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- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
impacts of diversity, LEDA plans to launch a new initiative, the Community Diversity Workshop series, which will focus on equality in specific sectors of the community. Lara is also well aware that her position requires her to lead by... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
leaders engaging on the idea of a national-level response to climate change for years, but remarked that interest has notably increased among its members. “We’re now seeing [interest from] folks from the insurance sector, from banks, from light manufacturing as View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 23 May 2019
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Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
e-commerce presence, coining the term “clicks and bricks.” She retained the firm’s neighborhood-store DNA as well as its mission—to be the best at giving beauty advice. After opening 16 stores, in 2006 she was looking for capital to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2018
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Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
fragmented and on their own. “I cannot think of another industry as large or as fundamental as agriculture that is structured that way,” says Baron. “It’s as if every oil well was owned by a different family, while the industry is... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
hold. Wrong measure. That’s all about inputs. What really matters is the output, and one output in particular: how well managers throughout the organization understand what the strategy is and what it means for them.” —MIT Sloan senior... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Alameda at the corner of 33rd Street. "That neighborhood?" he queries in a thick Russian accent. "Not good." Well outside the boundary of Inner Harbor tourist attractions, the northeast Baltimore district in question admittedly shares the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
schools and Aspire Public Schools in California). NLNS is well on its way to its goal of training two thousand new leaders to serve some one million urban children. Burns became interested in education when she volunteered to tutor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
written about the status of women in academia and business—Herzlinger notes, "I am not someone who studies women. I believe you gain strength by being who you are and by being good at what you do." You became involved in research on health-care management View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
as president of a steel company before turning to the stage. “[Education] was not so much about, you know, doing well to get a good job. I guess that’s in everybody’s mind, but I always saw it as an incredible intellectual challenge.”... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Entrepreneurs (HAE) podcast, HAE Invites. Whitlow, who is CEO of Hudson Strategic Group, discussed his experiences as a Black MBA. “I learned a lot at Harvard,” he says, including how to speak up—a lesson that has served him well by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
pushed the quick-charge capabilities of lithium-ion batteries well beyond what was once thought possible. And last November, the US Department of Transportation announced plans to establish 48 national charging corridors covering nearly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
and come away with a deeper understanding of the greatest strengths and vulnerabilities of the nation’s democracy as well as its resilience over time. He adapts the case method to revitalize conversations about governance and democracy... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
classes, also remembers him well. On that particular day, the case involved the marketing of cosmetics. One of his insightful comments was, “When you sell cosmetics, you are really selling “hope.” That thought has stuck with both of us, even to this day. I’m sure most... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
52-foot yawl designed by the Stephens brothers and launched in May 1930 into the teeth of the Great Depression, Dorade performed well in her shakedown summer. But she made her mark by winning the 1931 Transatlantic Race in 16 days and 55... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
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The Business of Access
organizations serve, but also for the people who have chosen to work for such organizations. “I laugh all the time that nonprofits work with duct tape and rubber bands,” says Lisle. “The goal is not to do that. It’s to get staff ample pay and new, not used, computers... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 12 Feb 2016
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Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
Raymond Gilmartin and Herman B. “Dutch” Leonard as well as Dean Nitin Nohria—so deeply they became her personal mentors. Section mates Scott Spencer and Amy Flikerski joined her as the Dreamfly’s board member and CFO, respectively, and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 14 May 2014
- News
(Re)moving the Needle
outcome for the child. "SynapDx is doing very well and completing a large clinical study thanks to a $15 million investment from Google Ventures," says Anquetil, who retains an ownership stake in the company but is no longer involved in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
1978) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us by Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) (WanderLearn) Destructive Interference by Martin Skogsbeck, i.e., Martin Waldstrom (MBA 1973) (Xlibris Corp.) Strategic IQ: Creating Smarter... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
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The Accidental Innovator
Khan and his not-for-profit, Internet-based Khan Academy, are turning traditional—and, many would say, obsolete—paradigms of public education upside down, as well as recasting learning and extending it to the remotest corners of the... View Details