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08 Jun 2023
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Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner

Clubs News Clubs News New York Alumni Honor Outstanding Leaders at Annual Dinner The HBS Club of New York held its 54th Annual Leadership Dinner on April 24, honoring three alumni who embody the HBS mission... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jan 2003
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Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.

57th PMD, 1989 Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page ©Jason Grow EARLIER EDUCATION University of Fribourg and University of Bern, 1979 M.D. LIFELONG IMPACT View Details

01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

order to offset the negative impact of a sagging economy and sharply rising employee benefit costs. Over the course of the past three years, U.S. manufacturing has shed some... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

06 Dec 2021
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Ink: Talking Shop

history of the consumer economy I’ve read. Trentmann takes us through the sweep of history, and it’s a fascinating treatise on the arc View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans

chain. We ran into the buzz saw of the recession just as we opened a fourth restaurant in a high-end mall. That’s now a couple of years in the rearview mirror, but you can’t deny that the recession had an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know

Illustration by David Plunkert Illustration by David Plunkert Edited by Dan Morrell What examples from history can we reflect on as we begin to address the economic impacts of... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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The View from the Pit

Harvard's School of Public Health since 1976 and has spent much of her professional career applying corporate and industrial models to the health-care field. Her research activity at HBS focuses View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

21 Jan 2021
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New Menu

burgeoning consumer trend, as people are become more aware of the impact of dietary choices on climate change as... View Details

19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit

how business is done in Colorado and to make it the leader in responsible business practice,” she says. “There are more than 1,800 Certified B Corporations, in more than 130 industries and 50 countries. Colorado, with more than 80 such organizations, has View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations

28 May 2019
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Ask the Expert: In Security

implement security systems and services based on what they believe will work best for them and their customers, individual consumers should think carefully about several factors when considering a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity

19 Sep 2019
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Predicting Human Behaviors

Above: Sid Misra (MBA 2013) cofounder, Perceptive Automata (Len Rubenstein; courtesy of Perceptive Automata) Amid the hubbub of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2020
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Steady as She Goes

consumer behavior brought on by the pandemic to persist. Coles has seen a significant uptick in online ordering—Weckert estimates the company saw five years’ worth of adoption... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; change management; leadership; women; grocery stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2020
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Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

Patients See more from the online-only December Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s exploration of how the digital revolution has improved health care delivery and discovery. Digital Transformation View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

24 Apr 2014
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The path to philanthropic entrepreneurship

Sherry Coutu (MBA 1993) recalls that one of the things she liked most about attending HBS was that it empowered its graduates to continually strive to have increased impact in... View Details

23 Oct 2019
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Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea

MBA students interview consumers in Seoul, Korea, to help inform the marketing strategies they developed for Orion Snack International. The project was the culmination of a required first-year course... View Details

Keywords: Global Understanding; Internationalization; Educational Innovation

25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

who is invested in keeping it that way. The book presents a new vision of how health care could work if it were truly designed to meet consumer needs, creating a call to action View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

"Online traders have become a potent force and one that I believe is having an impact on mutual funds. Clearly some money that would have been destined for mutual funds is not... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Oct 2000
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Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace

Lydia Marshall is more comfortable talking about the impact that CARE -- the international relief and development organization -- has had on her than what she has done for it. If pressed, however, Marshall,... View Details