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- 01 Dec 2020
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Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Illustration by Mengxin Li After years of speculation, 2020 was meant to be a big year for the implementation of 5G, the fifth generation of standards for broadband cellular networks. And somewhere between a...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2007
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Tribute to Fellowships
wondered whether she should pack up and go home. Not that she had a home to return to. That was the problem. The day before Thompson moved into Chase Hall on August 30, 2005, Hurricane Katrina had flooded the New Orleans home of her...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Alumni Board Goes Global to Pick New President
he has perfected a technique for shaking off the lethargy of 22-hour flights to Boston — a six-mile run shortly after touching down at Logan Airport. He’ll be clocking a lot more after-flight miles over the next two years as he steps into...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Giving Amazon the Boot
Amazon was one of the big beneficiaries: The tech giant’s second quarter revenue was $88.9 billion, up a staggering 40 percent from the same period a year earlier. Amazon is the cornerstone of ecommerce—but...
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- 01 Jan 2009
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Henry M. Paulson Jr., MBA 1970
and motivating others to do difficult and important things.” Hank Paulson’s leadership spans the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. During his 32 years at Goldman Sachs, Paulson rose through the ranks, becoming head of investment...
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- 31 May 2017
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Father Agribusiness
In the late 1950s, an HBS lecturer named Ray Goldberg noticed something: traditional farming and the wider world of business were beginning to intersect with greater and greater frequency. Intrigued, he came up with a name for what he...
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- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
news? Gulati: You know, if you told me five years ago, “Ranjay, you're going to write a book about purpose,” I would've said you're crazy. Not a chance. For me, purpose was like mission statements. You know, it’s wallpaper. And who...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
As a young man, Tim Brier was so smitten with flying that he used to take dates to watch planes land and take off when he was growing up in Staten Island, New York. It's not surprising, therefore, that he would later embark on a career in...
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James E. Aisner
- 09 Jan 2017
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Role Model, Coach, Life Guide, and Cheerleader
experience. It took about a year for me to get matched, but when they finally matched me with Mike, we just instantly clicked. He was a very quiet kid, but a very sweet kid. Smart, athletic. He just had no father in his life; he had no...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Taking the Long View
huge national debt. He prefers shares of companies such as Canada’s EnCana, Wal-Mart de Mexico, and Petróleo Brasileiro. “At least three-quarters of whatever I own is foreign stocks,” Gordon revealed. Former Goldman Sachs cochairman John Whitehead (MBA 11/’47),...
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- 19 Apr 2017
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Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
own perspective on the city’s evolution as an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Emanuel, for example, cited an historic event that fostered the city’s resilient, civic-minded culture: the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Having the can-do attitude required to pick View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
(Photograph by Stephen Voss) World Bank VP and Treasurer Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990) has a clear sense of why she likes her job: “You bring very sophisticated finance tools to tackle the world’s most challenging problems.” Originally from southeastern Nigeria, she grew...
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Julia Hanna
- 02 Jan 2014
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The Power to Change
scientists from MIT who stood up and talked about this new kind of nuclear reactor," he says. "And at the end I watched 300 people cheering nuclear energy, and I thought, 'Wow, this is different.'" The crowd was cheering the WAMSR (Waste...
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- 16 Jul 2019
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The Making of a Movement
making decisions that could advance treatment options for patients with rare cancers. Neither of the Linns worked in science or medicine. A few years earlier, rare cancers had not even been on their radar. Now it was possible their...
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- 15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
and unambiguous research, he makes clear the devastating consequences of growing up poor: living in poverty, even temporarily, is detrimental to cognitive abilities, emotional control, and the overall health of children. The cost to...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Profiles from the Class of 2005
creative guy. Since high school, he’s paid homage to both — becoming an engineer who also loves to act in community theater. Still, the question loomed: Could his seemingly opposite sides be united in a common career goal? As a youngster growing View Details
- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
Services cut the ribbon on its new, modern complex at the corner of Penn and Plymouth Avenues in the predominantly Black neighborhood of North Minneapolis. It was a high point in a journey that began five years earlier, following the...
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- 24 Aug 2017
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Unlocking Potential
governments on the cost savings her program can provide. She says Reset is working to scale up toward a cost structure that is more affordable than prison {which in some states can cost more than $100,000 per View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
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Funny Business
Before she became a comedy writer, Claire Friedman (MBA 2014) followed the path of any good econ major, working at Goldman Sachs for five years and enrolling at HBS with plans to go into the business side of entertainment. While working...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Confederacy Nineteen ninety-six was only a few days old when the New York Times ran the headline "'95 the Hottest Year on Record." The story discussed mounting scientific evidence of global warming, a potentially catastrophic...
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