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- 19 Jul 2013
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All in Good Time
getting enough of the right calories. It seems counterintuitive, but it's possible to be undernourished and overweight." After HBS, Silbert worked for Women's World Banking, an international network of microfinance organizations, and was named an View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Leeuwenhof, the majestic estate of Western Cape Premier Gerald Morkel. With the splendor of Table Mountain above and the beauty of Table Bay below, Morkel welcomed his guests to Cape Town, which he described as "a region of great economic hope." Sounding one of the...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
less like a game of Russian roulette; high prices and grumpy drivers were all too common. “People didn’t trust the Malaysian taxi system,” says Anthony Tan, echoing criticisms of Jakartan taxis and ojek. Tan recalls the early days of the...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Ready for Departure
billion in revenues. That’s a staggering 45 percent—but all was not lost. During the downtime, as the arrival halls echoed with emptiness and the baggage carousels sat idle, many airports used the time to reimagine the passenger...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
their way to developing a technology that rapidly identifies the molecular markers of cancer, there is a lot of work to be done to bring a product to market. Kelley points out that one of the key dilemmas Aikili faces is not unique to them. “A question that View Details
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Susan Young
- 20 Mar 2019
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Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
political community has failed.” These comments were echoed in remarks by guest speaker Roland Hwang, managing director of NRDC’s Climate and Clean Energy Program. Drawing on 10 years of research and her hugely successful MBA course,...
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- 23 May 2018
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John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
history to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). “SEAS is an integral part of the future of Harvard. I think the value creation that will come out of Harvard will be a thousand times what I gave,” says Paulson, for whom SEAS is now named. View Details
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Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Beacon of Liberty
replace “power-less and lost” with “hopeful and optimistic.” I want the New York skyline to once more inspire dreams of the possible, not echoes of the past. I want to come home again. — Sharjeel Kashmir (PLDA 4, 2007) works on banking...
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- 19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006) When moderator Toffel asked the other panelists for their policy wish lists, many echoed the congressman, even as they debated the nomenclature (would it be called a “tax” or a “fee”?), structure (would it fund...
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April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup
agreement, the equivalent of a prenuptial. It’s a much more robust team. They’ve been able to anticipate where there might be divergences and head them off at the pass. So lots of echoes that we have across those two domains, and the more...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail
into Moss’s analysis and recommendations. Warren and two Democrats embraced Moss’s views on the need for a systemic risk regulator. But the two Republican members issued a dissenting minority report. The partisan clash of views foreshadowed the political debate now...
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- 16 Jul 2020
- News
Accounting for Real Change
of this moment echoes back to the Wall Street crash of 1929, he writes, when investors realized that they didn’t comprehend the nature of a company’s true profits. By 1933, the US government started mandating that companies adhere to...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance
resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people.” “We are approaching a cliff. If we don’t take steps to slow down or stop drug resistance, we will fall back to a time when simple infections killed people.” The World Health Organization...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East
limitations and failings of his country's other companies. "It's not enough to do research on the 'can' aspect of Japanese management. There must also be work on the 'cannot' aspect," he said. "We have difficult problems, so this is a good time to do research."...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 19 May 2021
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Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
was another way to see some of that. Full marks to the Chicago team. They had a great concept, moderated it well, and handled all the details perfectly. I give it a 10 out of 10.” Sandy Damm (GMP 29), from the HBS Club of London, echoes...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
“The world’s needs and desires have been irrevocably homogenized. This makes the multinational corporation obsolete and the global corporation absolute.” —Theodore Levitt (1983) They were bold, even breathtaking words at the time. Two decades later, their View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
discussion that brought together leading thinkers from industry, government, and academia by noting that those cities have all essentially tripled in population during his lifetime. That phenomenon echoes a global trend: The Earth's...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
so long.” * * * * * As president of Echo Lake Productions, Douglas Mankoff (MBA 1995) is doing his bit to foster movies that might fall through the cracks at a big-budget studio. In 1997, Mankoff raised a private equity fund to finance...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Traveled,” moderated by HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise associate director Margot Dushin, and a panel on manufacturing, moderated by HBS professor Janice H. Hammond. At the end of the day, the enthusiasm of conference attendees seemed to View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
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Groundwork
a future that complements the past: the new green formed between Aldrich and Spangler echoes Baker Lawn as a focus of campus life. That green is a central feature of the future vision, along with a continued, southerly build-out along the...
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