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- 08 Sep 2022
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Learning Curve
Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school but when her first child, Katie, struggled with learning disabilities, the private equity strategist turned her attention to finding the best learning environment for her daughter. Melcher...
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- 18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
the elements of our Credo focused on creating a community unified in its mission to improve quality of life.” The release goes on to note that Edwards has partnered with firms that have expertise in using capital to benefit underserved...
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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
and business partners. It took the federal courts nine years to determine in a landmark case that Alibris email practices had violated no privacy laws, caused no harm, nor created undue benefits for the company. I never forgot the...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Technology Making HBS More Accessible
loved every minute of his time as a student at HBS. Deborah’s relationship with the School has grown stronger in the years since she graduated. “HBS was a tough environment for me,” she admits, noting that in the 1980s the School was...
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- 14 Aug 2019
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Leading from Within
leadership programs stop right on the cusp of that, and we want you want to go beyond that.” To reach that plane, Lim and Overwater welcome participants to the Trinity Retreat Center in West Cornwall, Conn., a rural oasis away from the high-stress View Details
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Maureen Harmon
- 09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns
And on the positive side, firms that do well on the ESG spectrum—environmental, social, and governance spectrum—and run their businesses with purpose, show a massive benefit in attracting and retaining talent—which is by the way, a huge...
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- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
philanthropic foundation, it struck me how much we could benefit from importing in that community, the management skills, and rational decision making, and the logic that I had been trained in, in the business world for the first 18 years...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall
effects, allows executives to benefit from short-term rises in stock price, and creates conflicts of interest for corporate insiders vis-à-vis ordinary shareholders. Pay-for-performance systems that lack provisions for rescinding bonuses...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Shattering Glass
bottom-line performance limits the conversation. The more helpful conversation to have—the more impactful one—is about the conditions under which we can leverage the benefits of having a diverse set of employees. BG: Diversity is about...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity
“We need to be educating students to work in complex environments with people of different races, genders, ethnicities, religions, and political views to make the most of these differences.” —JAN HAMMOND SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN “We need to...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2011
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Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
Entrepreneurship group here at HBS, in pursuing a whole host of generous philanthropic activities from NPR to the environment to just plain helping those in need, Howard has been a nonstop ball of energy and an inspiration to us all.” —...
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- 05 Oct 2016
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Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
provide an experiential, educational environment in which students and faculty can put classroom ideas directly into practice. The 15,000-square-foot facility will have fully equipped and permitted laboratory and office space for...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
recently endorsed by the faculties of both schools and approved by the Harvard Corporation, will admit its first students in the fall of 2008. Upon graduation, they will earn degrees from both schools. “Students in this new program will View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
crystallize action around a program that made sense." By listening and learning from all of these constituencies, Charron outlined principles and clarified a vision to help guide newly empowered associates' decision-making. Perhaps most important, he says, these...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Dec 2021
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Rescue & Recovery
billion dollars in revenues and almost 6,000 people providing aid and economic opportunity in some of the toughest environments around the world. On top of these baseline operations, which have been expanding since its founding in 1979,...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
also benefits of community that a residential experience provides. But that raises the question about situations where people are going to commuter colleges purely to learn accounting, let’s say. So, if you want the...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Ideas in Action
provocative counterpoint to the mega-hit book Who Moved My Cheese?, in which mice are forced to deal with change in their environment (a maze) because their cheese keeps disappearing. The moral seems to be, if you want to survive, adapt....
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts
party in Meyer's apartment. The initial repertoire included just 10 songs - the words to which Kapoor clutched in his hands, just to be on the safe side. Since then, he and his bandmates have mastered 33 songs, and they appear about once...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
its open society and “messy,” yet functioning, market-based democracy as a more conducive environment for long-term development. Its Western-style legal system and transparent financial systems encourage a chaotic, bottom-up approach to...
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Julia Hanna
- 15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
for the practice of leadership today. Showing how the boldest, most effective leaders use a combination of trust, love, and belonging to create an environment in which other people can excel, Frei and Morriss offer practical...
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