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- 01 Mar 2018
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Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
image by Edmon de Haro image by Edmon de Haro Boris Eykher (MBA 2009) and Ilya Chernilovskiy (MBA 2013) watched the 2015 global price slump in commodities with horror. Prices for commodities fell to their lowest levels since the financial crisis, sending mining...
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Nicole Torres
- 18 Apr 2011
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Capitalism Meets Conservation
compensate. If all Spring Reunion classes participate fully, it would result in a 15-acre forest of 7,600 trees, absorbing over 5.8 million pounds of carbon dioxide. Attendance at an HBS Business and Environment Initiative conference in...
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- 02 Dec 2019
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A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
Tom (MBA 1969) and Patricia Barry It was a given in Tom Barry’s family that, having done well in math and science in high school, he would pursue a degree in a related field as a student at Yale. But during his junior year, the Ohio native jumped at the chance to View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest
Even after they had started up the mountain from their base camp on October 2, they had been forced by unexpected rock outcroppings, unstable ice, and unpredictable weather to change their plans at almost every stage. Now they were...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
make the wrong moves. I have had my share of those. Over the past nine years at my company, we’ve developed a constructive, respectful, and strike-free relationship with our labor partners, which has helped the firm’s development. On the...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Changing Lives One Computer at a Time
TECH KNOW-HOW: student Angelica Lopez with Jackie Adams (MBA '78) and Edward Olebe (MBA '99). Photo Courtesy HBS Club of Greater New York The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) has joined forces with Dell to put computers...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
between the high cost of developing prescription drugs and patient demand for lower prices. Speaking on “The Politics of Innovation,” McClellan acknowledged that many patients have resorted to buying drugs outside the FDA’s regulatory system. “Until we find solutions...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work
ultimatums or drawing lines in the sand, the kind of petty, superficial responses that really only create enemies. If someone blew up at me, instead of firing him, I'd say, 'Let's work together.' I deferred to the wisdom of my team and the larger View Details
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 2002
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Banishing Balkan Ghosts
anti-Communist.” When his parents' marriage ended, his university-educated mother was forced to become a seamstress, and Djelic experienced economic deprivation firsthand. But his obvious talents won him admission to elite schools. With...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams
contrary forces of dreamer and doer in Mawilmada that would propel him through the various stages of his career. At that point, he was still the dreamer who had worked on designing a fantastical, entirely artificial baobab tree in...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
assist the city's children. It was during this time that he became involved with the Outward Bound USA organization, which he saw as an educational resource for the Boys and Girls Clubs. After participating in the program himself, O'Neill...
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Deborah Blagg
- 18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
community leaders and Celtics players: equity in education, economic opportunity and empowerment, equity in health care, criminal and law enforcement, breaking down barriers and building bridges between communities, and voting and civic engagement. AUGUST 28 After...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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HIV/AIDS and Business
incorporates human rights, development, and health issues — it’s the ultimate strategic challenge.” At the Kennedy School workshop, participants discussed a case coauthored by Barrett and Ballou-Aares on Heineken’s efforts to implement an...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects
each one of us receives from this community are very important. I want to thank all of you for participating in this support system and for sustaining the unique set of values that defines HBS. "Stacey M. Childress (MBA '00), director of...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2017
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Yoga Inc.
draws a market segment that might not be so interested in wearing Lululemon’s Wunder Under Pants. As part of a pre-yoga, 20-year corporate career, Vaccaro created—and in 1990 was forced to sell—a multimillion-dollar health care business....
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Deborah Halber
- 08 Dec 2015
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Living the Legacy
missed an opportunity to learn about potential clients—what was important to them and how they viewed themselves. “HBX CORe appealed to me as a way to prepare myself to represent corporations,” She says. Not only did her participation in...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
We begin a new academic year at Harvard Business School in the midst of a fascinating and compelling time in the history of business. In keeping with the mission of the School — to educate leaders who will make a difference in the world — we are intensely interested in...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
about capitalism. The lesson not to be overlooked, he warned, is that government interference with this natural selection process could impede the innovation that is the lifeblood of modern capitalism. Taking Part in the Conversation: Summit View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity
study about Specialisterne, an organization that was introducing people with autism spectrum disorders into the labor force. “I started thinking, why not let HPE and our clients benefit from these talented people as well?” Fieldhouse...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
the United Kingdom, force turnover of their independent directors after nine years. That’s a policy that should be adopted here. The loss of experience would be outweighed by reduced cronyism. If a director were truly indispensable, he or...
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