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- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
35-year-old institution. We have been working on the transition to a clean, prosperous, and secure low carbon energy future for the last 35 years. I joined the organization three years ago, with a specific mandate from the board to take...
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- 20 Mar 2019
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Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
in a World on Fire. Opening remarks from Alan Horn (MBA 1971), chairman of Walt Disney Studios and chair of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Board of Trustees, underscored the night’s charge: “There is an opportunity, if not a requirement, for the business...
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- 01 Jan 2005
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
twenty years ago the company was unprepared for changes in the marketplace as competitors emerged that offered clients individual pieces of the technology package, such as a database program or storage device. This brought about increased...
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- 31 Jan 2019
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A Global Mission
board. But he never gave up his ambition to have an international impact. For the last half century, DeFehr has circled the globe—141 countries by his count—looking for places where his business expertise could reshape response to...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning
At the conclusion of the session, McCormick inquires, "So, how did this case method discussion feel to you?" "Frustrating," comes one response. "There are so many ideas and not enough opportunities to discuss or express them," says another. "There isn't one lesson or...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 18 Dec 2019
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Thinking Smart About Numbers
clubs in NY, Chicago, Seattle, LA, Miami, and San Francisco. Check club calendars for details. Celebrating 30 Years of Fulbrights in London The British Friends of Harvard Business School is a British registered charity set View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
April this year for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. And that was very much overshadowed by the new global crisis of the pandemic. It affected us in that we did a much smaller launch of our new version of the app. We still put our...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Innovation Takes Center Stage
chasing the American dream. I never thought I would be Dean of Harvard Business School.” When Harvard President Drew Faust called on May 4 to inform him that he was her choice, Nohria, drawing on his years of work in leadership, told...
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2006
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Job One: Alumni Engagement
Cooper I am often asked, “What does the Alumni Board do?” HBS professor Mal Salter, senior associate dean for External Relations, describes us as a “working board.” Our forty-plus members — past and present volunteers and active alumni from around the globe — meet in...
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Peter Cooper
- 01 Oct 2001
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Peter W. Olson: By the Book
the book business fascinated me," says Olson, who joined the German media corporation Bertelsmann in 1988 and worked his way up to chairman of its North American book group. When Bertelsmann acquired Random House in 1998, Olson was...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Rescue & Recovery
McKenna’s face, or at least the half of it that’s visible above her mask, lights up at the sight of it. It’s been a long journey to this point. She and her family, including husband Joe and two young sons, have just moved View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
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Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
had to undertake a complete transformation of how Merck operates," he said, outlining strategies that included stepping up resources devoted to scientific research and marketing, integrating divisions of the company, and heading off...
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- 01 Jan 2006
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Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
semiconductors and disk drives in the 1990s. But for a city-state without natural resources, the new millennium belongs to a knowledge-based economy, and the Biopolis, which opened in 2003, is at the center of that. "In late 1989, I recommended that we build View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Shop Talk, Different Avenues
You launched in 2007, and 2008 was one of the worst years ever for retail, so you had a good deal of unsold inventory to offer customers. How did you adapt as the business environment became healthier and you saw a decrease in what was...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Lesson Plans
going to help fill a gap for those people who find themselves without a job and want to learn a new skill or brush up on an old skill to make themselves more competitive. I hope it’ll help people get employed faster or even pivot to a new...
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Jen Mele
- 01 Mar 2009
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Alumni Books
Stop Growing — Yours Doesn’t Have To by Matthew S. Olson and Derek van Bever (MBA ’88) (Yale University Press) The authors analyzed the growth experiences of more than 600 Fortune 100 companies over the past fifty years to identify why...
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- 18 May 2023
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Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
high school, they would have up to 10 years to use the scholarship money for additional education. Some might choose apprenticeships, others trade schools, and still others two- or four-year colleges. Even...
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April White
- 06 Oct 2022
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On the Road to Recovery
prosper,” Moreno recalls. He was right, but Moreno, who became part owner and CEO of Nightingale Nurses, could not have predicted the dramatic ups and downs of the industry, from the 2008 economic crisis to the passage of the Affordable...
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- 28 May 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
As CEO of Indonesia’s Sintesa Group, Shinta Widjaja Kamdani (OPM 31, 2002) is the third generation of her family to lead the highly diversified holding company that began as a rubber plantation in 1919. Kamdani had been at the company for 10 View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting
Photograph Courtesy Blink On June 10, 2008, two years and two days after receiving their HBS diplomas, Peter Leiman and Cameron Ogden (both MBA ’06) watched a Cessna Citation Mustang with four passengers taxi down the runway at London’s...
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