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01 Oct 1997
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A Message from Dean Clark

With excitement and anticipation, we begin a new academic year at HBS. This will be the third year I have had the pleasure to serve as the School's Dean, a wonderful job full of fascinating challenges and great satisfaction. The October... View Details

20 Apr 2016
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Steps to Success

B,” she recalls. With Goldberg’s help, Ruhr got a summer job working for General Mills in its Stockton, California, regional grain office. Upon graduating, she went to work for the company, first on the trading floor at the Chicago Board... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

21 Jan 2014
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Climbing to New Heights

showed the right level of conviction." A summer internship at Goldman Sachs resulted in a job offer. But when Petzel learned of an opening in another division that appealed to him more, he turned down the first offer and had to reapply.... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

site. “We believe that increasing the availability of capital in underserved areas can contribute to a virtuous cycle of job creation, wealth-building and other new opportunities for economic development, while also providing a return to... View Details

05 May 2020
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“Walking a Tightrope”

Kristof, most of which have focused on poverty in developing countries. But in the Pulitzer Prize-winning duo’s latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, they turn their lens on working class communities in the United States—communities that have been... View Details

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

One of the country's most renowned venture capital firms, for nearly four decades Greylock has emphasized building businesses rather than stocks, providing hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs, and helping companies contribute new products and View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain

opportunities. “The legacy of the Cold War, governance issues, and the need to maintain stable political regimes and economies represent challenges in the region,” he explains. “Countries like Peru have done a good job over the past 20... View Details

08 Dec 2015
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Living the Legacy

kinship, which fostered a strong professional relationship. Cera, the Kusisto’s youngest daughter, is a J.D. candidate at University of Michigan Law School. She is looking forward to a summer job at a large legal firm in Chicago. Because... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

1973) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) The Self-Made Billionaire Effect: How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value by John Sviokla (MBA 1983) and Mitch Cohen (Portfolio) Looking at self-made billionaires like Steve Jobs and... View Details

17 Apr 2015
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A Driving Force for a Sustainable World

times in 10 years,” she recalls. In 2001, Herlaut joined Pechiney in Paris, which was acquired by Alcan, then Arcelor (which became Arcelor Mittal) in Luxembourg. Those jobs made her realize how much money companies were investing in... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

07 Sep 2021
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Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity

constrained by finances. About half of our students take on debt, and some may feel that they won’t be able to work in their dream job or industry or geography because some areas don’t pay as well as others. Why is it critical to the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2010
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Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

School has done a great job maintaining its core values over the years. What are some of the biggest changes you have seen? Certainly, the mix of our student body is quite different; you can see it when you look at photos from across the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

but we're kind of the canaries in the coal mine—in that our business is risk. Our job is to price risk and thus predict risk.” Up until 2012, Liberty could just trend past weather data into the future and get reasonably close predictions.... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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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... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)

01 Oct 1998
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Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship

identification with your job and the company are other important factors. Besides creative talents and the gift of logical thinking, you also need the best and most competent professional training in the world." Also in the article,... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

company is doing a good job preparing for Y2K, you may have essential business links to companies that aren't. Is my desktop vulnerable? Yes. A computer is different from most other consumer products. When you buy a new car, you trade in... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story

school fresh out of Yale. "I should have listened to my father," he admits with a wry smile. After four years of "just reading and writing" as an insurance company lawyer, Shafir, then newly wed to his wife, Lorna, entered HBS in 1982. His first View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

eventually cut 15,000 jobs from the company's payroll. In ten years of growth between 1982 and 1992, the number of employees had risen from 41,500 to 116,700, and the airline's fleet had grown from 231 to 897 planes. However, in 1991, due... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

22 Oct 2018
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Capital Murder

after another, then one sentence after another, then a paragraph, and a page, and suddenly you’ve written a chapter. Is there any way in which your job at Netflix was useful in the experience of creating something of your own? More the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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