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- 01 Mar 2017
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Nurturing Emerging Scholars and Leaders
(i-lab). Doris and Sauer were a natural fit for these roles. In 1986, they left Lucasfilm to found Sonic Solutions, where they developed and marketed audio signal processing, professional sound editing, and later DVD and digital video...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Of Dugouts and Sweatshops
In 1993, as President Clinton's newly sworn-in Secretary of Labor, Robert B. Reich had hoped his first formal public policy decision would be a veritable home run. Instead, he found himself dealing with what appeared to be a no-win...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2013
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Pens Down
changes mark the end of an era for the traditional essay. To honor that era, we asked alumni in our Facebook and LinkedIn communities what they remembered about penning their pitches to MBA Admissions. "I recently found my application...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Class of 2004 Gives Fellowship
care of sev-eral younger siblings,” says Shariff. “We worked to help them become more self-reliant.” Shariff came to HBS to gain the general management and leadership skills that she thinks are especially needed in the nonprofit sector. She has View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
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Faculty Books
business school education. Drawing on archival material from business schools, foundations, and academic associations, he traces how university-based business schools, founded to train a professional class of managers similar to doctors...
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- 13 Apr 2017
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Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Folarin Gdabedo-Smith. Though she anticipated her job would be researching and designing policy recommendations, Rewane quickly found herself engaged in the human resources realm, recruiting and building capacity for the organization. “I...
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Jill Radsken
- 16 Oct 2019
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The Road to Impact
education, promote health, and expand economic opportunity for the citizens of 80 countries. Founded in 1958, EDC designs, implements, and evaluates programs that range from early childhood education to suicide prevention to distance...
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- 07 Aug 2019
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Vertex Appoints First Female CEO
milestone for the biotech industry, which has been slow to diversity its leadership, according to a story in the Boston Globe. The article cites a report from 2017 by the Massachusetts Biotech Council, which found that women were far...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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India is more Transparent
“Finding reliable, useful financial information is a real problem that anyone wanting to work at, sell to, buy from, or invest in a Chinese or Indian company must face. I am often asked for guidance in solving this problem and have found...
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- 10 Aug 2015
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Giving Kids Tech Tools to Make an Impact
digital media leaders and experts. “It’s about inspiring youth to see themselves as makers instead of as users, and to create with technology to make a positive impact,” she says. A serial entrepreneur who most recently founded ROKO Labs,...
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- 11 Jun 2015
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A personal mission to serve veterans
and hearts,” said the former marine captain and Iraq veteran. Sullivan deployed to Fallujah in 2005, and returned with a commitment to help the young marines she sent into dangerous situations. “The one percent who step up in time of war are the best part of this...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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@Soldiers Field
traveling for their January immersion. A few weeks later, they found out which of the 156 different projects—nearly half of them sourced through HBS alumni connections—they’d be assigned.
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- 13 Nov 2020
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Realizing a Dream
subjects came to him naturally. He followed Fisher’s advice, enrolled in appropriate classes, scored well, reapplied, and was admitted. Becoming a Better Leader HBS, says Ferrara, was a growth experience, both academically and personally. He View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
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A Focus on You
fields ranging from finance to farming. Where did we find these interesting people? Our research into the "how many" question began in the alumni database, where we found stats about your locales, personal passions, jobs, and much more....
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- 13 May 2014
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Inside Africa
school, she found a better fit at HBS. There she learned the transactional skills that she thrives on: structuring deals and making things happen. Clarke’s interest in Africa started during a visit to South Africa four years after...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 02 Apr 2014
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Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
working for McKinsey and Co. before getting into Harvard. But she enrolled in the law school, not the business school. While Brochu says she enjoyed HLS intellectually, she didn't feel it was a very good fit for her personality. She found...
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- 29 Jun 2019
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Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
Fayelle Ouane (MBA 2009) founded Suguba to create transformative change on the African continent. In this interview, she discusses the path to achieving that deep impact. “So I'm originally from Mali, but I grew up in Switzerland. And I...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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David M. Hughes
the $1.5-million student activities budget as vice president of student affairs during his senior year. Signing on as a fundraising campaign manager for the United Way of Toronto at the tender age of 23, he supervised scores of volunteers and full-time personnel and...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2016
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LA Reid’s Song
found his own voice along the way. From Sing to Me: When I go back to the very beginning, listening to jazz fusion bands and loving Miles Davis, or digging what James Brown represented, or even in my rock days worshipping at the shrine of...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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William K.L. Fung
told my father that I didn't want to be in a family company," says Fung with a chuckle. The elder Fung challenged his son to use his HBS skills to breathe new life into the trading company, founded by Fung's grandfather in Canton, China,...
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Alejandro Reyes