new year's resolutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2002
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Late Start, Dramatic Finish

including Yale, the University of Texas, and Cornell had arrived at Wake Forest to begin analyzing the issue at hand and organizing their presentations for Saturday's competition. This year's case focused on the public relations... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Aug 2002
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Class Day & Commencement

Skies were overcast on the afternoon of June 5 but that didn't faze this year's 911 graduating MBAs who, along with their families and friends, gathered on Baker Lawn to celebrate Class Day 2002. High spirits remained undampened as... View Details

06 Jun 2017
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Many Rivers to Cross

Colombian octogenarian Mariano Ospina-Hernandez (MBA 1951) is the resolute visionary behind an ambitious proposal to improve and expand the country’s transportation infrastructure. His foresight could open View Details

01 Dec 2003
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Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students

was evident in the questions put to a panel composed of this year's winners of the School’s highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. These distinguished graduates were selected for their contributions to their companies and... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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When Last Seen

Resolution of that question seemed to revolve around the mother of all competition and strategy cases, with no small amount of numbers crunching (and re-crunching) thrown in. As he awaited the outcome of the determination of his next... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

Nightmare?" - speakers were clearly of the "gold mine" persuasion. Billy Lam of the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office wowed the audience with his numbers. The new Chek Lap Kok airport, which is to... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh

faceless repository of data. "If we treat our members as partners and zealously protect their privacy," he reasons, "they'll trust us with more richly detailed profiles of themselves, thus creating more value for everyone involved." ClickDough -- which aims to have 1.5... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Apr 2000
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At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths

Unable to attend this year's Cyberposium because of the impending birth of his first child, Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivered the February event's keynote address from Seattle. Appearing on a large video screen in Burden... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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Q&A: John Quelch

brings to his new role a broad expertise in global business practice, especially in the area of international marketing. Working with the Global Initiative's executive director Kathleen Cooke Ryan and a steering group of senior faculty,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2013
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Passion & Purpose

photography by Susan Young See full profiles and more photographs here. In August, five HBS alumni returned to campus to accept the School's highest honor. This year's award recipients have contributed significantly to their companies and... View Details

Keywords: awards; Finance; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 1996
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October Reunions Break Records, Strengthen Ties

year's Reunion classes broke fundraising records: the Class of 1956 reached the highest HBS total ever for a 40th Reunion, and the Class of 1971 contributed the largest 25th Reunion gift of any class in Harvard University history. "Those... View Details

Keywords: Mary Jane Higgins; photos by Brooks Kraft

01 Apr 1999
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WesTrek: Students Find Options in Bay Area

This year's "WesTrek" offered more than three hundred HBS students and partners a chance to network and investigate career options in the opportunity-rich San Francisco Bay Area. Held in early January, the annual WesTrek is sponsored by... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Q&A: Orin Smith

drinks that would win the brand international recognition. Smith liked the café concept and the enthusiastic workers behind the counter; he took a substantial cut in pay to sign on as EVP and CFO. Today, the company operates approximately 4,800 stores around the world,... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

Lauren Love (MBA '95) and Rena Clark (MBA '90). Harvard University professor Cornel West, author Les Brown, and David Steward, CEO of St. Louis based Worldwide Technologies, were featured speakers. A new element of this View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Feb 2000
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Youth Movement: HBS Clubs Make Students a Top Priority

On opposite coasts of the United States, two HBS clubs have developed innovative programs to help MBA students broaden their career options. "I am confident that I will get a job in Seattle when I graduate," says Martin DeBono (HBS '00), who participated in last View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

around a culture shift. There are small wins, however. At September’s meeting, when the board began the process of hiring a new district lawyer, it did so under the guidelines of that resolution passed back... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Dec 1997
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Short Takes

Firms and Flexibility As job security and long-term relationships between corporations and their white-collar workers become relics of the past, what will link these two parties in the future? According to HBS assistant professor Jeffrey L. Bradach, a View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup

MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical name for the course. Almost... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

01 Dec 2018
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Research Brief: Bargaining for Better

Kathleen McGinn (photo by Tracy Powell) Kathleen McGinn (photo by Tracy Powell) By the time they reach eighth grade, about 61 percent of girls in Zambia have dropped out of school—a rate three times higher than their male counterparts. Interventions have shown little... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Sep 2018
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Ink: Q&A with Kathy Wang (MBA 2011)

Realizing that this window of opportunity might never occur again, she made a New Year’s resolution to hammer out 1,000 words a day until a novel emerged. Wang then accomplished the rare feat of landing a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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