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01 Mar 2025
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Patch Work

pour more water into it, but it just doesn’t matter.” Jameson focused on using newly available data about individual voters to predict who would be likeliest to respond to a call, but not merely because it would help his clients win. The... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar

01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Flexible Teams to Do the Best Work of Their Lives By Brian Elliot (MBA 2008), Sheela Subramanian (MBA 2011), and Helen Kupp (MBA 2015) Wiley The way we work has changed. The era of toiling from nine-to-five, five-days-a-week in the office... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

a deep-souled neighbor, they slowly peel back the layers of what is basically a closed society in the wilds of Izard County, Arkansas, and come to relish their new lives in this little lost corner of the world. Recalculating: 97+ Experts... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

other actors in building a just and regenerative society. Key takeaway: “We need to transform the entire economy—the built environment, our agricultural systems, and how we deal with energy. It’s a massive undertaking that is going to touch nearly every aspect of our... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

20 Dec 2019
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The 19 Musts of 2019

Process is essentially design thinking, and it’s the framework that I live by to create, pilot, test, and iterate the products and insights underlying my business.” Courtesy source Courtesy source —Aishetu Fatima Dozie (MBA 2002), founder... View Details

Keywords: podcast; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

Alumni Books Love Coming Home: Transform Your Environment. Transform Your Life by Jennifer Adams (OPM 51) Beyond Words Publishing Rather than sacrificing to save enough for an eventual dream home, Adams recommends looking for the potential in the places we are View Details

28 Feb 2025
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Joy to the World

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Up from the Ashes

in quick back-and-forth repartee, “He took you out of the flat dull textbook world and into the three dimensional world of living economics and economists.” On Entrepreneurship and Continual Innovation Schumpeter, of course, is the chief... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2003
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report

director of HBS Alumni Communications, to develop an in-depth, informative, and lively CD-ROM presentation about HBS that can be delivered effectively by alumni volunteers through the club system. Two other significant committee... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

people’s lives for the better.” Photos Courtesy Toby Johnson A standout high-school student-athlete who turned down Ivy League schools to attend West Point (its education of the total person beyond academics appealed to her), Toby Johnson... View Details

18 Apr 2022
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Book Smart

Risher’s story of the abandoned library in Guayaquil and donated 20 Kindles for the launch of Worldreader. After a beta test at an international school in Barcelona, where Risher was living at the time, he and cofounder Colin McElwee... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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50 Years & Counting

initiatives. Recently, McGinn has taken a nuanced look at evidence that women in professional service organizations are more likely to be promoted when the firm's leadership includes significant numbers of women. Her analysis of five years of personnel View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2018
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Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

job but can’t make ends meet? —Rick Holliday (MBA 1963) OAKES: Yes, their needs are quite different. For individuals with mental illness or disabilities or who have experienced homelessness, we have learned that just providing an affordable place to View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

22 Nov 2024
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Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

provides power equipment, thermal equipment, and services to data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial environments. When did you take on your current role with the club? In April 2024. Andrea Fantacone Andrea... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Fall of Europe. Since 2012 Europe has been confronting new, game-changing challenges such as the refugee crisis, the surprise of Brexit, and the explosion of “alternative” politics. Europeans have realized that the open societies they have been comfortably View Details

11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code

basic needs, we're all going to be instead just building armor plates for our Teslas. We're going to be living in a society we don't want to live in. At the same time, being a mother, it activated all of my... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Crash Pad

When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; illustrations by Kathleen Fu; building coversion; housing crisis; innovation; real estate; Real Estate

01 Dec 2000
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Vivek Ranadivé

grandmother was the first female judge in India and that his father, who now lives in California, is involved in charitable projects in India and the United States. In four years, Ranadivé completed a bachelor's degree in electrical... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Telecommunications; Information; Air Transportation; Transportation

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

brown-led nonprofits closely tied to the people and problems in under-resourced Massachusetts communities. Shell, a managing director at Bain Capital, says George Floyd’s brutal killing, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a pandemic... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

imperfectionism, and show and tell. Imperfectionists are curious, they look at problems from several perspectives, and gather new data and approaches, including from outside their current industry. They deliberately step into risk,... View Details