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- 01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and advance faculty research that...
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- 13 Jul 2016
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From Money to Ministry
business class at the University of Texas. That post led him to become an adjunct professor. “I found out I loved teaching, and even got to use some HBS cases in my business ethics class,” he says. Once ordained, Quainton served in a...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1998
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Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
promoting management education in Germany. He was instrumental in founding the University of Koblenz/Vallendar for Executive Management - the first such private institution in Germany - and coauthored various business texts, including...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
outsourcing, and integration services company that he founded in 1965. First in a Wall Street Journal ranking of one thousand companies listed according to best stock performance from 1987 to 1997, Keane Inc is considered among the...
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- 27 May 2014
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Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma
the normal academic method of doing research that I will never do that again," says Christensen. "Every time I do research I am going to do crowdsourcing from our alumni." The project drew on the experience and input of alumni from 14 different classes and a dozen...
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- 01 Nov 2012
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First and Goal
rejected. As a result, he resigned from the board of the organization he had founded to promote the sport that he loved. Today, Swearengin, an attorney who for 14 years has represented companies facing class action litigation and...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over
management consulting field were Bruce D. Henderson (MBA '41) of the Boston Consulting Group, John Diebold (MBA '51) of the Diebold Group, and Richard Vancil (MBA '55) of The MAC Group. Another venerable firm was Cambridge's own Arthur D. Little, Inc. (ADL), View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
was asked to take a posting in Bulgaria. And Searl came along and found herself, relatively quickly, leading the local office of the Bulgarian American Enterprise Funds, which was a private equity fund set up by the US government, to help...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
to help our customers ‘compete with anyone, anywhere in the world,’ and that’s what we do.” Those customers can be found worldwide and in diverse industries. Examples of the range of metal-component parts CGM produces include air-bag...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers
launch Bridgespan. Over the years, the firm has assisted HBS professors in writing several social enterprise cases, and two have been written about Bridgespan itself. For his part, Tierney is chair of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative’s advisory board, having...
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- 19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that would ultimately leave him...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest
other resources but found no definitive answer there either. An article from the previous month’s National Geographic hinted that another mountain in western China, which the magazine called Amnyi Machen, might also rival Everest. It was...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Women & Enterprise, founded by Andrea Silbert (MBA 1991/MPA 1992)—an experience Ndidi says directly inspired her pre-AACE work launching several Nigerian nonprofits devoted to social entrepreneurship. During his time at HBS, Mezuo served...
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- 28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
walked into a dorm full of girls shooting down the banisters in bare feet and ripped jeans.” Just do it: “I’ve found that there’s never a perfect path to achieving our vision. We’re always torn between planning and doing. It’s in...
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- 12 May 2015
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A Flash of Insight
specially configured, nuclear-powered submarine, a “spook boat” that was engaged in covert operations. He found his naval service rewarding, but when his five years of active duty were up, it was time to move on. “I thought that being an...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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A Matter of Opinion
Founded in 1865, with roots in the abolitionist movement, The Nation has, ironically, enjoyed fairly constant support from wealthy benefactors. This despite its anti-establishment posture, although the magazine’s politics, Navasky...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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One-on-One with Thomas Riley
week there will be some kind of evening function as well, which I don’t particularly enjoy but know I need to do. In this job, there’s really no one to tell you how to proceed. At first I found that a bit unsettling, but now I understand...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Up Against The Firewall
virtually any metropolitan center these days, unsecured “hot spots” can be found and exploited. It is, he says, an example of “the twin–headed dilemma of new technology — introducing better productivity and novelty into the workplace...
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- 12 May 2022
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Onboarding
unconscious, but that was the way it was. And those were the kinds of things they had to contend with. [MUSIC] JH: In her understated way, Tosh Barron has worked to improve the experience of women on boards, whether through her own example or as a View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
for us to start this,” Sambvani says. Now, a year after the launch of their product, Sambvani and Duncan are running a seed-stage company with 10 staffers and more than 100 customers, all of whom were found without investing in marketing....
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