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01 Dec 2013
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Climate Change as Must-See TV

low-carbon economy. He is the managing director of GameChange Capital LLC, a private-equity firm cofounded with Hohn to back companies offering scalable and profitable... View Details

Keywords: videos; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information; Arts, Entertainment

01 Apr 2001
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William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency

Ask fund managers covering the Hong Kong market about smart technology plays in these days of crashing dot-coms and you’re likely to hear one company name repeated often. Li & Fung has become View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2020
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3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)

In the summer when it got really hot, my brother and I would buy cases of water. We grew up in Queens near Linden Boulevard and we would stand on the corner and sell bottles... View Details

Keywords: April White; Photo by: Michael Bucher; banking; diversity; COVID-19; leadership; African American; career advice; Finance

01 Aug 2002
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HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive

Dubilier Prize, established in honor of the late Martin Dubilier (MBA '52), cofounder of the LBO firm Clayton,... View Details

03 Apr 2012
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Just Compensation

Ferracone: Specializing in executive compensation and performance consulting. Courtesy Robin Ferracone Robin Ferracone (MBA 1980) is the founder (in 2007) and executive chair of Farient Advisors... View Details

Keywords: executives; executive compensation; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes

the traction can sometimes create a blind spot and put your company at serious risk. Back in 2018, when we raised our first round of seed funding, we learned this the hard way.... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Alvaro Dominguez

01 Oct 1997
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Cathy A. Nichols

22 years there, becoming the first woman senior partner in the firm's history. But Nichols had always known that she wanted to run a business herself. And, as McKinsey had expanded, she no longer had View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Oct 2013
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Banking on Africa's Future

Tope Lawani Tope Lawani (MBA 1995) is a man on a mission—make that two missions, actually. The cofounder and managing partner of London-based Helios Investments, Lawani says his View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Carla Small

Working mothers may have become commonplace in corporate America, but in business school, student moms are still in a class by themselves. Just ask Carla Small. "I went from being surrounded by other women trying to balance a job and family to being View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

Common Asset Management, Boston, Massachusetts Leaders should learn empathy and seek employees who bring greater empathy to their work. Social intelligence distinguishes a firm and leads to superior outcomes. Having diversity View Details

15 May 2020
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New Menu

A couple of years ago, as his 50th birthday approached, Andrew D. Ive (MBA 1997) took a moment to consider his career. It had been a successful one, he thought. He had spent the previous 20 years building... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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John R. Davis

records. “If a cow is calving, you are going to stay with her rather than go put numbers in the computer,” he notes. A native of Blue Ridge, Texas, Davis took a job at a major accounting View Details

15 Nov 2021
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Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)

Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959) Two institutions completely changed the life of Charles P. Waite, says Patti Waite Bishop about her late father, a venture capital pioneer and founding partner at Greylock... View Details

05 May 2023
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Fail Better

before moving on to join the newly-formed firm of Wasserstein Perella & Co. He names Joe Perella as an early sponsor and mentor in his career, and describes two moments View Details

21 Oct 2020
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Cold Calculations

where he makes his home and works as a partner at the mergers and acquisitions firm Architect Partners. A two-decade-long drought, a record-breaking heat wave, and a rare dry lightning storm had sparked 350... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Aug 2020
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Defining Flex Work

“We’re still using terms like telework and telecommute, says Auerbach. “The reality is—even as someone who works so deeply in this field—I actually can’t tell you what those things mean.” Modernizing the lexicon to reflect View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Lesson Plans

Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin Last summer, HBS Online asked... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

01 Mar 2018
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Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations

“Real estate chatter is the most popular sport in Manhattan,” says Kirk Henckels (MBA 1976), who has made a career buying and selling some of New York City’s most luxurious apartments. In his new book with... View Details