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- 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...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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An American Story
Hitler’s popularity grew, Boris emigrated to the United States with his wife and four children, settling in Dayton, Ohio. Times were tight and jobs few and far between. Boris heard about work at a shoe factory, but when he arrived, he View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Inside Modern HR
many of them brought up the issue of talent when discussing big decisions. I found that fascinating, and as a management consultant I saw there could be a gulf between a strategy and the human dynamics involved in execution. I felt like I...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2006
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HBS Honors Four Alumni
business, government, and academia, with service as U.S. undersecretary of state; chairman and CEO of the NYSE; chairman of the SEC; and founding dean of the Yale School of Management. Ann S. Moore (MBA ’78) Ann Moore’s appointment as...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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The Nature of Change
“The Class the Dollars Fell On” by Fortune magazine). The case, authored by HBS professors Richard Tedlow and Nancy Koehn in 2001, was originally taught in The Coming of Managerial Capitalism, where Tedlow continues to use it. “I have View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
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Your Guide to Social Enterprise
paths." Keohane's career in the nonprofit sector began just after she graduated from Yale in 1994. She worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, earned a master's degree in development from the London School of Economics as a Fulbright Scholar, and...
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- 18 Jan 2022
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HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
five historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Atlanta area, but the only college in Georgia founded solely by African-American patronage. The school lost its accreditation in 2004, but has worked diligently since then...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
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Well Matched
Her interests leaned more in the direction of strategy—and sports. Rapaport found plenty of outlets in both areas at HBS, where she was president of the Business of Sports Club. She also volunteered for Crossover into Business, an HBS...
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- 30 Sep 2016
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Competing Against Luck
organized to do occurred in the life of our-- we have five kids. The third one, Michael, unfortunately decided that he would get his PhD at Stanford. And so, a couple of days after he arrived there, he called us and said, mom and dad, I View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to...
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- 23 Feb 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see the steel mills that were its...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2020
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Good Odds
altitude. Imperfect Foods sold 40,000 of them. The company was founded with the goal of narrowing the yawning gap between supply and demand in the American food industry. The space is defined by two data points that, taken together, make...
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- 25 Jun 2019
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After the Storm
into a better college. They’re doing it because it’s the right thing to do.” And, for Dyson, he’s finally found that work-life balance that was unavailable in his past life. “My worst day at this job is better than my best day at my...
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Paul Flannery
- 01 Jun 2015
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Case Study: Sneak Peak
Case Study features alumni and faculty offering advice on strategy to alumni who are leading businesses at a crossroads. Charles Philp (MBA 2006) started Colorado-based Sneakz Organic with his business partner in 2012 after a lightbulb moment in his kitchen. While...
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- 19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green
His family later moved to California and Oregon, and the pull of environmentalism was always strong as he was growing up. He graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from Stanford in 1998, but found environmental jobs...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Ruling from the Bench
third attempt to gain entry to this elite fraternity, Snyder succeeded — with the stipulation that she obtain a permission letter from her husband, Fred Snyder, a pediatrician. (After she ignored the request, the requirement was quietly dropped.) Snyder went on to...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action
Seattle, for example—are also centers of technological advancement, none has been able to duplicate the accelerated pace, the technical expertise, the outrageous dollar figures, the continued double-digit growth, or the extensive networking that is View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2000
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A Place in the Sun
in a culture where it's very difficult for people to tell other people what to do. It's not the usual supervisory manager-submanager structure found in the United States." Before coming to Turtle Island, Evanson was involved in the...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
club notes, has touched the lives of more than half a million people in India and has also exported medicines to many other hard-hit countries in Asia and Africa. Dr. Natarajan founded the Pune Platform for COVID Response (PPCR), which...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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A Shared Vision for a Better World
because he was impressed by, among other things, the case method and by several alumni colleagues at Chemical Bank. “It was clear they had been superbly educated,” he says. Upon arriving on the HBS campus, he quickly found community and...
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