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- 22 Feb 2022
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A World of Difference
born with, which is curiosity—this genuine interest in discovery—and connecting with others, to understand and learn from them. Something that I learned by taking my husband to improv-comedy classes as a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 Jul 2019
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Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc
launching VisiCalc, the world’s first independent software company and the first spreadsheet program for personal computers. The program came with a $100 price tag, but people were so eager for it that they also bought an Apple II, to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dwight Raiford
Raiford Photo courtesy Dwight Raiford Growing up in a North Carolina mill town, W. Dwight Raiford learned from his father, an insurance agent, that a black man can be successful in business and from his uncle, a janitor, to “be of service... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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Toward a Life Well Lived
years after graduation,” explains Perlow. The following year, she led 17 students in an independent study project that asked hundreds of alumni to consider what they wished they’d known while at HBS and what they’ve learned since then.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
offers a test case that the National Trust will learn from and scale up in other communities across the country. Here, Hansen Shapiro talks with the Bulletin about making local news sustainable, the interplay between investment and impact... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
ventures. The alumni event will be followed on March 30 by the student-centered New Venture Competition, taking place in-person in Klarman Hall. The remainder of the global finalists included: Haf Haf Inc. A fun, reliable, effective, eco-friendly View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
School's investment in its doctoral programs creates intellectual capital with widespread effects. After receiving their degrees, most graduates of the DBA and Ph.D. programs go on to influential faculty positions at HBS and other top business schools.What they have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
throughout college and into HBS. That intensity has been channeled by mentors throughout Keen’s life. One such person is Deward Walker, who in 2007 challenged Keen with a question that has a recurring role in Sacred Seed’s origin story:... View Details
- 14 Jun 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia
were energized to be together in person again at each event. The Singapore event took place at the St. Regis Singapore, hosted by the HBS Club of Singapore and Asia-Pacific Research Center, and featured a reception and speaking program.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
that he has seriously injured, and probably killed, persons of another race. “I have an anger problem,” confesses the soft-spoken Mike, who’s spent twenty years, off and on, in some of California’s toughest prisons. But now, with a job... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
a matter of pragmatism, cannot expect to sustain social and political advances that aren’t built on a firm economic footing,” Ballard says. “He believed this was the unfinished business of Martin Luther King Jr., and that it remains unfinished to this day.” Digging... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
global and a series of regional B Climate Collectives designed to support businesses to share what they are learning on topics such as how to move to a regenerative business model. How might you explore ways to reimagine your business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
and with a family to support, “living in a dump over a hardware store with kerosene heat,” one biographer wrote. But the Army learned that MacDonald had done well in Industrial Procurement at HBS and offered him a job. He enlisted in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
Gilbert (estimated net worth even higher, in undisclosed currencies) — which are not really their net worths, but that’s how I feel sitting there amongst them, technically “the moderator,” but truly “the rounding error.” I am doing this partly to View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
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Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
goal is to gauge the integrity and empathy of these young men and women. We need to learn about their values and judgment; we want to find out if they're warm, honest, and sincere. All of this is critical information for our firm, which... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
manufacturing plant in Rochester, New York. (His grandfather and a partner invented the plastic watch crystal in the early 1900s.) What he discovered: “I learned what ‘real work’ is and that there are many noble ways to earn a living. I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
seniors' money by offering a caregiver-managed debit card account with personalized spending controls and extra protection from fraud and scams. Johnston likens the growing opportunities in aging to the old high school science lesson of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
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Safari Beauty
landscape. Their various shapes — umbrella, flattop, or camel back — were made even more spectacular in silhouette when the sun went down. The sausage trees also captured our eye, and we learned that while most consider their odd-shaped... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
a person or your organization makes, are dramatically diminished. And that's the learning experience. We just had something like this today, actually, on a deal where we made double our profits, but it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
In June, a group of alumni will return to campus to participate in a pilot program that we anticipate will be a model for future alumni continuous learning offerings. This program, called The Reflective Leader, was born out of requests... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas