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- 07 May 2020
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Ensuring Student Equity
volunteers who pick up materials from NCCP’s office to assemble learning packets at home, then bring back the completed packets for the nonprofit to distribute to families. “We created a Volunteer from Home program that allows individuals...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2000
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After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
technology for the dizziness, said Nolan. "The Internet is the fastest-growing technology to ever reach fifty million users, and it did it in four years." In contrast, he said, "television took thirteen years to reach that many people,...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
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Karen Gordon Mills
fruition about two years ago when Mills's husband, Barry, a Bowdoin College graduate, was offered his dream job: the presidency of his alma mater. The couple packed up their three sons, now ages 9, 13, and...
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- 31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
the time. I had just come off of two years in investment banking. I had always been fairly active in terms of exercise and running. In fact, I was training for a couple half marathons, which soon turned into marathon training at the time....
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- 01 Sep 2024
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From the Classroom to Casablanca
To put what they have learned in the classroom to the test in the field, more than 900 HBS first-year students embarked in May on the FIELD Global Immersion (FGI), a cornerstone of the MBA Program since 2012. This experiential learning opportunity dispatches students...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
“Today is a pretty exciting day here,” Safe Passage Project executive director Rich Leimsider (MBA 2003) says as soon as he picks up the phone in late October 2019. “As of today, we are representing 1,001 children who the US government is...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
been taken on by the restaurant industry. Americans now spend more meal occasions eating out (or eating take-out) than they do consuming home-prepared meals. How else is food's role in our culture changing? Beyond sustenance, food is always central to culture because...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
past 20 years of my life, I find it impossible not to believe that men and women tend to manage things differently. My evidence on this point is mostly anecdotal, but it hits me whenever I venture from a male-dominated organization to a...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
endeavors. After building his fortune in the virtual world, Steven D. Murch (MBA '91) has taken up a hammer to build a lasting legacy in the real world. “My dream is to create a foundation that helps people,” says Murch, a Microsoft...
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- 16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
clubs across the globe spent the last year recruiting teams, coordinating the pitch events, identifying judges and assembling impressive prizes of cash and in-kind services to find the best competitors to send to the final stages. For the...
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Margie Kelley
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
finance, media, and other executives are calling on Americans to stay cool during a heated election season.” March to the Polls “2020 is not canceled. It’s the year we woke up,” according to the March to the Polls (M2P), a grassroots...
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- 17 Aug 2015
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The Play Alchemist
When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was designed to provide a clean source...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2020
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How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
league—began to play without fans in the stands. Outside, that is, of some cardboard facsimiles of fans that were purchased as part of a pandemic relief program. It’s an imperfect—albeit necessary—set up for fans. And Ruggiero, who is a...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
comprehensive playbook for business leaders and people on their way up to give the best presentations of their lives. More often than not, the best intentions and most innovative ideas get lost in a poorly executed presentation. With...
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- 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a...
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entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
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- 19 Jun 2017
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How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
Kennedy-Levy Associates, but we were about 25, 30 years ahead of our time in marketing women's basketball. So we had accomplished a lot, amazingly. We got some major companies to sponsor tournaments and awards, but still, I didn't see...
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- 11 Jun 2021
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The Power of Resilience
team, and through that experience had the opportunity to also share my own personal story at health care conferences and public settings, really advocating for the power of genetic information. I was there for nearly two years when they...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
ineluctable advance . In a speech from late in the 1990s, George Stalk Jr. MBA ’78, arguably BCG’s leading thinker on strategy over the prior fifteen years — and certainly the firm’s most prolific — neatly summed View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
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Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) recently presented a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter when founding their companies. The conversation, titled “The Realities Facing Female Founders,”...
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Margie Kelley
- 05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans
allowed his cousins to pause, rewind, and absorb the material at their own pace. Before long, he was hearing from complete strangers that the videos had made a real difference in their ability to master material they’d struggled with previously. Another value became...
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