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- 01 Mar 2023
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An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
Kierstead. “The impact of the Fellowship Program on our students, who see how invested our alumni are in their success and the success of the School, cannot be overstated,” she adds. “A number of students have come up to me and said, ‘I...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Aug 2022
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Case Study: Sound Check
product, with a case study and clear pricing. It can be a little scary to give up the consulting revenue, which likely provides cash flow to fund the development of the productized offerings. The downside of this approach is time. We live...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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WATER Ltd.
opening several “desal” plants a year worldwide, costing up to $300 million each. “Seawater desalination provides the ultimate answer for water-supply problems because its source is effectively limitless,”...
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- 03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City
opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was collapsing, the population was...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 09 Nov 2017
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Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
Rye Barcott (MBA/MPA 2009) Rye Barcott (MBA/MPA 2009) “You don’t ask the guy next to you in your fighting hole what his political affiliation is,” Rye Barcott says. He should know. Barcott (MBA/MPA 2009) served five years in the Marine...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
"All of us are naturally fascinated with pathology, with what can go wrong, but we must look at the whole. Derivatives have opened up multiple channels of financial flows, and there is less risk with that than with a single channel," he...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
Laura A. Liswood (MBA '76) is cofounder and secretary-general of the Council of Women World Leaders (CWWL), an independent, international organization based at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Made up of many of the world's...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Feb 2021
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Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
more than 30 years of experience in VC, worldwide streaming channel development, digital media, and consumer products. “This is about using science and technology to address the climate crisis, in this case, using drones to reforest in a...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2012
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Taking Time to Make Time
routinely require them to stay late at the office, but when you press them, they admit that isn't true. Some occasional emergencies need to take precedence over everything else, but unless you work in a hospital, those situations are rare. Even if you have to catch...
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Time management
- 15 Sep 2020
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How To Make Diversity a Reality
results and goals, just like you would do any other business matter. Chitra: And when leaders may say to you, "Hey, you know Willie, but I've got this chief diversity officer—we've been trying to do this for 20, 30, 40 years through HR or...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero
marketing for the Giants. “My job was to put warm butts into cold seats,” notes Baer, who says he learned a lot about all aspects of the business during the three years he spent promoting fan interest and attendance at the notoriously...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2002
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Faculty Research Symposium
organizations, Amabile decided to address the question as part of her ten-year longitudinal study on creativity. Now in her sixth year of this research, Amabile discussed some preliminary findings about the relationship between time...
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- 04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
so business and leadership were really the world that I grew up in and I realized pretty early that business could be an incredibly powerful force for good and for general human flourishing, as well as a pretty powerful source of...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
Design Institute address these trends? KL: Our aspiration is to help invent the future of capitalism. Let’s figure out how companies can operate ethically with digital technologies and how we can get all of our workers trained up...
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April White
- 06 Dec 2021
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Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
a data scientist, but you need to know data science to be able to talk the new language of business. We’re thinking about this for the MBA Program, for Executive Education, and as part of our lifelong learning offerings for our alumni. What programs can we create for...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin
approach is that we don’t need individuals on a full-immersion basis for long periods of time. So instead of asking a company to give us a person for six months, we might ask for a half a year that can be spread out to several...
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- 28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union
voter participation, and strengthening the pipeline of leaders entering political races. For Ballou-Aares, this mission is personal. Growing up with a single mom and limited resources, riding the subway back and forth to public school,...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn
didn’t pay off. But generally, the New Bedford whaling industry of the 1800s thrived using this investment model, averaging over 14 percent annual returns, says Alex. Holding up the high end of that average was the firm Gideon Allen and...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
reverberate through a supply chain, causing huge swings of inventory and production levels. That's a difficult idea for a faculty member to convey at the blackboard. This year, we used our wireless network to run a simulation exercise, with students filling all the...
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