Selection Decisions - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible

excites me. I love emerging markets.” Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) The Bridgespan Group www.bridgespangroup.org “The idea may have seemed irrational at the time, but I couldn't imagine not doing it,” recalls Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) of his decision... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

leave the fighting, and Sri Lanka, behind. And he did, enrolling at Hampton University, a historically black school in Virginia that he picked for the rigor and selectiveness of its architecture program. “I’d be asked why I was there,” he... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Jun 2013
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Minding The Gap

assistant principal of the school she now leads, an institution with a proud, 174-year history that counts a constellation of distinguished professionals, political leaders, judges, philanthropists, and a Pulitzer Prize winner among its devoted alumni. For the past two... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2022
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What We’re Reading

Meaning, by Viktor Frankl, about four years after HBS, when I was reflecting on a major career decision point. While the book is rich with insights, two big concepts continue to shape me today. First is the idea that two people can... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

06 Dec 2021
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December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

what matters most; facing conflict, adversity, and ambiguity with decisiveness and confidence; setting uncompromising standards for behavior and performance; and selecting and developing great people. Be... View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

treat non-hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Dapansutrile aims to selectively target the immune system’s intense inflammatory response to the SARS-CoV-2 viral infection that can lead to a “cytokine storm.” As such, it is well positioned... View Details

06 Dec 2018
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Source Code

symbolic things to bigger, provocative, intellectual ideas—I just had none of that previously”), she worked as a banker in Philadelphia, funding mom-and-pop cable TV startups in rural Pennsylvania. It cemented her decision to apply to... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

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