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- 01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top
worked for fourteen years in human resources at Chemical Bank in New York. For her part, Busch, who has been with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter since graduating from HBS, observed a salient business lesson unfolding across centuries. "What I View Details
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Ink: Your Best Self
cofounder of Paravis Partners, Su strived to bring her best self to the executive coaching firm every day but found the pressures of modern business were a constant challenge. “There’s a velocity and ferocity that is increasingly...
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April White
- 04 May 2017
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How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
another tech giant: Sandberg contends that she’s almost an accidental prophet of openness in the workplace. A decade ago, as an executive at Google Inc., she always worked from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Then her first child was born, and she found...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World
One afternoon in 1997, while World Bank senior financial analyst Margaret Hanson Costan was in Paris discussing donations to the Bank, her husband, Jay, got a phone call. The social worker with whom they had been working to adopt a baby had View Details
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Young, Susan
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
leadership positions at her daughters' school, where she is a trustee and a past president of the Parents Association. "I haven't had a paycheck in more than a decade, but I've found volunteer work to be just as meaningful, fulfilling,...
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- 27 Oct 2017
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The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
is really to simplify everything. One of my bosses founded probably one of the most successful investment companies in the world based in China, growing from $30 million in assets to $25 billion in 11 years largely through organic...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
At the other end of the supply chain are the unseen farm laborers—most of them women—who tend the coffee trees each day on the hillsides of rural Kenya. Margaret Nyamumbo (MBA 2016) founded Kahawa 1893 in 2017 to shorten the distance...
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- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Eventually, he found a treatment trial at the Mayo Clinic that was testing a new combination of chemotherapy and high-dose radiation. Slowly, Susan’s tumor began to shrink, until there was nothing left but scar tissue. Although she would...
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April White
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium
students, which often leads them back to HBS for an MBA. "Being young and interested in business, I found the program extremely valuable," says Jaja Jackson (HBS '99), a current HBS student and former SVMP participant. "SVMP gave me a...
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Cindy Olnick
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
that successful people have simply found their own way to do them. Molinsky finds there are five key challenges underlying our avoidance tendencies: authenticity, competence, resentment, likability, and morality. Does the new behavior...
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- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
at my new employer, I found myself “between jobs.” I happened to meet Walt by accident one evening walking on the street where I lived. We exchanged greetings and chatted for only a few minutes. I told him I was temporarily out of work...
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- 26 May 2022
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Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
unofficially prior to that, though he does not know exactly when it began. “In those days, people somehow found out about it if they searched for it.” Illustrating how much things have changed, Donaher says there were about 22 members of...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
of values. The fundamentals I experienced as a new faculty member — the engaged classroom where students actively participate in the learning process, the dedication to ideas that have power in practice, the real sense of community you feel when you step on campus —...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa
also chairs the advisory board of Harvard’s Center for African Studies. “As alumni, we need to give students the benefit of our judgment so that they aren’t always reinventing the wheel.” That meeting Belo-Osagie had with Faust two years ago led to his connection with...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
participants in the Web discussion, found the cyberspace experiment not only novel but useful. "You can ask a question in class and get the perspective of one professor," she observes, "but to be able to put a question out on the Web and...
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Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
under the auspices of Harvard's Institute for International Development. After returning from Kenya she joined Bain & Company and later signed on with a startup, founded by Bain colleagues, focused on privatization efforts in Central...
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Susan Young
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
Extending the lives of the companions we love! Alumnus: Daniel Oliver, MBA 2013 Region: New England Secure Code Warrior: Welcome to the era of secure software development. Alumnus: John Fitzgerald, MBA 1997 Region: Europe Slurrp Farm: 100% honest yumminess. Slurrp Farm...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
uncertainty is due to the megamergers of the past fifteen years when, Frank Biondi noted, all the major networks and film studios were sold. As Harold Vogel put it: "There are hardly any more multimillion-dollar deals to be made - the big wave is over. Now we have to...
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Paula Maute
- 01 Oct 1997
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Terence P. Stewart
working with his father, Eugene, at the firm the elder Stewart had founded in 1958. Now under Terry Stewart's leadership, the firm operates globally, with a special interest in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. "Unfortunately,...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1997
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New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
truly competitive environment. She suddenly found herself making decisions for the largest and most widely dispersed organization she had ever managed, and she "wanted to confirm that some of my own actions and instincts were on target."...
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Nancy O. Perry