Set Of Priors - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Jan 2014
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Climbing to New Heights

woman who had climbed Everest," he recalls. "She drew a lot of parallels to business, including team effort and setting goals." Analytical and methodical by nature, and a mechanical engineer by training,... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Sep 2020
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Saving Grace

could transform pension investing—or even society at large. Frank Chapman signed on, as did his wife, who had a half-dozen different accounts of her own. Now the couple can set up contributions, monitor... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

23 May 2018
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John A. Paulson, MBA 1980

1984 Joins Bear Stearns, M&A Managing Director 1988 Named Partner, Gruss Partners 1994 Launches Paulson & Co. 2007 Makes what many call the “greatest trade ever” on subprime mortgage market 2012 Contributes historic donation to Central Park Conservancy 2015 Endows... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2009
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Rich Wilson

held every four years, the Vendée Globe is the most grueling and dangerous prolonged competition on the planet. This year, thirty boats started and only eleven finished; Wilson came in ninth. At 58, the oldest skipper and the only American in this year’s race, Wilson... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2019
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Case Study: Farming It Out

to make a concrete recommendation about where to draw the line between the closed and the open parts of an ecosystem like this one, but fundamentally, it is not an either-or proposition. Management should View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Agriculture

30 Jun 2019
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Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo

there were six final candidates. “Out of these, one National Laureate is chosen, based on a set of balanced criteria: business success and growth, breadth View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

Pincus set up shop, the general impression of private equity matured. SUVIR SUJAN first thought of returning to India when consulting work brought him home in 1999. Since then... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

13 Mar 2019
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The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)

unique skill sets and also enjoy different aspects of the business. Taylor leads our product development, design, and marketing. I lead our operations, finances, and distribution.” What’s a typical day at... View Details

19 Oct 2022
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If I Were You

Image credit: iStock / -Antonio- Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. During this spring’s reunions, the Skydeck crew set up shop on Spangler... View Details

01 Jan 2003
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Greylock

companies and nurtured numerous leading-edge products in a wide range of areas, including information technology, health care, telecommunications, and software. In achieving all that, it has also set the... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Ink: Start Small, Rise Above

Stacey Abrams didn’t dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Her first small business was a consultancy that she launched out of necessity to supplement her salary as a member of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

full-time in 2005, spent seven years developing a deep network of contacts, then set up CET in 2012 to offer travel services to school groups and political think tanks alike. Three years later, in 2015,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire

ownership by dir-ectors. Stobaugh chaired the 1995 National Asso-ciation of Corporate Directors' Blue Ribbon Commission, which recommended changes in the selection and compensation of boards, including View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

also among the most successful, they set a thought-provoking example for competitors and other American companies that are themselves, David Thomas believes, becoming aware of the positive in the proactive.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

30 Jan 2017
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HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban

The following set of emails were sent to all Harvard Business School alumni today: Dear HBS alumni/ae, We are writing to share with you emails that have gone out to the HBS (below) and Harvard (see here)... View Details

01 Jan 2007
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Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981

everyone's life." Dubinsky found Apple's casual atmosphere—where smart people thrived—a good fit and accepted a position as a support specialist. "Apple had real energy. I loved the notion that we were changing the world. To me that was a worthy vision. Apple View Details

01 Dec 1998
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A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

began operation as a school without walls. Nine "at-risk" high school students - some of whom had been referred by theirschool guidance counselors, others who found Shackleton on their own - set forth in two... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

02 Jun 2021
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On the Road Less Traveled

a hotel room at age 11, and among the challenges that something like that poses is that it doesn't give you any real grounding. And this is one line from the book. You say, “Having bounced around as much as I did, I had to set my moral... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS

Since his arrival in 1995 as its new president, James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59) has set in motion sweeping cultural and operational changes at the World Bank. One of Wolfensohn's early initiatives, undertaken... View Details