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01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

my goals. The financial services industry was just opening up to women, and I was on a mission to be one of the first to participate. I loved being a pioneer. I had my goals and was determined to achieve them. They were, and still are, to... View Details

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

Community, who is also chair of the School’s new Gender Initiative. Ely has long studied gender in business, focusing her research on professional services firms. Recently, though, several large tech... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down

"I tend to think that small and focused is the name of the game," agrees Matthew R. Simmons (MBA '67), president and chairman of Simmons & Company International. Established in 1974 as a specialized investment bank to the oil service... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

01 Sep 2010
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Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

quite new. He returned to India and ended up having a very successful career in business — first as the general manager and then as CEO of a small company, and later as the head of progressively larger companies. So my entire relationship with him was as someone who... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues

major HBS report to Harvard's Board of Overseers outlining the School's plan to "enlarge its activities so as to be of still more service to the country" by expanding instruction in public aspects of business. Articles during World War II... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

operators, in addition to government-run vehicles. The result: an unregulated, competitive chaos on roads already choked with cars, motorcycles, and three-wheeled tuk tuks. If all goes to plan, bus service will be consolidated on clean,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices

cushions the ill, or disadvantaged, or those who simply fail to thrive in their particular setting, geography, industry, or trade. After all, creative destruction is still destruction, even if inevitable and in the service of a net gain... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details

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