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01 Oct 1996
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Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire

of the Navy. "Through Ironclaw," said the trim and articulate Baldwin in an interview with the Bulletin between classes last summer, "I wanted to give readers an everyday look at what life is like on a... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City

working on. At 3rd and Grand, he gestures to a parking lot. In his mind’s eye, he sees a new mixed-use building, with 230 residential units atop 20,000 square feet of retail... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

24 Mar 2021
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Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education

Clubs News Clubs News Community Partners Lean In to Racial Equity Each year, hundreds of HBS alumni volunteer with their local alumni clubs and associations to offer pro-bono consulting to nonprofits in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture

Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity;... View Details

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

Above: Chris Kempczinski is one of the alumni working to modernize McDonald’s. Nick Karavites owns 24 McDonald’s restaurants in the Chicago area and the surrounding suburbs,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details

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... View Details

01 Jan 2003
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Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969

Lambert sold Centennial One, the building services company she started in her Maryland garage 25 years earlier had twelve hundred employees and annual revenues of $20 million. Although her family View Details

03 Jan 2018
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Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room

understand what it means to want to provide for your family. And some of us have not come from the best means, so we're looking to do something to help our families View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Vision: Into the Breach

service to society.” He means that literally: The ramifications of a breach can be far-reaching, yet the organizations that At-Bay serves typically lack the resources to protect themselves. “When a small... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

22 Nov 2024
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Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2018
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Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

clients on e-commerce, supply chain, delivery, and global postal transformation. Here, he fields your questions about what the emerging race to your front door means for the future View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

28 May 2019
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INK: Maker’s Manual

goals. It also tells some of the stories of the nonprofit leaders who are laboring in virtual anonymity, doing work that requires tremendous leadership View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

13 Mar 2018
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Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission

ask me? And then as I'm asking these questions internally, I realize I'm now the Bravo Company commander, because the way it works in the army is as soon as the commander is killed in action, the next... View Details

22 Nov 2024
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Deep Reading

Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

15 Jun 2021
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Case Study: Inside Story

Illustration by Lu Zhang Amelia Lin (MBA 2016) grew up feasting on the stories her parents told about how they met and what it was like for them to leave China to start a new life in the United States. These narratives were central to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders

in the period of your life just before business school. Can you talk a little bit about the circumstances of your life at that time? And how did they lead you to this moment... View Details

21 Jan 2022
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Real Talk

asks participants, especially executives, to get vulnerable. After dozens of interviews with CEOs, DE&I trainers, employees, entrepreneurs, military leaders, and colleagues who have used storytelling to... View Details

02 Aug 2011
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A Fearless Force for Change

view video clips of her numerous national media appearances and read blog entries and other writings that embody her personal life philosophy to live without fear. A... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller

or 15. “You had to have a good bath when you got home.” Morning routine: None. “I work in two or three different offices, and the nature of what I do is perpetually changing.”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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