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George H. Hartford

Expanding beyond its initial base of imported tea products, Hartford established one of the largest chains of grocery stores, The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) in the United States. Hartford was an early proponent of advertising premium “give-aways”... View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Aug 1998
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Year-End Roundup: Dean's Award, Other Honors Conferred as Class of '98 Graduates

Tiller. The three were cited for their role in forming and leading the Harbus Foundation, a grant-making organization established under the auspices of the Harbus News Corporation to support local community organizations. Founded in 1997, the Harbus View Details

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Nathan Lasche

Nathan interned in Product Management at Amazon and was the Co-President of the HBS TechMedia club. Prior to HBS, he spent two years in Uganda starting the Clinton Foundation HIV / AIDS Initiative’s country office, worked in feature film... View Details

15 May 2019
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Jeremy Grantham on the Battle to Save Society from Climate Change: ‘We’re Not Winning’

own environmental foundation and currently directs half of his foundation’s grants to “communications and research into the psychology of denial” to help improve messaging. Part of that messaging, the article notes, includes localizing... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Employees crave meaningful progress in their work and find joy in making an impact

“Even incremental small wins can contribute to what we call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, Baker Foundation Professor. Amabile’s current research focuses on the psychology of everyday work life: how events in the... View Details

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Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Mayor’s Office, City of Boston MBTA Mass Challenge Year Up MBA FIELD Course: Arts & Cultural Entrepreneurship (partial) Boston Ballet Boston Symphony Orchestra Celebrity Series of Boston Handel and Haydn... View Details

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Founding Donors - HBS Online

We gratefully acknowledge the following donors who, through their generous support, are helping extend the reach of the transformational educational experience of Harvard Business School. Howard Cox, MBA 1969 Paul B. Edgerley, MBA 1983, and Sandra M. Edgerley, MBA 1989... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field

the theoretical foundations of competitive positioning and sustained competitive advantage fits into this area. He explores these topics in his seminar on Competition and Competitiveness as well as in a recent Harvard Business Review... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Annie Fulton

toolbox—filled with real tools—for Christmas. My project-rich childhood laid the foundation for a lifelong passion for envisioning and creating something out of nothing. With time and experience, the scale of what I could build increased.... View Details

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Rena Clark

foundation to support students and young alumni as they explore their career options and make informed decisions about their futures. Work Experience: Laurel Oak Capital Partners (PE Independent Sponsor & Investor), GenNx360 Capital... View Details

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Phil Wong

operational foundation for running healthcare practices. Prior to pivoting into healthcare, Phil was a portfolio manager at a fund of hedge funds managing $1Bn+ on behalf of pension plans and insurance companies. His investing role... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Corporate Finance; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship

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Alumni Forums - Alumni

foundation of forum. It leads to trust and makes it possible for forum members to discuss their most important issues. How are HBS Alumni Forums organized and led? HBS forums are offered by local HBS clubs and special interest groups,... View Details

05 Oct 2022
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Inside the Chip Shortage

says, adding that demand will continue to grow for applications in cars, robots, manufacturing, and health care. Semiconductors are the tools that make it possible to process data, which makes them foundational to modern technology. Most... View Details

Keywords: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

18 Aug 2014
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Fighting income inequality with early education reform

economics to solve the problems of education resonated with me,” says Dias Griffin, who gave CHECC $13 million through the family foundation named for her and her husband, Ken. At the core of the program is a carefully curated curriculum... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Iron Lady

second largest in sub-Saharan Africa but far smaller than South Africa’s) and then declared that she would bring charges against some 200 other individuals and organizations allegedly involved in capital-markets abuses, the BBC reported (July 1, 2010). Oteh also... View Details

Keywords: Finance

15 Nov 2020
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Paine, a Baker Foundation Professor and senior associate dean for international development. More than half of the HBS faculty are actively involved in international research. While they often work with a specific global center to pursue... View Details

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive Course Number 1507 Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 sessions Paper This short version of BSSE will focus... View Details

17 Apr 2025
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From Tech to Coaching: Empowering Women and Minority Leaders with Yue Zhao (MBA 2013)

starting at Thumbtack, a Series A startup. My time at McKinsey and Cisco pre-MBA had given me a strong foundation in solving complex problems, but HBS helped me develop additional critical skills—finance, corporate governance, and... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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Volunteers Crack Case, Consider School's Future

I knew there had to be a hitch when HBS invited its alumni volunteers — fund agents, reunion organizers, and my fellow Class Notes correspondents — back to campus in early November for two days of free food and learning. Sure enough, when I opened my registration... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; alumni; volunteers; conferences; cases; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Brittany Davis

Technologies, while completing an MBA at Harvard Business School. She gained experience supporting entrepreneurs as an Associate at Techstars and as a Mentor at Startup Jamaica, built a solid foundation in finance working at Bank of... View Details

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