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18 Apr 2005
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NFL Players Touch Down at HBS

Dhani Jones, a six-foot-one, 240-pound linebacker for the Super Bowl runner-up Philadelphia Eagles, knows a lot about running around a football field. But he's a rookie when it comes to running his bow tie company. "I love my bow... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

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Chekemma J. Fulmore-Townsend Archives | Social Enterprise

Fulmore-Townsend is President and CEO of the Philadelphia Youth Network. Chekemma att... INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

01 Apr 2001
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Professor Thomas Kennedy Remembered

became a full-time visiting professor at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where students established the Thomas Kennedy Outstanding Teacher Award in his honor. He also remained active as an arbitrator, working as recently as 1994 on cases involving the city... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Depths. Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company Mss: 351 1930 P544 2 albums, 84 photographs The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, a subsidiary of the View Details

February 2008 (Revised September 2009)
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Lance Johnstone: Developing 3000 North Broad

The case focuses on Lance Johnstone, a former NFL player, who has dabbled in real estate development during his playing career, and now, as a retired player, is trying to pursue the development of a 10-unit rental apartment building in a depressed area of Philadelphia,... View Details

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Development Economics; Construction; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Investment Return; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; Philadelphia

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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship

href="https://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/psu10sci.vid.geospatial.fooddeserts/geospatial-revolution-food-deserts/#.WoM8eiXwbIV" style="word-wrap: break-word;">Geospatial Revolution: Food Deserts This video segment from Penn State Public... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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HBS Clubs and Associations

Buffalo, New York, granted its first two executive education scholarships this year. “This program is really great because it benefits the local community,” says Richard (“Bing”) Sherrill (MBA ’62), treasurer of the Buffalo club. The HBS Club of View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2001
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Film School

In 1994, after a career spent mostly in corporate America, Jeff Seder (MBA '74, JD '76) began to feel that his life lacked purpose. "I was a burned-out, sold-out '60s leftover," he told the Philadelphia Inquirer (September 13, 2001). "I... View Details

Keywords: Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship | Baker Library

Revolution: Food Deserts This video segment from Penn State Public Broadcasting’s Geospatial Revolution describes one Philadelphia community’s successful efforts to use GIS technology to identify and solve the problem of lack of access to... View Details

January 2016 (Revised November 2018)
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Ivy Academy: Blended Learning in Downingtown Area School District

By: John J-H Kim and Daniel Goldberg

In 2015, Downingtown Area School District (DASD), a suburban school district near Philadelphia, entered its second year implementing Ivy Academy, a blended learning program, in its two traditional high schools. Superintendent Larry Mussoline, having for several years... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Curriculum and Courses; Learning; Philadelphia

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01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo

Bob DiRomualdo admits that he wasn't much of a reader until he paid a visit to Greenland. The son of a Philadelphia fireman, DiRomualdo took a job with RCA after graduating from high school to earn money for college. Dispatched by the... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Oct 1996
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Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer

stores in France, Carrefour began expanding into the rest of Europe in the late 1960s. By 1988, the student authors say, "It was the top retail company in Europe with 65 hypermarkets in France and 115 in Europe and South America" -- not to mention 2 stores in the View Details

01 Jun 1999
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A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

callers the opportunity to purchase the relevant CDs. The *CD service "enables real-time impulse buying," Chen told the Philadelphia Inquirer (February 11, 1999). "It is a lost sale if you can't act on it." Currently being tested in... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 2008
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Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work

notes Cahill. Among the clubs that support nonprofits, the HBS Association of Southeastern New England and the HBS Club of Philadelphia have hosted nonprofit conferences for several years. These conferences provide nonprofit leaders with... View Details

Keywords: alumni clubs; Centennial; Educational Services

01 Sep 2008
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Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead

from publishing weekly to biweekly. Knight Ridder, the Wall Street darling that owned the Philadelphia Inquirer and Detroit Free Press, is no more, having been swallowed and largely written off by a peer whose own fortunes then... View Details

Keywords: Roben Farzad; journalism; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Marie Kyle

marathon that raised money for local nonprofit organizations — became a passion she was determined to pursue. At Bridgespan, Marie developed a new case-management system for a Philadelphia family-services provider, collaborated on an... View Details

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Ursula von Rydingsvard Elegantka II 2013–14 / 2016 | About

Fabric Workshop and Museum, Pennsylvania; and Now, She (2018–19), at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park of West Bretton, UK, and a solo presentation at the 56th Venice Biennale, Italy. Ursula von... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera

and COO of Rohm and Haas, the largest specialty chemicals company in the United States. The longtime Philadelphia resident, who started his forty-year career at Rohm and Haas as an engineer, says he was ready for retirement but felt no... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Non-Profit Leadership in a Post-Pandemic World Chekemma J. Fulmore-Townsend 10 Aug 2021 Chekemma J. Fulmore-Townsend is President and CEO of the Philadelphia Youth Network. Chekemma att... Investing in Education to Help Meet the Needs of... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits

Charlotte New York Philadelphia Fundraising for local nonprofits or for scholarships to attend Executive Education’s Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management program Austin Ottawa San Diego Washington, D.C. All-day alumni... View Details

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