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- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
country back to prosperity. Within his first 100 days, Mitsotakis announced to investors the world over that Greece is open for business. And it’s happening, both in the buzz at the Grande Bretagne and on the world stage. Arhodidis, for...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2009
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Gazprom Goes Global
recently produced a three-part case on Gazprom, says the 2006 Ukraine cutoff was in reality a business decision, albeit an extreme one. The context for that incident between the two countries went back years and involved at least one...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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Case Study: A Place at the Table
Harvard Business School: 1962–2012" delves into the experiences of alumnae and alumni over the past 50 years, both inside and outside the classroom, as protaganist Dean Nitin Nohria considers what HBS might be like 10 years from now when his daughters are grown. "It...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
As we wrapped up our writing assignments for this issue, I was struck by how many stories dealt with the same topic: entrepreneurship. The articles themselves aren’t big, but what they say about HBS is. The heady dream of starting and View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)
approached him. “He said that he was going into a little crapshoot in Albany and needed someone to run a television station,” recalls Murphy. “That’s how in 1954 I became Capital Cities first employee.” Just ten years later, he was named...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible
programs has grown by 25 percent to 330 participants. Looking back over the past decade, Childress detects a growing interest among young alums in starting or joining an organization dedicated to social change. “The attitude is that this...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007
mother was dying of cancer, and he was caring for his grandparents. A younger brother had been killed in crossfire between the Israeli army and Palestinian police.” That fall, back at college, Hussein opened up a newspaper one day and saw...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Jan 2004
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Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
saw in his company's entry-level hires. When he retired in 1992, he decided to do something about it by running for the Seattle school board. "If you want to change public education," he says, "you have to get inside the system." When he...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words
fathers.” Bremer: “The scars in Iraq run very deep. The secret police, the thugs, the informers, the torture chambers, they may have gone. But the people of Iraq will be coping with the horrors of the mass graves and the individual and...
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- 08 May 2019
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Lessons from the Ashes
Journal, and grew to include everything from magazines to radio and TV stations. Warwick Fairfax (MBA 1987), the founder's great-great grandson, grew up with the expectation that he would someday run the company and carry on the family...
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- 01 Apr 2008
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“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
at a time could use it), and one time it managed to spill all its cards on the floor. Val remembers that it took most of a week to put them back in order. How were changes in alumni data recorded back in...
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- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
was one of the original and largest HBS alumni clubs for a long time,” Slivka says. “Our records show that our first club president was Nathan Pearson (MBA 1934) who served in 1941 to 1942. So we go back close to 80 years.” Slivka said...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
graduation. Bill Clinton, move over. « Back to the top of the page Rockin' Round the Clock — Rajil Kapoor by James E. Aisner In a popular Boston nightspot, more than a thousand people (including a large contingent of HBS students) are...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking
first is people who run on the hedonic treadmill and never quite realize why they don’t feel satisfaction. Second is people who run on the hedonic treadmill and know why they don’t feel satisfaction but are...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 15 Jun 2021
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Case Study: Inside Story
backing from Bling Capital, DCM, and Precursor Ventures. Saga grew its initial customer base during the pandemic as families searched for ways to stay connected across the distance, Lin says. Through the app, a user can share weekly...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni Are Integral to HBS
Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa On the final day of Africa Rising, a course about business in Africa taught by Professor Caroline Elkins, Hakeem Belo-Osagie’s (MBA 1980) emotions were running high. “I had that sense...
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- 22 Nov 2017
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How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
had a long career in sports management, including an earlier stint running the business side of the Knicks, the WNBA's Liberty and the NHL's Rangers as the president of Madison Square Garden sports. But as inherent as competition is to...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
Photo Courtesy MATTHEW R. SIMMONS In his new book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67) sounds an alarm about a finite resource that he believes is View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
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After the Fall
Ivashina says, was not a lack of demand for corporate credit but rather a lack of supply. Once Lehman Brothers failed in September 2008, corporate borrowers drew down their revolving credit lines rather than withdraw savings—which is traditionally how we think about a...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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A Vibrant Brand
Back then, Rolling Stone was in a league of its own - with a 25-year history and a loyal readership of 1.2 million. "For me to even utter in a meeting that we were going to challenge Rolling Stone sounded crazy," reflects Clinkscales,...
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Susan Young