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15 Jun 2018
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Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life

meaningfulness and awe, but there's this whole other element of what about not those one discrete moments, but the compilation of moments? So you talked about children and the pain that comes from having them, but it's that culmination of all the little moments. So I... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!

while showing off an industrial refrigerator stacked with free-range eggs and 25-kilo blocks of Normandy butter. Trays of madeleines cool on racks. A few feet away, workers monitor a machine that wraps the tiny cakes individually in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

follow we present 6 of the 788 students who personify the remarkable qualities and achievements typical of the class as a whole. Al Dobron, Raj Kapoor, J.B. Lyon, Melissa Ma, Emma Minto, and Tarrus Richardson are talented individuals who... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq

support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Awarded the Individual Air Medal and the Strike-Flight Air Medal, among other commendations. Additional Alumni with Iraq or Afghanistan Service Gerald E. (“Jay”) Hedley (MBA ’01),... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

notion of a single fintech capital—whether it be New York or London, Beijing or the Bay Area—may be misplaced. Instead, the future of fintech may resemble what Gibbins describes as a global network of distributed ecosystems, each with its own View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run

everyone from a Morehouse School of Medicine professor to an entrepreneur offering nonaddictive alternatives for pain relief to Georgia’s public health commissioner. Langford runs the meeting with a light hand, welcoming late arrivals and somehow giving everyone in the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

Happens Next in Ukraine?” As attack unfolds, escalation, nuclear standoff among Harvard experts’ worst fears Harvard Gazette Wide range of possible targets for Russian cyber strikes, from infrastructure to smartphones Ex-intelligence officer notes role of View Details

01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

management. The authors provide first-hand accounts of M&A transactions that they led or were involved in, assessing each from an insider perspective and outlining the key success factors and pitfalls. The book concludes with practical checklists that include the most... View Details

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

in subjects such as business history and leadership, the contributions of IT were much more limited. The result was a curriculum with pockets of IT excellence. "We had a lot of very bright individuals working on cutting-edge projects in... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

about the relationships you foster within an organization. At the end of the case, the individual had not fostered his internal relationships well (not enough blue lines) and was fired from his job. At the time, I thought this was... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

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