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- 01 Dec 2006
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The Hard Way
years in the Young Presidents’ Organization — the first woman from Queensland invited to join — Russo had sharpened her business skills and bolstered her confidence through seminars and conferences, including a weeklong YPO program held...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007
Boston’s Trinity Church choir. Or that you can read an essay by Sachin Jain in The Soul of a Doctor, a book written by medical students on their transformation into physicians. In any case, we hope you enjoy meeting these newest members of the HBS alumni body. As in...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 13 Apr 2017
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Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Photos by Kunle Ogunfuyi Even a college degree couldn’t help Temi Abiola, who grew up in Nigeria, land a job. Though he speaks fluent English, he lacked the problem-solving and customer relations skills required for his dream job in the...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2011
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Letters to the Editor
Made in America: Lessons from the Front Lines of Global Commerce,” piqued my interest, so I ended up reading the entire magazine, not just the Class Notes. Imagine my shock when I saw the “The Scene” photo of twelve singing tycoons in...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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The Latest Model
Prysm Group Cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging technologies Prysm Group cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
Florida's Walt Disney World®, this year marking 25 years of extraordinary entrepreneurial success, was the venue for the celebration of the 21st anniversary of Harvard Business School's Owner/President...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Christensen and Vernon Remembered
leading authority on case-method teaching, C. Roland ("Chris") Christensen (MBA 3/'43, DCS '53) was the Robert Walmsley University Professor, Emeritus. He died on August 28 in Nashville, Tennessee, from complications following open-heart surgery. He was 80 View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track
headline “Mom? Dad? I’m home!” “You can imagine the ribbing I took from my classmates,” says Andrus, who still cringes when he tells the story even though he now has little to be embarrassed about. That’s because last year he was named...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
What motivates you at work? How about Peter, down the hall in accounting? Or Linda, who heads up sales? In “Stoy Foods,” a case taught in the second-year MBA course Managing, Organizing & Motivating for Value, students adopt different...
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Julia Hanna
- 10 Aug 2017
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Into the Light
someone found a candle, and the IV was inserted by the light of a flame. “It’s simple: health care improves dramatically with electricity,” she says. Poindexter tells such stories with astonishment because she wasn’t aware of the extent of the problem until just a...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
earlier, Dean Jay Light had presented five HBS graduates with the Alumni Achievement Award, the School’s highest honor. Now they were being asked, metaphorically speaking, to pull on their basketball jerseys, tie up their sneakers, and...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Make Plans for Washington GLF
When I left Soldiers Field thirty years ago as a young MBA, I never dreamed that I’d be back one day as president of the Alumni Association. But here I am at the beginning of a two-year term as head of a very dynamic alumni group — nearly...
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- 19 Jun 2013
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Your Guide to Social Enterprise
entrepreneurship"—ultimately won her over. After business school, Keohane took a post at McKinsey to hone the management skills she'd need to go back to a nonprofit. That chance came quickly when, after serving on a McKinsey team that helped set View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Reinventing the Annual Report
recognizing this, BMW Group several years ago began issuing a Sustainable Value Report detailing the energy and water consumed, waste removed, and volatile organic compounds per vehicle produced. BMW believes that its reputation as the...
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Robert G. Eccles
- 01 Aug 2002
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Class Day & Commencement
build up and a storm is upon you and the wind is in your face,” a strong, forceful style is essential. Citing the excesses and misjudgments of the economy's recent boom-and-bust, Whitehead urged graduates to maintain perspective, seek the...
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- 28 Jan 2011
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HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
instruction more than ninety years ago. "The case method will always be a central part of what we do, but we're now at a point in history when we can do some really interesting things in the field. Both methodologies — case and field —...
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- 15 Nov 2016
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Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
200 second-year MBA students signed up for ESM’s 60 available seats. “Student demand, as well as feedback from alumni entrepreneurs, identified a critical skill gap in this area,” says Eisenmann, who developed the course with HBS...
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- 03 Aug 2011
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No Ducking the Debt Ceiling
least for now) without my input. Like me, I bet Americans feel they had a better plan than what Washington came up with, and they’re probably right. Sausage-making, and its final product, has seldom been so unpalatable. Summer doesn’t...
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- 27 May 2021
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History’s Future
outcroppings near Dadan, a regional capital in the center of AlUla in the sixth-century BCE. And to the south, a 10th-century stone citadel overlooks the eponymous city of AlUla. “AlUla has 200,000 years of history, and it’s nearly...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
fortune." "I saw no reason to hold off until I was older or retired to share my good fortune." After college, Rauner wasted little time enrolling at HBS, entering the School at age 23. Midway through the second year of the MBA Program, he...
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James E. Aisner