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- 01 Dec 2012
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Fine-Tuning
FLÜGELMAN: A global financier whose classical compositions have won worldwide acclaim. Starting with piano lessons as a boy in Buenos Aires, Máximo Flügelman (MBA 1971) found that he enjoyed creating his own music. But instead of pursuing...
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- 18 May 2023
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Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
"Except when I said, ‘I'm going to give you all thousand-dollar scholarships,'" she says. "Their heads snapped up." Wilfong was there to kick off the Can Do 4:13 Scholarship Program, which she founded to help "these 4th graders get to the...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
associate Emily Stecker dig deep into the rebranding of a company founded in 1934 that, by the 1980s, was rapidly losing market share and was often equated in the popular mind with anything generic or bland, despite its impressive catalog...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Opening Minds Through Expanded Learning Opportunities
Moss believes part of its appeal may be the timeliness of revisiting the country's founding principles at a period when many today see government as dysfunctional. But he points to another element—the experience of learning history...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Calling the Tune: Negotiation as an Improvisational Dance
Valley noted. "This means negotiating separate contracts for who will do what, at what price, and for how long. Negotiation has become the way we do business." In her research, Valley found that the communication medium used in a...
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- 01 May 2013
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Patricia F. Bilden & Philip M. Bilden, MBA 1991
closest friends and have enriched our family’s life over the years.” The relationships Bilden formed at HBS have also shaped his career. After completing his MBA in 1991, he joined a promising firm in Boston founded by HBS graduates that...
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- 21 Apr 2014
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A lifetime of quiet leadership
which operated in a way that had never been done on Wall Street: Whitehead’s team proactively sought business and also became involved in facilitating mergers and acquisitions and IPOs. This spirit of innovation also informed Whitehead’s philanthropic efforts, which...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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A bold experiment in education
A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA 2005) planned to open a charter school in New York after HBS, but in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he was inspired to found New Orleans College Prep (NOCP). NOCP now operates...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising
Public Health) found that the agreement has had little effect. In their article in the New England Journal of Medicine last August, King and Siegel analyzed trends in expenditures for advertising between 1995 and 2000 by examining fifteen...
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- 22 Nov 2015
- News
Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job
A recent story in the New York Times that details entrepreneurs’ growing interest in shaping policy highlights the lobbying efforts of Hello Alfred, a personal butler service founded by Jessica Beck (MBA 2015) and Marcela Sapone (MBA...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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HBS Press Books in Brief
Inside Chinese Business: A Guide for Managers Worldwide reveals the social and cultural values that underpin Chinese business practices and influence day-to-day corporate decisions. Written by Ming-Jer Chen, an expert on business strategy and competition and View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Consultant on the Go
produces no marketing materials, and finds his clients the old-fashioned way: through word of mouth. Charan can rarely be found in his office in Dallas, where his two assistants organize his hectic schedule and FedEx him fresh changes of...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
tedious administrative jobs in organizations." But I found the teaching at HBS a lot more animated and accessible than the teaching at Harvard College. The College was relentlessly academic, and few academics have the outgoing...
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 31 Jan 2023
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Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) recently presented a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter when founding their companies. The conversation, titled “The...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
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Ilene Lang
professional lives in a new direction. An early pioneer in the high-tech world, Ilene Lang (MBA 1973) worked in senior management and chief leadership roles at established corporations and start-ups alike during the 1980s and ’90s, including a stint as View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
education data company BrightBytes found that an estimated 30 percent of ed tech licenses that schools purchased were never used in the classroom, and nearly 98 percent weren’t used “intensely”—that is, students got less than 10 hours of...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Short Takes
organizations. The authors analyzed the companies in the top-performing quartile of their sample and discovered that "the better performers follow a pattern that we have found elsewhere in the industrial and industrializing world:...
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Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 24 Apr 2014
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A 'reluctant entrepreneur' draws on the HBS network
Cancer survivor Kathryn Giusti (MBA 1985) gives a talk about being a "reluctant entrepreneur" in founding the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. (Published April 2014)
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- 09 Feb 2016
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Powering into the Future
Alexander Gruzen (MBA 1990) is CEO of WiTricity Corp., in Texas. In this video, he explains how his company is helping to lead the world toward a more sustainable future. “I wanted to create something very new and had a chance to join a young company that was View Details
- 07 Jan 2020
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Models of Success
lessons she learned on the basketball court—drive, endurance, teamwork—served her well in the business world, too. But not all of her college teammates and other friends found the same success after sports. “These were the most...
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