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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
the Arctic. There are multibillion-dollar mineral reserves — copper, zinc, gold, diamonds, lead — as well. Most people don’t know that FedEx and UPS have very large hubs in Alaska and that most of the world’s international air cargo now...
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- 03 Oct 2019
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Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Bezos’s Blue Origin was still three years away from launching its first test vehicle. Today, Morgan Stanley estimates that the global space economy is worth $350 billion—and projects that it will grow to $1 trillion by 2040. Garriott de...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
years in the Young Presidents’ Organization — the first woman from Queensland invited to join — Russo had sharpened her business skills and bolstered her confidence through seminars and conferences, including a weeklong YPO program held...
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- 23 Sep 2020
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Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
native of Finland who competed in track on a full scholarship at Georgia Tech before graduating at the top of her class with a degree in Systems Engineering. “The case method teaches you how to think through business situations and come View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007
Boston’s Trinity Church choir. Or that you can read an essay by Sachin Jain in The Soul of a Doctor, a book written by medical students on their transformation into physicians. In any case, we hope you enjoy meeting these newest members of the HBS alumni body. As in...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 13 Jun 2013
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Learning Curve
giving the mayor partial control of the city's schools was ruled unconstitutional by a Superior Court judge. Luckily, Tuck was unfazed. "The schools still needed to improve, right?" Tuck says by phone. "So you take a blow, get up the next...
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- 13 Apr 2017
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Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Photos by Kunle Ogunfuyi Even a college degree couldn’t help Temi Abiola, who grew up in Nigeria, land a job. Though he speaks fluent English, he lacked the problem-solving and customer relations skills required for his dream job in the...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
headline “Mom? Dad? I’m home!” “You can imagine the ribbing I took from my classmates,” says Andrus, who still cringes when he tells the story even though he now has little to be embarrassed about. That’s because last year he was named...
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- 07 Feb 2019
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New Charter School CEO Debuts Colorful Changes
announce a new easing of dress code regulations. Jones started in the role late last year after the previous CEO exited abruptly after investigations found that he had engaged in a “pattern of inappropriate behavior”, leading Jones and...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Andrews, Raymond Remembered
of cases he wrote on the Swiss watch industry. A Ph.D. in English and the author of a critically acclaimed book on Mark Twain, Andrews also edited the Harvard Business Review for six years and was the master of Harvard’s Leverett House...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
In Brief
Q&A with Ali Allawi. After more than forty years in exile, Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) returned to Iraq in 2003 to serve in the new government. Disillusioned, he left for London in 2006 and wrote a critically acclaimed book about his experience....
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
institution and doctor. Less than two years after launching its first marketplace, Nomad Health is working with 20,000 clinicians and 600 health care facilities in 12 states. The Question: Nomad Health’s long-term goal is to work in all...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2024
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Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father...
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- 15 Nov 2021
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Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
discipline and focus and HBS with opening up the world of business to him.” Thankful for the opportunities both experiences offered him, Waite continued to serve in the US Army Reserve for 20 years after...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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A Silent Workplace Crisis
in the health, productivity, and retention of their experienced employees, addressing the issue of aging and elder care makes both economic and strategic sense. Yet the number of employers offering elder-care referrals is declining sharply. Twenty View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
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Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
professor of social sciences, now emeritus, wrote "Communications Technology - For Better or for Worse," in which he laid out concepts that paved the way for the Information Superhighway. The year was 1979. And the magazine was the...
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- 11 Feb 2021
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Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
Tracy Palandjian (MBA 1997), could create a lifeline for many of these low-wage workers, according to an article in the Boston Globe. Social Finance’s pilot program helps train low-income people for jobs that are in high demand. Individuals pay nothing View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
they had lost in the last five years and current owner-operators, impatiently awaiting a salve. For the latter, buy-in took a bit of pot-sweetening. Historically, when McDonald’s offered to partner on upgrades, it would pay View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture
ten years and have not seen an economic downturn. That concerns me. We grew up with a pretty severe recession in 1970, another in 1975, and another in 1990. For today's grads, the next recession will be...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Q&A - Mark Fields
Japan’s fifth-largest automaker and employer of more than 38,000 people, Fields was named 2001 Asian Business Innovator of the Year (by CNBC Asia Pacific and TNT, a business logistics company).. A New York and New Jersey native, Fields...
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