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28 Mar 2019
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California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change

Clubs News Clubs News If capitalism is to blame for climate change, can it also be the best hope to stop it? That’s the paradox that HBS alumni in Southern California confronted in a sold-out, faculty-led roundtable discussion on business... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 Mar 2020
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Making It Rain

ClimaCell is pushing to get this information into the hands of residents through its data partners and its mobile apps in the hopes of serving much of the developing world. Elkabetz adds that among ClimaCell’s plans for the future is... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way

Development: The African Renaissance." The conference, to be held in Cape Town in March, will be a two-day intensive seminar on the economics, politics, and investment opportunities of southern Africa. It will also provide a chance to meet and network with African... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

01 Feb 2000
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William Jones: Builder with a Mission

At an early age, William D. Jones (MBA '89) learned about the fragility of a stable urban community. From their home in the Skyline Hills section of San Diego, he and his family watched their neighborhood gradually decline as businesses... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Oct 2002
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Karen Gordon Mills

interest,” notes Mills. “We like to be the capital that comes in to grow the business to the next level — build the next plant, make an acquisition, or expand the brand.” What makes Solera unique, she adds, is its research-intensive focus... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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New Releases

Sense & Respond Stephen P. Bradley and Richard L. Nolan, editors (Harvard Business School Press) In the Network Era - where access to and use of information technology is increasing at an ever-faster pace - the way companies interact with... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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John McArthur

above: photo by Bill Gallery John H. McArthur, a member of the Harvard Business School community for more than six decades—as a student (MBA 1959, DBA 1963), as a faculty member (beginning in 1962), as Dean (from 1980 to 1995), and as... View Details

Keywords: Dean

04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive

just after a successful dive in the South Sandwich Trench. He had the experience. Since 2002, he has been a managing partner at Insight Equity, a private equity firm he cofounded, and currently serves as chairman of four companies. This was, at its core, a View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

04 Oct 2018
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“A Shout Through Time”

Therese. Morrell: Therese Perzyk was 88, the youngest of 10 children in the Perzyk family of Detroit, and the last living sibling. Quickly, a plan began to form to have the Perzyk family visit Zavattrello and receive the bracelet. And so,... View Details

25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

picked the word “zipper,” and one of the guys from England made up this elaborate business theory that intertwined something or other (I can still picture him intertwining his fingers as he spoke) that in the end he claimed was called the... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

30 Nov 2019
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Land of the Rising Scrum

Old Boys team photo with the Keio Rugby Club (photos courtesy HBS Rugby club) John O’Donnell (MBA 1977) was in his first year at Harvard Business School when he heard a New Zealander trying to recruit new students for the rugby club. The... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Feb 1997
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HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology

alumni. "The plan is for each graduate to be assigned an e-mail 'address' based on name, HBS degree or program affiliation, and class year," explains Susan Rogers, the School's chief technology officer. "The 'address' is really a pointer... View Details

18 May 2023
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Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes

estate investor—reconnected with participants who had benefited from the initial scholarships. One student from that original group, with whom she had remained close, followed in her footsteps, playing basketball in college, getting a View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Aug 2014
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999

crafted her business plan for Care.com, which she launched in 2006. Care.com brings together Marcelo’s passion for helping others and her entrepreneurial and management skills, to enable working families to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 1998
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Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship

United States but have nonetheless benefited greatly from an education at this eminent worldwide business school." Initiated last year to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan (announced at... View Details

01 Jan 2004
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A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

historians—not just modern business gurus—if you're interested in mastering the power of strategy and the power of execution in your job." CURRENT READING Bush at War, by Bob Woodward A.G. Lafley has been credited with turning around... View Details

14 Feb 2019
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Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

inaction. That was the message delivered on February 12, 2019, at “Confronting Climate Change: Boston-Based Ideas that Can Change the World,” a panel discussion at the Spangler Center moderated by HBS Professor Michael Toffel and organized by the HBS View Details

19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation

lead to the chapel’s revitalization, calling on help from a local lawyer, Steve Kaplan, and reaching out to Michael Noonan, a senior planning manager with Hennepin County. He hadn’t spent much time in North Minneapolis, but knew there was... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11

revealing a vulnerability that students at Harvard Business School were unaccustomed to seeing in their faculty. The previous day, all classes had been cancelled as news broke of the terrorist attacks on the United States. Two of the four... View Details

01 Apr 1996
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"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs

development, and review in quantitative reasoning, accounting, computer skills, and business writing and logical expression. From January 8 to January 30, they became the first group to encounter "Foundations" - the "sequel" to Essential... View Details

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