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- 02 Dec 2017
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The Lines That Divide America
Photo via The Atlantic Photo via The Atlantic In a new article in The Atlantic, Dean Nitin Nohria draws parallels between standing in a waiting line and the current sense of unfairness and inequality being experienced by many Americans. “Access to the line that...
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- 19 Aug 2019
- News
A New Purpose for the Corporation
Offering an update of their statement on “the purpose of a corporation”, the Business Roundtable, an influential group of some of America’s top chief executives, noted that “we share a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders”—and not just their shareholders....
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- 07 Dec 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
who started his first company, Tribeca Designs, an efficient storage CD tower, while a student at Harvard Business School, spent his early post-HBS years working for private equity firms before joining Radio One—an American broadcasting...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation
employers to provide essential benefits, including health care after retirement. That meant we didn’t have to face much public responsibility to do that. The American Dream may have to be reinvented, perhaps...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Chai Ling
Freedom. Democracy. For five days, as Chai Ling lay in the suffocating darkness of a nailed-shut crate, these words sustained her more than her meager ration of bread and water ever could. Hidden in the hold of a leaky boat, waiting to make a run to the safety of Hong...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions
full advance by the Continental Army. It was the kind of opportunity he had been dreaming of for years. Washington decided on a daring nighttime assault on the redoubt, so as to gain the advantage of surprise over the British. In another...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo
and the school year, advising clients as well as evaluating mid-cap companies for Monitor Clipper Partners, the company's LBO investment arm. "I learned how to juggle and prioritize lots of activities from an early age," says Lirio Marcelo, a Filipina View Details
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Christian University, he was not only TCU’s first African American basketball player but also the first in the entire Southwest Conference. In 1975, about the same time a kid named Bill Gates opened a shoestring operation called...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
When Business History Was Business News UTAH, 1859: East meets West and America opens for business. Henry Guttmann/Getty Images Newspapers, so the saying goes, write the first draft of history. In her new book, The Story of American...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Alumni Books
Are Like Shampoo by Brenda Bence (MBA ’91) (Global Insight Communications) The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream by Christopher B. Leinberger (MBA ’76) (Island Press) We Are One. Adjust!:...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Ink
Reading “For those who love history and like thinking about why our American system (with all of its flaws) kind of works, these two books help to frame how lucky we are and why the way we do things in the United States does not work so...
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- 06 Apr 2016
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Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
an American beer revolution in the same way that Sam Adams the patriot started a political revolution. Finally, the question I’m sure you get all the time: So many people dream of opening their own...
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- 25 Mar 2008
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Whistling Past the Graveyard
particularly academic — a meaningless quibble over technicalities while the American Dream goes up in smoke. Ordinary people, like yours truly, have understood for years that this country was not on sound...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Bold Idea Takes Off
Falik Photo Courtesy Abby Falik As a teenager, Abby Falik (MBA ’08) spent a summer living in a rural Nicaraguan village, an experience that inspired her to dream of ways she could help other young people have meaningful experiences in...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
United States in 2021. The Juneteenth Story provides an accessible introduction for kids to learn about this important American holiday. The Changing C-Suite: Executive Power in Transformation By José Luis Alvarez (PhD OB 1991) and...
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- 01 Oct 2021
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Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
faculty members. Finding “Hidden Workers” Even before the pandemic upended the workforce, American companies complained about the “skills gap” that left essential jobs unfilled while millions of Americans...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs
leadership and mentoring and on achieving organization alignment, both vertically and horizontally, across the entire structure of the organization. He also gives readers a method for tracking progress—plant by plant and function by function. Minority Business Success:...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Innovation Takes Center Stage
“business is an extraordinary force for good.” While Nohria earned a chemical engineering degree from prestigious IIT Bombay, he harbored a dream of becoming an entrepreneur even as he applied to a doctoral program at MIT. At MIT, he...
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Roger Thompson
- 24 Apr 2014
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Taking MBA know-how on tour across America
Knowing that not every American who has a dream to start a business can come to Harvard Business School, Casey Gerald (MBA 2014) decided to bring HBS to them. He and three classmates logged 8,000 miles in...
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- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
was asked to take a posting in Bulgaria. And Searl came along and found herself, relatively quickly, leading the local office of the Bulgarian American Enterprise Funds, which was a private equity fund set up by the US government, to help...
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