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01 Jun 1997
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Carla Small

the internal whispers telling her that her real love centered on children and families, however, she moved to Chicago and began a promising career as an advertising executive at Leo Burnett, Inc. "It was a great experience," Small says,... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

01 Apr 2001
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Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa

the family. “My grandmother ran a few Head Start centers in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s,” Clarke says. “And my mother was a teacher, then a principal, and eventually a superintendent in a poor area of the city. She’s still a major... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2002
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To Educate Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World

strategy expert Professor Michael E. Porter, who shared his groundbreaking research on regional competitiveness (see sidebar). A late afternoon reception on the lawn between Aldrich Hall and the new Spangler Center brought participants... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

such as corporate governance, the relationship between values and leadership, corporate accountability and the challenges of financial disclosure, executive compensation, and the role of intermediaries in capital markets. Through our... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action

vanguard. With such a topnotch group of advisors volunteering their time and sharing their expertise, the California Research Center is off to a good start. The Center, which Dean Clark has called a "three-year experiment," has received... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Feb 1997
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Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution

integration doesn't guarantee that you can do everything well simultaneously. Focus, we've discovered, is critical. What does "focus" mean in terms of the health-care industry? It means more integrated facilities that center on providing... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)

still have a number of manual processes here, so we see a lot of scope for more and more businesses in Jamaica to become technology-enabled, particularly in health care, financial services, and agriculture. There’s been some growth in the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2003
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New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO

community service efforts. Last year, the club gave $25,000 in financial aid to MBA students, provided a full scholarship to the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management executive program at HBS, and funded a summer fellowship for... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Jul 2011
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China Boot Camp

export-driven economy to one centered around knowledge industries and services and a growing consumer class. “It took a week or so to recover afterward, but I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way,” HBS associate professor Suraj... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Aug 2022
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Labs Enable Large-scale Research

(SEAS), and Harvard Medical School (HMS) will generate a range of output that will influence academia and practice. The labs will also help establish Harvard as a center for groundbreaking research on digital-, data-, and design-related... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

A radiologist and technician at Misr Radiology Center review images taken of a patient and discuss protocol for a brain PET/MRI exam. “AI has improved workflow through higher efficiency and has helped us deliver more personalized care,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

ill-prepared entrepreneurial aspirants. Mace's course, The Management of New Enterprises (MNE), was initially offered as a second-year elective in 1947 and saw one hundred students enroll. According to the course catalog, MNE was designed "to View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Meyers

20 Oct 2022
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Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion

2019, so we're excited to get a large turnout to help us build further momentum as we move out of COVID.” A historian by training, Professor Fibiger’s work focuses on Asia’s 20th century. Professor Robertson’s research centers on the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

14 Aug 2019
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Leading from Within

leadership programs stop right on the cusp of that, and we want you want to go beyond that.” To reach that plane, Lim and Overwater welcome participants to the Trinity Retreat Center in West Cornwall, Conn., a rural oasis away from the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Jun 2024
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Crash Pad

remotely, a trend that has left city centers with a glut of vacant office space—according to CoStar, as much as 1 billion square feet nationwide. Meanwhile, demand for housing, especially in the country’s most economically vibrant cities,... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; illustrations by Kathleen Fu; building coversion; housing crisis; innovation; real estate; Real Estate

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

other resources to help put Russia's War on Ukraine in context Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Insights on Russia and Ukraine from Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences Davis Center for Russian... View Details

01 Dec 2003
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HIV/AIDS and Business

social and financial cost of inaction is so high that standing by is not an option, particularly for multinational corporations doing business in countries with high infection rates. “AIDS places a dramatic spotlight on the question of... View Details

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

01 Jun 2010
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Devilish Plot

Devilish plot: This year’s HBS Show, The Devil Wears Crimson (here in rehearsal), centered on an anonymous gossip blogger who wreaks havoc at HBS as she tries to uncover who caused the financial crisis. When... View Details