Second Great Divergence - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Mar 2018
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HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact

about great leadership and his new book, What Great Service Leaders Know and Do. “Both the lecture portion and the case discussion were very well-received,” says club president Joseph Lo (GMP 3, 2007) “The... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

13 Jul 2020
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The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)

closely with our hardware marketing partners, who are responsible for ensuring we continue to build and promote great VR headsets, and with the product teams and developers making the applications themselves.” What’s a typical day like at... View Details

14 Jul 2021
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The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)

Antonio “Chipi” Barijho and Luis Guisbert. Manes with Villa 21-24 resident and former Argentine football player Antonio “Chipi” Barijho and Luis Guisbert. Which HBS classes or professors had the greatest impact on you and why? “I loved every View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship

fortune." "I saw no reason to hold off until I was older or retired to share my good fortune." After college, Rauner wasted little time enrolling at HBS, entering the School at age 23. Midway through the second year of the MBA Program, he... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Feb 1999
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Newman's Own Brand of Charity

With the understated charm that has won him legions of fans on the big screen, Hollywood legend Paul Newman came to HBS in mid-October to talk about his successful second career as a social entrepreneur. During his daylong visit, Newman... View Details

10 Mar 2021
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Sister Soldier

second difference is the story is existential. Their homes were about to be overrun by extremists who truly saw women as things to be bought and sold. These women said, “I will die before these people take over our neighborhood.” They led... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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New Ways to Stay Connected

their homes or at local restaurants around the world, MBA students working in the region during the summer between their first and second years have the opportunity to meet with alumni, forging connections around their shared HBS... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)

United States's third-largest trading partner, and Washington has loaned Mexico billions to rescue its economy. In terms of Mexican population, Los Angeles is second only to Mexico City. On these two fronts alone, the next crisis in... View Details

22 Sep 2015
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Getting New Ideas off the Ground

perspective, the great opportunity is to build products that delight people across the globe, but also to create jobs and opportunities for people to explore their creativity and change other people's lives. “I was very lucky. I started... 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 of failure— one professional, one personal, in which Perella played a role. Ray McGuire: You know,... View Details

24 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)

Series win with a Smashing Pumpkins concert at Breakwater Chicago. We may need to build a second vessel for that one, though!" Can you finish this statement? "A great entertainment experience is " "' ...one... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2001
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Steven Rogers

had a great influence on him. "He is my hero," he says of John, who is four years his senior. "I followed his lead. He did well in school, so I did too. He worked several jobs, and I did the same. In fact, every job I worked, he had... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Retail Trade

19 Jan 2023
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Forged in Fire

they use their greatest strengths and they learn to play together as a team because they're "Aligned" around common purpose and a set of values. But this is not soft. All great coaches are very challenging. And so the View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Crisis and Creativity

during an economic downturn. My colleague, HBS associate professor Tom Nicholas, has found that while the pace of patent applications slowed during the Great Depression, some contrarians pressed ahead with innovation, including DuPont... View Details

Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti

01 Mar 2014
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Feedback

problem—we die very expensively. It is pretty well established that 30 percent of our lifelong health care occurs in the last year of life and the majority of that in the last 30 days. The second is that the medical profession is... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

those in the Class of '71 were destined to earn their MBAs during one of the most turbulent social and political eras of our times. Turbulence within the class, in the form of widely divergent views on the day's events, was also in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

13 Dec 2017
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Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

got a wider audience for that. And then just on your selection of the sample for the second group, is that a totally random group? Or what does it represent? Or are the extremes in there? How did you go about doing that, and what does... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery

Karen Gordon Mills served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet as head of the Small Business Administration (SBA) during the height of the Great Recession. “Back then, I thought small businesses were weathering the worst financial crisis... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

30 Oct 2017
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Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success

was also wondrous, he says, because it was such a transformative experience, and it is one that he wants other people to have. “I got more exposure to so many folks who were aspiring to do great things in the business world: the guest... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

the real world. SEPTEMBER 1967: Orientation LILLIAN LINCOLN LAMBERT grew up in Powhatan County, outside Richmond, Virginia, where she attended segregated schools. “We had great teachers who often told us that you’ve got to work hard... View Details

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