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04 Apr 2022
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Strengthening City Hall’s Foundations

to help mayors of cities in Israel improve public services for residents and strengthen ties with the global community. Modeled on the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, which has supported 200 mayors across the United States since 2016, the new center at... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

24 Apr 2014
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Understanding the global economy from a new perspective

Henry Paulson (MBA 1970) has held public and private leadership positions, including roles as chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, and US Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush. As chairman of The Paulson Institute at the View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Harvard Center Shanghai Names New Executive Director

Taiwan and Hong Kong at Citibank, American Express, and Standard Chartered Bank. Fluent in Mandarin, he was one of the first Americans to teach at Peking University after the resumption of diplomatic relations between China and the United... View Details

Keywords: clubs; alumni; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2013
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Notes from W50

Fifty years after the first eight women enrolled in the two-year MBA Program at HBS, 800 alumni came to campus to celebrate that milestone. As part of the School's April W50 Summit, HBS hosted two days of panels, workshops, and presentations covering everything from... View Details

05 Aug 2016
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Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

Medical Center, in Myrtle Beach, SC—became the first students admitted to the MD/MBA program directly from undergraduate school. Amadio’s own interest in technology, however, led him to the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology (HST) program, a joint venture between... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll

“International Power 50” list of women executives in 2008, has won praise for combining a conservative financial approach with progressive policies. Raised in New Jersey, Carroll studied geology at Skidmore College, went on to earn a master’s in the field at the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining

01 Oct 2002
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Class Notes Extra

interviewing and tracking subscribers and customers on behalf of clients in publishing and other industries. He lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with his wife and three children. Since his college days at the University of Massachusetts,... View Details

04 May 2015
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Alumni in Paris Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

Alumni young and old gathered in Paris on May 4 to celebrate and socialize. Alumni and friends of Harvard Business School from across France gathered in Paris on May 4, 2015 to celebrate and connect with each other as the School hosted “A Vision for the 21st Century”... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count

Weighted Accounts (IWA) Project has set about tackling accountability, a major hurdle on the path to an impact-driven economy. While the number of firms reporting their own ESG data has grown exponentially, and companies of all stripes are now articulating their... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

26 Oct 2017
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Can Farming Save the Planet?

According to a report from the University of California Berkeley, “Current carbon sequestration in US cropland soils is only 8.4 million metric tons CO2 Eq. per year, compared to an annual potential of 100 million.” Practices like organic... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Organic farming; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture

13 Jul 2017
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Making Friends with Mother Nature

University before heading to HBS. His business thinking was influenced by faculty giants such as Georges Doriot, who taught industrial management and is widely considered the father of venture capital, and commercial banking authority... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Jun 2015
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Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right

also be enduring as they age? —Eric Martin (MBA 1990) HUBERT: There’s no denying 15-year-olds have a very different daily reality than 34-year-olds. But powerful forces have shaped the contours of the generation, tectonic plates acting on them in shared, View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Q&A: Donna Dubinsky

successful, but we didn’t know to what degree. We knew that the utility would be universal and that the price point was right. That combination can mean a large market. At the same time, we worried that the product would need revisions in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; PalmPilot; Apple; Telecommunications; Information

01 Mar 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf

exhibited. Influencing Up by Allan R. Cohen (MBA 1961, DBA 1967) and David L. Bradford (Wiley) Following their classic book, Influence without Authority, which provided a universal model for how to influence someone you don't control, the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2000
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A Canadian Hero

said University of Toronto president J. Robert Prichard. After accepting the club's award -- and with it, a Harvard chair -- Schwartz, a Winnipeg native, briefly discussed his career and, quoting President Theodore Roosevelt, encouraged... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call

question we now invite you, our readers, to ponder as well: “What is it about these cases that makes them so enduring?” Saki, Sizzle, Sayonara Case: Benihana of Tokyo Written: 1972 Copies Sold: 269,584 Touring the United States in 1959 with his Japanese View Details

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

15 Nov 2016
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HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking

Professor Lauren H. Cohen (photo by Eliza Grinnell) Professor Lauren H. Cohen (photo by Eliza Grinnell) Professor Karim R. Lakhani (photo by Richard Howard) Professor Karim R. Lakhani (photo by Richard Howard) Collaboration between faculty members at Harvard Business... View Details

09 Mar 2021
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Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

children, especially from low-income communities; also a founder of Ashoka University The pandemic has been a disaster for education overall and has exacerbated inequity as well. Unlike in the United States and Europe, all public and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2020
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Unleashed

crisis. What is cause for celebration or pride or shame. Culture even determines something as fundamental as what is funny. Humor is not a universal truth; it’s a cultural one. For example, a culture challenge at Riot Games was that... View Details