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- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
seven years old and did not speak a word of English. Her father, a pilot, often took the family on weekend adventures to locations that were accessible only by air, landing a single prop plane on roads while vehicle traffic waited for...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
political science and economics. Hustead returned to Alaska after graduation and in 1987 landed the top job of driller. At the same time, pressure was growing to help out at Wall Drug. “I made a deal with my...
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- 01 Jan 2007
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Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
manager for Chrysler in Pakistan, Turkey, and the Philippines before coming to HBS. But it did not prepare him for the economic disparity and differences in political systems he witnessed in these countries. "I was shocked," he says. In...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Profiles from the Class of 2005
considered making another run at Wall Street. Instead, he decided his public-service chapter wasn’t finished. He landed a government agency position, which led to a series of advancements, culminating in serving as special assistant to...
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- 16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
2015) told an audience of 500 that DynamiCare Health uses a digital platform to monitor and reward addicts for active recovery efforts, eliminating degrading methods of drug testing. DynamiCare took the top prize of $75,000. George Hessler (MBA 1985) (Northeastern...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
as in Costa Rica, we were able to build a strong connection with the constituents who stood to benefit the most. When the people in Mattapan saw what we wanted to do and believed that we could do it, their support helped break political...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
glaring trade imbalances, and soaring political risk, particularly in the economically crucial, oil-exporting regions of the world. The key to this seeming paradox lay in China. Chongqing, on the undulating banks of the mighty earth-brown...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Mead Treadwell
sovereign lands on the ocean floor — at least the size of California and rich in resources — to add to the territory of the United States. In fact, after acceding to the treaty, and completing our mapping of the coastal United States, we...
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- 15 Apr 2017
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Bringing Markets to Myanmar
the scene for what happened next, because we took an hour long flight over vast remote green plains with barely any village in sight and landed several miles from a fairly large clump of ultramodern buildings, which looked like a Florida...
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- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
generation to remind us that, for our family, America has been a land of opportunity. But as I was sitting on stage waiting to give my remarks, I thought to myself, “Unless you are Native American, everybody in this country has a story of...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
float DeWitt a loan for $3.5 million, which he used to buy the team in 1961. It’s hard to imagine better circumstances for absorbing the many financial, legal, and political details that go into the successful management of a professional...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
other needs), worsening inequality, and increasing social and political conflict. And with improving technology and intensifying global competition, they will only grow worse if America’s K-12 education results don’t substantially improve...
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- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
Horizon Wind Energy. “It was a very small business, but we got lucky with land positions and were able to build it to pretty good scale,” notes Skelly, who served as the company’s chief development officer. “When it got too big for the...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Profiles from the Class of 2006
in New Orleans, where he traveled with other HBS students earlier this year to assist with the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort. Kennealey is also interested in working in politics and maybe holding elective office. Whatever he is...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
acknowledgment of the government’s intentions surprised Abrami. “Before China’s accession such a comment may very well have jettisoned domestic political support for the WTO,” she commented afterward. “Everyone knew that domestic View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
part of your job? The most satisfying things have been where the United States or our embassy has really helped Morocco: battling locusts, opening a girls’ school in a small rural town, the free trade agreement, the microfinance program. For me personally, there’s also...
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- 05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale
consumer-based economy? China is a land of engineers—they love to build things, and they are very good at it. Their progress on infrastructure projects in the last couple of decades is remarkable, but in keeping with their natural...
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Deborah Blagg
- 13 May 2014
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Inside Africa
reason Americans view Africa as a land of misfortune is that all they hear about in the media is African misfortune. To counter this simplistic picture, Africa.com offers curated articles showing the everyday things that make up much of...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
drawn from studies in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Everglades National Park, and Chesapeake Bay. This book will be of great interest to professionals and students in environmental economics, View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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