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Michael Schrader
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Starting a company for the first time was an intimidating task for me, perhaps even too intimidating without the tools that HBS provided. First, HBS provided confidence by introducing me... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Working World
organizations that embedded globalization and the differences that exist across countries into the heart of its model. It’s set up with the idea of unlocking value by leveraging the opportunities created by... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2013
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EnTRIPreneurs
by the students, it's more like a rolling summer job, with an entrepreneurial focus and a dash of pro bono consulting, built around visits to several high-potential small businesses in the American heartland. "Globalization puts a... View Details
- 21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
working with the City of San Francisco in the last five years, across eight consulting engagements and several brainstorming sessions. Alumni love working with the city. It’s our most popular client.” According to Juan Carlos Velten (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
military supplies by understanding the perspectives of business and industrial organizations. 27 A steady stream of individuals who trained at HBS entered the Quartermaster Corps, and Doriot also reached out to HBS graduates to assist him... View Details
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Tim Nicolette
and management skills in the service of nonprofits in the social sector. What influence did HBS have on your ambitions? I came to HBS for two reasons. First, in my nonprofit work, I noticed that effective organizations were led by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
kidney exchange system could be created to help match kidney donors with recipients. Al is one of the few economists who can point to real people whose lives have been saved by his work." Roth, who joined the HBS faculty in 1998, also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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Merton Receives Prestigious Award
University Professor Robert Merton, a member of the HBS faculty since 1988 and cowinner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics, recently received the Kolmogorov Medal from the University of London. He was honored for his distinguished work in the fields of research... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Bringing It Back Home
Image by C.J. Burton Since the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) program was launched at HBS 17 years ago, it has provided nonprofits with something they need but can rarely afford: executive training. SPNM, which is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
advertising savvy are but two of the myriad skills that are required of today's museum manager. Traditionally, museums have been run by academics who worked their way through the curatorial ranks, but more and more museum trustees are... View Details
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and helped launch the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) that was created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). He also served as special assistant to the National Coordinator for... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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Thumbs Up Down Under
thoughts returned to beating the record of 69 days, 14 hours for the New York-Melbourne trip, set in 1855-56 by the clipper ship Mandarin, which was carrying American prospectors to the Australian Gold Rush. The entire effort was also an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
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Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
The Fed’s structure The Federal Reserve System is overseen by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, an independent agency with seven members who are nominated by the President and confirmed View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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One Student’s HBS Journey
acceptance letter, her excitement was tempered by the realization that she might not be able to afford to attend. “Imagine my surprise when I discovered that HBS was not only the best school but also offered the best financial aid,” said... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Made in the USA
Jim Knott's Aquamesh lobster traps set a new standard for durability, quickly supplanting the wooden traps used by generations of lobstermen. Chinese knockoffs failed to match Aquamesh's patented process. Will business leaders reconnect... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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Hope for Reform Dims
requirements — the cushion against losses — for all financial institutions creating a mechanism to deal with those institutions regarded as too big to fail Thain characterized the crisis as a classic bubble “fundamentally fueled by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint
the changing global landscape for business leaders Look in any closet, toy chest, or family room in a typical Western home, and you’ll find a trove of goods supplied by a century-old Hong Kong–based export trading company— Li & Fung Ltd.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
have serious ailments unnoticed during primary care exams. White learned the lesson early on. As a young medical student in Memphis, he watched a black woman being operated on for uterine cancer, a procedure botched by the white surgeon... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
the pinstriped, power-brokering world of Wall Street. “I never took it as an insult.” Seated in a conference room with an expansive view of the Hudson River, O’Neal recalls that work was hard to come by in Wedowee, population 750, and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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An American Story
Joan Levy and Ted Levitt on August 1, 1948. The couple married six months after their first date. Photo courtesy Joan Levitt Boris Levitt was a Russian shoemaker who lived under Stalin before he was captured by the German army and brought... View Details