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22 Nov 2022
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Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future

organizing committee. “Consumers, workers, government, and financial institutions are putting increasing pressure on companies to provide more sustainable products and services. We felt it would be interesting to share how leadership is... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2014
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Early Impact

changing needs of the School. Three new building projects focus on Executive Education, recognizing the growing reach and impact the School is achieving through the more than 8,000 participants who come to campus each year. Tata Hall... View Details

Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

presents up-to-date scientific research findings that explain why we have unwanted habits (for example, inappropriate angry outbursts, procrastination, breaking a diet, or abandoning an exercise program) and why they are so hard to manage. He then gives readers the... View Details

21 Mar 2019
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Helping Veterans Build Careers

employers. The value is almost always there; they just need to communicate it more effectively,” he notes. Goldenberg offers as an example D. J. Watson, an infantryman from Georgia. A tough, confident Army sergeant who successfully led... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 2012
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50 Years & Counting

Organization Science, suggests that women's upward progress depends on the proportion of senior women within the immediate work group and on the extent to which senior-level women enjoy the same power and status as their male counterparts. "That's where the shift View Details

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

01 Dec 2017
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A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

trenches. “The creative work is always challenging and fun, but I had become frustrated by how onerous, expensive, and slow it was to do a good job of checking the availability of new names and brands,” she says. “The whole process needed... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 1998
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A Marketable Skill

talented, artistically, but I was good at managing creative types." After sharpening those management skills at HBS, Gehrke held a succession of marketing jobs with big companies but never stayed in one place too long. "I need to run... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

17 May 2018
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Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs

financing for entrepreneurial pursuits. With one million people entering the workforce every month, according to the Indian Ministry of Labor, it is important to Bhargava to give people the skills and motivation needed to create their own... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

15 Dec 2024
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Back at the Ranch

The summer training program at Bear Hug Cattle Company starts truly at square one. “The first day is about teaching the guys how to just be out here and not die,” says lead instructor Zach Aguilar, gazing out from under his broad-brimmed hat to the grassy rangelands of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Adler and Vance Jacobs; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door

Care Act move us any closer to that approach? I agree that the individual mandate is essential. But with Obamacare, agents who don't know our individual needs are selecting plans on our behalf, and that's not consumer-driven health care.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Aug 1998
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Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

development in the United States following her graduation from HBS. She fell in love with what was then Czechoslovakia during a visit to Central Europe and moved to Prague in 1991. "I worked in economic development and venture capital... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

03 Mar 2014
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A Life Transformed

heads to keep them dry. Wading through the water, we had to watch out for snakes that had been driven from their homes by the flooding." Civilization was only 60 kilometers away, in the state capital of Cuttack, where Parija's uncle... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Finance; Transportation

10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” Building blocks: “In mastery learning, a student moves at his or her own pace and takes as many shots on goal as needed to master a concept, before advancing. If I’m one teacher with 30... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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The Rankings Game

school in one ranking fail to make the top five in others? The answer lies in the methods the publications use to evaluate schools. The big five — Bloomberg Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, the Financial Times, and the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2012
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Putting Ghosts to Rest

farmers to expand their activities once they had the cow. It was hard to see how this program could be sustainable. In the government’s action plan, the co-op approach seemed to be the main way of solving problems—a tough way to go. For farmers to move beyond... View Details

Keywords: Chris Maloney; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story

sell its products, Neurosmith decided it needed to reorient its strategy toward mass-market accounts in order to survive. “This isn’t a change you make overnight,” notes Abercrombie wryly. In addition to View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change

doctors, administrators, and finance folks, all trying to work through the nitty-gritty details of how to implement this patient-care innovation. “What does the transition plan look like to get from where we are now to a new model?” asks Midtown COO Dane Peterson. “We... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2017
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Lego Stays on Script

the Lego brand,” Moynihan recalls. “Ultimately, that led to an extremely difficult period around 2003 and 2004, when we almost lost our financial independence as a private entity.” After that, the company refocused its attention on... View Details