivered more than 2 million units of PPE since mid-May. “I hope that a vaccine will come out and we can declare mission accomplished, but until we know that COVID is really under control, we expect to be here to supply anybody who...
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- 12 May 2022
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Turning a Moment into a Movement
first seat on a public board at Altimeter Growth Corporation, a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Since launching in September 2020, the Board Challenge’s singular mission has been to increase the representation of Black...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
of his week are devoted to fundraising, "it never feels like enough." Education and Outreach Education is a central element in any museum's mission statement. How each museum chooses to fulfill its educational duty in terms of its local...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
leader in technology,” he says. “Somehow, over the years, we had become the nation’s technology broker to outside companies.” The 2011 shuttering of the shuttle program—and its $600 million per launch costs—left them without a high-profile pursuit. “We began thinking...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
of it as a place for cats playing the piano. But I gave it a shot, and the videos took on a life of their own.” The plunge: “Soon, tens of thousands of people were using the videos every month. In 2009, I left my job and set up Khan Academy as a nonprofit organization,...
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- 15 Apr 2017
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Bringing Markets to Myanmar
It's going to involve tough, gutsy, courageous decisions. You're going to be taking some big risks. And it's going to be the most challenging mission ahead. How do you feel about that? Are you up for it? Are you willing to belly up to...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Ali Allawi
acknowledge that the overthrow of the regime opened up really deep fissures in Iraqi society. So I would say around October 2003 it began to be clear that the American-led mission was going to go awry. You write that the insurgency wasn’t...
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- 06 Jan 2021
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
I'm thinking about whether it is virtual teaching, remote working, hybrid classrooms, welcoming students back to campus, on every one of those occasions, our community has responded magnificently. It is this community and its commitment to do whatever it takes to...
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- 17 Jan 2019
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the world to speak and perform about these issues.” Tucker: “I’m a...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Green Day
Photo courtesy Clean Line Energy Partners “We’re kind of like the express line,” says Michael Skelly (MBA 1991). That’s how he likes to explain Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners’ mission of developing high-voltage transmission...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love
attractive. Match.com, which got its start in 1995 when only 14 percent of American adults used the Internet, began to move online dating into the mainstream. The late 1990s and early 2000s saw a boom in dating sites, such as eHarmony, launched in 2000 with a stated...
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April White
- 25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments
of employees, entire organizations vanish. The vanishing act cannot be blamed solely on competitive forces. Most organizations that self-destruct experience failure because employees were not committed to the mission and direction of the...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
the surgery scenes.) Heskett says studying Shouldice helped him conceptualize the strategic-service vision that he and HBS colleagues would develop into a framework for success for service firms. “The case endures,” he declares, “because the View Details
- 05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans
connecting with it in some way—we want to be a safety net education, world-class education, for free. That’s part of our mission statement. And then if you do have access to a respectable school, which hopefully most kids will have, then...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Lighten Up
fiercely competitive market for outdoor wear and gear. GoLite’s mission sounds simple and logical enough — give serious trail runners, alpine athletes, fast-packers (backpackers who speed along trails), and even once-discouraged hikers...
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- 17 Apr 2019
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Give It to Me Straight
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Early on in Kim Scott’s career, she had a few wake-up calls that set her on a mission to become a better boss—a leader who was highly effective but still very...
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- 29 Aug 2018
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The Value of Valleys
discovered a company that I thought was amazing. Sodexo is a French company, Global French Company. I just fell in love with their mission and their values and their lens of the world, and their role in it as a corporate citizen. So, I...
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- 10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
“We’re not interested in ‘fraternities’ or ‘sororities.’ ” Some three years after its founding, the Women’s Venture Capital Fund is still one of only a few VC firms with the mission of funding businesses with women leaders. “Investors...
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April White
- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
institution," Knutson says of the label that has brought to public attention little-known groups such as Burning Spear and Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas, as well as the better-known George Thorogood and the Destroyers and J.D. Crowe and the New South. "The founders...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts
York City to his time as an internationally touring opera singer, his business launch during the Great Recession, and ultimately to his position as founder and CEO of Aria, a real estate company with a mission to humanize the experience...
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