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- 01 Mar 2008
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Alumni Books
James M. Citrin (MBA ’86) (Rodale) Citrin identifies essential characteristics and disciplines that have led many outstanding athletes and performers to equally significant accomplishments in business. His interviews with these View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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The Levitt Brand
personal interest in students sometimes led to lifelong friendships. Michael Berolzheimer (MBA ’63), cofounder of the Duraflame firelog company, remembers hashing out some of the early principles of the company in an informal session at...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Faculty Books
They present six basic characteristics that marketing and democracy share: exchanges of value, consumption of goods and services, choice in all decisions, free flow of information, the engagement of most individuals, and inclusion of as...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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A Matter of Opinion
muckraker Lincoln Steffens as a personal hero and who confesses that his heart still quickens when he hears the songs of the International Brigade. At OPM, Navasky wrote later, “My Nation self still tended to regard the profit motive as...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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What’s Next
my colleague Bill Sahlman calls the "secret sauce" of HBS. Our challenge, then, is to envision what the digital complement to this experience might be. How can we best leverage all the distinctive competences and characteristics that have...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade
complex scents, both of which contrast with the Asian preference for light scents.” For an industry which looks global, it has some decidedly local characteristics . World War I helped launch the beauty revolution. In close quarters, soap...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
the University of Rochester Medical School. Her "baby" is now eleven years old. "I want to spend more time with him as he enters his teenage years," she says. At ease in a new office personalized with artwork from her beloved Tanzania,...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 23 Oct 2019
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Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East
on “The Flower Salesman,” which he painted on a six- story building in Dortmund, Germany. The portrait depicts a 10-year-old Syrian refugee who became a successful flower seller in Lebanon. If Yazan Halwani (MBA 2020) had a personal...
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Inclusion
- 01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
resistance many of us feel. Dolly Chugh, award-winning professor of social psychology and author of The Person You Mean to Be, gives us the psychological tools we need to grapple with the truth of our country. Through heartrending View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Rogers In a self-indulgent moment in his late 20s, Gary Rogers (MBA ’68) bought a Porsche, a flashy status symbol befitting his standing at the time as a well-paid McKinsey consultant. It turned out to be the single most important purchase of his life. Five years...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy
class-action suit against the corporation) had adopted the salient structural characteristics and processes of experienced private-equity boards, I believe that many of the red flags signaling Enron’s economic woes and ethical drift would...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
culture, where being physically tough, technically infallible, and emotionally detached were no longer the most highly valued qualities. Characteristics that gained importance included a willingness to ask questions, to listen, to admit...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Tribute to Fellowships
THOMPSON: Recipient of the Pub & Galley Fund fellowship sponsored by Michael Cronin (MBA ’77) and the Class of 1948 Fellowship, represented by Crandon Clark (MBA 3/’48). Most students arrive at HBS full of anticipation and eager to embark on their two-year MBA journey....
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- 01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love
and the ability to sift through the answers quickly, filtering potential dates by characteristics like age or location. Later came the algorithms, which used the information provided to predict the best matches, automatically showing...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2005
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Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
effort in Allston around the commercialization of science and technology. Finally, values and leadership may be the most important work we’ve done here. Leadership is now a defining characteristic of HBS, with a yearlong sequence of...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action
Hewlett and David Packard, made their first product, an audio oscillator. And it was here that Scott D. Cook (MBA '76) [click here to see a profile on Scott Cook from the February 1997 HBS Bulletin] created the world's most popular View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2020
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Inside Out
structures that we occupy. The authors make the case that the characteristics of where we live and work—things like air quality, acoustics, and lighting—have a massive impact on our physical and mental health, and lay the foundations for...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Power Trip
closer, you’ll see that the characteristics of CEOs really have changed. And many of the factors that determine access to power also have changed. Is the importance of higher education one example? If you think about what was important...
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- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
however, Bob suffered an injury that changed him from an athletic, outgoing personality to more of an introvert. BW: A key thing in my whole life was that I had a severe concussion when I was 14. We had four or five kids on each side of a...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
thriving personal and professional life at the same time, including TV writer and producer Shonda Rhimes, news anchor Gayle King, Wall Street maven Sallie Krawcheck, and entrepreneur Liz Lange. Even the Odds: Sensible Risk Taking in...
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