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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Redefining Work Life
wanted to define herself by more than her professional status and financial rewards,” reported Business Week (March 29, 2004) in its cover story on Fudge’s departure from — and return to — the workforce. After two years during which Fudge did some nonprofit work, read,...
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Corporate Services
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
I’m Building a Billion-Dollar Business in China by Jack Perkowski (MBA ’73) (Crown Business) Perkowski went to China in the early 1990s and built ASIMCO Technologies from the ground up to become a major player in the country’s fast-growing automotive business. A rich...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
widely considered “easy,” even though it was our section’s good fortune to have the estimable Linda Hill teaching it. The valuable, practical wisdom she imparted provided a working framework for...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Marshall is still eyeing business opportunities is to be expected. The Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, he was universally held in high esteem during his HBS years, thanks to his penchant for a practical...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
the Economy Is Wrong by Edward Conard (MBA 1982) (Portfolio/Penguin) To explain the causes of the US financial crisis, conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using predatory tactics to seduce homeowners into...
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- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Susan Wilner Golden (PMD 59, 1990) had a very frustrating experience caring for her aging mother. With her background as a graduate of the HBS Program for Management...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Company. In 1969, the company brought out the Duraflame firelog, made from the sawdust created by mill-ing cedar slats to make pencils. Work, Love, Pray: Practical Wisdom for Young Professional Christian...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
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upsetting the West's conventional wisdom about the reasons for Japan's success, Porter and his coauthors emphasize that Japanese practices such as total quality and continuous improvement were valuable...
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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
business of publishing technical papers. “I didn’t want to spend the next 5 to 10 years doing these little increments and never knowing whether, with the right effort, we could solve a big challenge,” Ferrucci told HBS Professor of Management View Details
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
questions, presenting unique strategies and concrete steps useful for handling the growing number of giants in our personal and professional lives. The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of...
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- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that would ultimately leave him...
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- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
Photos by Marc Romanelli Climate change rightfully scares a lot of people. The changes already occurring—from the die-off of coral reefs and shrinking polar ice to increasing global temperatures—are almost too much to take in. Conventional View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
collaborative practices constituted an anticompetitive conspiracy. The judge observed that activities the government depicted as nefarious were “nothing more nor less than a gradual, natural, and normal growth or evolution by which an...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
"I never intended to write a book," says Deborah A. Cohen (MBA '87). Nor did she expect to be diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 35. The author of Just Get Me Through This! The Practical Guide to Breast Cancer (Kensington...
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Morgan Baker
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
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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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
For Christina Ehrenberg (MBA 2001), HBS is only the latest in a series of remarkable learning experiences — the world itself has been her greatest teacher, imparting to her a wisdom and composure that belie her years. An only child whose...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
Well-intentioned parents across the country are enabling a “me” generation of children who lack the wisdom and satisfaction of accomplishment that only struggle and adversity can bring. Watts provides View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
Manufacturing, but it was really his philosophy of life and of business. At Harvard, Doriot became a Yoda-like figure, dispensing wisdom to an ever-growing group of disciples. “Doriot was arresting,” says Ralph Hoagland (MBA ’62),...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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practices for creativity in all human enterprises. Infused with the energy of the Zanders' dynamic partnership, the book fuses Ben's extraordinary talent as a mover and shaker with Rosamund's genius for creating innovative paradigms for...
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