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25 Feb 2020
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Beyond the Plastisphere

reusable insulated water bottles. Kauss works with designers and artists to introduce new looks every season, often in partnership with major brands such as Disney and National Geographic. Her goal, however, is not to help people look... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2007
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Letters

Corruption, Poverty, and Global Finance Thank you for your excellent article about global poverty in the March Bulletin. I’m delighted to see these issues getting more attention. This year marks the 45th year of my involvement in the View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled

It's got to have breadth and depth, and be a quality, trustworthy resource.” Khan Academy has developed daily schedules and learning plans for students of all ages, runs webinars to support teachers and parents, and offers homeroom... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; online learning; Educational Services

01 Sep 2009
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Of Value and Values

trillion in assets in 2008. One such member of PRI is Generation Investment Management, a company founded by David Blood (MBA ’85) and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, with offices in New York, London, and Sydney. Generation considers... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

grown up in the business all of my career, and when I finished college and came back I was a full-time employee for the first time. After a year or so I was promoted to work under my dad as one of the department managers. And within a few months I realized that I was... View Details

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

(but growing!) company, which means that every day is a new adventure. On the ‘typical’ side, there are the must-dos: order fulfillment, customer service, and paying the bills. Beyond that, on any given day we could be negotiating with a... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

ambition and applied to HBS. “I was almost 30 when I realized that there were people called ‘entrepreneurs’ who get paid to start new things,” says Gardner of what inspired him to earn an MBA. “It sounded like the coolest thing in the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built

Graduate School of Design and who later became an adjunct professor at HBS, he wrote more than sixty cases, created two new courses focusing on real estate, and developed a new... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

community involvement are not only legitimate but indeed essential to their day-to-day operations and long-term strategy," says Thomas. This trend suggests that business - propelled by changing demographics, technology, and socioeconomic View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2020
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Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

Alexandre Menard (MBA 2005), a senior partner at McKinsey Paris. Menard, who led the conversion to 4G and today heads the McKinsey Center for Advanced Connectivity, says that 4G was more of a step change by comparison. The advent of mobile video “unlocked completely... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

30 Apr 2019
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Leading Schools That Change Lives

impact in Roxbury and subsequently got involved in launching two new Nativity schools, the first of which was in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he became the founding principal, and then again in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life

Broadcasting shortly afterward, however, Dodi's division was dissolved. Still under contract, she found herself with eight months of paid "vacation." "The time off helped me get the kids settled into a new culture," she says. In August... View Details

01 Jun 2020
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All Hands on Deck

start dates delayed, and those interested in hard-hit industries like hospitality and entertainment had to broaden their searches,” explains Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003), managing director of Career and Professional Development (CPD).... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

01 Sep 2007
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Letters to the Editor

for HBS. Steve Taylor (MBA ’71) Park City, UT Is Current Capitalist Model Sustainable? The March Bulletin was uplifting. I was very pleased with the news about Al Gore visiting the campus and Garry Emmons’s article addressing the problem... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Jan 2009
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Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985

Jorge Paulo Lemann, Carlos Sicupira, and Marcel Telles have been primary figures in Brazil’s economic development for more than 30 years. The three friends and business partners have much in common: remarkable business acumen, a strong... View Details

12 May 2022
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Onboarding

Americans in her apartment building and moved to Boston, where she became a dance instructor at Tufts University. Thinking she might want to lead an arts organization, Barron applied to HBS. After cutting her teeth with McKinsey on a rural View Details

31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: About a decade ago, Lindsay Ronga realized that she had developed an eating disorder. She was in the midst of applying to business schools and had started... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop

photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

23 May 2019
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Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

Gentera into the largest microfinance firm in the Americas. Rodríguez’s interest in using microloans to invest in developing economies was first sparked at HBS in 1994 when he helped organize the Latin American Conference. Through a... View Details