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- 27 Oct 2017
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The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
sometimes, maybe the outcome is no action. But that's fine. You learned it. And then you never know when the external environment changes. There will be something actionable. Sarah Wright, 1997. All leadership is very close in nature to friendship. That's all you're...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
Brookline with their five children, who range in age from one to nine. When asked about outside interests, Wasserman smiles and gives a one-word response: "Kids." Arriving on campus at 8 a.m. and returning home for dinner at 5:30, his...
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- 22 Sep 2015
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Working on the Local Level
Aaron Chadbourne (JD/MBA 2010) accepted an offer from Maine’s governor to put his MBA to work tackling some of his home state’s toughest issues—from high taxes and an aging population to business development. In this video, he explains...
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- 26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
users’ credit card purchases and then connects users with offsets they can buy to mitigate their footprint. Part of Pal’s motivation for building Joro was that she wanted a tool that would not only allow her to better measure the impact...
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- 07 May 2020
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Ensuring Student Equity
volunteers who pick up materials from NCCP’s office to assemble learning packets at home, then bring back the completed packets for the nonprofit to distribute to families. “We created a Volunteer from Home program that allows individuals...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2003
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Alumni Navigator Takes Off
turbocharged features, directory search sports a new name: Alumni Navigator. The power of Alumni Navigator lies in its ability to make connections among alumni based on shared characteristics. For example, search for an individual and get...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Case Study: Moment in the Sun
send an outline of your company’s challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu From Baker Library: The New York Times recently explored the health benefits of smart light bulbs. Smart lighting is just one component of the growing smart home market. To...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
partner companies. “Both crises had a huge impact on the students,” says Mayo, who teaches all three modules of FIELD and traveled with the Istanbul team. “Of course, the tragedies themselves were horrendous and anxiety-producing, but they also drove View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
will see vast increases in reliability and the number of devices connected to one antenna as well as reductions in the cost of data per gigabyte, Menard says. Beyond that, fixed wireless access could enable fiber-like speeds to View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into building an inclusive economy was “a...
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April White
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
and outcomes, and will reinforce President Drew Faust’s vision of One Harvard. All three labs benefit from their close proximity to Harvard Business School and upcoming the Science and Engineering Complex – which will be the new home of...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
fifth box? 3) Consider partnering with local humane societies. For example, offer a reduced-cost first package after an adoption—the goal being to associate the joy of bringing a pet home with your product. — Laura Viaches (MBA 2008)...
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- 21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
initiative of the club, connecting alumni to each other and to the communities it serves. Elaine MacDonald (MBA 1998) Elaine MacDonald (MBA 1998) “We deliver expert goodness,” says HBSCP executive director Elaine MacDonald (MBA 1998)....
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
With Y2K predictions running the gamut from glitches with home appliances to worldwide economic collapse, Y2K expert John F. Keane (MBA '54) assesses the situation as it appears with one year to go. John F. Keane is CEO and chairman of...
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- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
of going to the library and bringing home a stack of books,” recalls Risher. “We didn’t have a lot growing up but that was something we could do.” He wanted the children of Guayaquil to have the same opportunity. Risher’s solution was...
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- 13 Jul 2020
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The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
engineers, architects, and teachers to connect with people who need their services but live thousands of miles away, and more. “Of course, right now during COVID, it’s helping people stay connected in ways...
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- 09 Jun 2017
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Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
one line and say, some onions, some beef, some this and that, and cook for 10 minutes or whatever. It's very simple, and I couldn't really follow it. So I said, look, I'm going to go home and actually study how it's done. So I went View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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In My Humble Opinion: Career Change
When Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003) was 13 years old, her father’s new job took the family from their home in Tokyo to Jakarta. It was a big change, not just geographically but also culturally. Tanaka enrolled in an international school where...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Well Matched
professor Anita Elberse—that develops the business skills of highly paid professional athletes, who all too often make questionable investment decisions. (It has since expanded to include athletes from a variety of disciplines, including skiing and ballet.) She also...
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- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
about how his expertise recently found another, unexpected outlet when he was called on to help save a small business that helped a community cope with its grief and honor their dead for over 50 years. READ MORE NEWS CLIP: Funeral homes...
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