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01 Sep 2014
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In My Humble Opinion: Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011)

INTO THE BLUE: Virts, poised for a space-walk training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory near Johnson Space Center. (Photos by NASA) An astronaut with NASA since 2000, Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011) piloted the space shuttle... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

26 Nov 2018
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New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change

strategies prompted by a changing climate with the help of a panel of four HBS alumni with expertise in finance and energy, including Hui Wen Chan (MBA 2010), Vice President, Corporate Sustainability, Citigroup; Michael Ellis (MBA 2008), Managing Director and COO,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; clubs; alumni clubs

01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans

deals with Bed Bath & Beyond, Frontier Airlines, and Johnson & Johnson. “You’re always asking, is this the right business model? But there are no answers. The market and technology are constantly changing,” Riesenfeld remarks. The biotech... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired

began, there is something I would call purpose decay. It’s not something you can do once and check the box. And I saw in companies like Boeing or even Johnson & Johnson, which were famous for having a strong purpose orientation, that how,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Mar 2008
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Centennial Goes YouTube

stock, a share of Johnson & Johnson, which split three-for-one the next day. The Institutional Memory project offers a unique way to connect the School’s past, present, and future. Take time to tell your own story — and enjoy those told... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Feb 1998
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Making a Case for Women

graduates around the world praised the effort and its potential impact. All those with suggestions for relevant cases are encouraged to e-mail Hart at mhart@hbs.edu. Photograph by Roark Johnson View Details

01 Sep 2006
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One-on-One with Carter Roberts

partisan issues. But we do advance science and document the consequences of decisions that we make as a society. And while businesses like GE, Wal-Mart, and Johnson & Johnson are showing real leadership on... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

01 Mar 2014
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Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid

Eric Werker You spent much of 2009 to 2011 in Liberia advising President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf while on leave from HBS. What did you learn from that experience? Good ideas and great strategies are cheap and easy; what's expensive and... View Details

Keywords: foreign aid; Government

01 Apr 2020
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What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages

Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) was a government official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He served as assistant secretary of defense for installations and logistics and, from 1967 to... View Details

16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

NVC event on February 24. Nine teams pitched before a panel of seven HBS alumni judges (representing the four Texas clubs) and an audience of close to 100. NICKSON, presented by Cameron Johnson (MBA 2012), took the regional win with its... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2010
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Admit It: You’re in Denial

find out what the facts really are. You have to separate rock solid truth from the surrounding haze of assumption. That is what Jim Burke (MBA ’49), then-CEO of Johnson & Johnson, succeeded in doing when boxes of Tylenol products were... View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management

01 Dec 2001
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Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges

discussing their findings, Shleifer and Johnson combined business and economic statistics from these nations to illustrate the levels of investor protection achieved by the disparate models. Establishing appropriate legal support for... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Jun 2010
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Get Well Soon

million Pursuing Perfection grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition to funding an improvement-science training program, the grant requires that the hospital undertake improvement projects. Hence, Kotagal develops... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment

socially responsible mission. There is tremendous inefficiency in the environmental community, and one of our goals is to facilitate the formation of strategic alliances between and amongst environmentalists and other sectors of society to reduce some of this overlap... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Charged Up

two-megawatt power systems, manufactured in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, are also in use in areas as diverse as Chile’s Atacama Desert; Johnson City, New York; and Tehachapi, California, as part of a “smart grid” solution designed to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; batteries; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2015
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Ink

hilarious as it is sad.” —Assistant Professor Meg Rithmire, on The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson Quoted “One of the things that this question around art in South Asia often brings up is the notion of when there are so many other... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Minding The Gap

Professor Allen Grossman and Senior Lecturer John Kim with HGSE professor Susan Moore Johnson Searching for System-Wide Solutions Baltimore City College's stellar education outcomes stand in sharp contrast to those of schools with similar... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2016
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Faculty Q&A: Price Check

How did you come to focus on algorithmic pricing? In my doctoral work at MIT, I was studying optimization, probability, and machine learning, which are essentially mathematical tools that enable us to use data to make better decisions. From there, I realized I wanted... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

23 Oct 2019
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After the Storm

class. When I started at Johnson & Johnson right after business school, I remember being the only African American female pharmaceutical sales rep in the mid-Atlantic region at that time. It’s a sad reality,... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

of the most powerful political and economic jobs in the world, this book charts Al-Naimi’s extraordinary rise to power. Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business and Create the Future by Scott D. Anthony (MBA 2001), Clark Gilbert (DBA 2001), and Mark W.... View Details

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