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01 Jun 2017
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Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

themselves when you least expect them. What you have to be willing to do is take the risk.” In 1983, Adebayo “Bayo” Ogunlesi (JD/MBA 1979) was working as a corporate lawyer when First Boston asked View Details

01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects

September 16 New York Times article. Merrill Lynch's chairman David H. Komansky (107th AMP) and president and COO E. Stanley O'Neal (MBA '78), both of whom were displaced from offices in the World Financial Center, also announced a $10... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Apr 1999
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New Releases

and technology; and governance, corporate finance, and organizational performance. The remaining chapters in the book give in-depth histories of and updates on some of View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 2000
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Books

Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job by Robert S. Gardella (Harvard Business School Press) As fast as the business world is changing, so too are the techniques for searching for View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

20 Nov 2015
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Room to Grow

corporate ladder wasn’t for him. He wanted to make a more personal mark in the world. “A principle role model at the time was my uncle, Henry Way Kendall, who was a nuclear... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

19 Jun 2017
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How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe

following, lucrative corporate sponsorships, and paid the players relatively high wages. Around this time, Bruce Levy (MBA 1977) became the first ever agent for women's... View Details

01 May 2015
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Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

more complex world, and to increase our scale and reach to bring our mission to even more people, requires a relentless dedication to innovation." John Hess, CEO of the Hess Corporation and chair of View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Oct 2002
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Class Notes Extra

corporate mediator. “Life is like sailing,” Steichen laughs. “You rarely go in a straight line — you respond to the wind, tacking back and forth.” Business school, for example, was not View Details

01 Sep 2022
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Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

ultimately interviewing hundreds of parents in the corporate sector, as well as in medicine, the military, nonprofits, education, performing arts, academia, and in frontline... View Details

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

since you're always asking, I just met two cofounders, and we're going to start the Starbucks of health clinics in Egypt.' " Enan was interested; in Egypt, about 5 percent of the population has private... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

06 Dec 2021
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December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

rescue a leading energy corporation from ever-increasing debt and a lack of executive accountability, he faced an uphill battle. Not only had he never before stepped into the role of CEO, he also had no... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out

HBS alumni often describe the MBA Program as a transformational experience. That observation especially rings true for students such as Meredith Weenick, Neera Nundy, Abdu Mukhtar, and Jonathan Hodgson who participate in View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2020
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We Rise

believe investing in women-led companies will make more money.” The data back up that philosophy. A 2016 survey of publicly traded companies from the Peterson Institute for International Economics found that... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

Editor Julia Hanna talks to Wilson about thinking beyond standard economic models, what collaboration looks like to him, and the work that has fundamentally changed the way governments and View Details

05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

business in 2004, starting Chalsys, an investment and advisory practice that helps large companies avoid the pitfalls of corporate venturing. And it was through this company that she met a German investor... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

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