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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
You Soar, Adams recounts her humble childhood and the challenges she faced as a young girl, and how she overcame them and went on to live the life of her dreams. After experiencing adversity, poverty, and personal tragedy, Jennifer made a View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
as a prospective student in 2002, it was her first trip to the United States. “I love the freedom of expression in America, that you can be who you are without hesitation,” says Mlotok. “It isn’t an easy decision for me to return to...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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James McNerney Jr.
Boeing, one of your first decisions was to pay a $615 million penalty to the Justice Department for illegal actions Boeing took to win contract work from the government. How would you distill your philosophy on the subject of leadership?...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
massacre. Between December 14 and December 19, 1970, soldiers quelling protests in northern Poland had killed 42 people who had been demonstrating against the government’s decision to increase food prices. Maj, long-haired and lanky at...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
wasn’t an easy decision to make, given the financial implications, but as Fenton recalls, “It still felt like the right timing. It was the height of the dot-com boom, so lots of people in my class were...
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- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
Bulgaria right after the Berlin Wall fell and was right when Bulgaria was beginning its transition to Democracy. Now, I've read that you and your wife, Searl, were actually a part of that process that helped...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
around them. To be in tune with their operating environment, they have to make many key strategic decisions about their mission focus, their product/service portfolio, and their value-creation model across a broad range of stakeholders in...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
preceded the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by more than a decade. Today, the company routinely garners plaudits for its worklife balance and workforce diversity programs. One extraordinary IBM initiative that is both worker- and...
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Garry Emmons
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
picture of the pandemic and its impact on the world. Her goal, she says, is to empower people to make the best decisions to protect themselves and their families. She is the founder of MedStars, a pioneer in the health tech field that...
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- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
symbolic things to bigger, provocative, intellectual ideas—I just had none of that previously”), she worked as a banker in Philadelphia, funding mom-and-pop cable TV startups in rural Pennsylvania. It cemented her decision to apply to...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
knowledge of a market tends to make it more efficient and to intensify competition," Sprinkle noted. "This means that each of us had better start experimenting in this realm right now." At lunch the next day, Vincent H. Tobkin (MBA '75)...
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Daniel Penrice
- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
large food brands have earned accolades for recent decisions to eliminate GMOs from their supply chain. It was into this market that Haven Baker (MBA 2009), Simplot’s VP of plant sciences, launched the first direct-to-consumer produce...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
the School had made a strategic decision to become more diverse. There were also a number of international students and people from West Point and the Navy Nuclear Sub program. I had a lot of respect for the military people and shared...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
kind of generosity. Royalties from this book go to Christian ministries focused on spreading the Gospel and providing for those in need. Global Risk Agility and Decision Making: Organizational Resilience in the Era of Manmade Risk by...
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- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
family, is bullying John McCain. But now we have a presidential candidate who is bullying half of the country. And there was a very significant shift. And a bunch of people making decisions in the aftermath of that. So that was probably...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Umeda visits. Sato-san’s right lung has failed; morphine helps ease the pain, but it’s hard not to worry as the weekend nears. The clinic is always a phone call away, Dr. Umeda reassures them. Matsubara is one of eight clinics operated by...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
importance of coordinating each business unit's goals in a large organization to the firm's overall strategy. "In my unit, debt capital markets, we're at a lot of decision points right now," Busch explains....
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
customers; selecting the right entrepreneurial marketing path; getting from the early stage to the mainstream in the market life cycle; and executing effective sales and marketing strategy in a dynamic environment. Former student Patricia...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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New Wave
reside, the only sign that something interesting is happening below the surface is a thick black cable that snakes onshore just yards from where Smith stands on Roosevelt Island. “A larger system will likely look like what you can’t see View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising
to move to Havana. The decision came in January 2017, when Gordon was working in a sales position at Castlight, a Bay Area B2B health care technology company. The couple had met while Gordon was working for the Clinton Foundation in...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North