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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
hard to imagine being the only woman in a room of 350 people, but that’s what many of us experienced.” The founding CEO of AltaVista, Ilene Lang (MBA 1973) was a pioneering IT executive at companies including Symbolics and Lotus...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
preregister patients? Or maybe something fashion-related? How long does it take people to get dressed in the morning? Is choosing what to wear stressful? Is an interactive app the answer? That fashion app idea has been rattling around in Foalea’s head for a while, but...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
valuation. I looked at what they were doing and came up with an alternative - some say more robust - way to derive the formula that has since turned out to have very wide applicability. But at the time, the work only had direct implications for pricing over-the-counter...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
next generation must be formally groomed to ensure we remain globally competitive.” As a group, the Chirchirillos have attended the weeklong HBS Executive Education offering Families in Business. Daughter Trisha (OPM 36, 2007) and son...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
of realistic, technology-agnostic best practices for supporting hypergrowth in nearly any environment. In this new edition, they add many new examples, plus case studies from many exceptionally demanding sites, including Etsy, Nasdaq, Salesforce, Shutterfly, and...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
Victoria Crittenden (DBA 1989) and William Crittenden Business Expert Press Direct selling is not an industry, per se, nor is it merely a go-to-market business model or channel to reach consumers. It is bigger than any of that: Direct selling is people. The View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
In 2010, Maria Gotsch (MBA 1989) called a meeting with the chief information and technology officers at five of the largest banks headquartered in Manhattan. The session would last for three hours, but as Gotsch recalls, the executives in...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health of MBA programs but on balance...
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- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
beings working together under various incentive structures and schemes. As a result, incentive and organization design is probably the most important factors in determining whether a business is ultimately successful. And getting that right requires the View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed
Rogers spends a few minutes laying out exactly what a driverless car could look like, how it should be engineered, and how it could be produced. This ability to effectively fluctuate between the idea and particulars of the View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead
more direct international experiences for our students, and for our faculty. One idea might be short study trips that would combine immersion in key regions around the world with individual preparation beforehand and class work or field studies after. In View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things. The IBM computers answered...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
decision to conduct Prieto didn’t pursue executive life to disown music. He’s just inquisitive by nature. “I’m still propelled more today by curiosity than anything else,” he says. It’s a family trait. His father graduated from MIT with...
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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative
hope with The Innovator’s DNA, that we could articulate how innovative people think. So over a period of years, we interviewed hundreds of innovators and almost 5,000 executives to identify ways of thinking that distinguish innovative...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
describe the new conjoining of responsible environmental practices with sound business principles. Defined in 1984 by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development as business and development activity that "meets the needs of the present generation...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame
Super Bowls a day for sixteen days." Track Records and a Marathon Sprint Frazier notes that for such an endeavor to succeed, the ability to rapidly build a cohesive entity - forming an institution - is of paramount importance. The...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
On a chilly November afternoon in Harlan County, a struggling former mining hub on the edge of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield, Geoff Marietta (MBA 2007) surveys the bustling village he has helped build. Marietta is executive director of...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
around the world — many of which have a single emergency number service. In their world travels, Raju and other Satyam executives saw the difference that a coordinated national emergency response system could make and realized that...
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- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
(MBA 2002), private investor, senior executive “First, my wife and I felt our top priority was to decide where we wanted to live and then look for a job, as opposed to letting my work drag us around the country. Second, I have elected to...
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