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- 07 Aug 2019
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“The Star of the North”
closely held businesses. And they want to grow them right where they are. The firm was founded by a group of 12 family business owners who were interested in creating a local ownership vehicle for retiring business owners. Generally,...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2005
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A Primer on Patents
they found legally uninteresting. The supposed solution was the creation of a new, centralized appellate court to hear all patent cases — the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). But it didn’t solve anything in terms of...
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- 01 Jan 2005
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Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
savings, and insurance products. Together, WWB and the leaders in its network work with policymakers to create financial systems for the needy majority in their regions. Barry joined WWB as president in 1990 after fifteen years in top positions at the World Bank. At...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Ready, Set, Launch
at stake, such as honing the core concept and attracting a founding team, investors, press, and industry supporters. If you’re not really, really, really into your idea, no one else will be either.” —Eric Grosse (MBA 1995), serial...
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- 25 Jan 2018
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Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably
N/Core project is attract smart, talented people and provide them the initial support, so that they can go on and create strong solutions to pull people out of poverty sustainably. “Nudge Foundation was founded about two years back. The...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)
got the idea: There are four of us who founded the business. Hemi Thaker, our president and CEO, had worked at a chip company and with network equipment companies, and he saw impairment testing becoming important for next-generation...
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- 09 Jun 2011
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The Tycoons, HBS's First A Cappella Group
after the founding of Harvard University's oldest a cappella singing group, the Krokodiloes, at the Hasty Pudding Club, the Tycoons, HBS's oldest a cappella singing group, was formed in 1948 with the enthusiastic support of HBS Assistant...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good
through the Boston medical community, but it set the stage for more major hospital mergers in subsequent years. McArthur served as the founding cochair of the merged entity, Partners HealthCare System, Inc., stepping down in 1996. Jack...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Beyond the Plastisphere
these problems on their own; the private sector would need to step up as well. Kauss paid attention. “I actually talked to the professor after the presentation and told him how inspired I was,” she recalls. So inspired, in fact, that two years later she went on to...
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- 05 Oct 2016
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Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
possible by a gift from Judy (MBA 1983) and Steve Pagliuca (MBA 1982), the lab will offer shared space for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups that are founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars....
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- 18 Feb 2014
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Stick with Plan A
world. Initially, Maddy pursued an early dream of working for the United Nations Development Program. "Soon, however, I became very disillusioned that economic aid was the path to economic development," she says. "I found that it actually...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
most of strategy’s history, those are precisely the factors that the paradigm hasn’t found a way to work into its calculations. If the discipline is to continue to be of service, it will have to find that way. In seeking models of an...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’
his acceptance letter, Christensen recalls his moment of disbelief—immediately followed by financial anxiety. “I was newly married, we had no money, and a baby on the way. And when I found out that HBS was going to help me, I was so...
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- 01 Nov 2016
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Paving the Way to College
Children’s Defense Fund; and helped to select the first secretary of education while a senior White House aide in the Carter Administration. Now semi-retired, Frankel is executive director of College Match, a nonprofit he founded in Los...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
and members of the HBS faculty serving as speakers and panelists. Sessions were devoted to "Bandwidth and Hardware," "Technology and Services," "Content, Commerce, and Community," and "Financing the Next Millennium." Looking ahead, the club's Entrepreneurs' Exhibition...
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- 25 May 2010
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Commencement and the Winds of Change
private-equity firm, asserted his belief that business and commercial ties can bind old enemies together and form the basis for rapprochement between Israelis and Palestineans. To help do just that, Cohen has founded the Portland Trust,...
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- 27 Jan 2011
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The Joys of Cooking
THE JOYS OF COOKING: Bibi Kasrai (MBA '96) has hit an entrepreneurial sweet spot as the Harvard Cookie Girl. After years in high-tech marketing and non-profit fundraising, Bibi Kasrai (MBA ’96) found a way to blend her talent for business...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a...
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- 13 Jul 2017
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Making Friends with Mother Nature
myself, it would never work. But that’s what you do as a consultant—help other people improve their performance.” At McKinsey, Clifford found himself attracted to hard-working midsize companies rather than big clients like General...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 04 Nov 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
Italy, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Latin America. He advised public administration institutions, regional governments, and multinational institutions. In 1998, Duch also became the founding chairman of the Competitiveness...
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Deborah Blagg